If your eyes are the gateway to your soul, then the mouth is the opening. A lot of times you may have noticed that when someone is speaking to you, you often mindlessly sometimes stares at their lips. Now, the same thing happens with other when you are talking. Now, imagine you staring at someone’s crusty lips, not a good visual? Right.
Your lips always completes your whole look. Don’t believe me? See it for yourself, you have done a whole full face of makeup without lipstick? Does it looks good? No.
And believe me, when you have luscious looking lips it changes your whole look and also makes you 10x more attractive even without makeup.
That is the reason why people tends to get lip fillers. But, you don’t need to get one and i am not at all promoting to get one. Instead, you can try to find ways to be comfortable with your own. And find ways to accentuate your own features, there is absolutely no need to get work done.
Lips that look healthy (luscious) is more than enough to change your whole look and make you appear healthy.
Tip #1. Exfoliate
An obviously no brainer, exfoliating helps to remove dead skin cells and get a smoother and softer lips.
Now, you don’t need any fancy exfoliator for your lips.
1. Use A Toothbrush And Vaseline
Now, it might be a little rough on your lips but the results are so good. But, if you have sensitive lips or have severe peeling of skin on lips do not use it.
2. Sugar + Coconut Oil / Olive Oil
Grind more sugar to form a scrub like texture and use it with oil of your choice. Scrub your lips in a gentle way.
Remember, the best way to scrub is scrub longer not harder. Scrubbing for 1-2 minutes is to good to go.
Exfoliate at least 3x a week.
Tip #2. Use SPF Based Lip Balm
(Especially for my brown and dark skinned toned ladies it is a must)
This is often neglected but it shouldn’t be. Because just like your face constantly needs sun protection in order to maintain its youthfulness, in a similar manner you need to put spf on your lips. Since lips 10x more thinner than our face. So, it is easier to get sun damage or dark lips.
Tip #3. Use Almond Oil On Lips
If you have hyperpigmentation around your lips could be anywhere like the top or bottom or even the outline of it.
Consider using almond oil on your lips as a sleeping mask everyday or every other day. Using almond oil helps to combat pigmentation and provides that moisturization to your lips.
My favorite way to use is :
First apply a almond oil on your lips and then seal it with Vaseline or any other petroleum jelly. Trust me, the soft and supple lips you get after this. Thank me later haha
Or you can enough keep it a mix of it in a little container for easy use.
Tip #4. Use Petroleum Jelly Based Lips Products
There is a reason why vaseline never go out of style. Because the total of intense hydration it provides is unmatched than any expensive lip balms.
Tip #5. Hydrate
If you are someone who experiences a lot of flaking in your lips. It is probably a sign that you are not hydrated well enough. Flakes on lips seriously gets very annoying so hydrate yourself girls. And make your hydration level priority.
Tip #6. Quit Smoking
If you want luscious looking lips, so quit smoking. It is not only making your skin dehydrated but also causing your lips to darken over time, which doesn’t looks healthy at all.
Tip #7. Eat The Veggies
Another way to get that luscious lips is to take care of your body from the inside. Eat foods that are good for your skin, like foods rich in vitamin A,B and C. During summer eat a lots of green vegetables it helps to keep you energized and hydrated and during winter drink soups containing these.
Tip #8. Limit Your Caffeine Intake
As we all know caffeine often causes our skin to dehydrate therefore dehydrates the lips too. So, if you are someone who has a habit of drinking more than 2 cups a day, so it’s time to make a switch or lower your caffeine consumption.
Tip #9. Stop Licking Your Lips
Whether you can doing it purposely or unintentionally, often times we may think that we moisturizing it .Stop doing it immediately because you are only drying out lips and which ultimately causes your lips to darken.
So, always keep a lip balm handy to avoid licking your lips.
Tip #10. Lip Liner
Learn makeup techniques for outlining our lips. Make sure to do it in a way that it only accentuates your natural lip shape and not create a completely different size and shape.
Keep it a natural as possible. Since, you don’t want to be looking like a clown.
Tip #11. Wear Light Lip Shades
Wearing nudes, peaches and mauve lip colors creates an illusion of a much fuller lips.
Tip #12. Gloss It Up
The best way to get beautiful and luscious looking lips is to wear gloss, it literally creates such a beautiful illusion of the most plumy lips possible.
Here, you can even experiment with your favorite darker toned lipsticks and gloss it up.
I know glosses stick to your hair. So, recommending you some non stick and moisturizing pretty glosses for you to try.
That’s it 🙂
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