Lips don’t lie

Dec 11, 2012 - Namita Gupta |

Age Correspondent

Lips are the most sensitive of all the facial parts and need special care, specially now at the onset of winters. Dry, capped and cracked lips are common issues, you face during this season. Lack of moisture and accumulation of dead skin cells results in chapping of lips.
Neha Poddar, beauty expert, Amway feels regular exfoliation and moisturisation can help cure dry lips. With proper care and attention, you can get moist, supple and plump lips. There are many home remedies for removal of dry skin. An extremely effective option could be to apply milk cream mixed with sugar cystals and lemon.
Take one spoon of milk cream, a pinch of sugar crystals and a drop of lemon and mix it well. Rub these on the lips, especially at night before going to bed. This exfoliation process can be followed by moisturisation using fresh honey. Wax in honey acts as layer on skin cells, retaining moisture within the skin cells and preventing lips from drying up.

Kiss kiss bang bang
Continuous application of colours can tend to darken you lips. To regain healthy, lovely pinkish tint on your lips, follow a three-step lip care regime that involves cleaning up, removal of dead skin cells or exfoliation followed by lip care pack can do wonders.
You can also try using a lip-care pack with 6 – 7 fresh red rose petals crushed and mixed with honey to be applied like a thick layer on the Lips. Leave it for a good 15 miunutes and wash it with luke warn water followed by application of almond oil on it.
Pucker up
In today’s day and age, when the beauty industry is flooded with lip cosmetics, it becomes all the more crucial to choose the right kind of products. While looking for lip balm, one should ensure that it contains glyceriene, almond oil, vitamin E, which is a very good source of nourishment and SPF 15. Similarly in case of lip colour, almond oil, jojoba oil, shea butter and SPF 15 are the must-have ingredients. Shea butter is a great moisturiser, conditioner and good healer that help in cell regeneration and circulation.
The skin on our lips is thin and there are no oil glands to protect them. Try to avoid licking your lips or biting off bits of dead skin, or chewing on them, when they tend to get dry.

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