Give Your Lips A Youthful Touch

As you grow older, signs of aging will start appearing everywhere on your face. Once these fine lines and wrinkles start developing, women begin using cosmetics to cover up and erase these signs of aging. Even the delicate lips are not spared by the aging process, and as the number of candles keeps on increasing on your birthday cake your lips become thinner, feathered and chapped. But there’s no need to worry, because we’ve got some handy tips to make your lips look younger. Here are the common age related lip problems and the makeup tricks to cover up these problems. Feathering That’s when the skin around your lips begins to wrinkle, which often makes the lipstick to bleed into these lines. The best way to prevent the lip color from bleeding is to use a lip liner, as the lines created with the lip liner act as a barrier which prevents the lipstick from bleeding outside the lip line. Choose a pencil lip liner, because with that there are lesser chances of goof ups. Also, using some clear wax based lip primer will help in keeping your lip color intact. Or alternatively, you can dab a little bit of face powder onto your lips after the first coat of lipstick. Thinning of lips As the collagen and fat levels take a nose dive, the plumpness of the lips will soon begin to disappear, giving way to thin feeble looking lips. The safest way to make your lips look thicker without adding any youthful shine to them is to apply some tinted balm as the base coat for the lipstick. You can also make your lips look thicker by applying the lipstick a little outside your natural lip line. But for that, you must always apply some foundation to your lips, and then mark the lip line with a lip liner. Cracking and Chapping With age your skin is bound to lose its moisture and elasticity, which causes your lips to look dry and flaky. For a quick fix think about exfoliating your lips with a round scrubber that is specifically meant to remove dead skin flakes from the lips. Apply some lip balm to fill in the crevices and then you can proceed with your regular lip makeup. For a more permanent cure, retinal based lip cosmetics and even oral medication may be helpful, but before you take retinal orally, do consult with your physician.

Winter care for Your Lip

Chapped, dry or cracked lips are a common problem. Unlike the other parts of the skin, lips do not produce natural oils needed to protect against cold winds and low humidity. As such, the lips get dry, cracked or chapped. Some of the symptoms for dry or chapped lips are bleeding, lips that look dried, red and rough, loss of moisture from the lips, slight pain, sensitivity of lips, frequent licking of the lips and tenderness of lips. Over exposure to the sun or cold and windy conditions, infections, allergies to cosmetic products, drugs, dehydration, frequent use of chemicals or soaps are some of the causes for the dryness to occur. However, this can be solved by retreating to the natural ways.

● The most simple and vital treatment for curing dry chapped lips would be intake lots of water. Less water results in dryness in both the skin and the lips. Keeping the body hydrated is very important.

● Another simple yet effective home remedy would be to apply lip balm or petroleum jelly on the lips. This will help them remain smooth. Do not forget to apply it before going to bed.

● Pure ghee or butter is also beneficial in treating dry chapped lips. Apply a little ghee or butter into the naval. It helps to keep the lips smooth and heals the cracks formed.

● Take a few rose petals and soak them in raw milk for a few hours. After this, make a paste and apply it on the lips. This would not only heal the dryness but also work effectively in retaining the lost pink color.

● Apply milk cream on the lips. This will help remove the dry dead skin and to make the lips smooth.

● Rub a slice of cucumber on your lips. This would help cure dry and chapped lips.

● Grind a few neem leaves and take out the juice. Apply this juice on the lips to heal the cracked and chapped lips.

● Application of aloe vera gel on the lips also cures a person suffering from dry chapped lips.

● Loss of vitamin A is the cause for dry chapped lips. Increase in the intake of foods rich in vitamin A such as carrots, green leafy vegetables and tomatoes, legumes, whole grains and nutritional yeast.

● In a tsp of glycerin, add a few drops of honey. Apply this paste on the lips and keep them overnight. This will help to keep the lips soft and smooth.

● Apply castor oil on the lips. This will help to cure the dry chapped lips.

● Another effective way to cure dry chapped lips would be to apply sun screen lip balm or moisturizer. This would help prevent dry patches and also heal the dryness of the lips.

● For women who put on lipstick, apply moisturizer-based lipstick on the lips. Do not put on excessive lipstick and allow the lips to breathe.

● Crush a few rose petals in glycerin. This would not only retain the color and the lost moister but also cure dryness.

● Avoid wetting the lips with the tongue. It makes the lips dark, and color and lose the moister. Instead apply a chap stick or moisturizer

HOT Lip Glosses

Pucker up girls! It's time to moisten our lips with color, shine and scent. Brighten your lips with these tasteful lip glosses for spring.

Tinnie Bellini It's Bottoms Up with this Liptini Gloss in Bellini. This summery bright, peachy color is perfect for a mouth watering treat.  This product is also full of natural sunflower oil and vitamins blended with wear-extending polymers for maximum emollient shine, $16.50  Liptini.com

Smoochy, Smoochy Get ready for spring as you delve into this high-shine lip gloss and lipstick-in-one, pictured above. Origins has created 18 kissable shades, so ladies get going and test these high-wattage shiny colors with full lip coverage. Aloe, Vitamin E and rice bran oil provide superior moisturizing for luscious, soft lips. Cooling mint gives lips a refreshin zing for a multi-sense-ational smile, $13.50.  Origins.com

Have Wheel, Will Travel Perfect for day or evening, this ultra-cute portable Pinkie Swear Lip Locket gloss wheel has all the colors you need to mix-match heaven.  The mini kit contains shimmery, sweetly scented shades: Sugar kisses, Grape Whine, Fruitti Tutti, Cherry Pie and Cream Tangerine, $19. Pinkieswear.com