Lip Lines
Lip lines are tiny vertical lines on lips that appear due drying, dehydration and aging in women. Keeping your lip line in good shape and health is essential for you to have full beautiful lips. Whatever the color of your lipstick, with top quality, it is of little use if your lips appear cracked and unattractive.
Attractive Lips
Your lips are attractive when they are
- Full
- Round
- Smooth
- Luscious
Taking Care of Lip Lines
- To keep your lips and lip line smooth and soft, keep them well hydrated and conditioned by applying lip balm often.
- Do not lick them, bite or pick at the skin, this further damages them.
- Exposure to too much of sun results in the damage of collagen fibers leading to loss of skin elasticity, this causes lip lines so avoid excessive sun exposure.
- Smoking often and puckering your lips every now and then causes lip lines, hence avoid doing these.
- Use wax based lip balms to treat and get rid of lip lines.
- Your lip lines get more obvious with application of lipstick as it tends to settle in the lines , making it extremely unattractive , avoid using too much of lipstick for these reasons until your lip lines are treated.
- Drink enough amounts of water to keep your system well hydrated to be rid of dry lip lines.
- Exfoliate your lips frequently as you age, keep them well moisturized and hydrated.
- Apply some foundation to even out the lip lines before applying your lipstick. Powder them slightly to set the lipstick to keep the color from settling into the lip lines.
- Using a lip brush is ideal while coloring your lips, to fill in the lines better.
- Some practice is needed to properly color your lips and minimize lip lines.
- Use sunscreen with a minimum SPF 15 on your lip lines to avoid further damage to them.
- Apply some moisturizer before applying your lipstick.
- The best way to deal with lip lines is to be as minimal with lip color as possible , however if you still wish to color them , first draw an outline with a lip liner and then fill in the color carefully covering the lip lines.
- Applying a moisturizer or lotion containing glycolic acid is ideal to lessen and soften lip lines, apply it around the lip area making sure not to apply on the lip itself and the lip line.
- Eat healthy to keep your lips in shape from with in.
- Avoid using too much of lipstick even if you don not suffer from lip lines; keep your lips as natural and hydrated possible.