How to Get Rid of Chapped Lips

They say the eyes are the mirror of the heart, but what about the lips? Have you ever thought about how visible our lips are during the day? While eating, sipping our drink, smiling, making a presentation, whispering an important news to a friend or being parted with love…

Lip care was very important for women many years ago. It was the desire of everyone to have red and full lips, especially like a cherry. That’s why rubbing cherries on the lips is a very old tradition. Today, however, we spend very little of the care, time and budget we spend on our hair and skin for our lips. Now is the time to give lips the value they deserve. In this article, we will share our recommendations for smooth and beautiful-looking lips.

Lips that are not adequately hydrated become dry and cracked!

Just like our skin, if we want our lips to look healthy and smooth, the first thing to do is to keep them moist enough. Lips that are dehydrated during the day due to weather conditions become dry and cracked. Hot and dry air in summer and strong winds in winter cause our lips to dry. This dryness, which did not bother much before, can cause cracks and deep crevices if precautions are not taken. Especially if you moisturize your lips before going out and putting on make-up, you will protect against weather conditions and the chemicals of cosmetic products.

If you do not want to use the products of cosmetic brands on the market, you can keep your lips moist naturally by using oils rich in vitamin E such as coconut oil, cocoa butter, almond oil. If you don’t have any at hand, even stealing a finger of honey on your lips and waiting for a few minutes will moisturize your lips and protect them against cracks. Sufficiently moistened lips also ensure that the lipstick you apply is smooth and more permanent.

Removing dead skin saves lives!

Our lips also need to be purified from dead skin. The process of removing dead skin, also known as ‘peeling‘, will add a lively and healthy look to your lips. You can both peel and care by applying a product that contains care oils to your lips. You can buy the necessary product for peeling or you can prepare it at home. But remember, peeling gives effective results only when done regularly. When you apply natural peeling applications to your lips every week, you will notice long-lasting smoothness.

Eating healthy is the key to looking beautiful!

In order to look beautiful and healthy, we first need plenty of water and healthy foods. Maybe your lips are already starting to signal for you to start eating healthy. Because the dehydrated lip dries up and this dryness turns into cracks over time. If you stay without vitamins, your lips lose their vitality. The color becomes dull and pale. While drinking plenty of water keeps the lips moist, consuming foods containing vitamins C and E gives your lips a lively and smooth appearance. When you start eating healthy, you will definitely notice the change in your lips.

Whatever your makeup style is, the material you use should be of good quality!

Your make-up style may be determined by your budget, perhaps by trends, or perhaps by natural products. You haven’t touched your lips with anything but preservatives until now, or on the contrary, when you rummage through your bag, you get three different lipsticks. It doesn’t matter. Whether you like make-up or not, you have to pay attention to the content and quality of every material that touches your skin.

When buying lipstick, we often decide according to the color and choose without examining what ingredients are in it. But first of all, we need to pay attention to the quality and content of the product we use. No matter how attractive the color and price may be, we’d better stay away from lipsticks that contain chemicals, do not contain nourishing ingredients (jojoba, shea butter, pomegranate extract, etc.) or products that have expired. Let’s leave the information that an adult woman eats an average of 3 kilograms of lipstick until the end of her life, so that we can understand the importance of product quality.

Never sleep without removing your makeup!

Sleep is perhaps one of the limited times we allow our skin to breathe. Therefore, if we want smooth lips, we must remove our makeup before going to sleep and ensure that the lips remain moist and natural throughout the night.

Stop biting your lips!

If you are one of those people who start biting their lips when you are nervous or maybe very excited, stop this habit as soon as possible. Smoothness remains a dream if you don’t stop licking, biting or playing with your lips. Because by doing this, you damage the sensitive structure of the lips.

Breathe through the nose, not the mouth!

Since every breath taken from the mouth takes away the moisture, the lips become dry and create a bad appearance. It can also cause tooth decay and bad breath. For this reason, it is necessary to pay attention to breathing through the nose not only while sleeping but also during the day. When you realize that you are breathing through your mouth, reminding yourself of this rule or working on correct breathing techniques will definitely give positive results.

Reduce your tea and coffee consumption!

According to studies, the coffee and tea we consume all day cause the lips to appear stained and dark due to the caffeine and theine in them. In addition, coffee causes the water in our body to be thrown out. Therefore, as we drink coffee, we lose water. Therefore, consuming plenty of water instead of coffee and tea will add a lively and bright appearance not only to our lips, but also to our whole body in general.

Stay away from cigarettes!

It wouldn’t be bad if pictures of aged and chapped lips were put on cigarette packs. Because smoking accelerates the formation of wrinkles around the lips and causes cracks and dark spots on the lips.

Bonus: Brush your lips along with your teeth!

You probably didn’t know that brushing your lips with a toothbrush makes them plump and smooth. All you have to do is brush your lips gently and without pressure a few times after brushing your teeth. You will love this method when you have very full and smooth lips instantly.