Contour pencil

emphasizes and corrects lip contours. With the help of a contour pencil you can make the contours of your lips clearer, your lips more or less full, and your mouth more or less wide. A contour pencil prevents lipstick from smearing or going beyond the contours of your lips. It should always be the same color as your lipstick.

Using a contour pencil, draw a line in the middle of your upper lip. Slowly lead it to the corner of your mouth. The line on the lower lip must be drawn in one step. If you make a mistake, don't correct the line. This will only make her sloppy and ugly. Erase the line and draw the contours again.

If the line turns out to be too clear, then “blur” its outline with an applicator with cotton wool towards the inside of the lips. Now you can apply lipstick to all your lips.

If the contour pencil turns out to be hard, slightly heat its rod in the flame of a match. If the contour pencil is too soft, put it in the refrigerator for a few minutes.

1. If you need to highlight your lips, outline them with a pencil after applying lipstick, then the lip line will not be harsh.

2. For thin lips, draw a pencil line 1-2 mm behind the lip line, using a pencil whose tone matches the tone of the lips.

3. For excessively plump lips, the contour is drawn inside the natural lip line, the rest is powdered or concealer is used.

4. For asymmetrical lips, correct the line using concealer and lip pencil.

5. If the corners of the lips are lowered down, then the area of ​​the corners is sketched with concealer, and the line that we draw with a pencil should end at a distance of 1 mm from the natural corners of the mouth.

Lipsticks

Dry lipstick

Dry lipstick stays on the lips for a very long time. It contains a lot of coloring pigments and powder particles, but almost no fat. Dry lipstick is applied with a foam applicator or simply with your fingers.

Dry lipstick is sold in the same packaging as eye shadow. It looks very natural and lasts twice as long on the lips as regular lipstick. But its downside is that it dries out your lips a little.

Cream lipstick

Lipstick can be creamy. It contains a lot of fat and nutrients. It shines very beautifully. But it contains few coloring pigments, and it does not last long on the lips.

Cream lipstick can be replaced with cream blush. Apply them on your lips with small dots, and then rub the paint.

Lip glosses

They are much more sheer than lipstick and create a fashionable "wet lips" effect. The gloss hides cracks and roughness on the lips. Lips become shiny due to the large amount of lanolin contained in the gloss.

Gloss applied to the lips visually makes them fuller, and if it is also light, the impression is enhanced. Glitter does not require a contour pencil.

Long lasting lipstick

Long-lasting lipstick contains a special transparent film that envelops the color particles. Thanks to this, it stays on the lips for a long time, does not fade, does not settle in cracks, and does not leave marks on glasses and cups.

Long-lasting lipstick lasts on the lips from eight to twenty-four hours.

After you apply this lipstick, wait about 5 minutes until the color is absorbed and hardens. Until this time, lips should not be pressed or touched.

Before applying long-lasting lipstick, lips should not be lubricated with cream. It doesn't last on a greasy base.

Chapstick

Hygienic lipstick is useful for rough and cracked lips. It contains strengthening and medicinal herbal additives. But it is colorless, so it is not decorative cosmetics.

Fixative cream

The fixative cream protects the makeup on the lips, making it last much longer. You will achieve the same effect if you dust your lips a little with regular powder before painting them.

The fixative cream degreases the skin.

Lip powder

Lip powder is sold in convenient packaging, just like eye shadow. It contains a lot of coloring pigments and is very durable. It is easy to apply with your fingers. But this powder dries out your lips a little.

A little gold powder on your lips for evening makeup will give them a fantastic shimmer.
Also, for an evening out, you can cover your lips with a very thin layer of gold or silver dry eye shadow. They can be applied to the lips simply with your fingers. Golden or silver gloss on the lips looks especially beautiful in candlelight.

How to paint lips

Before applying makeup to your lips, apply a nourishing cream to them. It will make the skin of your lips more elastic. Then carefully remove excess cream. Let your lips dry. After this, the lipstick will last twice as long.

