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You know what happens when you find a lipstick you really dig? You become kind of attached to it right before the company discontinues it.

And I'm really attached to my Hard Candy lipstick because it's caffeinated. It smells and tastes like coffee (mine: Spiced Latte), and all I have to do is lick my lips to get (a rather negligible amount of) caffeine in my bloodstream.

Today, mourning the lipstick's discontinuation, I broke down and bought an unopened tube on eBay. Upside is that I paid less than I would've paid if I'd bought it from Hard Candy.

Apparently, caffeine is becoming de rigueur in beauty products. This article from the BBC (which is a couple of years old) talks about caffeinated butt creams, etc. And I know that at some point I've blogged about Shower Shock, the soap that delivers 200mg of caffeine per serving (one serving meaning one shower). It's been widely publicized, with the general consensus among consumers and the media being that it actually works.

But in my mind, the lipstick one-ups the soap because I can be beautiful and buzzed at the same time. (Okay, okay ... it's a stretch on both accounts. Play along.)

Guys, assuming you don't wear lipstick but you want the lickable goodness of caffeine without sucking on a bar of soap, there's now a product for you, too! Spazzstick comes in cool mint and vanilla toffee flavors, and it gets bonus points for having a funny name.

But I'm left with lingering questions about the $57 caffeinated butt cream. Somebody pick up a jar and let me know how that works out for you.