This is irritating!!!!

[NessaNessa]

Can anyone tell me what causes lipstick/gloss to cake up in the center of your lips? I hope you ladies understand my question. After having my lipstick or gloss on for a while, it tends to cake up around the corners and in the center of my lips (where the top and bottom meet). Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[Kim.]

First exfoliate your lips with vaseline and a toothbrush and let it sink in a bit and then put on your lipstick. It's probably just flaky skin which is making the product all clumpy.

 

[LinzBelle]

Here is my recipe for a lip exfoliater:

1 part cocoa butter
2 parts sugar

For chapped lips exfoliate twice a day. After each treatment cover lips with a rich lip balm (i just use more cocoa butter). Your lips will be so soft in a few days.

Do not melt in microwave, the sugar with break down and you need the crystals to take of the excess skin. Take a old small jar a decorate it. I used an old pickled pimento jar lol.

 

[queenofdisaster]

i do the vaseline thing except for i use a washcloth instead of a toothbrush. sometimes at night if my lips are really flaky, i apply a super thick layer of vaseline and in the morning i have to scrub off the dead skin with a washcloth as i'm washing my face. it sounds icky but it definitely helps. i used to have the same problem with cakey lipstick!