Wrinkles around the lips - how to get rid of them quickly at home

Proper care of the skin around the lips and other preventive measures

Preventing a problem is always easier than dealing with negative consequences. It is unrealistic to completely remove the load from the oral muscles, so prevention in this case is very important. And you should start from the age of 22–25.

What is recommended:

give up bad habits that cause early skin aging and, if possible, lead a healthy lifestyle;
learn to control facial expressions (not to give it up completely, but at least not to constantly walk with your lips pressed into a line or pouting, replacing them with a light, natural half-smile);
do not neglect creams to protect from the sun and frost, use lip balms;
Be sure to remove makeup before going to bed;
in cosmetics, pay attention to the absence of preservatives, dyes, flavors, useful ingredients in creams - vitamins A, E, C, group B, natural oils, glycerin, collagen, hyaluronic acid, peptides and amino acids;
review the diet in favor of a balanced healthy diet, maintain a drinking regime;
purchase a comfortable orthopedic pillow for sleeping;
Wash your face in the morning and evening with cool water, use cosmetic ice to maintain skin tone.

A balanced diet that provides the body with all the necessary vitamins and microelements is a very effective prevention of aging and the appearance of wrinkles

Video: general recommendations on how to deal with the problem

Various means

You can get rid of the problem in different ways. Regular application of the right cream helps smooth out the skin, which must contain antioxidants that slow down the aging process of the skin, vitamin A, which has a rejuvenating effect, vitamin E, which moisturizes and nourishes the skin, and peptides that stimulate the skin's production of collagen.

Masks that you can make yourself at home help. Oil compresses are effective. A few simple tips:

It is recommended to use lip gloss and lipstick that have UV protection and a moisturizing effect.
Exfoliate the skin around the mouth as often as possible. This will help get rid of dying cells. For the procedure, you can use mild cleansers and terry gloves.
It is necessary not to provoke the appearance of wrinkles. Do not bite, twist, or compress your lips.
Do not use aggressive cleansers. Use moisturizers.

Expression wrinkles and age wrinkles can be removed with the help of modern aesthetic medicine, which has many different methods, ranging from hyaluronic acid injections, which replenish the missing volume in skin folds, Botox injections, relieving muscle tension and smoothing the skin.

Plasmolifting, when regeneration processes are started using one’s own blood, and lipofilling, in which wrinkles are eliminated using the patient’s own fat, have a rejuvenating effect on the skin and smooth out wrinkles. There are different types of skin resurfacing, thread lifts, chemical peels and surgical lifts. All these methods of eliminating wrinkles around the mouth are reliable and in demand.

When you don’t have the time or money to visit a salon, you should try to get rid of wrinkles around the mouth yourself. There are many options, the main thing is regularity, systematicity and the result will not be long in coming.

Every day you need to use creams that should contain vitamins A, E, B, peptides, and antioxidants. Rub in essential oils every day before bed. Many tools are always at hand. For example:

fish oil – taken in capsule form,
tomatoes - applied in slices to wrinkles,
honey - applied to wrinkles for 15 minutes,
avocado – used similar to tomato.

Unfortunately, wrinkles around the mouth can appear very early. No one is safe from them. Initially, these are expression wrinkles; if you don’t fight them, they turn into deep ones. In order to prevent the appearance of wrinkles, it is recommended:

maintain a proper diet,
take a walk outside more often,
lead a healthy lifestyle,
drink enough water,
give up sudden weight loss diets,
massage around the mouth every day,
sleep 8 hours a day,
moisturize the skin with nourishing creams and make masks.

Gymnastics for the face

Gymnastics is useful for maintaining any muscles, including facial ones, in good shape. But in the case of the area around the lips, it is important not to overdo it, otherwise you will achieve the opposite effect, stretching the skin even more. You will have to devote time to gymnastics every day, start with 4-5 repetitions of each exercise, gradually increasing their number to 12-15 times. Be sure to remove makeup from your face first. The first results will be noticeable after 2-3 months of regular exercise.

There are a lot of different exercises to keep the skin around the lips toned and smooth out wrinkles in this area; You can only determine which of them are most effective in your case through experience.

