They say a smile is the best curve you can flaunt! The last thing, you want people to notice are your dark lips! Here are quick, easy to do, home remedies to free you of the dead skinned, dark lips.
1) Make sure you are moisturizing your lips every day. Do NOT sleep with lipstick on and use natural products as much as you can to keep the lips healthy, pink and irresistibly kissable.
2) Lemon is an excellent cleansing agent with acidic properties and a highly recommended remedy. Cut lemon in half and apply it just like you would apply lip balm, for a few minutes, anytime of the day.
3) Make a paste of sugar and oil, apply over your lips and wash it after ten minutes with lukewarm water. (Its edible but make sure you do not end up eating the paste!). Let the lips soak the nutrients of the paste.
4) Use honey, sugar and almond oil or olive oil, make a smooth paste and massage it on your lips. Easy to find and use, honey acts as a great stimulant to peeling dead skin away.
5) Add milk to turmeric, making a thick paste for your lips. These are highly effective in lightening dark lips.
6) An alternative to turmeric and milk, use turmeric and gram flour to see effective results on your lips
7) It may sound like you have heard it quite often but ‘Water’ is known to be the best cleanser and most effective of all (Make sure you are getting enough of it)
8) It can be as simple as using a toothbrush in mild soft circular motion on your lips minus the tooth paste. If you have dry lips, apply a little petroleum jelly on the brush.
9) A regular application of petroleum jelly in the long run will save the trouble and cost of running to a dermatologist for chapped, dry, two tone lips.
10) Smoking is equally injurious to your beautiful lips. Quit smoking and you will a difference to your lips in no time.
11) Grand-mom’s secret to wonderful lips is ghee aka Indian milk butter. Apply ghee over your lips to keep them from drying and chapping, also keeping them away from darkening.
12) Use ice-cubes over your lips, they will make them look youthful and revitalizing.
13) Do NOT lick your lips, licking your lips frequently will make them dreary and chapped.
14) Overdoing will only ruin your chances of making it better. Opt for one practice and make sure you have a measured approach to it. Remember, Rome was not built in a day! Let things take it’s on course of time
15) Eat healthy, look healthy. Something you already know and if followed your lips will show. To keep up with pink lips, make sure you include Aloe Vera, cucumber and greens in your fibre rich diet.
16) Use Aloe Vera leaves as a scrub and gently massage them over your lips. They naturally work wonders to retain true colour of your lips.
17) You must exfoliate your lips once a week at least using any of the above techniques. It’s the only way you can keep the additional layer of dead skin away from piling on!
18) Did you know, by rubbing cucumber slices for hardly five minutes a day can give you pink, baby soft lips!
19) An age old secret is using almond oil. Readily available, apply this to lighten your lips to its pink colour. (Making them baby soft too!)
20) Be consistent in your practice, a beauty discipline you must follow to look young and gorgeous always.
