Why You Should Exfoliate Your Lips

Between the nasty cold and that frigid weather, dry lips can be a true problem throughout this time of year. Since your lips have a paper-thin layer of skin than the other part of your body, they drop moisture easily. Lip balm is surely handy when it comes to relieving chapped lips, but you also must make sure to exfoliate constantly to keep the perfect pout. Contrarily, flaky lips can not only drive to sloppy lipstick use but also lesser-known — and possibly more serious — outcomes.

Bad Breath

Having chapped lips are a positive sign that you're not taking enough water. Whereas the flaky lips aren't certainly the reason of your bad breath, they just may be a sign that you're not well-hydrated, which most of the time leads to having bad breath. So drink up more water, get rid of the excess flakes, and make sure to stay hydrated to keep having a kissable mouth.

Cold Sores

Broken lips can be a trigger for cold sores in and throughout your mouth. Make sure to have your lips well moisturized to stop an outbreak.

Lip Discoloration

In severe circumstances, remaining to ignore your chapped lips by not exfoliating or moisturizing can point to slight lip discoloration like pale lips and a dark border throughout your mouth. This seems to happen more frequently in severe weather climates, so make sure to exfoliate more frequently in the winter.

Clumpy Lipstick Use

Lastly, flaky lips start a rough and uneven surface when you use lipstick. If you intend on putting some color to your lips, exfoliate your lips and use lip balm for at least maybe an hour beforehand.

So, how should we go about lip scrubbing?

You have heard of face and body exfoliation, but have you tried the lip scrub and lip exfoliation?  We must scrub the stagnant layers off our skin to keep a  young-looking skin. The very same thing applies to the lips. We need to scrub the exterior layer of our lips to gain smooth and kissable lips.

Lip scrub just like all other scrubs employs a gritty element to exfoliate the outer layers when rubbed on your lips. Lip scrubs do remove the dead exposed surface of your lips, but different from body scrubs, they are commonly safe if ingested since lip scrubs are intended to be sweet and delightful, so scrubbing is enjoyable and healthy too.

Benefits of Using a Lip Scrub

The eliminating of the dead surface of your lips takes out new fresh layers, making your lips smooth and soft.

Here are other benefits that you can get from lip scrubbing:

• With a soft surface, lip cosmetics will stay longer on your lips. Thus, this makes lipsticks, lip gloss, and lip liner much more efficient and long-lasting.
• Lip scrubbing or exfoliation makes your lips moister and holds its moisture longer; serving to avoid having cracked lips.
• Plus if you’ll exfoliate your lips regularly, you don't need to worry about exposure cold and the wind, and having chapped lips after. Just apply a lip scrub and get a moisturized lip, that’s it!

Something to be obsessed with: 10 Makeup Trends in 2017

As we start the New Year, let's take a second to say thank you 2016 for a historic year in makeup. In this year 2017, there are just so much to be looking forward too especially in the world of beauty and makeup. Read along as we will give you the 10 Makeup Trends that we all should look forward to this year of the fire rooster.

Hello, Lip Gloss!

2016 was all about matter lipstick, and we all know that. For sure you brought along 3 or maybe five matte lipstick with you this New Year. Well, then it’s time for you to move on and say hello to lip gloss. Matte lipstick may have dominated 2016 but not 2017. Lip glosses will be a refreshing change to shine and youth!

Natural Looking Skin

2017 is all about achieving a more radiant, healthy and naturally conditioned skin. Let your skin relax from contouring, baking and strobing from last year.

Bold Lips

As you have seen in many fashion shows, lips covered in glitters are so in. They are even taken a notch higher y adding ombre effects overlays of glitters. Now, pick your lip gloss and glitter them on.

Boyish Brows

Again, 2017 is a somewhat like a breath of fresh air in makeup. So, let your brows grow naturally and embrace them because the naturally groomed brows are going to rule 2017.

Perfectly Imperfect Lines

Leave the super flawless liner looks in 2016 and head on a more unique and looked a little-unfinished type of line. Either just lined only in the centers or just in the bottom lash, Don't e afraid to rock it everywhere.

Monochromatic Magic

You surely have all the colors in your makeup palette all for grab but for 2017; monochromatic will bring more magic than using multiple colors. You can just pair your blush with the same lip color and add the same color in your eyes that will bring so much magic than what you have imagined.

Think of Pink

Don't forget your pink shade with the year 2016, bring that along! Who would want to forget about the pink shade when it just adds a beautifully fresh take to a bare face.

Vinyl-Like Liner

The vinyl-like liner is what goes with us for 2017. Forget about your plain black liner and wing it out with a dramatic and glittery effect.

Really Metallic

Aside from glittery and shiny lip gloss, and liners, we'll add more glitters for 2017 with metallic eye shadows. It seems like 2017 is all about glitters huh? Well, you bet!

Burgundy Shade Mascara

The burgundy color was loved so much last year from clothes, shoes, lipstick, and accessories but not burgundy mascara. Well, not for 2017 because burgundy mascara is going in.

These trends are amazing and are so exciting to try on. So, head on and let us all have a gorgeous 2017.

7 Simple Techniques to Rock Your Loved Lip Gloss

Here are seven techniques — while some you may know very well, and some you may not have considered before— to recreate that little tube of lip gloss you take around anywhere you go.

Wear it as is

Particularly when you are always on the go, lip gloss is an instant way to brighten your look—and contrary to lipstick, it’s simple to use even without a mirror. The shiny factor gives your lips a fuller look, and a hint of a more sheer color is entirely flattering and suitable for any season. For fool-proof usage without a mirror, just dab the lip gloss wand in the center of your bottom lip and next lightly press your lips together to spread the gloss.

Wear it with a lip liner

Join the lasting power of a lip liner with the sparkly factor of a lip gloss, and you will achieve a beautiful lip look that keeps the color all day, even if your lip gloss slowly hushes away. The liner also serves to prevent the lip gloss from gushing outside the boundaries of your lips. Begin on filling up your lips with your chosen lip liner. It can be bright or dark colored; just make certain that the colors of the lip liner and lip gloss balance each other considering that the result should be well blended. Then, sprinkle a light coating of powder over your lips to set the liner. Then, dab your gloss. Just dab and don’t smear the gloss, so you don’t erase the liner off.

Wear it with a lip stain

For the achieving, the same lasting power of a lip liner, but with a more sheer polish, use a lip stain over your lip gloss. Just be sure to provide the lip stain some time to dry and immerse into your lips before using the lip gloss, or you may mix it with the gloss and miss its lasting power.

Wear it with a white pencil

Use a white eyeliner pencil to fill in the center of your upper and lower lips—this sums dimension, which gives your lips bigger and fuller look. Then use your beloved pink lip liner and fill in both sides of your lips, mixing the sides of the white pencil with the pink liner. Lastly, use a layer of your preferred pink gloss atop. The lip gloss will soften the blend still further, and add an overall color, so it looks like your lips are highlighted and full in the middle.

Wear it with a lipstick

A light, glossy lip surely has its place, but we particularly love the look of a naked lipstick with a glossy lip gloss on top. The glow and shimmer of the lip gloss add some dimensions to the color, making it stand out from other parts of your face.

Wear it over your cheeks

Dewy skin is a trend, and a simple way to achieve the look is a dab of your favorite lip gloss over your cheekbones. Use a small amount and blend smoothly on your cheekbone using your finger.

Wear it over your eyeshadow

For a more exciting turn on the tip above, dab at a shiny gold or metallic eye shadow in the midst of your lower lip, and then use your lip gloss. The eye shadow will produce a glittery highlight, set by the all-over glow of the gloss.