Useful exercises:

Take in as much air as possible into your mouth, puffing out your cheeks. Exhale slowly through tightly closed lips or alternately through their corners. An alternative is to inflate several balloons daily.
While clearly articulating, slowly sing the vowels, spending 10–15 seconds on each.
Stick out your tongue and try to touch your chin with it.
Pull your lower lip down, exposing your teeth and gums.
With your mouth slightly open, smile as wide as possible without squinting your eyes or frowning.
Purse your lips in a bow, as if you are about to kiss someone. Hold the position for 10–15 seconds. Another option is to blow air kisses, making sure to press your palm to your lips to create slight resistance and “blow” them away.
Pull your lips forward a little. Raise your lower lip, covering it with your upper lip. Then vice versa.
Protrude your lower jaw. Move it back and forth, imitating an excavator bucket.
Pull your cheeks in so that the corners of your mouth are pressed against your teeth. Purse your lips as tightly as possible and move the resulting “pipe” to the sides. Make the exercise more difficult by trying to hold a tablespoon between your lips folded in this way and hold it for as long as possible.
Press your index fingers to the corners of your lips. Lift them up and down, overcoming resistance.
With pressure, move your tongue across your lips from the inside. Then you can lightly bite the mucous membrane.
Fix a slight half-smile on your face. Drum your lips and the skin around them with your fingertips for 1-2 minutes.

Video: exercises against wrinkles in the lip area from the Facebook building complex of Evgenia Baglyk

How to remove wrinkles around the mouth at home

You can remove shallow wrinkles around the mouth at home using:

gymnastics for this area of the face,
massage, including with an ice cube,
course application of homemade wax-based cream,
ready-made anti-aging serums and other cosmetics.

All methods require regular use, not occasionally.

Exercises for wrinkles around the lips

The proposed exercises for wrinkles formed around the lips help strengthen the muscle frame, increase blood circulation in the skin and reduce the severity of negative changes:

Take a deep breath into your mouth, rounding your cheeks. Exhale sharply, stretching your lips.
Stick out your tongue, but do not open your mouth wide. Try to reach with the tip of your chin.
Raise your upper lip towards your nose and return to normal position. Immediately pull the lower one towards your chin.
Pronounce vowel sounds. But at the same time, move your lips more actively, almost without involving your cheeks.
Take air into your mouth and move it from one side to the other. You can diversify the exercise by releasing a stream from the left and right corners of your mouth.
Use your palms to hold your cheeks in a stationary position. At this moment, you need to slightly stretch your lips, feeling the muscle tension.
Fix the corners of the mouth with the index and middle fingers. Try to raise your upper lip.
Take the starting position as in the previous exercise. But stretch your lips with a tube, overcoming the pressure of your fingers.

Each exercise is performed 15-20 times. You need to pause between them, relaxing your face. And before starting gymnastics, cream or oil should be applied to the skin and red border of the lips.

How to disguise wrinkles around the mouth

You can use cosmetics to disguise minor wrinkles around the mouth as follows:

apply day cream to this area, wait for absorption,
use tone
outline your lips with a transparent pencil to prevent lipstick from bleeding,
trace an outline over it with a soft colored pencil,
apply lipstick with a brush, using a color that is not too dark,
put glitter on top of it.

The shades of lipstick and contour pencil should match. You should choose cosmetics with a fairly oily consistency.

Watch this video on how to disguise wrinkles around the mouth:

Massage, self-massage

Massage will help with wrinkles around the lips, making them less deep, if you do it like this:

Use your palms to smooth the skin from the center to the sides and towards the ears,
With your index and middle fingers slightly apart, hold the skin, using your other hand, smooth out each wrinkle between them in a circular motion,
press in turn on both upper points of the “Cupid’s bow”, then on the corners of the lips and finally on the places on both sides of the center of the lower lip,
Lightly tap your fingers on the surface around your mouth.

This procedure should be done after applying the oil, preferably before bed.

From time to time it is useful to massage the problem area with an ice cube. And lips - with a soft toothbrush, having previously lubricated them with cream.

Watch this video on how to do interoral massage for wrinkles around the mouth:

The best cream to remove wrinkles near the lips

You can prepare a cream for purse-string wrinkles around the mouth yourself using the following recipes:

Melt 60 g of cosmetic wax in a steam bath, add 125 g of almond oil and 60 ml of rose water to it. When the mixture becomes slightly warm, add 15 drops of essential rose oil. The product is used in a course for 1.5-2 months, twice a day.
Mix 100 ml olive oil, 40 g wax, 1.5-2 tbsp. l. calendula flowers, put on low heat and boil. The product is left to cool under the lid. After 10-12 hours, filter it and use it for a month, applying it 2 times a day.

