Beauty

[Fressa]

How rude of that person. IMO I would not give up something that you enjoy and make syou happy for the sake of a wrinkle. That said, I if you want to lessen the wrinkle and still whistle then I would give Dr.Denese Wrinkle Defense Duo (face & neck or jus the face) a try. It has lessened my lip lines and I don't smoke or whislte. I hope this works for you like it does for me.   

[ECBG]

I'm so sorry you ran into someone who is obviously socially inept.

Sometimes we have to ignore the "idiots"!

[Desertdi]

Talk about RUDE!!!!    I had a neighbor who told me my lip wrinkle was a result of TOO MUCH KISSING.    (The verticle line on my mouth is a SCAR.)   

[Annabellethecat66]

You know, when people tell me I don't look 72, I say, "Thanks!  But it's because I paint 'it' (moving my hands over my face) up."  It's also about facial expressions (as the OP has said (whistler) and those who laugh with their eyes (I don't).

But you know the one thing I'm proud of that I don't tell people and haven't admitted much is I'm proud that I don't have wrinkles around my mouth/lips.

It's just because I guess I have very good exfoliate habits (since I was about 30 years old) and (like above) lack of expressions there.

But the reason I usually hold on tight to my reasons why I think I don't have lines is because I have slight buck teeth.  Are you laughing?  You should....it's OK.

You see my late husband and I used to tease and joke with each other about our 'flaws'.  We got married when we were barely 19, I was 19, he was 18.  So we grew up together.  We had 'running jokes'.

The one we used the most (against each other was) he called me Bucky Beaver and I called him Hound Dog.  My buck teeth and his eyes (he has small bags (barely noticeable) under his eyes.  Look!  The man was amazing, inside and out!  He had muscles where most people don't so, I had to come up with something.

Anyway, back to the lines around the lip.  I love red lipstick.  I hate pink lipstick.  Red lipstick and lines around the lips do not go well together.  If I've worked on preventing anything, I'd say it was to prevent those fine lines around my lip.  That's not to say it's flawless (I am 72).  But I still don't need a lip liner to keep the lipstick inside.

But....keeping the lipstick off of my teeth sometimes prevents a problem.  I've been working on that.  Those gosh darn teeth...a hindrance and a help!

My late husband would say, "Look out!  Here comes Bucky Beaver!  She's gonna start gnawing on the furniture.  I'd laugh and say, "You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog!"  He'd laugh but he was more sensitive than I was.....or was he?  I'd always have to go over and give him a kiss afterward....I think he was playing me for a kiss from those red lips.

[1Snickers]

@Grammyto3  Creams may help it look better but don’t help much. I have been getting filler for years and just went to the Dr for more. After awhile it becomes lumpy so he just did an extra heavy filler on cheekbones for a lift. 

     He has a product called Lines made by Skinbetter  Science  and it helps but is drying so then I need more moisturizer. 

     Drinking with a straw can cause it also but I found out too late.

     If you get filler injection they can be lumpy, then it has to be removed. No more for me!

[Grammyto3]

Thank you ladies, I am going to try all your suggested creams. I’m not bothered enough by them to try fillers yet 😉 

Hubby said I should have opened my blouse and showed her my chest 😂

Always been a side sleeper and the vertical lines coming...🥺

We women have a lot to keep up with 🤷‍♀️!

[Brisky]

SilleeMee, why wouldn't Retin A work?

[Annabellethecat66]

I don't think I'm the only person who, when trying to use a lip pencil ends up with no middle lipstick and the outline of the pencil around my lips.

Now I've used the pencil all over my lips to make sure that doesn't happen but it always still does.  So I just don't use one.

With so much coral being used in clothes I've tried to find coral lipstick.  I finally found one or two but that's about it.

These people are still making pink lipstick.  And I don't want them telling me "it's creamy".  Creamy to me means it will last one second and then gone.

I have huge drawers of lipstick all creamy.  Ugh!

[SilleeMee]

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@Brisky wrote:
SilleeMee, why wouldn't Retin A work?

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@Brisky 

Yes, I use that, too. Along with microneedling, I think the RA has helped keep my lip lines from getting worse but the RA won't make them go away completely. I spoke with a woman who, like me, has scleroderma and she had her lip lines filled. She said that after weeks had gone by her mouth area was painful so she never went back. Then another scleroderma woman had her lips filled and she told me that was the worse pain she ever felt and the pain lasted for for many weeks. She said never again. The problem is that my skin and lips do not have enough elasticity so if they get filled the skin is pulled and causes pain until the fillers go away then the pain goes away. Not something I want to go through.

[Brisky]

Thanks SilleeMee, I was just curious. Fillers would probably kill me then. Sounds bad to me. Plus I don't like the puffy look. Some stars look poofy these days.