Lips and eyes are the most important focal points of your face so one must pay special attention to these areas while doing makeup. Here are some additional tips for your lips that you can use always.
Tips for Healthy Lips
- Always apply a sunscreen to your lips with a minimum of SPF 15.
- Massaging lips with ghee (clarified butter) and leaving a thin layer of it on lips overnight acts as a natural protection for bright lips.
- Repeatedly apply herbal moisturizing lotion on lips.
- Don’t lick your lips because the saliva can dry out your lips and make them dry. Instead apply a Lip Balm. I like to keep one next too my bed so that every night before I go to sleep I can apply some to my lips to keep them from drying out in the night.
- Dip a black tea bag in warm water and press it on lips for three to four minutes. This increases moisture level on skin of lips.
- Do not lick lips repeatedly.
- Dip small cotton gauze in warm clarified butter (ghee) and place it on lips for 20 minutes.
- Remove your lipstick before going to bed using a herbal cleanser and apply a thin layer of ghee on lips.
- If want really moist lips apply honey on them and rub it and rinse it off. Honey is a natural moisturizer. Lemon is also used to lighten dark spots on the lips.
- When you wash your face at night don’t forget to use your scrub and exfoliate your lips or you can use a little sugar and warm water.
One of our readers recently asked how to get pink lips naturally. So we decided to get some information for all of you. Following are some of the tips you can use to get beautiful pink lips naturally.
Rose Petals
Crush four, five petals of red rose and coat the paste on the lips. Apart from instant reddening, it will also give smoothness to the lips. Apply every day, 2-3 times, to find yourself with luscious lips. You can make a lip balm too, by mixing crushed rose petals with milk cream. Mix it thoroughly and apply it on the lips for twenty minutes and then wash it off. You will be left with soft and supple lips.
How to get rid of black lips?
Quite a few of our readers have complained about black lips. Even though we haven’t had this issue ourselves or any immediate friends, this is quite a common issue and usual reasons are as follows:
- Using lipstick and other lip products of cheap brands
- Exposure to sun
- Heavy application of lipstick
- Excess drinking of tea or coffee
- Smoking (This is the most important and the commonest reason)
- Allergy
- Dryness