Lip Care Products Which You Must Have | Glow Regime

Lip care is quite underrated but a very much necessary topic this winter. Lips get chapped, it gets dry, it breaks, and winter also makes lips much darker. So, it’s extremely hard to maintain lips this winter and we need much intense lip balms which works different from the regular lip balms we use.

So here, I am going to discuss the much-needed lip products covering every problem one by one. Let’s first start with chapped lips.

Chapped Lips

Yeah, know many of you are still struggling to find the best one, and I am definitely not going to say the good old Vaseline petroleum jelly here. The main reason I say that I don’t like this product especially is because it creates a thin film on your lip and just sits on top. Maybe it works in healing wounds but never gets into the skin and gives that hydration and moisture we need.

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I had extremely chapped lips and the urge I had to peel off my lips’ skin made it even worse, red and wounded that I can’t even touch it. So, among so many lip balms I have tried and tested, Nivea worked extremely well for me. I say it with so much confidence because, I never lost that balm and used it till the last point and brough another one now. It’s just so balmy and soaks into the skin.

I generally use it as an overnight treatment and will apply a very thick layer and let it sit, and trust me, it just works like magic. For those who don’t like tints in lip balms, you also have the original variant from them. Pomegranate tint is universal and goes well with every skin shade (I just love it).

I personally don’t like Lineage lip treatment since it is on the expensive side and the results for that price didn’t satisfy me. One more lip balm which works extraordinary, i.e. way better than lineage is Inde wild’s lip balm. It’s just so much nourishing but thin compared to Nivea balms.

Both works almost the same but Inde being glossy looking so that you can even wear it outside with your makeup for a natural flushed look.

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Dark Lips

This, I know is a universal problem, tanned lips, discolored lips are something which haunts us, but I just want everyone who thinks that it is not so good, that is how our melanin cells and genetics works basically and its completely normal and beautiful to have lips like that.

But, if you are a person concerned about that, I have a solution. Melalumin Lip Lightener, it also has SPF 15, so you can even wear it during the day. But I will not suggest you wear it on daytime since it has slight peeling effect and dries your lips out. Remember, without exfoliation you can never lighten your tanned or pigmented skin, wherever it is.

To reduce its peeling nature, you can apply a creamy lipstick over it on the day. If you are applying it in the night, which I would suggest basically you can first apply Melalumin Lip Lightener, leave it for 10-15 minutes so that it gets dry and apply something creamy like Nivea lip balm on top of it and then sleep. In this way you also seal the lip lightener and moisturize it which is the best option we have.

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One more thing, I want its users to be aware of is its characteristic taste, it doesn’t have a smell but if you drink water or unknowingly get the slightest amount of balm into your mouth, it will make your next 5 minutes bad. So, make sure you are done with every eating and drinking and apply it at last right before you sleep.

Lip Exfoliation

A Disclaimer everyone wants to know before getting into any sort of exfoliation be it physical or chemical, do only one at a time. If you are doing chemical exfoliation like Melalumin Lip Lightener, the top layer of your lips will already be fragile and young since the dead skin cells would have been cleared.

On top of that if you are doing a physical exfoliation, the baby cells on top will get disrupted and this will only make your lips worsen further and your barrier will get damaged.

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Coming to physical exfoliation, home remedies work great like honey + white sugar, or you can eve use the course filter coffee powder which has already been filtered with some coconut oil so that it is soaked in hot water and will not cut your skin.

Both of these works equally well, make sure any home remedies you do has a hydrating agent or a fat like honey, coconut oil, ghee etc.,

Sun Protection

Nivea, Inde Wild and Lineage does not have SPF in it. Though Melalumin has SPF, its only 15. In colder countries and cloudy winter weather SPF 15 is enough, but since that balm is an exfoliant and tends to dry out your lips, this may not be the best option for SPF.

The best budget friendly lip balm, which has SPF 50 and is also tinted, works like a gloss is from Dot & Key. Their barrier repair, ceramide and peptide lip balm do the sun protection job very effortlessly, it sits on our lips quite a good time up to 2 hours and you should reapply it.

One cannot expect this balm to be extremely nourishing like the Nivea. Yes, it is quite nourishing, but you cannot alter it with a lip treatment. Dot & Key barrier repair, ceramide and peptide lip balm is my holy grail when it comes to budget friendly sun protection for lips. Please also know that this lip balm is so glossy and give a proper gloss like finish.

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For those who need much more options to select, Deconstruct offers a SPF 30 lip balm and is quite a good and trusted brand. I basically didn’t like the Wishcare SPF 50 ceramide lip balm (tinted), since it had a wired smell, and I also felt the balm to be too hard and drying. SebaMed and NMF are also other budget friendly good alternatives.

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