Lipstick can be applied with a pointed brush. Use a brush to pick up a little paint from the lipstick and apply the brush to your lips. You can apply lipstick from your pencil case to your lips. Apply lipstick in a thick layer. To color lips from a pencil case, it is better to buy lipstick with a small diameter, beveled on both sides to different sizes. With the side with a small bevel, small areas of the lips are painted and contours are drawn. The side with a large bevel fills the remaining surface of the lips.

To make your lips look more natural, you can apply lipstick with your fingers and gently rub it in. This will make the paint look more subdued and natural.

To ensure that lipstick does not leave marks, you need to remove excess: lightly touch your painted lips with a paper napkin to remove excess lipstick. Under no circumstances move the napkin from its place.

How to remove lipstick from lips

To remove stubborn lipstick from your lips, you will need either an oil or a special product.

You need to take a cleansing cosmetic oil. Using cotton swabs soaked in oil, remove the lipstick until the swab remains clean.

Regular lipstick should never be removed with soap and water. This causes the lips to lose a lot of fat, become rough and crack. It is best to remove regular lipstick with facial cleansing milk.

How to choose the right lipstick color for your face

1. If your skin is soft and light, reminiscent of ivory, then shades of purple or red with a hint of yellow will most likely suit you.
2. If you have fair skin and blonde hair, try wearing salmon-colored or soft pink lipstick.
3. If your skin is olive toned, then you should choose a red-brown lipstick. This color suits especially reddish hair.
4. If you have light ash hair and olive skin, go for a muted matte pink lipstick.
5. If your skin is golden beige or naturally tanned, look for sheer coral or tomato reds.
6. In general, it should be noted that dark lipstick makes the complexion lighter, while light lipstick makes the complexion darker. If you want to highlight your tan, choose pastel colors.
7. Another tip: Bite your lower lip. The color it takes will be the color of the lipstick that suits you. This color, among other things, will look natural.

Lips are one of the most noticeable facial features, which is why fashionistas pay so much attention to their appearance. There are many very interesting facts associated with lips - here are some of them.

1. Human lips are absolutely unique. Of all living creatures, only humans have been endowed by nature with such bright and clearly defined lips.

2. Lips are incredibly sensitive - there are almost a hundred times more nerve endings on them than on the tips of your fingers.

3. The thickness of the skin on the lips is four times less than on other parts of the body.

4. Statistics say that modern men prefer women with large, full lips, but women love men with average lip size more.

5. The owner of the most voluminous lips in the world is St. Petersburg resident Christina Ray. To achieve this record, she had to undergo about a hundred injections.

6. After 25 years, the volume of the lips begins to gradually decrease, and the width of the mouth increases.

7. Texas anthropologist Vaughn Bryant, who studies the history of kissing, claims that the first mention of kissing is contained in Vedic texts, which are about 3,500 years old.

8. Some historians believe that in Europe the custom of kissing each other on the lips spread after the return of Alexander the Great from the Indian campaign in 325 BC.

9. Horses and chimpanzees also like to kiss each other on the lips. Modern science does not know when they learned this.

10. To position your lips for a kiss, you need to tense all four quadrants of the orbicularis oris muscle. And to smile, you need to work 15 different muscles. Fortunately, we all know how to do both without thinking at all about which muscles need to be tensed.

11. Passionate kissing is a very energy-intensive activity. A three-minute kiss is equivalent in energy consumption to a two-hour walk or a ten-minute jog.

13. There are absolutely no sweat glands on the lips, so they dry out much faster than the rest of the skin.

14. Over the course of their lives, fashionistas have to “eat” up to 5 kg of lipstick and lip gloss.

Lips- these are musculocutaneous folds surrounding the entrance to the oral cavity, consisting of two parts: the upper lip and the lower lip. Lips can be seen both on the human face (in whom they are one of the most sensitive areas) and on some animals.

What are lips for?

Lips perform several important functions at once: while eating, they are necessary for capturing and subsequently holding food, and when expressing emotions through facial expressions, they help to depict a smile, grin or kiss. An equally important role is assigned to the lips in the pronunciation of various sounds, in particular, in the articulation of rounded vowels, as well as labiodental and labiolabial consonants.

