When it comes to beauty, there are some products that are so good, you’d just like to eat them. These sweet-smelling sensations are the cupcakes, the cookies and the chocolates of our beauty cabinets and are as tempting as the edible delights we like to indulge in for dessert.
Dessert-scented products don’t only smell good, they’re a form of indulgence without the associated guilt factor. These are the products that will leave you smelling like a walking bakery, leave you feeling perky and get you a lot of good attention.
Chrissy’s Beauty School has the lip glosses, the shampoos and the fragrances that will help satisfy your beauty sweet tooth. Unfortunately, the majority of these products are inedible, but to satisfy the most sweet-obsessed among you, I’ve found one special product that you can apply and eat. Sweet-toothed friends, beware, these products are dangerously delicious!
Lip-licking goodness
Remember how when you were younger, Lip Smacker’s products were the must-have delicious treat? Well, Chrissy’s Beauty School suspects that you’ve long since graduated from those adorable childhood faves and moved onto bigger and glossier things. So here are some grown-up sweet treats for your lips.
Liplicious Marble Gloss Cupcake Lip Gloss, $8, bathandbodyworks.com
What gal doesn’t like a cupcake? Or two…or three… These adorable cupcake glosses come in six different flavors—Cookies ‘N’ Cream, Red Velvet, Strawberry Cupcake, Lemon Glaze, Pink Chiffon and Coconut Cream—and are packaged with an adorable cap resembling a wrapper. Tasty lip gloss + high-glistening shine = The perfect recipe for success.
Vanilla Birthday Cake Lip Shine, $10, philosophy.com
Your birthday may only come once a year, but you can enjoy that lip-licking vanilla frosting goodness all year long—and without the calories—with this delicious lip gloss!
Sweet Lips Lip Scrub, $8.95, lushusa.com
Attention chocoholics: your fantasy has come true! Lush has created a delectable chocolate lip scrub that smells and tastes delicious and conditions your dry lips. The vanilla extract in the scrub moistens and castor sugar gently exfoliates your lips. Hello, guilt-free chocolate treat!
Green Apple and Vanilla Bean LaNatura Organic Shea Butter Lip Balm, $8, lanatura.com
There’s nothing worse than unscented or unpleasantly scented lip balms. After all, when your dry, chapped lips are in the need for a pick-me-up, they want a tasty, flavorful treat too. For a soothing and delicious treatment, try LaNatura Organic Shea Butter Lip Balms. These all-natural balms are available in 25 fun flavors, including two of Chrissy’s Beauty School’s faves: green apple and vanilla bean.
Shower me with sweets
There’s nothing like a relaxing shower to relieve your stress. And no shower should be complete without a delicious scent. Take the following products with you to your next shower, and you might just find yourself skipping lunch.
Cinnamon Buns Shower Gel, $16 for oz., philosophy.com
For many people, weekends mean lazy mornings and yummy breakfast treats. Why not combine the two in the shower? With philosophy’s decadent Cinnamon Buns Shower Gel, your relaxing morning shower will feel more like a trip to the bakery. Reader beware: Scent may induce serious cravings for delicious cinnamon treats.
Organix Instant Repair Cocoa Butter Shampoo and Conditioner and Soft & Silky Vanilla Silk Collection, $6.99 each, beautypureandsimple.com
Organic hair products? Check. Amazing aroma? Check. Smooth and silky strands? Check. Organix Soft & Silky Vanilla Silk Collection and Instant Repair Cocoa Butter Shampoo and Conditioner will leave both your hair and your sense of smell happy with their tempting scents and luxurious ingredients that leave hair soft and smooth.
Flavor me fragrant
So Hooked On Carmella, $36, benefitcosmetics.com
This light floral vanilla is the perfect sweet subtlety. The fragrance contains top notes of lemon, grapefruit and rhubarb; middle notes of cyclamen, peony and tiare flower; and bottom notes of vanilla, sandalwood and amber, and is sure to catch the attention of someone sweet.
Aquolina Pink Sugar, $29 for 1 oz. Eau de Toilette Spray,sephora.com
I had you at sugar, right? Pink Sugar’s blend of vanilla and caramel will leave your insatiable desire for all things sweet satisfied. The fragrance contains notes of bergamot, vanilla, cotton candy, licorice, and other sweet-scents. Plus, the fragrance’s pretty sweet packaging doesn’t hurt.
Pocket-Sized Sweets
Cupcakes Collection PocketBacs, $5 for five, bathandbodyworks.com
Just because hand soap is practical doesn’t mean it doesn’t have to smell good! These adorable cupcake PocketBacs from Bath & Body Works come in five scrumptious scents: Red Velvet, Coconut Cream, Strawberry, Lemon Glaze, and Blue Chiffon (buttercream flavor) and will help you fight the germs and smell great.
A Sweet Treat You Can Actually Eat
UrbanDecay Sparkling Edible Body Powder,$29, www.UrbanDecay.com
Now we’re talking! UrbanDecay’s Sparkling Edible Body Powder gives your skin a long-lasting radiant glow and comes in three delicious flavors—honey, cocoa and marshmallow—that you can actually eat. Go ahead, ladies, get wild!