Beautiful, soft and plump lips are a universal beauty
hallmark and are desired by women no matter what ethnic background they hail
from. You admire luscious lips featured on magazine covers, on beauty-campaign billboards,
and on the faces of your favorite celebs (yes, Angelina bless your famous
kissers, we're still talking about you) and think secretly to yourself why can’t
I have them perfect puckers? - Who says you can't have them too?
Ladies let me be the bearer of the smoldering smackers good news
- there are ways to plump up, protect, and enhance your lips even if you feel
you were genetically cheated at birth.
First Do No
Harm - Understanding Causes Of Lip Damage & Aging
Your lifestyle choices and aging process result in constant
wear and tear of the delicate lip area, which translates into dehydration, and
loss of collagen/elastin, thus making your kissers appear wrinkled, shriveled
and shrunken over time. You’ll notice your lips are the first to indicate your
body is trying to fight off an illness, stress or disease. Lips are also the
first to show signs of unhealthy, destructive lifestyle with warning signs like
dryness, chapping, and discoloration.
Bear in mind, beautiful healthy lips should be smooth and
supple with very few lines and they should always have a healthy natural color (regardless
of your age).
Natural aging plays a part in the thinning of lips and the formation
of these lines, but so do sun damage, dehydration and cigarette smoke.
Some of these factors you can control, and some you can't.
One common cause of lip lines is, unfortunately, using your
lips! Every time you purse your lips to drink through a straw or whistle a
tune, you create folds in the skin. Over time, the repetition of this pursing
motion can result in permanent creases and lines around your mouth. This is the
main reason that people who smoke cigarettes tend to see lip lines develop
sooner and more noticeably than nonsmokers. When you add in the fact that
smoking has a drying effect on skin and is known to accelerate the formation of
wrinkles and loss of skin tone, it becomes clear that smoking is a major factor
in the formation of lip aging.
Volume loss with time is another reason for lip thinning and
deepening lip lines with aging. As you get older, your skin loses collagen and
elastin -- the components of skin that give it a full and smooth appearance. In
addition, facial fat, which accounts for some of your lips' plumpness, is also lost
naturally as you age. Both thinning of skin and fat loss over time result in
lips loosing their youthful puckered shape.
Understand
The Sad Realities Of Lip Product Formulations
As women, we have been conditioned to believe anything
creamy is also moisturizing. As far as lip products are concerned, nothing
could be further from the truth. When lip products that contain wax, wax
derivatives, and petroleum-by products (all recognized for their ability to
repel moisture) are regularly applied to the lip surface over an extended
period of time, the innate ability of your lips to keep their tissues hydrated
naturally, is compromised, and eventually ceases to function at all.
Over time, this prolonged state of dehydration results in
the loss of lip volume, vertical lines on the lip surface, the onset of lines
along the upper and lower lip lines, and the dreaded and feared lines which
extend above the lip and can also extend below the lips.
Aside from giving up
smoking and to stop using wrong lip products, it sounds like there's little you
can do to avoid lip aging and deterioration. But, there are several things you
can do to rejuvenate your lips and here are some valid options.
A Little Help
From Your Dermatologist - Fillers For Fuller Lips
One straightforward way to plump up and add volume to lips is
by injecting dermal fillers into them, hence making them appear more pleasantly
contoured and fuller. This procedure has been very popular among Hollywood
stars for years now and is no longer a secret behind their out-of-this-world-sexy-pouts.
Word of advice for plumping needle
fans- while opting for fillers to enhance the lips the goal should always be to
replace what Mother Nature gave you and gravity took away and not to create a stuffed
trout pout (sorry Meg Rayan not a flattering look).
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is one of the most popular dermal
filler that is used to replace the enhance lip volume, it also helps in
tightening and smoothing skin. Usually a filler injection treatment with HA lasts
up to 3-6 months after which you’re up for a reinjection session at your
discretion.
Another option to
rejuvenate lips is to have fat injected into your lips. Fat is usually taken
from one part of your body (such as the stomach), treated and re-injected to add
volume and reduce lip lines. A word of warning though, fat injections can lead
to lumping or uneven results, so talk to your dermatologist weighing the risks
versus the benefits.
If injectable fillers sound painful and too much of a
commitment, don’t loose hope there are other simpler over the counter options.
AminoGenesis™
“Lips to Love” is a natural non-invasive lip augmentation system;
that helps to restore and augment the lips at the same time.
The Proof Of
The Pudding - Amino acids are the heart of the AminoGenesis™
formula. They are the actual building blocks of proteins like collagen and
elastin, which are necessary for healthy and beautiful skin & lips. As you
age you start to lose these essential amino acids (meaning the body can’t
replace them on it’s own and needs supply from an outside source), collagen and
elastin production stops and your skin begins to malfunction, resulting in
wrinkles and discoloration.
AminoGenesis™ uses17 purified; plant derived amino acids
necessary to make your skin & lips healthy and youthful looking. These
amino acids are then carefully blended to match the optimum composition of
collagen, giving your skin and lips all they needs to become healthy and
radiant looking. A perfect pout at a fraction of filler price!
The miraculous oligopeptide
formula present in “Lips to
Love” penetrates into the delicate skin of lips instantly,
increasing volume while deeply hydrating lips for a plumper, sexier pout that
lasts all day long. The application wand comes built in with a unique 3-speed
vibrating system that helps in facilitating blood circulation to the lip area and
also indirectly aids in product penetration for maximum results.
Why I Like
“Lips-To-Love”?
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It increases lip volume instantly upon
application (filler like effect)
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Results are very natural looking and not over
the top crazy
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It hydrates and softens lips as it plumps them
(conditioning and skincare)
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It reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles
revealing smooth looking smackers
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It provides true lips rejuvenation as the vital
amino acids at its core help to rebuild and restructure your skin’s collagen
and elastin fibers
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Brownie point- it also helps in restoring
natural lip color due to it’s skin healing properties with amino acids
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And, most importantly - No side effects
Beautistas now you have all the info on how to preserve and
enhance your pout in the best ways possible – Eid is the perfect time to dab on
a little lip color, pucker up and flaunt your kissers and dazzle everyone with
your new found beauty secrets.
Wish You A Lip Smacking Blissful Eid!!
