THE LIP LOSS VOLUME MYTH

As we age, we accumulate more fat in the lips. However, our lips look thinner and thinner every decade! Isn’t it strange? Shouldn’t they look fuller and bigger if you have more fat deposited each decade? Take a look at the trend of the total lip volume in a study of 387 females aged 3 to 73.

FEMALE LIP VOLUME AGED 3 TO 73

Female Lip Volume	Female Age 3 (mm³)	Female Age 9 (mm³)	Female Age 17 (mm³)	Female Age 30 (mm³)	Female Age 40 (mm³)	Female Age 50 (mm³)	Female Age 64 (mm³)	Female Age 73 (mm³)
Total Lip Volume	2910	3450	5320	4980	5460	5320	6300	5620
Credit: Age and sex related changes in three-dimensional lip morphology. Forensic Science International. Volume 200, Issues 1–3, 15 July 2010, Pages 182.e1–182.e7. Chiarella Sforza, Gaia Grandi, Miriam Binelli, Claudia Dolci, Marcio De Menezes, Virgilio F. Ferrario.

From birth to death, your lip volume, on average, is increasing! It is very difficult for us to visualize the volume unit in milliliter cube (mm³). Let see how much lip volume you have in teaspoons (TSP)- it is a measurement unit for dry and liquid foods. One teaspoon is 5000 mm³. Basically, you are born with over half a teaspoon of lip volume and the lips grow to over a teaspoon by the end of your life.

Take a look at a computer simulation of the aging face and the lips below. Your lips mature to their maximum plumpness at the age of 16 for males and 18 for females. After these years, the lips start to deteriorate gradually. The upper lip drops lower and lower each decade by 1 to 2.5 mm. The lips get wider – up to 20 mm or more! The lips also lose their pout by 0.5 mm a decade. The third image shows a teen boy with quite a pouty lips look. The last image illustrates some serious lip lengthening, flattening, and drooping.

THE LIP FACTS

1. Males have fuller lips than females. They have more muscle than fat in their bodies. Lean muscle stores 75% water and fat is nearly devoid of water! If you have more muscle in the lips, they can hold more water and stay plump longer.

2. As we age, the lips replace muscle with fat. This means, your lips won’t plump as easily even when you drink plenty of fluid.

3. Fat looks three times bigger than muscle when equal in weight. This is why when muscle is replaced with fat, the lips volume tends to increase into your late years. Since fat has a tendency to cause lip drooping because muscle atrophy occurs with age. Your lips no longer have the structural support to hold them up. As a result, the fat redistributes sideways and your lips get wider and appear thinner. To read more about what is in the muscle which assists muscle to store water, read this article.)

Trivia: In healthy newborn babies, they have predominantly lean muscle. It stores up to 80 percent water. This is why babies are so plump! It is not the fat that makes them look plump. Water fills up the muscle much like a water balloon. If you workout when you are dehydrated, your muscle size will decrease.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR LIPS PLUMP

There are foods, exercises and tools you can use to prevent fat deposit and promote muscle toning and rejuvenation. You can combine all methods to keep your face GORGEOUS!

Collagen

Where there is muscle, there is collagen. You can easily get collagen into your diet. Collagen helps you hold water. Researchers found that taking a collagen supplement can increase skin hydration and reduce wrinkles. Foods, drugs, and beverages can affect your lip size! You can read more here.

Lip Exercise Illustration

Facial-Flex Facial Tool

(Note: You can use this tool vertically too – not just horizontally as shown in the video)

CandyLipz Lip Plumping Tool

About CandyLipz: The CandyLipz lip plumping method is the safest method available today to get your lips plump naturally. It is the only lip plumping beauty tool to have been clinically proven to increase lip volume and deemed safe for lip enlargement. It is the only dermatologist approved lip plumper based on suction technology. Candylipz clinical trial showed that the lips stay plumped for up to 2 hours after each application. With continuous use of the lip plumper, the clinical trial reported that the base-line lip size gets fuller. According to the clinical trail, participant’s lip volume increased by 36% from their based-line lip size after 60 days of use twice daily for 2 minutes each time.

CANDYLIPZ BEFORE AND AFTER RESULTS

To learn why Candy Lipz was invented and why it may be an exercise lip plumping tool for lip enhancement. You can read more here.

Individual results may vary due to diet, age, gender, and lifestyle.

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