How to Get Fuller Lips

A key part of a healthy smile is full lips. Over time, your top lip tends to get thinner - and many of us are born with thin lips to start with. Since aging causes thin lips, people equate subconsciously thin lips with age. So naturally most of us want to have fuller lips since they equate with youth and beauty.

Healthy Lips
Long term, you want your lips to be as healthy as possible - they will then look as beautiful as possible. This means drink 8 glasses of water a day so they're hydrated and full. Dried out lips are cracked and thin. Keep them moisturized and soft. Take your vitamins every day - especially vitamin E for skin health. If you're out in the sun a lot, wear a SPF lip gloss to keep the sun's rays off of them.

Your lips are full of collagen - but they are supported by muscles. I have MANY face exercise on these pages and most definitely if your muscles are toned, your lips look much better than if your muscles are flabby and weak. Do the face exercises every day to get the best results. Don't worry about exercises adding to wrinkles. Wrinkles come from bad skin - not from good muscles. If anything, doing the exercises will get you LESS wrinkles because the skin will be supported more firmly.

If you look at this image of Angelina below, it is almost like she is "rolling her lips forward". You can do the same thing, with practice, once you've gotten your lips well exercised!


Angelina Jolie

Cosmetic Solutions
You need a good base. Get a GENTLE exfoliant, a washcloth, or even just your toothbrush, and very gently rub off any dead skin or flakes from your lips. Some people put vaseline on their lips first so that the exfoliation process is as gentle as possible. Get it as smooth as you can, but again, be gentle. You don't want to rough up your lips. P> Now for the color. Start with a natural lip liner above your upper lip, to in essence extend your lips artificially. Then use a GLOSS lipstick (not a dark one) over your entire lips including that top added area. This it makes your entire lip area look more full. The gloss gives it a "puffy texture" look which appears more full. Finally, put a dash of super-gloss (or a lighter color) right in the center of your lower lip to give it an extra pucker / depth.

The key here is to go SUBTLY larger. If you try to double your lip size, you'll look like a clown. Practice with a friend to get the hang of the good balance.

Lip Plumpers
Body parts swell when they are bruised or irritated. It's how the body fights off a problem - it floods the area with blood so that the white blood cells can get in there and heal the problem. Ironically, some cosmetic companies have latched onto this as a great way to plump lips. In essence they super irritate the lips with chemicals, that you apply to the lips. So it's like putting poison ivy on your skin. It makes a rash. In the case of your lips, your lips are already red, so it just looks like puffy lips instead of a red, nasty rash :) This might be a good emergency solution for a special night out - but then again, if you're going to be impressing people and maybe kissing them, I don't know if you want your lips to be in pain or itchy. Definitely test one of these things out BEFOREHAND to see how you react to it, and use in moderation.

I gave the Sally Hansen lip plumper a try. The outer edge of my lips turned bright maroon right away, and my boyfriend said it looked like my lips were bruised. In essence that's what it's doing - irritating your skin so much that it swells. After that initial reaction, they were maybe a TINY little bit fuller, but not much, and they didn't look healthy. Again - not recommended.

WARNING
Many people were taken in by the Botox route over the years for injectable skin plumpness. New studies show that the botox - which is a dangerous version of botulism - migrates towards your brain and other important body parts instead of just staying in your lips and face. I would really stay away from Botox as a healthy solution for your body's beauty. You need your brain :)

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