The dream of many women about soft, beautiful and attractive lips actually turned out to be not a dream at all, but a reality. Cosmetologists tirelessly insist that you should not hide the defects of your lips under layers of cosmetics, lipsticks and glosses. Hiding a problem means indulging it and only making it worse. You can, and even need to, fight against wrinkles, creases and peeling of the lips; fortunately, there are many methods that have proven their effectiveness.
Today we will talk about how you can smooth out the skin of your lips and make them attractive despite your age, and without resorting to cosmetic injections. Take this into account, these recommendations will certainly benefit you.
Lip masks
Since early lip wrinkles are caused by excessive dry skin, your initial goal is to moisturize and nourish them. The best way for this is lip masks. There is nothing complicated about their preparation. The basis of each of them is the use of natural oils. The most effective of them are olive, peach and apricot oils. You can also try wheat germ, grape seed or rosehip oil.
By mixing a few drops of any of the listed oils with a teaspoon of honey, you will get a universal moisturizer that will smooth the skin of your lips, making it soft and tender.
Do you need to take special care of your lips?
The proven rule that it is always easier to prevent a problem than to fight it convinces few people. When it comes to a cold or other reversible situation, there is no reason to worry. But when it comes to youth, the wrinkles that have appeared cannot be removed from the face without turning to surgeons and expensive procedures. In this matter, it is very important to take measures to prevent the appearance of the first signs of age-related changes.
The skin of the lips consists of a thin layer of cells that have a protective function. When they deplete and dry out, cracks immediately form, which over time can become a permanent defect on the face. Therefore, the sooner the habit of moisturizing and protecting lips from aggressive external factors is developed, the longer they will remain scarlet and attractive.
Lips do not have their own sebaceous glands, so they dry out much more often than other parts of the body. It is important not after the age of 20 to start moisturizing them with hygiene products, but from childhood to teach the child not to lick his lips in the cold and to protect them with colorless lipsticks.
After 30 years, without proper care, lips can no longer be called juicy and alluring. They will become pale, lose their clear contour, and will be surrounded by small wrinkles. At this age, the body reduces collagen production, the skin becomes less elastic, so it will no longer be possible to restore natural beauty using folk methods.
Home peeling
Sensitive lip skin requires not only intensive nutrition, but also scrubbing. Peeling will help exfoliate old epidermal cells and increase skin elasticity. Preparing a scrub for home peeling is as easy as shelling pears; just mix coffee grounds, crushed sugar or ground oatmeal with honey and cosmetic oil. The first three ingredients will act as abrasive particles, the rest will soothe and moisturize the skin.
Lip peeling must be repeated systematically, at least several times a week.
A few lip care tips
Both professional expensive products and some tricks available to every housewife are ready to help the health and beauty of your lips. It is important to remember the basic rule: it is not enough to think about your lips once a year. Taking care of your lips, like your teeth, is important every day, taking just a couple of minutes a day. Regularity is the key to endless youth.
Fortunately, modern medicine, together with cosmetology, can boast a number of professional procedures that will provide emergency assistance to damaged skin and, if necessary, can correct its shape. If you manage to maintain a sense of proportion and not succumb to the temptation to enlarge your lips every time you visit a specialist, you will be able to maintain freshness and youth on your face.
Vitamin boom
To speed up and enhance the effect, do not forget about vitamins. You probably shouldn’t talk about revising your diet, if early wrinkles and peeling appear on your lips, then it’s obvious that your body lacks vitamins and microelements obtained from food. We remind you about the external use of vitamins. Buy an over-the-counter product at the pharmacy (for example, Aevit) and add it to the lip masks mentioned above, or simply rub directly into the skin of the lips.
Risk factors
Anyone who lives in southern latitudes or goes to a resort needs to know about the existence of lipsticks with SPF protection. Such products not only nourish the skin with oils, but also create a reliable barrier that prevents the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation. The skin becomes thinner and the aging process accelerates under the influence of UV rays. A special lipstick is a must-have in every Southern woman's makeup bag.
Excessive efforts in removing hardened cells can lead to injury. When massaging your lips with a toothbrush, be sure to remember that the bristles should be as soft as possible. There is no need to clean your lips with a rough surface. Only careful care will be beneficial.
An important risk factor for premature aging is smoking. The addiction constricts blood vessels and fills the lungs with tar instead of oxygen. As a result, the tissues do not receive proper nutrition, the capillaries do not carry vitamins and oxygen molecules with the blood. Hence the dullness of the skin, dryness, and unhealthy appearance.
A diet that excludes fresh vegetables and fruits deprives the body of beneficial amino acids and fiber, without which good absorption of food from the gastrointestinal tract is impossible. This means that there is a lack of nutrients throughout the body, which also affects the skin of the lips.
Massage and gymnastics for lips
Massage will help increase the elasticity of the skin on your lips and get rid of wrinkles. You don’t need to adhere to any special technique, just smear your lips with oil and use kneading, rubbing, pinching and patting movements over the surface of your lips. Repeating the movements for about 10 minutes after applying a moisturizing mask to the skin.
As for gymnastics, watch videos on the Internet with facial exercises for the lip area. However, be careful, improper execution can cause wrinkles around the mouth.
