What causes dark lips – Every girls want soft, fresh and sexy lips. But, if you notice, some people lips would be dry and black or dark in color. Some people have dark lips by birth or get black lips due to their habits or body conditions or weather.

Here we see the factors that, causes the lips to turn in to black or dark color.

What are the main causes for black or dark colored lips

 

Smoking

Smoking is one of the main causes which darkens your lips and even burns it up sometimes.

The smoking cigarette leaves out a dark hue stains around the lips and it will not go easily.

You need to follow many tips strictly to get rid of those dark stains around lips and best advice is to quit smoking if you really need soft and sexy lips.

Caffeine in beverages

Most beverages like hot coffee or tea, contains caffeine and people who are fond of these drinks may have darker lips as the caffeine content leaves out stains in teeth and lips in due course.

Either you can reduce the consumption of these beverages, or wash your lips and mouth after you consume them.

Chewing Tobacco

Chewing tobacco or paan also causes the color of the lips to change. Not only lips, but also the teeth get stains with this consumption of tobaccos.

Alcohol

Even consumption of more alcoholic drinks, turns your lips darker in colour.

Harmful UV rays

We often spend more time in protecting our skin and face from Sun’s UV rays, but forget to take care of the lips.

Lips are soft and sensitive to UV rays. They become dry and eventually become dark with constant exposure to sun rays.

So always take care of your lips along with your skin, by applying lip balms while going out in sun.

Iron level

Iron levels of the body can contribute in making the lips black.

When there is an increase or overflow of iron levels in the body, this will usually show in the lip area and can be observed when it turns black.

So it is better to maintain correct iron level in your body in order to prevent your lips turning dark color(1).

Dehydration

Dehydration is one of the causes for drying of the lips and turning to dark color. How, drinking less water, affects your body and skin, they same way it affects the lips to dry out.

So keep drinking required amount of water, not only for your lips but for your whole body as well, as water has many amazing benefits.

Lip Products

Certain lips products, which are from disreputable companies or products that are already expired, causes darkening of the lips.

So try to use a lip product from branded companies and throw away your product if it is more than a year old or stop using the product after its expiry date.

It is always better to use lip products made with natural ingredients to avoid the darkening of your lips (2).

Allergens

Allergens come with different types of lip cosmetics. It may come from your lip products like lipsticks or lip glosses or lib balms.

Basically, the fragrances and dyes infused with the cosmetics are liable to cause allergy. And, the allergy causes dark lines or spots on your lips.

If you understand the particular cosmetics are causing allergies, stop using them immediately. (3)

Hormonal Imbalance

Change in hormonal levels that are contributed by age, infection, diseases, and other factors also make your lips dry and eventually black.

Go in for proper medication if it is due to any infections or diseases.

Other causes may include

• Dry or cold weather

• Lack of Vitamin B

• Low blood circulation

• Allergic to certain medications

• Allergic to particular tooth pastes

• Not taking proper care of lips

 

Sources

1. http://www.simple-remedies.com/home-remedies/discoloration-of-teeth-and-lip-color/black-lips.html

2. http://perfectmelange.blogspot.sg/2013/05/darkening-of-lipscauses-remedies.html

3. http://darklipstips.com/what-causes-dark-lips.html

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