Lip care is usually limited to the purchase of decorative cosmetics - lipsticks, glosses and pencils to hide fading, roughness and small cracks. In the best case, there is an almost dried-up lip balm or other lip moisturizer in your purse. But this is fundamentally the wrong approach. Lips require the same careful and caring care as the face, skin around the eyes, hands or feet.
Lip Care Principles
On the skin of the lips, the sebaceous glands are completely absent, which is why these areas are dehydrated without thoughtful care, premature aging occurs, the lips lose their freshness and color. Unfavorable weather factors also influence: heat and lack of moisture, gusty wind or frost. The causes of premature aging of the skin can be smoking, the habit of pursing lips, lack of vitamins, poor-quality cosmetics. You can reduce the influence of such adverse factors if you properly care for your lips.
It's easy to properly care for your lips at home. Before going to bed, be sure to remove decorative cosmetics. You need to do this by blotting your lips with a cosmetic disc dipped in special milk or just warm water. After brushing your teeth in the evening and in the morning, a light massage of the lips with a soft toothbrush or a terry cloth will not hurt.
The easiest lip product to use daily to keep them he althy and beautiful is regular oil. You can use sunflower, cream or olive oil. A small amount of oil should be applied to the lips, and after 15 minutes, rinse with warm water. Do not hurt and daily special gymnastics, which will prevent premature aging.
Overview of funds
There are a lot of cosmetic products for lips, but they are all divided into two large groups: care products and decorative cosmetics. There are also special medical preparations that are not used for daily care, but are used only in some cases: if the lips are weathered, burned, they have jams or herpes. Such products are classified as caring.
Caring cosmetics
Cosmetic products for lips can be purchased at a specialized store, at a pharmacy, or you can make your own at home. Whether purchased means, whether to use at home - each girl decides for herself, but in general, the stages of lip care remain unchanged:
- Cleansing the skin of makeup.
- Removing dead particles.
- Nutrition and hydration.
Makeup removal
Clean lips from lipstick, gloss, pencil and any other decorative cosmetics is necessary daily. You can use milk, micellar water, cosmetic cream or just olive oil, warm water for this. It is better to wash without soap. Having an alkaline base, it weakens the natural protection of the skin, dries and causes peeling. Even tar soap, which is often advised by cosmetologists, is suitable for a few and cannot be used for sensitive and dry skin.
The top ten make-up removers are represented by these beauty products:
- Garnier Express Cleansing Lotion. The cleansing lotion is great for removing make-up from the eyes, as it additionally takes care of protecting the eyelashes.
- Micellar water from Garnier. The product is well suited even for very sensitive and problematic skin.
- Vichy Sensitive Skin Lotion (Normaderm Solution Micellaire 3 in1). Micellar lotion based on thermal water can be used to remove make-up from the delicate skin of the lips and around the eyes.
- Take the day off Cleansing Balm from Clinique. The tool does not disturb the natural water balance of the skin and can theoretically be used for oily covers.
- Payot oil. Particularly gentle on make-up removal, but not very suitable for oily or combination skin.
- Biotherm milk. The product is characterized by a high concentration of thermal extractplankton, which gives the skin freshness.
- Clinique Wash-Away Gel Cleanser. Very thick, lathers well. Reviews of the lip product indicate that the gel removes even waterproof cosmetics and thick sunscreens. Extracts of aloe, lavender, lemon, eucalyptus and other beneficial substances soothe and nourish the skin.
- "Double effect" from Nivea Visage. Micellar water is best used for eye make-up removal, because thanks to the formula enriched with cornflower extract, it carefully cares for eyelashes.
- Lirene make-up remover milk. Suitable for oily and mixed skin, despite the rather thick consistency, it does not clog pores and effectively removes make-up.
- "Trio Active" from "Loreal". The product is suitable for removing waterproof makeup and for sensitive skin.
Removing dead particles
For complete cleansing, removal of dead particles, scrubs are used, which can also be called a means for lip augmentation - the effect of them, however, is short-lived. Thinking about purchasing a scrub, you can pay attention to the following products:
- Lush BubbleGum. This is an inexpensive analogue of luxury cosmetics, which, according to many girls, has proven itself well. The main component of the product is ordinary sugar, tinted with food coloring, saturated with flavors and flavors. The scrub exactly repeats the ART-VISAGE Bubble gum from the luxury products.
- Sugar Scrub Eye to Eye. Cosmetic product from "Faberlik" is smalldifferent from what you can do at home. The composition includes only oil and sugar, the scrub does not cause allergies and is suitable even for very sensitive skin.
- E. L. F Studio Lip Exfoliate. The scrub is made in the form of lipstick, contains vitamins and beneficial plant extracts. Reviews of this lip product indicate that E. L. F Studio is great for even chapped lips.
- The Body Shop Lip Scuff. It contains whole sugar, not crushed grains, which is what distinguishes it from other products. Scrub is suitable for the care of severely chapped, rough lips, but can damage sensitive skin.
- Shara Shara Kissing Sugar Lip Scrub. Korean-made cosmetic product not only effectively removes dead skin particles, but also takes care of the skin.
Scrubs should be used no more than once or twice a week.
Nourishing and moisturizing lips
For proper nutrition and hydration, you need to use special balms and creams. By the way, many lip makeup products contain useful components that care for the skin, but it is better to entrust complete care to special cosmetic preparations. Here are some foods that will help keep your mouth looking attractive even in the harsh winter frosts or hot summer days:
- Payot Moisturizing Balm. Does not leave a sticky feeling on the lips, but effectively moisturizes. The product does not have any specific strongly pronounced smell, characteristicfor similar cosmetic products. The balm really works.
