Gorgeous pink lips are an arresting facial countenance particularly for girls and women. Yet many ladies suffer from dull, drab, discolored, parched lips which both feel and look unpleasant. Supple, smooth and pink lips are something everyone craves- after all they intensify the beauty of your face. But due to the grating and harsh weather, wrong food habits, and lack of proper care, our lips may lose their natural pink tinge and turn darker. When your lips are pink your smile also becomes delightful. But there are many people who do not have pink lips and the colour of their lips have become dark and pallid which are not alluring at all. As lips give a very distinguishing appeal to overall features of your face, dull and dark lips can make a sable spot in your beauty.
There are many reasons behind dark lips such as frantic life style, unconsciousness towards health, change in forecast, some kind of disorder, chewing tobacco, chemotherapy, excessive use of fluoride, immoderate smoking, regular use of low quality cosmetics, not removing lipsticks from your lips at night, less blood circulation in the lips, too much stress and strain, exposing lips to direct sun rays, humid temperature and so on.If you want your lips stay healthy and pink, you have to take care of your lips like proper scrubbing, moisturizing etc.
Here are some easy steps to keep your lips naturally pink and healthy:
Exfoliate your lips with toothbrush having soft bristles every night after brushing your teeth. This helps in removing the dead and chapped skin around the lips and keep them fresh. It also removes dirt & impurities and stimulates the blood flow in lips and helps them to keep pink, soft and fresh.
Stay hydrated to make your lips soft and healthy. Increase the intake of water in your diet and take fresh fruit juices. This can be done by drinking 6-8 glasses of water every day and taking fruits with higher water content like melon, cucumber, tomato. They help to maintain pink lips healthy and supple.
Smoking is also one of the major reason of dark and dull lips. It deteriorates health as well as lips. So, for healthy and pink lips, smoking should be stopped. Its beneficial not for gorgeous lips but also for good and healthy body and lungs.
Oiling the belly button is also an age old home remedy for keeping lips naturally pink and healthy. Application of few drops of mustard oil or desi ghee in navel before going to sleep helps to recover dry, chapped and discolored lips effectively.
Many people have the tendency to lick their lips whenever their lips are dry but this temptation causes more dryness to the lips. So avoid licking the lips as it not helps in recovering the dry and chapped lips.
Massaging the lips regularly helps in maintaining the lips pink and soft. It lightens the lips in short span of time. Massaging the lips with ice cubes or cotton dipped in rose water makes the lips healthy smooth and pink.
Moisturization is also an important factor for healthy lips. Our lips contain small amount of sebum (oil) which needs moisturization with sun protective lip balm or petroleum jelly if you are outside and with cocoa butter when you are in inside. It is very effective home remedy to keep lips pink.
Using natural remedies can also bring the glow and colour back to the lips and make the lips soft and pink naturally. Some of the natural remedies are lemon-honey, glycerine, beetroot, cucumber juice, pomegranate seeds, turmeric-milk, raspberry, rose petals, orange, carrot juice etc. These all home remedies lighten the skin, removes the darkness and dullness of lips and keep them pink and soft naturally.