8 Lip Masks To Restore Dry, Flaky Lips Overnight

There’s nothing worse than waking up with dry, crusty lips. And since winter is upon us, chances are the feeling is all too familiar.

Sure, you can reach for your favourite lip balm — but sometimes your lips need a little more TLC than your trusty Chapstick can provide. Enter: overnight lip masks.

What’s the difference between a lip balm and lip mask, you ask? Lip balms are usually formulated with wax and work to hydrate, nourish and protect your lips. A lip mask, however, is like night cream for your lips. Lip masks have longer-lasting effects, a richer texture and reparative, occlusive ingredients, such as shea butter, botanical oils, glycerin and hyaluronic acid.

So to keep your pout ultra-hydrated all winter long (and no licking your lips won’t do the trick), we’ve rounded up the best overnight lip masks that will have you waking up with pillow-soft lips.

The best lip masks in Australia

Fenty Skin Plush Puddin’ Intensive Recovery Lip Mask

We simply cannot rave about this product enough! Fenty Skin is one of the few celebrity beauty brands that are actually worth the splurge, and this lush lip mask truly takes the lip care crown. Formulated with Barbados cherry and a nourishing cocktail of plant oils, one swipe will leave your lips soft and hydrated for hours on end – without causing the skin around your lips to breakout.

$28 at Sephora

W7 Sweet Dreams Overnight Lip Mask

Dubbed a “pot of indulgence” with plenty of rave reviews, this drugstore lip mask is a daily essential. It’s packed with aloe vera and grape seed oil and tastes as good as it looks. You can snag it on sale for less than $3, so we recommend stocking up and keeping a lip mask on your night stand and one in each bag so you can reapply throughout the day.

$2.99 at Chemist Warehouse

Burt’s Bees Overnight Intensive Lip Treatment

If bang for your buck is something you’re after, look no further than Burt’s Bees. This lip treatment is formulated with 100 per cent natural ingredients and packed with ceramides to quench thirsty lips. And, according to one bh member, it’s “worth more than five stars”:

“I have never experienced quite an intense lip formula – in the way that it seems to drench my lips and lip area (I love to put it all around the lips not just on them)… Straight after application my lips feel amazingly drenched with moisture and in the morning my lips feel better than they ever have with any other product I’ve used.” – clearcrystalwater

$10.31 at Amazon

Sephora Collection Lip Sleeping Mask

With a creamy formula that melts into your lips, this lip sleeping mask will work its magic overnight until every last bit has been absorbed. The tube is also handy for on-the-go application to transform crusty lips into a soft, plump pout and keep it protected through every wear.

$12 at Sephora

COSRX Balancium Ceramide Lip Butter Sleeping Mask

Anything you can do, K-beauty can do better. And this COSRX lip mask is worth its weight in gold. The ceramide-rich formula applies like a dream to blanket your lips in hydration. It’s colourless and unscented, making it perfect for sensitive or breakout-prone skin, and trust us when we say that a little goes a looong way.

$24.95 at Lila Beauty

Mecca Cosmetica Lip De-Luscious Treatment

If you’re a fan of Mecca Cosmetica’s Lip De-Luscious Original, you’ll absolutely love the night treatment version. All the goodness of the OG pot has been taken to the next level to sooth, repair and plump your pout. It’s ultra-hydrating without being sticky so you don’t have to worry about waking up with that tacky feeling around your lips.

$32 at MECCA

Kiehl’s Buttermask

There’s a reason why Kiehl’s is a go-to brand for beauty enthusiasts (us included), and their sell-out Buttermask is a solid evidence of this. The nourishing balm helps to restore your moisture barrier, leaving your lips silky soft and moisturised from morning to night. It’s formulated with fair trade coconut oil and wild mango butter, and is an absolute saviour for dehydrated lips.

$39.95 at Adore Beauty

Blistex Medicated Relief

While this might not be ‘dubbed’ as a mask, the thick (yet comfortable) medicated formula is perfect for overnight relief. With a hard-hitting hydrating formula, cracked, painful lips are bound to be a thing of the past once you’ve slathered this across your pout. All that helping hydration for a cost-effective price that falls under $6? It’s basically unheard of, unless you’re Blistex.

“This is my go to lip balm year round. I have very dry lips that have a tendency to peel and split and this is the only lip balm I have ever used that has even come close to helping. It comes in a tube with an easy application top that dispenses as much or as little cream as you like. The product is creamy and a little gooey going on but dries out to a light feel very quickly and it leaves lips feeling tingly and fresh. It has a strong menthol smell that some people may not like but it doesn’t bother me and I stop noticing it fairly quickly. This helps my dry lips enormously and leaves them feeling hydrated and repaired when used frequently.” – ErinLady

$5.49 at Priceline

Main image credit: @sarasampario

Have you used a lip mask before? If not, which of these would you most like to try?!

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