- Sugar Cane Lip Balm. The tool is expensive and belongs to the luxury class cosmetics. Produce the entire line in small quantities on one of the islands in the Caribbean. The original balm based on sugar cane extract is absorbed almost instantly and does not leave a feeling of a second skin. True, it is not known how close the numerous fakes are to the real remedy.
- Twist-up Gloss Stick. Moisturizing balm comes in the form of a solid lip liner with a natural tint. The composition includes phospholipids - substances that are close to the shell of human cells. Perhaps this is what allows the product to stay on the lips for a long time and take care of delicate skin.
- Toitbel Sensitive. The balm is the best for sensitive lips. This is a transparent gloss in a classic package.
- Vichy Aqualia Thermal. Another product from Vichy with thermal water. As always, only the most gentle care and natural composition can be expected from this brand.
Composition of care cosmetics
It is not necessary to buy something from the top cosmetic products for lip care. You can simply choose the right remedy from those available at the nearest store or pharmacy. The main thing is to read the labels correctly and understand what components should be in the composition of the product. So, a good lip care product should contain:
- Wax (relevant forbalms, lip gloss oils). Used as a thickening agent, it also smoothes the skin, increases its elasticity and firmness, retains moisture, allowing the skin to breathe.
- Natural oils (shea, cocoa, olive, apricot, grape seed, almond, coconut). Oils deeply hydrate the skin, some can be used neat.
- Essential oils. Used as a fragrance, but some also have antibacterial properties.
- Vitamins (A, E, C, F). Protect against premature aging.
- Natural honey. It is also a thickener, in addition, moisturizes and softens, has an antibacterial effect.
- Azulene. The natural component, which is an antioxidant, has anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic properties.
- UV filters. Needed to protect against the harmful effects of sunlight.
SOS lip products
In addition to basic care, emergency supplies are needed from time to time. These, for example, include the usual hygienic lipstick and herpes cream. It is not necessary to use hygienic lipstick all the time (there are balms for daily care), as a rule, it is used if there is already something to treat or for quick and reliable protection from adverse conditions - frost and wind or sunlight.
Cream for herpes should also always be at hand, if necessary, apply it in the initial stages of the disease. The sooner you start treating a cold on your lips, the faster you can get rid of thisunpleasant sore. You can buy both hygienic lipstick and herpes cream at any pharmacy. Instead of lipstick, by the way, you can use Vaseline for lips cosmetic "Fito Cosmetic" or any other.
Natural masks and balms
Those girls who for some reason do not trust purchased products can be advised natural cosmetics. Making a scrub or moisturizing balm is very easy at home. The simplest natural cosmetics for lips is an oil-honey or oil-sugar scrub. It is enough to mix a little honey (gentle effect) or sugar (more aggressive removal of dead skin particles) with any oil and lightly massage the lips.
To moisturize, you can daily apply a crust of black bread softened in warm water to your lips. There are other options for homemade masks:
- Banana. Mix banana pulp with a little sour cream. Keep the mask on for 10 minutes.
- Curd-pumpkin. Mix pumpkin juice with cottage cheese. Apply to lips for 5 minutes. This composition is great for chapped and dry skin.
- Potato. Keep grated raw potatoes for a few minutes. Wash off with warm water.
Other natural remedies that will help in the proper and gentle care of lip skin are carrot, cucumber and lemon juice, any natural oils, liquid vitamins, chamomile infusion.
Decorative cosmetics
Decorative cosmetics do not take care of lips as carefully asspecial products. But lipsticks, glosses and lip liner need to be chosen correctly. It is important that decorative cosmetics do not dry out the skin and do not contain many harmful components. Lip make-up products, if possible, should be luxury or at least a little more expensive than the mass market, because these areas are especially delicate and sensitive.
Step by step lip makeup
Many ladies apply liquid matte lipstick in one easy movement before leaving the house just out of habit. But the correct lip makeup is a whole art. It starts with cleansing, exfoliating and moisturizing. Here's what to do next:
- Apply and blend foundation (it is good to use a light one, for example, the BB or CC cream that is popular today). To do this, it is better to use a special sponge - a beauty blender.
- Powder your lips a little with a brush - this will keep the lipstick for a long time.
- Draw a contour with a pencil.
- With light movements, shade the edges with the same pencil.
- With a cotton swab, the sharp side of the sponge or a special brush, gently blend the pencil without touching the outline.
- Apply liquid lipstick with a brush or lipstick in a tube (best also with a brush).
- Easy to blot makeup with a tissue.
- Powder your lips again with a wide brush.
- Apply a top coat of liquid matte lipstick or other color cosmetics.
How to choose the right lipstick?
There are many nuances in choosing the right shade of lipstick. But lip augmentationabsolutely not needed if you correctly choose the color of decorative cosmetics. The basic rule is that if the skin is of a warm shade, then lipstick should be purchased in the same color scheme. With a cold shade, respectively, it is better to use decorative cosmetics of cold shades.
Care after lip tattoo
Additional care is necessary for the skin of the lips after permanent makeup. Firstly, within a week after the tattoo, you need to use special disinfectants (for example, chlorhexidine) several times a day. Secondly, the skin must be treated daily with a healing balm with a calming effect. Thirdly, after the procedure, you can not wash your face with tap water and soap. Use only boiled water and antibacterial cosmetics for washing.
