Guest Post! Cinnabon Lip Balm

We're mere mortals, alas, and thus cannot review every stick out there. So we count on you to fill us in on the lip balm low down. You send 'em in, we post 'em. Today's poster is Kendra, who explains to us about how turning a decadent Cinnabon cinnamon roll into lip balm works out (not well).

A Chaptastic and chapstick fanatic, Kendra is no mere lip balm dilettante. While others reach for balm to simply cure dry and chapped lips, for Kendra it is her salve against harsh summer sun, brisk winter winds, and the crusty residents of her native New York. With her freshly glossed lips, Kendra can tackle temp job hell, subway derailments, terror alerts and regular invasions of personal space with nary an eyelash bat. This January, however, she faces her biggest challenge: permanent, full time employment. She has her lip balms ready.

Onward, Kendra!

Price: $3.00

Appearance: I find the wrapper strangely comforting. The color scheme is a nostalgic reminder of my high school mallrat days when the Cinnabon store was the penultimate experience. Not the kind of tube that you want to whip out in sophisticated company, however.

Glide: At room temperature it goes on smoothly with slight resistance at first. I apply lower lip then upper lip, and by the time I reach my upper lip resistance is completely gone and it glides on like an ice skate on freshly zambonied ice.

Flavor/Smell: Artificially Cinnamon. Considering that it is Cinnabom Lip Balm I was looking for a Cinnabon smell...what I got, however, was more of Red Hots candy meets a cheap cinnamon candle. This lip balm is horribly, offensively, synthetically cinnamon smell. It tastes delicious though, cinammony sugary.

Lasting Power: No idea. After about 20 seconds this stuff began to burn, burn, burn. Now I do not have sensitive lips. I've used every lip balm in existence including ones with some of the most corrosive ingredients on planet earth without batting an eye. But this stuff continued to burn for five minutes after I wiped it off. I tried it on my kid sister and she had no ill effects, but just a heads up.

Product Plusses: None. You're better off with a standard stick of chapstick for half the cost.

1.5 out of 5 tubes.