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Vertical Lip Lines; Should You Be Concerned?

If vertical lines are present on your top or bottom lip, you need to know why you have them. Is this something to be concerned about? Yes, most definitely!

Typical lip balms and glosses, moisturizing sticks whether colored or clear, and lotions, creams and butters, contain waxes, wax derivatives, petroleum or other barrier ingredients that helps seal moisture into, but also to an extent out of the lip surface. This is not a perfect seal of course, but it does slow moisture loss, and changes the lips feel on the surface. After the nutritive portion of the product is fully absorbed, this “seal” leaves a soft smooth waxy coating on the lip surface. But this is not adding any additional moisture or nutrients to the lips at this point, and can actually prevent moisture from effectively penetrating the deeper lip tissues. That’s what a moisturizer is formulated to do. Seal in the water within the tissues so it does not evaporate as quickly. However after moisture does evaporate, you cannot judge dryness by surface touch, because of the deceptive feel of the wax coating.

Long-term use of these types of products can be a contributor to chronic lip dehydration and poor health, because you are unable to “tell” by feel that lips are actually dehydrated, and in urgent need of moisture. Unhealthy lips are unable to regulate their own moisture balance correctly, and lose moisture rapidly from the deeper layers. Applying additional balm or coating products to the surface will exacerbate this cycle, because the barrier from previous layers, slows the absorption of moisture from repeated product coats, leaving lips in a state of continual dehydration.

This prolonged hydration deprivation, as I call it, causes the tissues beneath your lips to shrink. This shrinking causes a “drawstring effect” because it pulls the tissue to which it is attached, namely the tissues beneath your lips, downward. This pulling and “drawstring effect” is responsible for the lines on the lip surface. These vertical lines always precede the dreaded and feared lines and wrinkles above and around the lips. In fact in many instances, it is possible to trace a vertical lip line up over the vermillion border (upper lip line) or down over the bottom lip line. If these vertical lip lines are not immediately addressed, they will increase in quantity as well as in depth, and the manifestation of lines and wrinkles above, and possibly around the lips, will inevitably appear.

To stop this shrinking and restore the tissue to a healthy state, it must be intensely hydrated and nourished for a dedicated period of time. The Lips2Kiss anti-aging lip technology does not contain waxes or impermeable barrier ingredients. It does contain clinically tested ingredients, and 9 cutting edge technologies enabling it to perform 22 separate functions, among which addresses and eliminates vertical lip lines.

Kandis Holley Howard

Founder of http://www.lips2kiss.com

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