Anti-aging cosmetics for purse-string wrinkles

Purse-string wrinkles will become less pronounced if you use:

FILDERMA cream for filling age-related folds from SESDERMA. It contains Asian centella extract, a known anti-aging ingredient, as well as vitamins and antioxidants.
Cream-filler 3D Hyalu Fill from GIGI. Contains hyaluronic and citric acids, aloe extract, tocopherol.
CAVIAR DELIGHT cream for the contour around the eyes and lips from DERMATIME. It contains caffeine, peptides, sodium hyaluronate, vitamin E, caviar and hibiscus flower extracts.
Unstress Absolute Relaxer wrinkle filling serum from Christina. It contains squalane, hyaluronic acid, extracts of pine, St. John's wort, aloe, cucumber, and wheat germ oil.
BioZone Double Effect serum from GIGI. It contains argireline, a rejuvenating complex.
Premium Polyfill Active filler cream. It works due to the presence of hyaluronic acid, arnica extract, and chokeberry.
Serum “Cellular renewal” from “Cora”. The composition contains hyaluronic, folic, glutamic acids, collagen, olive and almond oils.

Preventative against wrinkles around the lips

High-quality products against wrinkles that form around the lips should also be used to prevent them:

COLLAGENIST RE-PLUMP cream from HELENA RUBINSTEIN. It is applied not only to the lips, but also to the area around them.
Serum "REVITALIFT LASER X3" from L',ORÉAL PARIS. The product will prevent the appearance of premature folds in the nasolabial triangle.
SLOW AGE care composition from VICHY. It is intended for use morning and evening on the skin around the mouth.
Serum RETEXTURING ACTIVATOR from SKINCEUTICALS. The product can be applied under night and day creams.

Massage techniques

Massage is useful for preventing negative age-related changes and combating the first expression wrinkles. The procedure activates blood circulation, lymph outflow, and stimulates the body to produce more collagen and elastin. You can massage only clean skin on which oil or rich cream has been applied. It is advisable to conduct sessions twice a day, in the morning and before bed.

It looks like this:

Warm up your hands by rubbing them together, work the skin in the lip area with light stroking and tapping with your fingertips.
Pressing the fingers of both hands to your lips, rub your skin in smooth spiral movements, moving towards your ears and temples. You need to apply pressure with medium intensity.
Press your palms to your cheeks so that your little fingers are at the level of wrinkles above your upper lip or folds near your nose or chin. Pressing them onto the problem area, use the remaining fingers to simultaneously lift the skin on your cheeks.
Using circular movements with low amplitude, work on the nasolabial folds and wrinkles of the marionette, moving from top to bottom.

There are special devices for massaging the lip area. For example, in Japan, an analogue of a manual expander is popular. The price of the “simulator” is more than affordable - about 350 rubles. 3 minutes of exercise daily is enough. Cover the ring with your lips (without using your teeth) and simply clench and unclench your lips sharply. If the situation allows, you can clearly articulate vowel sounds or sing. Another common option is a massage mitten or facial sponge made of cotton, silk, or linen, which is used to rub the skin in the problem area in a circular motion with medium pressure for 2-3 minutes while taking a shower or bath. The procedure is both a massage and a light peeling. The cost of the product, depending on the material, is 150–500 rubles.

It is important not to overuse the “expander” for the lips, otherwise, by “pumping up” the muscles, you will achieve the opposite of the desired effect

Causes of expression wrinkles

No person can protect themselves from the formation of facial wrinkles around the eyes and lips, since these parts of the face are particularly mobile. Smile, tension, anger, laughter, passion for work, tears - all this is reflected on a woman’s and man’s face. Every year, wrinkles become deeper and multiply.

But there are factors that significantly increase the intensity of the appearance of wrinkles around the mouth, which become difficult to get rid of at home:

Constant movement of the area around the lips - due to long conversations, frequent smiles. In this area of the face there is very little subcutaneous fat, and the epidermis is very thin.
Time is a factor that no one can handle. As we age, collagen production decreases.
Incorrect position of the head in sleep - on its side or directly facing the pillow.
Losing weight too quickly, as well as smoking, are habits that stimulate tension in the muscles of the oral area.
The sun and other unpleasant factors of nature - wind, frost, heat - negatively affect the condition of the skin.
Lack or improper care.
Tooth extraction – the absence of front and molar teeth leads to sagging skin.
Genetic predisposition and chronic diseases.
Poor tone of the epidermis.
Too active facial expressions.
Restructuring of hormonal levels.

