I like to observe lips of friends. I noticed that most overweight friends tend to have darker lips and a few with dark ring around the lips.

Besides hereditary, the TCM bible I refer to, dark ring around lips has been associated with constipation and poor bowel movement.

With both signs of dark lips and ring around lips, one is advised to change their lifestyle and food intake. Wake up and do some exercises, cut down your food and eat healthily, sleep early and avoid late night supper.

This is what I have advised my friends and myself as well

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My reply:

It seems that your lips are quite sensitive to the environment and gets dry and red easily.

It’s important to protect your lips from dry environment. Apply a good quality lip balm, preferably organic, with sun screen before you go out.

If you need to stay in air-conditioned room for long hours, again you need to lock up your lips moisture with lip balm.

Do not lick your lips often. But I understand that this action can be out of control.

At night, apply a thin layer of honey or Vit E based lip balm before you go to bed. You need to do lip mask too once a week. Natural fruits (avocado, banana) lip mask is good to nourish your lips.

On the diet side, take lighter and nourishing foods, avoid spicy and heaty foods. If you manage to get some nourishing herbs at your neighbourhood, you may take it regularly.

If your condition is serious, I advise you to consult a skin specialist.

Hope this helps.

Like the name implies, if we can have our lips glossed up with something natural and organic, it’s a freedom indeed for our lips which have been exposed to synthetic chemicals found in non-organic gloss for a long time.

Lipzing has not affiliated with Revolution Organics in any form. Zing  blogs about Revolution Organics simply to salute the noble act of the founders Melissa Shabinsky and Alexandra Zanella. They are the beauty industry veterans who advocate natural and organic beauty products.

Melissa and Alexandra have been very careful in selecting the ingredients of their products.  For example, Freedom Gloss contains 100% natural and 85% organic ingredients. As there are many false claim of organic thingy in the industry, through their  research, they found that the certified organic USDA seal best represents the authenticity of organic products and thus, they have work all their way up to fulfil the rigorous standrad of USDA.

And yes, they managed to achieve it!

According to them, the true revolution made by Melissa and Alexandra is that their products are multitasking. It can be applied in any part of the skin. ”They do more so you can use less.” Yeah, their products can be used in many differents in different areas, as such the usage of beauty products can be reduced.

To their surprise, there is nobody out there doing so. So, they are here to fill in the void. Well done, Melissa and Alexandra, hopefully there are more beauty experts following your foot steps in near future.

For more information about Revolution Organics products, you may check out their website.

 To your  healthy  lips

Zing

I’m a nude lips advocator. Surprise? Why not?

Healthy lips are born from inside but not outside. Healthy living and eating habits make our lips shine naturally. Red lips are arised from the right foods we eat, right time we rest and regular exercise we do.

Smoking is a no no in having natural red and sensual pouts.

Minimal lipstick and lip gloss should be put on our lips. Good quality lip balm, preferrably organic lip balm are used to protect our lips from drying and damaging UV ray.

Hence, from what I believe and what I practise, undoubtedly,  I’m a nude lips advocator, right?

Hopefully, more ladies would come and join me and many more nude lips advocators out there.

The following articles would help you to understand  nude lips and the way to get a perfect  nude lips.

Understanding nude lips

Get a perfect nude lips

Enjoy!

To your perfect nude lips,

Zing

Last week I received a gift from Australia. Surprised! I opened it and there was a little bag with the logo of Organic Island printed in gold.  Oh! It’s Organic Island, I’ve been longing for the ’shell’ since I came across the website.

Not only the bag, when I took up the shell,  each Organic Island’s Shell Lip Balm is packaged in real shell, and mine is pink in color, great, it’s one of my favorite colors as you can see the theme of Lipzing which is pink pink.

Moreover, there’s a card inside the bag:

Dear Zing,

Enjoy your 100% Natural, Shell Lip Balm.

From: Organic Island

I was touched again with this personalized card tied up with satin white ribbon, I’m keeping it as a bookmark now. Precious!

I tried the balm and it’s truly the best lip balm I’ve ever used. In fact,  I seldom use lip balm these days as my lips are quite sensitive to commercial balm. They tend to get tingled and uncomfortable whenever a commercial balm or gloss  is applied.

But to my surprise,  Organic Island’s Shell Lip Balm doesn’t give such tingling effect. It’s so mild and tender, the layer is so thin that my lips don’t feel any burden. The lips adapt to the balm shortly it is applied and the softness  could remain for quite a while. 

From the list of natural ingredients stated, I know the balm will do good in a subtle way to my lips besides its tender and mild effect.

 Go green, I guess it’s the right time for my lips, and now I’m thinking of my face, to switch to organic path. Yes, organic skin care is the future and Lipzing would gradually follow the green path.

Just imagine, when someone send you a gift which takes care of your body, in this case, your lips, as the lip balm is 100% natural, all the ingredients are carefully selected and blended to give your lips the safest treat, how would you not appreciate it?

My heartiest thank to Organic Island.

Hopefully the goodness of Organic Island’s Shell Lip Balm which is 100% natural will care more lips and touch more hearts in future.

To your red and healthy lips

Zing

Organic food is so common nowadays but what about organic lip balm? Have you tried it before?

I know we tend to ‘eat’ our lip balms accidentally, if it’s organic, it should be safer if the materials go into our body.  By the way, the defination of organic lip balm according to Eco Lips is  lip balm made with nutrient rich organic ingredients.

Organic ingredients are derived from plants grown and produced without the use of conventional non-organic pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and other chemicals. All organic lip balms should host the USDA Organic Seal.

There are quite a number of organic lip balms found in the market worldwide.  Eco Lips is among the more popular and reliable brands. I like the grape flavor. There are a series of flavoured balm, coconut flavor tastes smells so tropical, I wish it is edible.

Another brand of my favorite is Australian’s Organic Island Shell Lip Balm. The price is much higher than Eco Lips  though but I simply like its concept of  island, beach and sea shells……they blend naturally and I’ve never tried the product yet in fact.  I hope its functionality matches with its natural portray.

Balm Balm is another organic lip balm specially made for sensitive lips and skin.  It is from UK and claims to be 100% organic and petrochemical free.

Eco Lips series is only 90% organic. Certain ingredient such as vitamin E is not available organically, that’s the reason. However, it’s not the point of this article to argue about the organic content of different lip balms. The importance of organic ingredients usage in lip balm is stressed instead.

Balm Balm, I like its name and pot form container. Balm is meant to heal and soothe the skin. From its popularity on the net and petrochemical free statement, I guess I should order one soon. It’s only RM20 (1RM=0.28USD), within my budget for a lip balm of organic standard.

So lips,  let’s go green!

Zing