Hi everyone! Today we’re talking lips; taking care of your
lips is really important. It looks
really bad if you have dry, cracked lips, and it doesn’t feel so great, either!
If your lips are
dry it could mean that you’re thirsty. Cracked,
dry lips could also be a lack of iron or vitamin B from your diet. When your lips are cracked, licking them
doesn’t help, it just makes them worse.
Biting or rubbing your lips with your fingers doesn’t help either. If you have dry skin, gently rub it off with a
tooth brush or a wet wash cloth.
Make sure that
you drink plenty of water and use something moisturizing on your lips like a
lip balm or petroleum jelly. Before
going to bed I almost always put on lip balm so it has a chance to sink in
while I sleep.
If you’re dealing
with dry lips, stay away from lip liners and dry lipstick. Most lipsticks and lip liners are drying and
they look bad if your lips are dry and cracked.
If you need some color, use a tinted lip balm or a lip butter. Lip butters are a mix between a lip balm and
lipstick. They have great color, and
they’re really creamy.
Exfoliation
There are so many
different ways to exfoliate (remove dead skin from) your lips. You can use a wet tooth brush by gently
brushing your lips in a circular motion, a wet wash cloth, or you could make a
sugar scrub. There are lots of different
sugar scrubs, but most of them have sugar and olive or extra virgin olive
oil. I either use a tooth brush or I use
a sugar scrub and then use my tooth brush.
After exfoliating I apply a lip balm or petroleum jelly. It leaves your lips soft and looking smooth.
When my lips are
super dry and cracked I don’t try to exfoliate them right away. Instead I pile on some lip balm and wait to
exfoliate till my lips are softer. When
you exfoliate your lips, a good time to do it is after you brush your teeth
because your lips aren’t dry and it works better to exfoliate.
Making Your Lips Bigger
A lip plumper is
used to make your lips bigger and appear fuller. You can buy some lip glosses that plump your
lips or you can make a lip plumper from cinnamon or cayenne pepper. The cinnamon and/or cayenne pepper irritates
them just slightly to temporarily swell them. To apply it, use a little bit of petroleum
jelly and cinnamon or cayenne pepper.
Another way to
make your lips appear bigger is by using lip liner. Michelle Phan made a video on how to do it.
Lip Balms
There are a lot
of different lip balms to choose from.
They have ones to protect your lips from the sun, moisturize, all
natural ones, tinted ones, and lip balms with shimmer.
Here are some popular brands:
Eos (my favorite!)
Or you can go with plain old petroleum jelly. You can get little tubes for on the go, and they even have flavored ones.
What's your favorite lip balm? Let me know in the comments!
Becca xoxo
Eos is my favorite lip balm too. :) Sometimes I also use petroleum jelly.
ReplyDeleteAnd who's the wonderful person who introduced you to eos? ;) haha
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