lip service, empty talk

(including especially cosmetics) lip / Clipping of リップクリーム (rippu kurīmu): chapstick; lip balm

service / giving away something or doing something for free, as a gift or free service for someone / maintenance

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

a lip gloss

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear

continuative of the passive of 思う (omou); continuative of 思われる (omowareru)