Review: Dr Dennis Gross DermInfusions Plump + Repair Lip Treatment

What's the most you'd pay for a product? Do you look at it as a cost per ml type situation? Like, imagine if you're picking up some moisturiser, and it's $10 for 100 ml, which works out to be 10 cents for 1 ml - is that how you look at what you're buying, particularly now that we're in the midst of a cost of living crunch and we may need to be looking at how much we're forking over for things that we want. Or, are you looking at how much it is and considering it to be part of a wider investment (ie into yourself) and that if it's good for your mental health and overall self, then it may be worth dabbling in?

 

 

 

We all may have a different way of looking at things, but I also know that lots of us like to treat ourselves from time to time, particularly as we might do it to help lift our mood, or celebrate an occasion. Whatever the case may be, there are times when I need a little pick me up, and one of the categories that I tend to be a little heavy handed in definitely seems to be lip products, and sitting at $43 for 4 ml of the product that I'm just about to talk about may seem like a lot, but I can justify it as something that I won't use all the time, and has a very specific, and niche, role to fulfill that I just need sometimes.

 

 

The Dr Dennis Gross DermInfusion Plump + Repair Lip Treatment is pricey but, in my opinion, worth it, and I'm totally here for it! Just so you know, before we dive into it, this is cruelty free, vegan, firming, plumping, hydrating, nourishing, smoothing, and gives you a glossy finish, so that you can step outside with your best pout, ready to go! This is advertised as a 3D lip volumizer that's meant to plump, define and enhance your natural lip colour, while also restoring the moisture barrier, so that you can have hydrated, full looking lips.

 

This uses four different weights of hyaluronic acid, which can penetrate into the lips deeply, plumping and hydrating the lips from inside out. This also contains palmitoyl tripeptide-38 and palmitoyl tripeptide-1, which work synergistically with each other to give the lips some volume and hydration, helping to keep them soft while also enhancing cellular function and stimulating the production of collagen and hyaluronic acid. There's bisabolol, centella asiatica and ectoin, which can help strengthen, repair and protect the lips from environmental stressors, so that they can look full and healthy. Last but not least, there's also trebalose, which is a plant derived sugar that has antioxidant properties, and acts as a humectant to help prevent fluid loss, and thereby can improve the appearance of the lips in terms of volume, hydration and softness.

 This doesn't have a scent, and it comes in what is fashioned as a glass vial, but is actually made of plastic, with a clear plastic cap that can be pulled off and placed back on easily. This has a little pump at the bottom of the tube, and in order to use it, just push it upwards and the product will ooze out of it, and spread over the lips really easily. It does cause a little bit of a tingly sensation that builds up and sticks around for about 10 minutes before wearing off, and I didn't feel like it was unbearable. I do like layering a nude lip colour over this, because it actually seems to make that pop a little bit more. It does give the lips a glossy sheen, but I do think that this it best used under my lip colour, rather than on it's own. You can find it over here at Mecca. Do you use a lip enhancer?