We all know that smoking can lead to discolouration of lips. But, aside from smoking, high consumption of tea, coffee, exposure to UV rays, licking your own lips too often can also result in your lips getting a couple of shades darker than your regular skin tone.
Besides, if you don’t take care of your lips, especially in the dry seasons of Winter and Autumn, chances are that chapped lips will further worsen the state of things.
You should take care of your visibly darkened lips for two main reasons:
Firstly, unkempt lips are never kissable. Imagine the kind of lips that you would want to kiss and you’ll instantly know the standards that you have to maintain for own your lips, because hey, other people would have the same expectations too.
Secondly, if you want to hide your habit of smoking from someone (your family or your boss), darkened lips is a huge giveaway.
But here’s the thing, it’s not very hard to take care of discoloured lips.
Here are a bunch of quick and easy ways to get rid of darkened lips. You can choose any one of them to tackle discoloured lips:
1. A mix of honey, sugar and aloe vera works wonders when mixed together. The granules of sugar help exfoliate the darkened lips, honey is a moisturizing agent and aloe vera helps lock in the moisture and calms irritated and chapped lips.
2. Coconut oil, glycerin and lemon drops together have bleaching properties that can lighten the darkened region. Apply a few drops of lemon juice regularly, every night before you sleep for a few nights to see desired results.