Contraindications, possible negative consequences

The issue of contraindications is relevant mainly for cosmetic procedures. For most of them, this list is quite long. During the consultation, the cosmetologist will definitely ask you all the necessary questions, which must be answered as accurately and, of course, truthfully. It’s much easier with massage and gymnastics. They are prohibited only if there are wounds, abrasions, scratches on the skin and if there are problems with the facial nerves.

General contraindications for cosmetic procedures:

carrying a child or breastfeeding;
The body of the expectant mother is undergoing radical hormonal changes, so it is impossible to predict how it will react to any outside intervention and how this will affect the health of the fetus.
decreased blood clotting or the need to regularly take anticoagulants;
a course of antibiotics or hormonal drugs that cannot be interrupted;
autoimmune diseases;
pathologies of the cardiovascular, bronchopulmonary, endocrine systems, problems with the liver and kidneys;
any chronic disease in the acute stage;
oncology (even at an early stage of development), large moles or birthmarks on the face;
Large moles and birthmarks on the face may indicate developing cancer
dermatological diseases that appear on the skin of the face;
skin hypersensitivity, tendency to form keloid scars;
any mechanical damage, burns that have not fully healed;
inflammatory process in the body, infections that provoke an increase in body temperature (even a cold);
A common cold or even just poor health is a reason to postpone any cosmetic procedure
recovery that has not ended after another cosmetic procedure or plastic surgery on the face.

When planning to apply a new cosmetic product to your face, remember that any ingredient, no matter organic or synthetic, is a potential allergen. Be sure to test it on the skin of your forearm first by rubbing lightly. A negative reaction, if any, occurs within a maximum of an hour. Swelling, rash, skin irritation, severe itching, and a burning sensation occur. Any antihistamines can cope with such symptoms. Of course, this product cannot be used for facial care.

Both store-bought and homemade cosmetics can cause an allergic reaction.

A few simple tips

If you want the fight against wrinkles around the lips at home to be as effective as possible, and the results to last forever, remember the important rules:

The first wrinkles are not a reason for strong worries. It's just a natural process. But stress from nervous tension can worsen the situation and provoke the development of more severe wrinkles!
If you eat poorly, lead a poor lifestyle and abuse smoking and alcohol, then no methods of combating wrinkles will be effective.
To prevent the appearance of unpleasant facial wrinkles around the mouth, you need to use protective equipment. During the hot season, use balm and cream with an SPF filter.
Only daily use of cosmetics, regular use of masks and other products to combat wrinkles will give the desired effect.
For prevention, take simple fish oil capsules. Don't focus on expensive Omega-3 fatty acid supplements. They are rarely more effective than regular fat.

Also, you should not strain your facial muscles too much and constantly laugh or, conversely, cry. Constantly pouting lips only accelerates the formation of wrinkles around them. The same goes for popular selfie poses with duck lips.

Winter lip protection

The skin of the lips quickly becomes chapped in winter, and as a result, cracks on the lips may appear. To prevent peeling and cracking, constantly use protective balms . A dense film is formed on the lips, which softens the effects of cold and wind for a long time. Don't bite or lick your lips. By such actions you violate the integrity of the skin.

If your lips are still chapped , then before going to bed, exfoliate your lips or massage them with a soft toothbrush with a large amount of rich cream. Remove excess cream with a paper napkin. Until your lips are restored, try not to use decorative lipstick. Use chapstick or protective balm.

To treat cracks, use an apple mask . Mix the finely chopped apple with butter. Take the ingredients in equal proportions. Apply the mask on your lips, rinse with lukewarm water after 15 minutes. Apply rich cream.

Mask with carrot juice . With this mask you can cure deep and bleeding cracks. Mix equal parts olive oil and carrot juice. Apply the composition to the skin of the lips for 10 minutes. Remove excess with paper towel.

Exercise No. 7

Now let’s breathe, preparing for the last and most difficult exercise in the complex. Inhale calmly and deeply through your nose, straining the wings of your nose. Exhale slowly through your mouth 2-3 times at short intervals. Do this 3-4 times. All these exercises will help strengthen the orbicularis muscle, straighten vertical folds near the mouth, and also smooth out wrinkles on the upper lip.