I have had it with these chapped-ass lips of mine. I got out of the shower just now and took an emery board (yes, one of those sandpapery things you use on your nails) to them. I have no idea how my little experiment will turn out, but my lips have just been gross for days and I’m tired of it. I got out of the shower and there were little shreds of dried skin peeling off my upper lip, and my lower one wasn’t much better. So out came my nail file and away I went, delicately and with very little pressure. Doesn’t that just sound disturbing? Honestly, I wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to stop reading just now, because you probably don’t need thoughts of lip lepers and extremely chapped lips haunting your dreams.
…Still with me? I commend your stomach—I’ll carry on. So I was able to impress Todd with my grossness earlier (what are boyfriends for if not for you to mutually disgust each other every so often) by demonstrating 1) my lips relaxed, looking somewhat normal if a bit dry, and then 2) my lips in a smile, causing my upper lip to have multiple vertical splits where the top layer of very dried skin was cracking open to reveal a lower layer. Now that’s an impetus to not smile at people if I ever heard one. It was very unpleasant feeling, and this is after days of drinking liquids, applying chapstick, and then sleeping with a nice coating of Vaseline on my mouth. Winter weather does not treat me kindly. Hopefully, my grinding away at them will have some kind of smoothing effect on the healthy (?) skin beneath, or something like that.
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How dare you write about such GROSS things in your blog!
Hey, I occasionally pop in and read but I’ve never commented. Have you tried (as gross as it sounds, lol) scraping the dead skin off while in the shower? Do it at the end and it should come of easily. Then put on Zum Kiss lip balm, Indigo Wild makes it. Don’t use ChapStik, the petroleum dries out lips badly. Zum Kiss doesn’t use petroleum so it lasts a long time and helps with the dryness during the day.
From one dry lipped gal to another. :P
Ally: Thanks! It seems like everything I’ve tried on my lips has been petroleum-based, too. I’m checking out Indigo Wild now. :)
There’s actually a two-piece set by Mary Kay called “Satin Lips”. One tube is for exfoliation purposes; the other is the lubricant. It really does leave your lips smooth as silk!
The best thing I’ve found to use for dry lips is Vitamin E oil. I can no longer find the pure oil in a small bottle, so I purchase capsules which I open and smear on my lips every night. The oil is great for healing. I’d avoid lipsticks, too.
Sometimes when my lips get chapped I take a toothbrush and kind of exfoliate it with that. Then I use a good chapstick or vaseline. You could try rubbing some extra virgin olive oil with honey or something like that too.
This post made me reach for my Chapstick. Lol!