Weird Beauty Trick That Works: Brushing Your Lips!

Weird Beauty Trick That Works: Brushing Your Lips!

There really is a treatment for everything these days – and because everyone wants soft, moisturized lips along with just a little pout, I want to talk about why brushing your lips is a thing. Because it is!

No one wants dry, cracked lips, and sometimes layering on a ton of chapstick just doesn’t do the trick, especially in winter or dry climates. Insert a spare tooth brush and suddenly a quick trick for soft lips is born!

It might sound silly initially, but your lips are part of your skin, and if we exfoliate our skin, why wouldn’t we do the same for our lips? I mean, we put on lip balm, but we can definitely do more to take care of them! Plus, I’m all about giving new trends a try, so I had to jump on the bandwagon for this one.

How To: Brushing Your Lips

It’s pretty simple to do – dampen your lips and grab an unused toothbrush. Softly brush (don’t push too hard!) in a circular motion. Just like you would when you’re exfoliating your skin, the circular brush motion will peel away any loose or dead skin leaving your lips super smooth and ready for gloss, balm or your favorite shade of lip color. If your lips are still dry, try adding a bit of salt to your toothbrush and that should help to deeply exfoliate – perfect before a red lipstick kinda night.

Fresh Sugar Lip Polish is also ah-mazing, which nixes the toothbrush but lends the same results. Just depends on if you want a home DIY option or a product for purchase. The Henne option has been great while I’m traveling and don’t always have an extra toothbrush or time to put the mixture together.

If you want to take it up a notch and try to get a pouty look, I’ve read you should dab your toothbrush in a little bit of cinnamon oil before brushing on your lips. The oil acts as a natural plumper because cinnamon actually slightly irritates the sensitive skin on your lips. With the irritation, comes a little bit of swelling.

Of course the swelling isn’t permanent, but it, along with brushing, is something you can do consistently if you like how it makes your lips look and feel.

If you’re not into the oil, but you really want those smooth lips, you can slip just the brushing in while brushing your teeth in the morning.

Follow any brushing up by a gentle lip balm and you’re good to go. So quick and easy!

Here are my favorite tools for brushing your lips and keeping them soft and smooth!

Glossier Balm Dot Com

I am the lip balm queen. It’s an unofficial title, but at any point in time you will find no fewer than 3 types of chapstick in my purse. Apparently you can be addicted to using chapstick, but I don’t care. I love Glossier’s Balm Dot Com because it functions as a universal skin salve. At least, that’s how they advertise it. It goes on my lips but it also goes everywhere else – my cuticles, my face, skin, really anywhere. I love it and a tube lasts seemingly forever.

If you’ve never tried Glossier before, be sure to check out my review of the entire Phase 1 and Phase 2 sets here. You also get 10% off here if you’re interested : ).

Fresh Sugar Lip Polish

Yes, exfoliating your lips is a thing. This stuff makes it super easy. You could make your own brown sugar scrub, but the convenience and packaging of this lip polish (seriously, everything from Fresh is so, so good) makes it an easy addition to my beauty vanity.

Sara Happ The Lip Scrub

Believe it or not I have the Fresh lip polish and this version by Sara Happ. Both are wonderful. I like that this one comes in some different flavors. I nabbed a “Red Velvet Cupcake” flavor last year and had to resist eating the scrub it smelled so good.

Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment

What I love most about Fresh lip balms is that they feel so incredibly luxe and they actually work. Plus they have SPF in them which is so important. The tinted versions are ideal if you want the tiniest hint of color without having to deal with lipstick. Multi-tasking, I say.

Kopari Lip Love

I’m totally obsessed with coconut oil in beauty products, and Kopari gets me. I’ve tried a bunch of their products (happy to do a review if you guys are interested!) and the lip balm is a constant in my purses. I usually just leave a tube of this in every bag so I’m never left without lip balm in case of an emergency (gasp!)

Have you tried brushing your lips?

10 Discussion to this post

  1. I’ve been brushing my lips every night and morning for years! I hate dry, flaky lips. This is such a good tip and I’ll have to try it with a dab of cinnamon oil. I want fuller lips lol. The Fresh lip scrub is amazing and I also like the Glam Glow one. Thanks for the useful tips and have a fab weekend babe! xoxo, Christine
    http://dailykongfidence.com/

  2. Lisa Linh says:

    I love the Fresh Sugar Lip treatment and Kopari is another favorite, as an overall brand. Their face spray is so good too!
    Thanks for sharing these babe.

    Lisa Linh
    https://www.bylisalinh.com/blog/2017/9/8/aroha-new-zealand-cuisine

  3. Paula says:

    Whaaat, this is such a interesting post! I didn’t know any of this. Super helpful, thanks for sharing!

    http://www.blossomikebana.com

  4. Elizabeth says:

    A big fan of exfoliating/brushing the lips! Hahaha I told some of my coworkers about it a few weeks ago, and they freaked out LOL! I definitely have to show them your post to let them know I’m not the only one who does it! <3 🙂 Love the Fresh lip products so much too! Hope you're having a great weekend love!

  5. Thank you for sharing, I’m a huge fan of Fresh! I love all their products but especially the Sugar Collection.
    Xx
    https://zimmylifestyle.com

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