#rip lips

A Woe For Lips...

I have tiny lips. They may not look tiny here, but they are compared to everyone I know (outside of our tiny-lip family).

When I was a kid and smiled without thinking in photos, my entire top lip would disappear and all you’d see were my gums and yellow sweetcorn looking teeth! 

I wasn’t aware or ashamed that I didn’t have voluptuous lips until I started having troubles with applying lipstick in my 20′s and then realising why. Now I refuse to smile with my mouth open and hate my lips in photos.

Having small lips is an absolute pain - it ages us prematurely and it makes applying lip products... arduous tasks.  When smearing lipstick straight onto my lips, I can’t just swipe and be happy, the stick of colour is usually far too large for my lips... so it’s about carefully applying without looking like a clown... Or spending far too long playing around with lip brushes.

Even when using lip liners and lip brushes, extensive care is needed, because they’re so small. Every stroke makes a difference - it’s easy for the look to look completely off and rushed/messy. My sister and I have joked between us, that there’s no point to owning lipsticks, we could make do with lip liners! There’s so little for us to colour.

I sometimes try to draw over my lip line but it looks horrific in certain light. My top lip naturally slants inwards, so it’s immediately apparent that I’ve gone over the tops of them when I try.  I wish I had lips I could paint properly. My eyes are gigantic, but with lips like these, there’s practically no colour in my face. I’m grateful that I’m happy with my communication feature (eyes - you’ll notice that majority of people communicate whilst making eye contact)... at least they’re respectable.

My Mum and I are similar with our facial features and she no longer wears lipstick, even when I try to do it for her, it’s darn hard... Her top lip has completely disappeared. I feel that will happen to me too. One day, I’ll find myself simply painting my bottom lip or not bothering at all.