The mantras to pretty pink and soft lips!

The simplest and best make-up anyone can wear is a sweet-as-honey like smile. And a toothy and beautiful grin isn’t all only about those pearly whites of yours. It’s also about the delicate lips that surround the teeth. Everyone on this earth has always at least once and forever wished to have plump, soft pink lips. But that wish has more often just remained a distant dream.

With a busy busy schedule in everyone’s pockets, it has become hard for people to devote long hours just to find their Kylie Jenner moment. First, let’s find out the main causes and reasons for chapping and drying up of lips.

Chapped And Pigmented Lips Causes

• Dehydration- Insufficient water and liquid intake
• An unhealthy lifestyle- which includes smoking, a wrong diet and stress
• Excessive exposure to pollution and sunlight
• Usage of outdated lip products
• Usage of cheap cosmetics
• Anemia
• The habit of not removing make-up before heading to bed
• Excessive intake of caffeine

Now with our fast paced lifestyle, here are some quick and useful hacks to the best lips ever

How To Get Soft Pink Lips Naturally?

Following are some simple DIY remedies to the lushest lips ever!

• Lip balm and washcloth/ Toothbrush combo: This is one of the easiest and most effective remedy to exfoliate the lips and make them softer and un-flake them from the chapped-ness.
  

  What You Need 

  1. A good quality lip balm of thick consistency
  2. A soft tooth brush or wash cloth

  Step by Step Process

  1. Start by applying a thick layer of lip balm all over your lips. The best time to do this is at night before you go to bed. It acts as a much-needed intensive night treatment.
  2. Once you wake up and the lip balm seems to have been absorbed by your lips, use a damp tooth brush to gently massage and exfoliate your lips to remove dead skin.
  3. You can also use a damp wash cloth instead of a tooth brush.
  4. Wipe off any excess balm to reveal fresh, moisturized lips.

          How It Works?

Regular exfoliation in its gentlest form that is by using lip balm helps in efficiently removing the dead and flaky skin on the                       surface. It helps to store and replenish moisture and heals cracks as well. It’s a win-win!

• Pomegranate seed Mask: Pomegranate in itself has countless health benefits, and the most suggested remedy they’re used for is by being made into juice and downing it all up. But let’s make use of the leftover seeds and create a lip exfoliator which also leaves a rosy touch to them!
  

  What You Need 

  1. Crushed pomegranate seeds
  2. Cold milk cream (malai)

  Step by Step Process
  

  • Slice open a pomegranate, get the seeds out and crush them up.
  • Mix the crushed seeds with cream to form a good old paste.
  • On clean lips, apply this paste and leave it on for ten minutes.
  • Wash off with warm water.

          How It Works?

Pomegranate contains a compound named ‘punicalagins’ that inhibits melanin production and prevents your lips from                               getting darker.

• Honey and lemon Mask: Everyone is aware of the goodness of both these ingredients that go together like Carrots and peas. They both form a miraculous combination where honey acts acts as a moisturiser and lemon as a natural bleaching agent.
  

  What You Need 

  1. One teaspoon honey
  2. 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
  3. A glass container

  Step by Step Process

  1. Mix the two ingredients and blend them together in a glass bowl.
  2. Apply this lip mask and leave it on your lips for 10-15 minutes.
  3. Wash it off with warm water and follow up with a layer of lip balm.

         How It Works 

Honey, as you know is a natural humectant, and it helps to intensively moisturize your lips. Lemon, on the other hand, is a                       natural lightening agent and using this over time will help you.

• Crushed Rose petals lip mask: Rose petals are great for the rosy tint to the lips. This remedy is ideal for people with pigmented and dicoloured lips.
  

  What You Need 

  1. 5-6 rose petals
  2. 1/2 cup of milk

  Step by Step Process

  1. Start with soaking a few rose petals in milk over night.
  2. In the morning, strain the petals and mash them using a pestle.
  3. Add a few drops of milk to the mashed petals to form a paste.
  4. Apply it on your lips and leave it on for a good 15 minutes.
  5. Wash with cold water.

          How It Works 

Rose petals contain natural oils and sugars. They help lock moisture into dry skin cells. Milk, on the other hand, is a natural                    moisturizer. Rose petals are also anti-inflammatory in nature.

• Cocoa and chocolate lip therapy: 

Think of a more mouth watering treatment, we’re waiting.

• What You Need

  1. One teaspoon cocoa butter
  2. Two squares of unsweetened dark chocolate
  3. One vitamin E capsule

  Step by Step Process

  1. Start by melting the chocolate squares and cocoa butter in a double boiler.
  2. Add the oil from the Vitamin E capsule to this mixture.
  3. Pour the mask into a container, allow it to cool.
  4. Once it’s cool, apply a good layer of the mask onto your lips.
  5. Leave it on for 10-15 minutes.
  6. Wash it off with lukewarm water.

  How It Works

  The ingredients in dark chocolate help in improving hydration and thickness. Cocoa is rich in antioxidants. This lip therapy is great to nourish and repair dry, lifeless lips.

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