Some home care tips for beautiful lips all round the year

Ladies, here are some home based lip care tips for beautiful lips. No more of those long sighs watching the Revlon and Lakme damsels wooing your eyes with those chocolaty lips! Beautiful lips are ever the fascinating dreams of any girl. With some more care and love, you too can wear those lovely lips you had always yearned for.

• Home care tip #1: For softening your lips and preventing it from going dry, apply almond oil onto the lips daily

• Home care tip #2: Regular application of honey will also cure the cracked lips

• Home care tip #3: It’s always better to use the lipstick with a brush so that it is spread evenly along the lips

• Home care tip #4: Before putting the lipstick, talcum powder can be applied that the colour lasts long

• Home care tip #5: Butter, ghee, coconut oil etc that are amply available in the home itself can serve as an excellent nourishment to the lips

• Home care tip #6: Include more fruits and vegetables to your diet

• Home care tip #7: Food items rich in iron content like ragi and bitter gourd can find a good place in the daily menu

• Home care tip #8: Before getting exposed to the sun, apply some butter to the lips that it will not lose its texture

• Home care tip #9: A daily application of gooseberry essence onto the lips can give good colouring.

• Home care tip #10: A mixture of honey, glycerin and onion extract in equal proportions can serve as another colouring agent to the lips in a natural way

• Home care tip #11: The lost texture of lips can be regained by taking in foods rich in vitamin C like, orange, tomato, gooseberry etc

And finally some lip care guidelines specially for you:

• Buy lipsticks with sun protection factor

• Fair faces look best with pink lipsticks

• Wheatish and dark faces have maroon lipsticks suiting them well

• The boundary line enveloping the lips is called ‘vermillion layer’. Those with thick lips should draw the lip liner within the vermillion layer and the smaller lips should have the lip liner drawn outside the vermillion layer.