Lips in technology

In technology, it is customary to call the longitudinal protrusions located on the edges of some devices or tools, which are necessary for capturing and subsequently holding all kinds of workpieces (that is, they work by analogy with human lips when grasping food), as lips or sponges. Well-known tools such as round nose pliers, pliers and a vice are equipped with jaws.

The structure of human lips

The outer (that is, visible) surface of the human lips is covered with skin, smoothly turning into a mucous membrane on their back surface facing the teeth. And the back surface of the lips is always moist, smooth and covered with mucous membrane. By the way, this surface also has a transition - it gradually turns into the surface of the gums, that is, into the mucous membranes of the alveolar processes. Each lip consists of three parts:

• Skin. This part has a structure similar to the structure of the skin, that is, it is covered with flat and stratified keratinizing epithelium, and also contains sweat and sebaceous glands, and sometimes hairs.
• Intermediate. It is an area equipped with skin and colored pink. True, the stratum corneum in this case is preserved only in the outer zone, and there it is transparent and quite thin. And the place where the skin transitions into the mucous membrane, which looks like a red border, is equipped with a huge number of translucent blood vessels (it is this fact that causes the red color of the lips) and nerve endings (thanks to this, the red edges of the lips can boast of quite high sensitivity).
• Mucous. And this part is allocated to the back surface of the lips, covered with flat multilayered non-keratinizing epithelium. This is where the ducts of the labial salivary glands open.

As for the thickness of the lips, it is formed mainly by loose connective tissue, the orbicularis oris muscle, mucous membrane and skin. And at the junction of the mucous membrane into the gums there are two vertically located median folds, called frenulums: the frenulum of the upper lip connects the middle of the upper lip to the gum, and the frenulum of the lower lip connects the middle of the lower lip to the gum. The upper lip is separated from the cheeks by a nasolabial fold, and the lower lip is separated from the chin by a horizontally running chin-labial groove.

Lip care

Balms and hygienic lipsticks provide excellent care for lips, protecting delicate skin from dryness and bad weather, keeping lip skin beautiful and smooth.

Lip care is necessary not only for cosmetic, but also for hygienic purposes. The skin of the lips needs proper hydration and nutrition, which is why both women and men use lip balms or special hygienic lipstick to combat dry lips and nourish them. It also doesn’t hurt to periodically exfoliate your lips to quickly get rid of dead skin particles. Regular lip massage will not be superfluous, and such a massage can be done even with the most ordinary toothbrush after brushing your teeth. Some representatives of the fair sex periodically make various lip masks, and this is also the right decision - additional nutrition for the skin of the lips will never hurt!

For cosmetic purposes, lipstick with pigments of various shades and brightness is usually applied to the lips. However, as practice shows, many women prefer lipstick tones that are close to natural shades.

• Passionate kisses can increase a person’s heartbeat up to one hundred beats per minute - this is due to the fact that during a kiss the human body begins to produce substances that enhance sexual desire.

• The size of a person’s lips is largely determined by his belonging to a particular race. The owners of the thinnest lips are the inhabitants of Asia, and the thickest ones are representatives of the Negro-Australoid race. As for Europeans, their lips most often represent the so-called “golden mean”.
• Every day, plastic surgeons give lip augmentation injections to ten to fifteen women.
• Since time immemorial, women of the African Mursi tribe have been stretching their mouths so that they look like a duck's beak. This is done using a special wooden plate. The larger a woman's mouth, the more beautiful she will be considered. By performing such manipulations with their own appearance, ladies try to show men that they are completely submissive to them.
• Numerous surveys show that when meeting women, most men first of all pay attention to their lips. And only then do they turn their gaze to other parts of the body that are no less attractive in their understanding!

