Get Pretty Lips at Any Age
Getting pretty lips start with proper lip care, paired with the right kind of
lip color. Learn how to adapt the care of your lips to your changing age. There
are plenty of measures a person can take to ensure a sexy set of lips that no
matter what their age, but there are also a few age-specific tricks to keeping
your pout pretty. Let's start with the lip care tips that everyone can, and
should, use.
Exfoliate your lips. Smooth lips are pretty lips, after all
who is tempted to kiss a dry, flaky, scratchy mouth? Regular exfoliation of your
lips also helps lipstick and lip gloss glide over your lips evenly. TO exfoliate
your lips you can use a toothbrush and gently rub the bristles over your top
then bottom lip, spending several seconds brushing on each lip. If you don’t
have a spare toothbrush to designate to lips exfoliation, use a washcloth
instead. Wet the cloth and gently rub it over your lips in a similar way as you
would if you were using a toothbrush. You don’t need to use products such as
soap, facial exfoliant or toothpaste as you exfoliate; plain warm water will
work just fine on your lips.
After you exfoliate and the water on your
lips dries, apply conditioning lip balm to them. It is also a good idea to go to
sleep with a thick coat of balm freshly applied to your lips so that you are
conditioning your lips while you sleep. When your lipstick wears off
mid-morning, instead of reapplying a matte lipstick, switch over to a
conditioning lip tint, or these days you can even find a moisturizing lipstick
that is more matte than a lip gloss but provides the same amount of
conditioning. The conditioner helps your lips hold in more moisture while the
mattes tend to be drying. Alternate the use of lip colors that do nothing to
condition your lips with those that do. Look for lip conditioning products that
contain natural ingredients such as vitamin E, jojoba oil, and
beeswax.
Always protect your lips from the sun. Any lipstick you wear
should have either include sunscreen in its ingredients or should be worn over a
product that does contain sunscreen. Protecting your lips from the sun helps
prevent aging and wrinkling. Most lips are extremely susceptible to sun damage
because they don’t contain as much melanin as other parts of your skin, so don’t
forget this important step in proper lip care.
Now we come to the age-specific
lip-care. Your lips age right along with the rest of your skin so people in
their 40s need a different strategy for giving the appearance of sexy lips than
do people in their 20s.
20s proper lip-care: If you follow the steps
above, there is really no more you need to do. You are young enough to
experiment with a wide spectrum of shades and shimmers and still look age
appropriate. Because your lips still have lots of natural definition when you
are a twenty-something, you can even get away with wearing only a lip
gloss.
30s proper lip-care: When you neared your thirties you may have
begun to notice the appearance of fine lines on your face, including around your
lips. At the first signs of aging, it is time to start topically applying a
Retinol cream. Collagen and cosmetic surgery is not necessary unless you tried
Retinol and it didn’t work. You may also start to loose definition in your lips.
When that happens, it is time to start using a lip liner. Skip the lip gloss and
instead go for a slightly shimmer lipstick.
40s proper lip-care: You may
notice at this stage that your lips look a little paler than they used to. Your
lips will start loosing color and a light lip tint will no longer do the trick.
Add in a bit of color by using creamy lipsticks instead of sheer ones, in
slightly-darker-than-natural shades, but please don’t go too dark. Doing so
won’t enhance your lips, and it will actually look very unflattering.