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How to Get Dark Lips to Pink Lips Naturally – Proven Home Remedies (2025)

How to Get Dark Lips to Pink Lips Naturally at Home - Dreemato
Namaste, Today I am going to tell you about Dark Lips. In this article I will tell you...
1. What are the causes for dark lips?
2. How can we prevent darkening of lips 
3. What are the lip balms that you can use to improve it?
4. What can you do in clinic 
5. What are Treatment available 
6.What home remedies you can do to improve your dark lips?

So, let's talk What are the Reasons for dark lips.

Causes for dark lips

First we discuss the causes of Darkness of lips and why Darkness occurs. So Darkness of lips is quite common in our skin color.

Constitutional
constitutional meaning that if in the family all of you have dark lips then it's very difficult to change it.

Friction
friction if you have a habit of licking your lips or pursing your lips then that can lead to darking you know that saliva is meant for digestion of food if you're licking your lips repeatedly then what the saliva will do is break the barrier of the skin and cause a lot of dryness which can then heal with Darkness so you want to avoid licking your lips.

Drinking hot Beverages 
when you're taking a lot of hot beverages you will notice that your upper lip is darker than the lower lip.

Excessive Sun Exposure
When there is excessive sun exposure, affects the lips from sun and you will notice that your lower lip is darker than your upper lip.

Smoking 
smoking can lead to darkening of lips as well as gums darkening of the lips can also occur.

Lip Darkness Due to Lip Products 
Due to use of lip products such as dark color liquid matte lipsticks this can irritate the skin on the lips and make it darker over time.

Hormonal Imbalance
Even hormonal imbalance such as Addison's disease or condition like lyen plers can lead to darkening of lips dark lips can also occur due to drugs such as toxic cycline or any tetracyclin antimalarials these can lead to darkening of lips.

How to get pink lips naturally at home 

Make your lips pink naturally at home by following some steps. There can be many reasons for dark lips which we have already discussed and then we will discuss how to fix dark lips. Basically this article has discussed five ways to get pink lips, hopefully if you follow these steps your dark lips will get better soon and you will get a natural pink lips permanently.

How to Prevent Dark Lips ?

Now we know the causes we also need to understand how to prevent darkening of lips. 

1. Follow a Regular Lip Care Routine 

You have to follow a regular lip care routine and make sure that your lip does not dry out so, do not pick on your lips. do not porse your lips. do not lick your lips. 
  • Apply a think balm for lips before bedtime and leave 
  • Apply lip balm after you wake up 
  • Avoid liquid matte lipstick
  • Use light coloured glossy lipsticks 
2. Removing lip make up properly at night

3. Using Cleansing Balm or Micellar Water 
Make sure that all bits of makeup are removed from the lips. Then 👇

4. Apply a thick lip balm before you sleep 

5. Brush your teeth before you washing your face 
Teeth before you wash your face if you wash your face and then brush your teeth then there can be bits of toothpaste which can irritate the lips and cause Darkness so always brush your teeth first and then properly wash your mouth as well as the lip area in order to to remove any toothpaste residues that may accumulate on the lips or on the lip Corners now it's important to understand.

What type of Dark lips can be corrected ?

what can be corrected and what cannot
if you've always had dark lips then it can never become natural pink colour if over time it has become darker then definitely we can improve it can everybody get pink lips no it's not possible for everyone to get pinker lips the color of the lips is decided by the color of our skin as well so if you are on a dusk side it's impossible for you to get pink lips okay if you've always had black lips then also it's impossible to make it naturally pink permanently.

What Lip balms to be used for dark lips 

Remember the lip balm are no magic it's not that if you use a lip balm your lips will become permanently pink that is not possiblewhat can lip balms do, they can lighten the lips and also they can hydrate the lips so that it appears better and less darker okay so this is very important to understand what is achievable and what is not if you have dark lips just applying these lip balms are not going to change. 

How do these lip balms work ?

