One of the first products I reviewed on my blog way back in 2013 was City Lips Plumping Lip Gloss, which I purchased myself. I’ve been a fan of City Beauty for years, long before they gifted me all the amazing products in this post.
Their products are cruelty-free and designed with antiaging in mind, however they are great at any age. I mean, who doesn’t want firm skin and plump lips?
City Beauty’s lip plumping line includes gorgeous glosses in clear or in colors in shimmer and opaque formulas. And if you’re into matte lips, they now offer matte lip cremes that also plump your lips!
Matte lip cremes that plump! I had no idea they existed!
From left Pink Taupe (matte), Rosy Mauve (matte), Clear Gloss, Sun Diego (shimmer gloss), Pink Nude (opaque gloss)
Fuller lips look healthier and more youthful.
Lips lose volume with age, and lip lines only get worse with time. City Lips glosses and cremes plump everything up, so the wrinkles are less noticeable and thinning lips look fuller!
How does it work? City Lips is packed full of hyaluronic acid spheres. Your body makes hyaluronic acid on its own to maintain moisture. but as you age you produce less hyaluronic acid. City Lips gives you a boost!
You can see a difference in minutes.
I like to sleep with a little gloss on, so I wake up to softer, healthier looking lips. And these are perfect for plumping up your lip line, where lip wrinkles show the most. TIP: A lip brush helps me get the color right up to the lip line. I’m not quite as steady handed with the wand.
I feel a cool sensation when I first apply these, but that dissipates quickly. I have tried many lip plumpers, and these do not sting me or irritate my lips.
The matte cremes feel velvety and the colors LAST.
City Beauty nailed it with their entire line of lip plumpers. Gorgeous colors, a variety of formulas and finishes, and all of them give your lips a fuller, more youthful appearance. In short, THEY WORK! They are worth every penny. It’s for good reason their gloss has won the Good Housekeeping award twice!
You will not be disappointed.
Let’s move on to some skin care! City Beauty calls this their Multi-Action Sculpting Cream for face and neck.
I call it my “Sag Fighter.”
Can you relate to this story? I was looking at some pictures of my wedding, which was 16 years ago, and I texted a couple pictures to my friend, and do you know what she said?
OMG our jawlines were beautiful!
And she was right to say it. I started looking at everyone’s jawlines in the pictures! They were so taught! Not a sag to be seen, no jowls.
The Multi-Action Sculpting Cream is made to address sagging problems. It smooths and tightens my skin within 5 minutes of application. I know that sounds hard to believe, but it works. And not just on your jawline, it works on your whole face and your neck, too.
I’m also wearing City Lips Matte Lip Creme in Rosy Mauve
Within 5 minutes, you can actually see and feel a difference in firmness.
With that adorable golden spoon, scoop some out and apply to your face and neck. It’s so rich and luxe!
It contains Easyliance™, derived from the bark of a rare African tree, to give skin a tightened appearance. Ingredients also include Progeline™, a powerful peptide to increase firmness, and Idealift™ to combat sagging for a lifted look.
Makeup looks better on tighter, firmer skin. I love how this cream wears under makeup, it smooths everything out, creating a better canvas for my makeup. It gives a “lifted” look.
I’m also wearing City Lips Matte Lip Creme in Pink Taupe
Does this cream return your skin to what it looked like in your 20’s? No. Nothing does that! But this cream does increase firmness in my skin, and I’ll take any increase I can get!
Another star in the City Beauty skincare line is their Line-Smoothing HydroMask sheet masks. They are truly among the best I’ve tried! Like the lip plumpers, these masks give your skin an added boost of hyaluronic acid. They also contain Cell Young® Ice Plant Extract which helps to minimize pores and fine lines leaving your skin looking so smooth.
When your skin is plumped up with hydration, wrinkles show less.
If you’re not familiar with sheet masks, they are like masks made of thick paper towels and they are soaked in amazing skincare ingredients. Sit back, place a mask over your clean face, and let the ingredients work their magic.
Are you even a beauty blogger if you don’t post sheet mask selfies?
Remove the mask after 15 – 20 minutes and you’ll look and feel refreshed. You’ll notice smoother, calmer skin that is has a healthy look. These are quick, easy, no-mess and effective! They’re perfect for use when you really want to look your best. They’re also great for taking time for some much-need (and often skipped) self care time. Certainly we can all find 15-20 minutes to treat ourselves.
If you’re targeting specific skin issues like dark circles and/or dark spots, City Beauty offers two great additions to your skincare routine: Under Eye Recovery and Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector.
You always hear about eye creams targeting lines around your eyes, but my 49-year-old eyes have more issues than that! When I read that Under Eye Recovery also addresses “dryness, hollowness and shadows” – I thought: THAT’S ME!
No one ever talks about the hollowness of aging eyes!
Under makeup, I only apply a little bit. You really don’t need much. It hydrates, smooths and firms both the under eye and eyelid areas.
Some spot correctors do NOTHING for me. City Beauty’s Illuminating Dark Spot Corrector does produce improvement for me in the areas of evening my skin tone, reducing the appearance of pigmentation, and increasing skin luminosity and brightness.
If you’re not ready for a visit to the dermatologist, but you’d like to lessen your spots and lighten the more pigmented areas of your face, this is a great product to add to your routine. It’s not going to erase every imperfection, but you’ll see improvement.
As with all makeup and skincare, patch test a product on a small area of your skin to see how your skin reacts to and tolerates the ingredients.
City Beauty keeps innovating, improving and growing their product line. You can see the quality in the details of each product, and you definitely see results in the mirror! Sometimes within minutes!!! I honestly can’t wait to see what City Beauty comes up with next.
See All Of City Beauty’s Products At citybeauty.com
