I'm having a few problems with my lips. I've been playing with makeup and my lips have become really sore. I know that some lipsticks have some sort of "plumping" chemical in them does this normally make your lips sore? Off course I've stopped using it for now but it would be nice to figure out if its the lipstick or something else. I've used this brand before without any issues however I've combined it with lip gloss.

Not sure about makeup, but HRT caused my lips to start drying out like crazy. I try to keep lip balm on them so they're protected, but sometimes I forget and they get all chapped. Sometimes to the point of cracking and bleeding a bit if I don't use anything on them for a few days.

If the area around your lips is reddened and tender it could be contact dermatitis to the lip gloss.

Remember, if you're in the US, lipsticks and lip gloss are very lightly (=hardly at all) regulated and included all kinds of toxic and allergenic substances including stuff you shouldn't be swallowing (FDA regs assume you don't swallow lip gunk which we know isn't at all true).

Quote from: AnxietyDisord3r on July 04, 2016, 05:25:22 AM
If the area around your lips is reddened and tender it could be contact dermatitis to the lip gloss.

Remember, if you're in the US, lipsticks and lip gloss are very lightly (=hardly at all) regulated and included all kinds of toxic and allergenic substances including stuff you shouldn't be swallowing (FDA regs assume you don't swallow lip gunk which we know isn't at all true).

It does seem to be the lip gloss, I'll have to look into the ingredients much closely.

Some of the plumpers use 'spicy' ingredients, cinnamon oil, capscasin, wintergreen, and such to irritate the lips, puffing them up a bit.  They may also mix in other chemicals to soothe a bit.  The ones made for longer term results use stuff like hyaluronic acid to tweak tissue growth over time.  Yeah, that stuff also found in 'overnight' fine-like removing magic moisturizers. Same effect, wrinkles or lips...

(Wrestling with the damn spellchecker...  Apperato Correction!)

You might want to consider tinted lip balm. Yes, you have to put it on more often but some of the colors are quite vibrant and it moisturizes as a bonus.

Do you use chapstick or lip moisturizer? I do morning and night (before makeup in morning). Ya gotta! Esp with lip plumping and heck with the stains that are out there, they are VERY drying to lips.

No I don't, I will give a go though. My lips seem to go through phases yesterday they were brilliant and soft today they are back to being dry, on occasions they shed a very thin layer of skin which I've always put down to being normal. I will have to give the lip balm / moisturizer  a go and see what happens. I don't normally suffer from any type of skin disorder so I can only put it down to the lippy and gloss that I am using although my lip condition yo-yo's from good one day to bad another, you'd have thought if it was the lippy I was using they would be in poor condition all the time.

If you have any vaseline that's what I used a couple times and I know many females use it too.