Wrinkles around the mouth, purse string wrinkles

Wrinkles around the lips, whenever they appear, are an insidious thing. Firstly, they always add years to us. Secondly, they irreversibly change their facial expression, giving it a grumpy and dissatisfied expression.

In the lip area, cosmetologists and surgeons distinguish:

purse-string wrinkles – small vertical wrinkles around the lips,

marionette lines that run almost vertically down from the corners of the lips to the chin,

Today we will only talk about the causes of purse-string wrinkles.

Where do purse-string wrinkles around the mouth come from?

The first purse-string wrinkles near the lips can appear quite early, and, alas, every year they become deeper and more noticeable.

There are several reasons for their appearance. Some of them can be eliminated and thereby prevent early wrinkles.

Expert comment:

“Plastic surgeons know that the orbicularis oris muscle attaches directly to the dermis. Therefore, with each contraction it stretches the skin to the sides. At the same time, in principle, there is no fat layer in the lip area and very few sebaceous glands. It is very, very difficult for such skin to recover.

This is how the first wrinkles near the mouth are formed.

The second feature of the lip area speeds up the process: it is an estrogen-dependent zone. The less estrogen produced with age, the less collagen is synthesized, the less elastic the skin becomes. Therefore, age-related changes here begin much earlier.”

Third reasonThe way facial wrinkles appear around the mouth is facial expressions. Active articulation, for example in singers, wind instrument players or teachers, very often causes vertical and horizontal wrinkles to form above the upper lip.

If you have a habit of pursing or curling your lips, add this to the list of reasons for the appearance of wrinkles. Even frequent laughter can cause wrinkles near the lips. What to do? Naturally, no one is calling for giving up facial expressions – but it’s worth paying attention to.

Fourth reason, very close to the first - the activity of the orbicularis oris muscle. Do you often drink drinks through a straw and can’t imagine life without chewing gum? Wrinkles on your lips are practically guaranteed. To reduce the risk, do facial exercises, massage your lips - and again, make sure that lip tension does not become habitual and constant for you.

Fifth reason. Smoking. One of the most common causes of wrinkles around the lips. Why? Not only because of the same tension in the perioral muscles mentioned above.

Nicotine destroys elastin and collagen fibers, that is, it turns the already not very moisturized skin around the lips into thin and dry “tissue paper”, on which creases instantly appear. No wonder Another name for purse-string wrinkles is smoker’s wrinkles.

Sixth reason not associated with tension in the perioral muscles. These are disproportions of the facial skeleton, micrognathia, malocclusion, missing teeth or abrasion of the enamel.

Moreover, even if you have naturally beautiful teeth, with age they wear out, the bones of the skull become thinner - this is a natural process.

Therefore, before starting treatment with a cosmetologist, it makes sense to visit an aesthetic dentist - today there are methods for raising the bite.

Seventh reason - weather. Temperature changes, excessive dryness and ultraviolet radiation harm your lips. The latter penetrates deep into the skin and has great destructive power, triggering the aging process.

Eighth reason – nutritional imbalance. Sudden weight loss, poor diet, and insufficient fluid intake accelerate skin aging and the appearance of wrinkles on the upper lip.

How to remove wrinkles above the lip at home

Let's be realistic: complete elimination of wrinkles around the lips is impossible because we chew, talk and use facial expressions every day. However, there are remedies to make wrinkles at the corners of the lips less noticeable.

Let's start with a few basic things, then consider free correction methods and end the story with ultra-effective products from the arsenal of cosmetologists and plastic surgeons.

Stop smoking. Completely, forever. Not only your lips, but also your eyes, ovaries, and every cell of your body will thank you for this.

Stop believing advertising stories about the benefits of chewing gum. It only benefits chewing gum manufacturers, but not you. Of course, there are times when you need to quickly brush your teeth after eating - but to do this, chewing gum for five minutes is enough. Anything more is harmful to both teeth and youthful lips.

Learn to control your face.

Do you look always dissatisfied, your lips are tense, there is a dissatisfied grimace on your face? Get rid of the habit of curling your lips or pursing them - this does not decorate anyone, but why do you need something that even now looks ugly and in the long run will form wrinkles of grief on your face near your lips?

A slight half-smile is what should be his “background expression.”

