A witty person like me, after finding the problem, immediately searched and found that there are quite a few people who want to change their lip color. Many of these people think that the non-pink and reddish lip color is unhealthy, so all kinds of makeup and lipstick cover it up, and some people want to completely change the lip color and do medical cosmetic surgery to bleach their lips. According to them, many stars are doing it now.
Many people do lip color bleaching with the idea of "good lip color = good complexion", but is the lip color bleaching project really safe? Can lip color really accurately see health? Today, the sixth team will take you to discuss the topic of lower lip.
Structure of lips
The lips are located below the face 1/3, up to the bottom line of the nostrils, down to the chin-lip groove, and on both sides to the nasolabial groove. It is mainly composed of skin, orbicularis oris muscle, loose connective tissue and mucosa, and is divided into upper lip and lower lip.
Structurally, the upper lip and the lower lip are basically the same, which are divided into three parts: one is the white lip, that is, the skin part of the lip; The second is the red lip, which is the reddish part that can be seen when the lips are lightly closed; The third is the mucosa, which is a part of the oral mucosa in the lip.
Morphologically, the upper lip surface consists of human body, lip arch, lip bead, lip peak and lip valley.
■ Lip arch, also known as lip red line, is an arcuate curve at the junction of lip skin and lip red part.
■ Lip peak is the highest point of the labial arch on both sides.
■ The lowest depression in the center of the labial arch is called labial valley.
■ The skin surface of the upper lip is in the middle of people, which is a unique structure of human beings.
■ The convex edges on both sides are the midrib of human body, also called midrib, which is the highest point of lip peak.
■ lip bead has a nodular protrusion at the lower front of the center of the labial valley, which is most obvious in infants.
The lip of the lower lip is slightly arched, the red lip is slightly thicker than the upper lip, the protrusion is slightly smaller than the upper lip, and the height is slightly lower than the upper lip, which corresponds to the upper lip and forms a lip mental groove with the chin.
Lip color looks healthy, is it really ok?
Lips not only have physiological functions such as protecting the mouth and eating, but also reflect a person's temperament in aesthetic sense. Lip skin is extremely thin, without melanin, which can reveal the color of blood in blood vessels. In addition, there are abundant capillaries, so healthy lips are generally reddish, round and full, shiny, moderately dry and elastic.
Generally speaking, the most common normal lip colors in daily life are red, light red and medium red. But sometimes a small number of people may show black, white, purple, cherry red and other colors. Some of these colors have nothing to do with health. For example, when you get older, your lips will naturally become darker, while others need our vigilance:
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1. Pale lips
Eliminate whitening caused by dry lips. Long-term pale lips may be anemia.
Generally speaking, people with anemia have pale lips, pale eyelids and pale nails, because the contents of red blood cells and hemoglobin in the blood are lower than those in normal people. Long-term pale lips should go to the hospital to check out anemia.
2. Lips are purple
If the lips turn blue and purple for a short time, it may be related to the cold, and timely warmth can be quickly relieved. But if the lips are blue for a long time, or accompanied by other discomfort symptoms, such as chest tightness, asthma, suffocation and so on. It may be caused by diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma.
There is a technical term here called "cyanosis of lips". Cyanosis, or cyanosis, is caused by the appearance of deoxyhemoglobin in blood vessels near the skin surface, which makes the skin or mucosa blue. Once we find this phenomenon in our daily life, we should immediately go to the hospital for examination, because cyanosis may be caused by hypoxia or severe circulatory failure, and long-term hypoxia is extremely harmful to our health.
3. Cherry lips
Note that this is not the beautiful fairy cherry red after the little fairies put on lipstick, but the cherry red with natural lip color and no makeup, accompanied by coma, so it is probably carbon monoxide poisoning and needs to be sent to the hospital as soon as possible. In general, this natural cherry lip color is rare in our life, because we have already been sent to the emergency room.
4. Dark lips
If this happens, you should first go to the hospital to rule out the possibility of pigmented diseases or vascular diseases. If the overall color is dim and black, we should pay attention to whether there is something wrong with the digestive system.
In some cases, some people may not be born with red, black or purple lips. For example, a friend of mine was born with dark complexion and dark lips, but he has always been healthy! Once she insisted on dragging me to climb the mountain early in the morning. I'm too tired to move. People are still alive and kicking and keep urging me.
So there are many factors that affect the color of a person's lips, such as heredity, disease, skin thickness, skin color, living habits and so on. Observing a person's health from the color of lips has certain basis and can be used as a reference, but it can't be completely regarded as the golden rule. In addition, when the above-mentioned special lip color problems caused by diseases occur, they are usually accompanied by other uncomfortable symptoms, which easily arouse our vigilance, and lip color is only one of the criteria for judging.
So it seems a bit far-fetched to say that lip color can tell health. If you feel unwell, you'd better go to the hospital for examination and diagnosis. If there is nothing wrong, you don't need to worry, because it doesn't mean you are unhealthy.
Medical beauty floating lips, is it reliable?
However, some girls may think that although lip color does not affect health, dark lips are not good-looking. I just want the "natural" pink lips of a female star.
Let's talk about medical beauty projects with topics in recent years:
1. fluttering lips.
Lip color is natural. Although daily care such as lip mask and lipstick can keep your lips moist and in a better state, you can only change your lip color fundamentally through surgery.
Step 2 tattoo floating lips
At present, one kind of medical beauty bleaching lip surgery is to puncture the skin through tattoo, change the light-dark relationship of lips with tattoo liquid, outline the lip line and color the lips, so as to achieve the effect of correcting and beautifying the lips.
Tattoo floating lip is a kind of traumatic semi-permanent ornament, which cannot be dissolved by water and general substances.
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It has the following advantages:
■ Lip color realizes girls' desire to try different styles of lipstick and makeup.
■ Sometimes in order to save time and trouble, it is ok not to wear lipstick.
■ Will not damage makeup due to eating, swimming and other problems.
However, tattoos also have disadvantages:
■ fairies cannot guarantee the safety of floating lip gloss. Some people may be allergic to pigments, and even pigments are recognized as foreign bodies by the skin, forming foreign body granuloma; Some pigment dyes may change color after many years.
■ Secondary bacterial infection and virus infection after tattoo. This mainly occurs in patients with skin immune dysfunction, original bacterial infection and viral infection, such as herpes simplex.
■ Beautifying lips by bleaching them is not a one-off event. Generally, multiple bleaching is needed to achieve the best color development effect, and patient care is needed after operation.
Therefore, if you must do it, it is recommended to choose a regular medical institution for lip augmentation, and it is best to consult a professional before doing it.
3. Laser desalination
The other is to use 694nm or 755nm Q-switched laser to dilute the pigment and make the dull lip color fade. In other words, when the melanin in the surface layer decreases, the natural color of lip red becomes more natural.
The advantages of using laser to dilute lip gloss are as follows:
■ No foreign pigment enters the skin, which will not cause local allergy or granuloma formation.
■ The lip color is natural, so don't worry about the discoloration of pigment dyes.
■ You can endure pain without enough anesthetic.
Disadvantages are:
■ You may need multiple treatments, and do a good job of sun protection during this period.
■ Lip color just turns into natural light red. If you want to match makeup and show beautiful lips, you still need lipstick.