Lip Enhancement

Lip Plumpers


Lip plumping glosses and balms
There are  a number of lip plumpers on the market to choose from most containing Cinnamon or some kind of mild irritant to make your lips swell.  Its really easy to make your own lip plumping gloss or balm, as long as you have cinnamon or peppermint essential oils. Or you can use cayenne pepper or ground cinnamon.

Here's one recipe http://www.ehow.com/how_5781539_make-lip-plumper-cayenne-cinnamon.html

My own recipe is
Small pot to keep the balm
1/8 tsp beeswax or hemp or jojoba wax melted
1/4 tsp shea butter
1/8 tsp coconut,castor or almond oil
4 drops cinnamon essential oil

Melt the wax in a glass bowl sitting in a pot of boiling water, make sure the water doesn't dry out. When the wax has melted remove the bowl with gloves.  Add the shea butter, oil of choice and cinnamon oil and stir with a small kebab skewer or teaspoon. Pour the mixture into the container once it has cooled a little, don't leave it too long in the bowl or it will set in there. Once in the container you can put it in the fridge to speed up the setting process

Lip Pumps

I curiously ordered a similar lip pump to this just to see how effective it was. I already have fairly full lips but as this works on the vacuum principle * I wanted to test this gadget out .  It takes a few days - a couple of weeks to get used to the lip pump.  This is because the area of the lips is very sensitive and the skin it thin and can easily bruise.  Another reason you don't want to exceed the recommended  time of use is because  the outer rim of the pump fits over your lips and if you're over zealous with your pumping you may end up with a red ring around your overly inflated lips- not cute.  I definitely advise you to take it slowly as i have over pumped and my lips became ridiculously over inflated and i had the sexy red ring around my mouth too! Learn from my mistake!  If you still went ahead and did it anyway lol it took around 2 hours for my lips to deflate to normality but i suspect that some ice would have sped things up.