Fashion Advice, Beauty Tips, Skincare Tutorials

Does your lipstick digs in or gets into wrinkles and fine lines around the lips, and sometimes looks like it’s “breeding”? There are some tricks to hide lines and wrinkles around the lips as following:

Tip 1: Use a lip filler prior to applying lipstick.

A lip filler prevents the lips to have the “bleeding” look and makes the smooth lips.

Chanel’s Lip Correction is one of them. Apply a small amount of the filler with a brush or finger tips.

Tip 2: Avoid matt lipsticks, use satin lipstick instead.

Unfortunately, matt lipsticks tend to get into the wrinkles and lines, whereas satin lipsticks tend to hide them due to the light reflection.
Tip 3: Apply a lip gloss, a similar colour or slightly lighter shade as your lipstick.

Lip gloss will give the lips fuller and smoother look. The light reflection will also hide the wrinkles and lines around the lips.

Tip 4: Always try to moisture your lips with a natura basel lip balm.

Whenever your lips feel dry, or after eating food, apply a lip balm. Dehydration deapens the wrinkles and lines.

Tip 5: Apply an anti-aging lip balm before bed time.

It is important to use an anti-aging lip treatment before you go to bed, as wrinkkles and lines are produced while you are in sleep. My favourite one are the Burt’s Bee Replenishing Lip Balm with Pomegranate Oil and Olay Regenerist Anti Aging Lip Treatment.

Do you have thin lips? Would you like to have sexy, fuller and plumped lips?

Lip plumpers do the job, although I am not big fan of them, as the ones I tried gave tingling sensations on my lips. If you know a good lip plumper, please let me know!

If you want to achieve the fuller looking lips without using lip plumpers, have a go the tips below:

1. Apply a lip balm to moisture the lips.

2. Draw the outer lip line with a natural or nude colour lip liner pencil.

Draw the line just above the outer line of the lips. Be careful for not over doing it.

3. Blend the lipliner towards the centre of the lips with a lip brush.

4. Apply a natural colour lipstick (e.g., pink beige, soft pink, soft peach).

5. Use a clear colour lip gloss to create a volume.

Apply the clear colour lip gloss on the middle of the lips, both top and bottom, and spread toward the corner of the lips.

Now you can pout!!!

Having dry and chapped lips can be very annoying. What we want is the kissable plumped lips, not that flaky and sand paper like lips.

Dry lips can be caused by many factors including extreme temparatures (both hot and cold), tiredness, Vitamin B deficiency, using old lip sticks or lip gloss(usually more than 3 years old). Licking lips can also dry the lips even more, so try to avoid doing it.
Here are the tips to rescue the lips.

1. If you are currently using a lip balm that contains petroleum, swap it with a natural base lip balm (e.g., beewax and sheer butter).

A Petroleum base lip balm tends to make lips drier because it cannot be absorbed by the lips or the skin and sometimes cause skin irritations. In contrary, a natural lip balm is absorbed by the skin and increases the moisture retentions and the natural elasticity. I love Burt’s Bees Beewax Lip Balm. It’s not expensive (around £3.50) is also edible.
2. Apply (quite a lot of) lip barm and exfoliate the lips gently with cotton butts.
Remove the flaky skin. Make sure to do it gently.
3. Re-apply the lip balm.

The dry and chapped lips will transform to soft and fuller lips.