Homemade Lips Scrubs

Im a big advocate of D.I.Y beauty products, why spend a lot of money on something you can do yourself.

Key Essentials are Oil, White/Brown Sugar and A Container of your choice.
Use either Brown or White Sugar its your choice, White has a finer consistency than Brown Sugar.

Its up to you to choose whatever one you would rather use, based on the ingredients you have.

Cinnamon Sugar

This one is the easiest to do.

Ingredients

• White/Brown Sugar
• Ground Cinnamon

Use your desired amount of sugar (this depends on the size of your container). Add your Cinnamon, Mash it around until the cinnamon is evenly distributed through the sugar and put into your Container. Store in the Fridge in between uses.

Rosemary and Peppermint

Ingredients

• White/Brown Sugar
• Fresh Rosemary
• Peppermint Extract

The peppermint will also cool down your lips and freshen your breath.

Chop the Rosemary into tiny bits before you add it to the bowl and use a folding motion on this one as the sugar will dissolve if your not careful.Add a few drops of Peppermint Extract and put into your Container.

Sweet Honey

Ingredients

• 1/2 tsp. Olive Oil
• 2 tbsp. Sugar 
• 1 tsp. Honey

Combine the ingredients, mixing until everything is thoroughly combined, and then put into your Container.



Massage onto lips, Use a Wet Paper towel or Flannel to remove and use a lip balm after to keep lips soft.

Let me know if any of these worked for you or you have any other recipes :)

Winter Lips

Winter is the time to shelve your lip glosses and barely there balms and break out those 'look at me' lipsticks.
Bold lips can be fabulously paired with a neutral eye.

The trick is knowing how to wear it.

• Think about the mood your trying to convey

                              -A classic lip look would be a Red.

Mac's Russian Red

                  - Something a bit punchier would be a Coral or Orange.

Cara Delevingne sports a coral lip

                 - Or be daring with a dark plum almost black lip.

             

               

Both can be paired with a neutral eye, remember not to pair it with a heavy eye instead sharpen your eyes with Liquid Eyeliner and Mascara.

Don't wear coral or poppy red lip colour if your worried about making your teeth appear yellow.Stick to blue toned lipsticks these will appear whiter and brighter. A good Blue toned Red is Mac's Russian Red.

Don't exaggerate full lips, Bright colours can make your lips look bigger anyway, if you have naturally larger lip (I envy you),don't go over the lip line, if you do your lips will look out of balance with the rest of your face. 

*Tip* Store Bright Lipstick in the fridge, it will prolong its life and make it easier to apply. Also exfoliate your lips first to make sure to have an even finish, I would recommend you exfoliate your lips at least two times a week if not more especially in Winter.

If you don't want to fork out for a lip scrub you can make one yourself.

• Apply a thick layer of lip balm (I use Vaseline), leave on for about 10 minutes then using a soft toothbrush brush back and forth, wipe away with a flannel and apply a lip balm over. 

I will do a more detailed blog post on some other homemade lip scrubs but this is one that I think everyone could do because they should have these items in there possession.