Lip lines
- Skinfinity+
- 6 days ago
- 7 min read
‘Barcode’ lines often known as 'lipstick lines' are the little vertical lines above the upper lip that run vertically downward into the lip. These lip lines are also called ‘smoker’s lines’ or medically ‘perioral’ lip lines, where ‘peri’ means ‘around’ and ‘oral’ means ‘relating to the mouth’.
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LED Light Therapy - Infrared
Radiofrequency
FAQ - LIP LINES
What causes lip lines?
You may start to notice lip lines as the skin ages, the collagen degrades and levels of elastin in the skin drop, so that the patch of skin above the upper lip (which is always being stretched when we open our mouths or smile) becomes less able to spring back into shape and starts to collapse into tiny wrinkles.
These lines tend to be much more obvious in smokers because smoking is extremely bad for directly ageing the skin. Smoking will affect the skin all over your body, but these lines are some of the first to show up on the face, which is why they’re often thought of as smoker’s lines. Another reason that these lines are more visible in smokers is that pursing the lips around a cigarette puts extra stress on the skin of the lips. So do other pursed-lip activities, such as drinking through a straw, whistling or taking duck-face selfies!
Lip lines also show up more as lip volume decreases, because the body of the lip is no longer holding the skin taut, so it sags a little. For that reason, lip enhancement of any sort in the upper lip usually softens the look of these tiny vertical lines.
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