Is there a word for the phenomenon that when people have just put lip balm on, they always do that thing which looks as if they are silently saying 'lip balm'?

If there isn't there definitely should be. There are so many other examples that come to mind that it's bound to come in useful as a word.

She grew her hair so that he could use it as a rope. When he would reach her window she would give him lim balm.

And how long must it take her to work in the conditioner!

With my luck I'd have shinned two-thirds of the way up before I discovered they were detachable extensions

George,    I suppose that would be the opposite of a hair raising experience?

Sorry. Just leaving ....

Not to be confused with a Duck-Billed Plaititude 

George

Very interesting point - that post lip balm motion.

Have you ever noticed that Vladimir Ashkenazy does that just as he's starting to conduct a a piece ?

I quite agree. A wonderfully fresh way of  seeing something familiar. I'd be very interested to hear the other examples that he mentions.

George,
 
I also thought that your line a while back about only finding out on your wedding night that there would be no more custard, deserved its own slot in the poetry thread. I'm afraid I don't know where it is posted in order to link to it or quote it properly, but I thought it was a lastingly funny and poignant line.

On Ashkenazy - I always like the way his jawline and mouth seemed to express such determination when he is playing. And yet maybe he's just been smoothing out his lip balm all this time.