Links

• How to cure chapped lips? , beauty portal MyCharm.ru
• Cracks in the corners of the lips: causes and treatment, beauty portal MyCharm.ru
• Tips for beautiful lips, beauty portal MyCharm.ru

2017-02-24
Lips help us eat, speak, whistle, they reflect our emotions and help us kiss. But there are facts about lips that not all people know. Here are some of them:

Lips are 100 times more sensitive than fingertips. There are millions of nerve endings around the lips. In addition, the skin on the lips is thinner. This is the reason they are so sensitive. The remaining areas of the skin are made up of 16 different layers. Lips consist of only 3 - 6 layers. For the same reason, lips have a pinkish color due to blood capillaries, which are easier to see.

Lips dry out so quickly because there are no sweat glands around them. Sweat glands are responsible for keeping the body hydrated. This also means that the lips are highly exposed to cold, wind and sun. Since we don't have any sweat glands around our lips, they dry out faster.

Men tend to suffer from oral cancer more than women. Women tend to use lip balms, lipsticks and other hygiene products to protect their lips. This way, their lips stay hydrated and they protect their lips from UV rays.

The lips can be paralyzed just like other parts of the body. The lips may become paralyzed; this phenomenon is also known as Bell's Palsy. It is caused by damage to the nerves around the facial area. People who suffer from this condition also have poor control of their facial muscles.

There is a theory that kissing is an exchange of biological information and allows you to receive pheromones from your partner. Processing of this information occurs in the background at the back of your brain.

Lips are as unique as fingerprints. You will never find two people having the same lip prints.

Texas anthropologist Dr. Vaughn Bryant says that while kissing was widespread, its use was very limited in Europe and Southeast Asia. He claims that the practice began in India and was then spread by the soldiers of Alexander the Great, who brought the custom home.

Every person in his life has encountered the symptoms of herpes in himself or in people around him. There are a lot of myths, tales and popular speculations about where this disease comes from, how to treat it and what to do, so that it does not arise again.

Several of these observations actually have a scientific basis that the clinical picture of herpes occurs during colds in the cold season, and that it occurs more often in women than in men. You can learn everything about herpes on the lips from that article.

Herpes looks like a group of vesicles prone to fusion, filled with a clear, serous liquid in the area of ​​​​the border of the lips, less often in the oral cavity and gums in children and in severe cases of the disease.

The etiological reason for this condition is a DNA-containing virus of the herpes simplex family, type 1 or 2. The first type of virus mainly causes clinical herpes on the lips - this is called the labial form of the disease. The second type leads to the appearance of rashes on the genital organs (on the glans penis in men, on the labia and in the vestibule of the vagina in women) and is the main cause of the sexual form of the disease.

It is worth considering also the second type of herpes virus when diagnosing the cause of the development of the disease on the lips, due to the fact that this pathogen, in addition to the genital organs, upon contact with the mucous membrane of the lips, can cause the development of the labial form of the disease. This situation can occur after oral sex and requires serious treatment for both partners. More often this situation occurs in men.

Reproducing in nerve cells, the herpes virus is extremely resistant to medications, as well as the body’s antibodies. On the other hand, it is the immune system that prevents the virus from spreading in the body from the nerve endings.

Therefore, any person, having become infected once, is a carrier of herpes for the rest of his life. Blood antibodies can be used to determine whether such an infection has occurred.

How is it transmitted from person to person?

Before the disease manifests itself as a rash in the mouth and lips, the pathogen must penetrate the human body. In both men and women, the virus enters the body through damaged mucous membranes.

The source of infection is a sick person, an asymptomatic virus carrier or biological fluids containing the herpes virus. Infection most often occurs through direct contact.

Directly in the external environment, the virus has average resistance - under normal conditions it is able to maintain virulence for up to 24 hours. Heating causes a reduction in the lifespan of the pathogen; cooling, on the contrary, lengthens this period. Also, using soap can wash off the pathogen from the surface of the skin.

In liquid media, the pathogen is able to maintain virulence until the medium dries completely. You can destroy the virus with any antiseptic.

