Beauty products that offer both short- and long-term benefits are becoming increasingly popular – think foundation with built-in SPF, mascara that doubles as a lash serum or tinted lip products that are nourishing.

Where the latter is concerned, Summer Fridays is the brand on everybody’s lips (pardon the pun) and serves as a great example of the makeup-skincare hybrid approach to products. Championed by the likes of Sofia Richie Grainge and Alix Earle, its lip butter balm is by far its most popular product, a gloss that leaves a sheer tint while hydrating lips.

As you’d expect with something of such cult status, budget beauty brands are beginning to launch their cost-effective alternatives to the glossy balm to rival Summer Fridays’s pricey formula. Case in point: Rimmel has formulated a £9 balm that is half the price, and it might just be the perfect everyday gloss.…