For slightly fuller and nicely fleshy lips, many are tempted to resort to surgery, but there are simpler and much less expensive solutions to have a pretty mouth. We take stock.

While hyaluronic acid lip injections can be a solution in extreme cases, having plump lips can also be achieved without going through the needles and other aesthetic medicine protocols. All you need to do is apply the right actions on a daily basis and have the right products in your beauty routine!

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How to plump up your lips naturally?

To have full, naturally plumped lips without cosmetic surgery, whenever you want and from home, just follow these steps carefully.

Lip scrub

This is an important step to keep lips beautifully pink, plumped, smooth and healthy! Indeed, exfoliation, as for the body and face, allows dead skin on the lips to be removed obediently. Doing it regularly helps to avoid the appearance of chapping but also to end up tearing off the small skins that can sometimes cause ugly sores. Lip exfoliation should become a reflex and can be done either with a simple homemade scrub or with a scrub (also called lipscrub) developed by a cosmetic brand.

If you don't have a lip scrub in your beauty kit, simply mix a teaspoon of honey with a pinch of brown sugar and gently rub it over your lips. Repeat several times a week if necessary. Don't forget to apply a balm or moisturizer (like almond or coconut oil) after each scrub.

Lip hydration

We always come back to it, hydration is the key step in any good skincare routine. We never forget our day cream and eye contour serum ! Moreover, whether it's for hair, body or face, hydration remains the basis of a fulfilled beauty and a healthy body. It's the same for the lips, to keep them beautiful, plump and luscious, they must have their share of hydration! To do this, always remember to drink your daily water ratio, the best hydration always comes from the inside. To complete this essential step, remember to put a repairing and ultra-hydrating balm on your lips before going to sleep. The treatment will work at night to repair skin weakened by external aggressions such as wind, cold, tobacco, pollution, makeup. During the day, apply a lip balm occasionally (as natural as possible) if you need to touch up. However, it is better to avoid applying it every hour because this can create a dependency on the skin of the lips and dry them out.

How to cleverly apply lip makeup

You can also use makeup to "cheat" and give your lips a fuller appearance with a few strokes of pencils and brushes. Simply apply the contouring technique, adapted to lips. The principle is to play on shadows and colors, like a painter, in order to bring relief to the volume of lips that are too thin. Use a lip pencil to emphasize the outline of your lips, it's up to you to choose whether you want to emphasize the lower lip, the upper lip or both more. Choose a shade half a tone above your natural shade if you want a nude result, if you want colored lips choose a pencil half a tone above the color of your lipstick. Opt for light shades to avoid going overboard. For a plump effect, you can finish with a touch of plumping gloss on top of your lipstick or start with a base like a plumping lip serum... Long live lip makeup!

Doing facial gymnastics

We hear a lot about it at the moment and for good reason, facial gymnastics works miracles to refine and sculpt the face! By working the many muscles located there, it allows you to give your face a curve to die for. The different exercises offered by facial gymnastics allow you, among other things, to have luscious lips. With hard work, the muscles of the mouth are better defined and bring volume to the lips for a luscious mouth.

For a little tip, an ice cube passed over the lips in the morning after your skincare routine and before applying your lip balm , helps boost blood circulation, naturally color the lips and plump them up. Be careful, the passage of the ice cube must be quick (a few seconds at most), at the risk of ending up with blue lips.