They basically work by two mechanisms firstly they either reduce the amount of pigment that is produced on the lips or they increase cell turnover so that dead skin is shed and fresh skin is exfoliate your lips. so you can use lip balm for that or you can use exfoliating serum or exfoliating scrub on the lips to exfoliate them.

Recommendation for Lip Balm 
The name of lip balms that you can use along with agents that can cause gentle exfoliation You can buy any one. so if you've used all lip balms and exfoliating agents. Always buy SPF ingredients when buying lip balm because spf to protect your lips.
This Lip balm protecting your lips from sun And still you find no improvement in your dark lips then what can you do.

Then.........👇

In clinic procedures for dark lips 

There are certain in clinic procedures that can help.

Treatment 1 : Chemical Peel
We either use 

  • Arginine ferulic acid 
  • Mandelic acid 
  • Lactic acid 
Based peels in order to improve the color of your lips this causes gentle exfoliation of the lips and then it improves the coloryou have to remember that whenever you're undergoing these procedures you have to use lip balm religiously and also apply sunscreen or use a lip balm with SPF. So that you can notice Improvement.

Treatment 2 : Nd-YAG laser 

You can also go for a few sessions of Q Swit indag laser. Indag laser tends to break the pigment Under the Skin and your body then removes this pigment okay so the Improvement takes about 3-4 weeks to become noticeable you require about 6-8 sessions done about 3-4 weeks apart this can help in reducing the darkening of the lips but remember that if your lips are very very dark then that's not going to change but you
it can improve your uh lip shade by 2-3 Shades. 

Treatment 3 : Injection hyaluronic acid 

We can also inject hyaluronic acid apply it to your lips these are called Skin booster injections. this do not plump your lip as much but they kind of hydrate the lips and because they moisturize your lips from within they make your lips appear less dark and Pinker and better so products which we usually use are called Skin boosters. so these are injected into the lips these are hyaluronic acid fillers but unlike regular fillers which tend to plump the lip these are not cross-linkso they do not hold water in our quantity as much as the fillers hold but this does tend to hydrate the lips and the results tend to last for about 8 to 12 months so you can get a session of skin booster done on your lips which can help in hydrating the lips and improving the skin color.

Treatment 4 : Lip Blushing

Another procedure you can undergo is lip blushing this is very helpful for those who have genetic or humidity type of darkening and whose lips are much darker than the skin tone and these lip balms may not help as much all the procedures I've mentioned before might not help as much then you can go for lip blushing lip blushing is a type of tattooing that we do in which we use light pink color pigment and we tattoo and deposit this color under the skin so that your lips look uniformly light pink we can give a natural Hue to the lips we can even test it out as to which lip color you like and then match it with the one that you prefer so in this way we can make your lips appear pink and this results usually last for about one to two years you may need to do a touch-up session after one or two months so a single session is done first and then you can do a touch-up session after one or two months in order to get the perfect match of your lips this lip blushing is also helpful for those who have darkening only on the lip margins or who have half and half lip where they feel that the upper half is darker and the lower half is lighter in this also we can do lip blushing and match the entire lips this can give a really natural pink Hue to the lips which looks very very natural lip and you can go out with just a lip gloss and you don't even need to use a lipstick on a regular basis. 

Home Remedies for Pink Lips 

Now that we've discussed about all Clinic procedures what else can we do I get a lot of questions about home remedies are. There any home remedies can help dark llip to naturally pink lips & Keep your lips hydrated with these home remedies. Make lips pink by following these home remedies regularly & achieve naturally pink lips.

1st Remedy

  • Raw honey (one tablespoon)
  • Suger (one teaspoon)
  • Coconut oil (one tablespoon)
Combine all these three now scrub for 5 minutes, then rinse it off.

2nd Remedy 

  • Turmeric (one pinch)
  • Milk (one tablespoon)
It will look Haldi (yellow) apply on your lips 5 to 10 minutes then rinse off.

3rd Remedy 

  • Rose petals 
  • Make a paste 
Apply on lips 15 minutes and rinse .

Daily habits that you can change pink lips 

  • Apply Lip Balm 
  • Stay hydrated 
  • Quite Smoking 

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