Effective home care
Among the products available in every home, we can highlight those that can effectively cope with restoring healthy lips:
- Many have heard that green tea, used topically, can get rid of bags under the eyes and restore freshness to your eyes. But no one has heard that it is useful to use it as a compress for the lips. A warm green tea bag deeply hydrates thin skin.
- To safely remove makeup from your lips, it is useful to soak a cotton pad not just in warm water, but in a few drops of vegetable oil. Almost all cosmetics consist of fats that do not dissolve in water. But these substances are in active contact with vegetable oil, remaining on the sponge. An additional bonus of this makeup removal will be the nutrition of the upper layers of the dermis with vitamins A and E.
- By adding oatmeal or buckwheat flour to sour cream or yogurt, you can create an effective and safe lip scrub.
- A simple recipe for a mask consisting of chopped dill and grape seed oil will help add volume. The mixture is applied with massaging movements for 6-8 minutes. This will temporarily increase the volume of your lips.
- You can give your lips a nourishing cocktail from a mixture of honey and cane sugar. This mixture should be applied to the lips once a week, rubbing gently. This procedure will remove dead cells and enrich the tissue with a large number of vitamins.
- Rubbing grapes will give you natural brightness and color saturation. You need to cut one berry in half and massage your lips with the cut.
- At night, rubbing in two drops of shea butter won’t hurt. It will replenish the lack of nutrients and help deeply moisturize the lip tissue.
- Don't forget about the dentist. Keeping your teeth clean and regular checkups will give you a snow-white smile without having to hide it from others. Having lost several teeth, a person receives an altered bite, as a result of which the corners of the lips droop and the taut oval of the face disappears.
Prevention of lip wrinkles
And finally, as you know, the best way to solve a problem is to prevent it. If you are lucky and there are no wrinkles on your lips yet (or they are minimal), try to be proactive. Make it a habit to use lip balm or chapstick regularly. They will be an ideal way to prevent the appearance of wrinkles on your lips.
Take care of yourself, and then your appearance will certainly thank you with a blooming and radiant appearance.
Why do lips dry out?
Before looking for a way to quickly moisturize your lips, you should find out the cause of the problem. Depending on what formed the basis for the lack of moisture, you can choose a suitable remedy for complete restoration.
Causes of dry lips:
- Harmful environment. Cold, heat, windy weather and poor air quality. Cold and heat provoke a decrease in moisture in tissues. The condition worsens during strong winds.
- Stress. Situations when a person is very nervous and involuntarily licks his lips (a standard human reaction). The saliva that covers the delicate skin dries quickly, drying out the problem area.
- Medicines that affect the salivary glands, for example, drugs aimed at reducing appetite.
- Oral care products with high fluoride content. The element is characterized by a dehydrating effect. Thin skin is not able to retain moisture for a long time, as the dermis does on other parts of the body.
- Cosmetics: long-lasting lipsticks, matte formulations, tints and products with a dry/powdery effect. Pigments for artistic makeup. Powdering for better durability of conventional products speeds up drying.
- Unhealthy lifestyle: poor nutrition worsens the situation with vitamin saturation of the whole body. Lack of water (maintaining water balance is the key to health), alcohol, and tobacco are harmful.
- Diseases that cause dry mouth. These include allergic reactions, lip burns, dental diseases, inflammatory pathologies, bacterial and hormonal diseases.
Excessive dryness can be caused by a cold with a profuse runny nose and nasal congestion. With frequent inhalation and exhalation through the mouth, the lips become chapped and dry. During such a period, it is especially important to know how to keep your lips moisturized.
Treatments in the salon
How to remove deep wrinkles above the upper lip? Cosmetologists recommend several options for procedures that can smooth out wrinkles above the lip and make the skin more elastic and smooth.
You can use Botox for this purpose, which is injected under the skin. This allows you to stop the flow of nerve impulses to the facial muscles.
If we talk about laser resurfacing, then the layer of the epidermis located on top is removed, and wrinkles are also removed.
When a peel is prescribed, the specialist treats the wrinkles above the upper lip with a chemical. This makes it possible to stimulate collagen production. Here you will need to take several courses. This procedure can remove wrinkles forever.
We can firmly say that mesotherapy has shown excellent results. Vitamins and nutrients are introduced into the skin through injections. They slow down the aging process of the skin.
If you want to get excellent and quick results, then perform biorevitalization. But the result does not last very long. Hyaluronic acid is used here.
Many have heard and used such a service as ultrasonic facial cleansing. This is a painless procedure that can make the skin smooth, even, elastic, elastic, fresh, and also remove wrinkles that have formed around the lips.
You can also remove wrinkles above the lip surgically, but this is a radical method. And it should be resorted to only in extreme cases, if other methods do not produce results.
Beauty Tips to Prevent Lip Wrinkles
- Use good quality cosmetics.
- Do not wear lipsticks for a long time and remove them at night.
- Use lip balms when lips are dry.
- Drink 7-8 glasses of water.
- Cut down on smoking.
- Use lip balms with SPF when you go out in the sun.
The beauty tips mentioned above will definitely help you remove lip wrinkles and your lips will become softer and smoother.
Minor lines and folds on the lips may appear even when you are still in your 20s. They are called perioral wrinkles, and they look quite unattractive. This is usually the first sign of aging to show on the face. The good news is that there are some ways to get rid of this problem. You can also prevent their recurrence with simple daily skin care routines.