1. The virus enters the body through damaged mucous membranes in the mouth or epidermis of the skin. The virus itself does not have specific capsid receptors to penetrate intact skin and cannot penetrate on its own at this stage.
2. Migration in the body to nerve cells. At this stage, primary contact with the immune system and the production of antibodies to herpes most often occur. The manifestation of such a process is called prodromal syndrome.
3. Migration along nerve endings to the receptor zone of the skin of the lips and mucous membranes in the mouth.
4. The appearance of a specific rash caused by acantholysis by the destruction of connections between stellate cells of the epithelium, which leads to detachment of the upper spheres of the epidermis and the formation of vesicles (vesicles). At this stage, clinical signs of the disease can be observed.

The process of damage to the skin of the lips and mucous membrane in the mouth is associated both with natural causes and with trauma from rough, dry food, dry lips, and shaving in men.

The disease can be easily diagnosed by the nature of the rash and its location on the lips and mouth. Unlike men, women often try to carefully hide such rashes behind lipstick or foundation, but still this cosmetic effect does not last long. The use of cosmetic ointments also cannot stop the development and all stages of the formation of a herpes rash.

The main features that distinguish a rash in the mouth and lips due to herpes from other diseases in men or women are:

• the presence of vesicles that are filled with clear liquid;
• such vesicles tend to coalesce into groups;
• It can be noted that the bubbles often open on their own;
• at the stage when the blisters begin to open, ulcers are formed, covered with a crust of a non-purulent nature;
• it can be revealed that the surface of the skin under the ulcers has signs of inflammation;
• such skin damage due to herpes heals without scar formation;
• It is not recommended to wet such rashes, since this often leads to recurrence and expansion of the rash area; the consequences of such rashes are usually very unpleasant for the patient.

Often, with herpes, a person does not take any special treatment, and the disease goes away on its own without leaving any negative consequences. For some people, the disease occurs very often, and the treatment taken, in some cases even prescribed by a doctor, does not lead to recovery and the desired effect.

This gives rise to the false opinion that the disease should not be treated because it is not dangerous, does not cause complications and cannot be cured. Treatment and prevention of disease in the mouth and lips in both men and women is not difficult.

In fact, despite the ability of the immune system to cope with the disease on its own, herpes attacks the body during periods when it experiences some functional decline (during infectious diseases, injuries, exacerbation of chronic pathology, etc.).

In both men and women, the herpes virus, in addition to symptoms such as a rash on the lips and mouth, can lead to the development of a generalized infection that causes damage to the heart, kidneys, brain and spinal cord.

Treatment of the disease is carried out by a general practitioner and consists of the following recommendations.

Do not forcefully wet the rash area, do not use water or alcohol compresses. I also recommend not to touch the formed ulcer with your hands and not to try to remove the formed crusts. This increases the risk of bacterial infection at the site of the wound and, as a result, the fight against herpes may be delayed. The consequences of such an infection can be very diverse.

Special ointments containing Acyclovir and its derivatives must be applied to the site of the rash. The ointment must be applied regularly, according to the schedule specified by the doctor.

Taking antiviral drugs. For this purpose, drugs in the form of tablets containing Acyclovir and its derivatives are mainly used.

If the rash causes severe pain, anti-inflammatory and analgesic pharmacological drugs, mainly from the NSAID group, are used. The use of NSAIDs is excluded only in patients with hypertension, ulcers or gastritis. This is due to the fact that complications of these diseases may develop as a consequence of taking the drug.

If the occurrence of herpes is associated with a constant decrease in the function of the immune system, various immunostimulating drugs are used. In this case, it is rational to prescribe agents capable of stimulating the formation of interferon (allokin-alpha, etc.).

Thus, preventive measures against the herpes virus include the following areas:

• preventing possible contact with the virus by maintaining personal hygiene, avoiding kissing a large number of people;
• use of barrier contraceptives during oral sex:
• maintaining immunity at a high level through proper nutrition, a healthy lifestyle and treatment of diseases, including those of an infectious nature;
• treatment of an acute rash, this will avoid the consequences of a herpes infection and the development of complications.