Be careful with the sun! Undoubtedly, the sun, air and water are our best friends. But only when using protective products with SPF filters of at least 30, or even 50. Otherwise, your best friend is quite capable of doing outright nasty things to you - for example, drying out your already dry skin.

Don't forget about protective cosmetics. Creams and masks, that you use should contain vitamins A, E, C, retinoids, coenzymes, antioxidants, peptides, fatty oils, collagen, keratin, hyaluronic acid, glycerin, glycol and other ingredients beneficial to the skin.

It would be good to start using them not at the age of 45 in order to treat already formed wrinkles near the mouth, but at least at the age of 25, that is, at the moment when the processes of age-related changes are just beginning.

If you love Facebook building, be careful. On the one hand, facial gymnastics is a wonderful thing, a machine that allows the facial muscles to remain toned, eliminates jowls, a double chin and other unpleasant things. But excessive load on the perioral area is fraught with the formation of wrinkles: you remember that there is almost no fat and sebaceous glands there?

Well, now a few folk recipes that are designed to help you get rid of those hated wrinkles without leaving your home. So, in order to keep the skin around the lips smooth longer, our grandmothers advised:

Make “lip” masks from products containing a large amount of moisture and fat: cucumber, yogurt or sour cream.

Don't forget to include foods containing vitamin B2 in your diet: nuts, dairy products, grain bread, leafy green vegetables.

When applying a cream or mask, massage along the lines around the lips and from the lips to the chin - this will make the care more effective.

Expert commentary

“Almost all folk recipes work. However, their capabilities should not be overestimated. All this is great as a preventive measure, but neither sour cream nor celery can remove wrinkles that have already appeared. To do this, it is better to use modern cosmetology products, which are much more useful.”

How to effectively remove purse-string wrinkles above the upper lip

There are many ways to smooth out purse-string wrinkles and make wrinkles in the corners of the lips invisible.

Injections of fillers based on hyaluronic acid (Volbella, Equio) fill every wrinkle and thereby smooth them out. The undeniable advantage of gels is that they can solve all the problems of the mouth area - in particular, restore volume to the lips and smooth out the labio-mental folds under the lower lip.

To naturally correct purse-string wrinkles, the doctor must have a special microtechnique for administering the drug. Otherwise, excess filler distorts the smile and makes facial expressions robotic.

Biorevitalization with unstabilized hyaluronic acid, Ial-System provides hydration and effective correction of fine wrinkles around the mouth.

Introduction of a collagen-based drug within 2-3 weeks it tightens the skin, reduces sagging, smoothes out wrinkles and folds.

Mesotherapy with vitamins, microelements, collagen, elastin, etc. The effect appears slowly, but is more sustainable and delays further skin aging.

Botox – one or two injections will relieve muscle spasms, thereby smoothing out purse-string wrinkles and lifting the corners of the mouth. If Botox in its classic form is contraindicated for you, a more gentle mesobotox procedure or the introduction of the Argireline peptide is performed.

Mesothreads, installed along the contour of the lips. After resorption, the thread leaves a framework of collagen fibers, which strengthens the skin and smoothes out wrinkles.

Plasmafiller – Swiss plasma therapy Regen Lab – naturally launches the processes of rejuvenation and restoration of the skin, smoothes out wrinkles.

Chemical peeling improves the condition of the skin around the mouth, enhances cellular metabolism and blood flow - small wrinkles are smoothed out, large ones become less noticeable.

Laser peeling Using a fractional laser, Asklepion triggers the renewal of the upper layer of skin. As a result, purse-string wrinkles disappear and the skin rejuvenates.

Review from Natalia, 46 years old:

“I always looked younger than my age, but after 40 everything changed. I remained athletic and fit, but wrinkles appeared around my mouth that made me look twenty years older. I tried to fight it with creams - I moisturized the skin, but the creases did not go away.

At the Platinental clinic, Elena Vlasova recommended Botox. At first I was scared (I had heard about the horrors associated with it). However, as it turned out, it is not Botox itself that is scary, but non-professionals who inject it into the wrong glasses.

As a result, one procedure was enough for the wrinkles to disappear and the corners of the mouth to lift up, and this is very cool.”

In more complex cases, to solve the problem and elimination wrinkles require the use of surgical methods:

Lipofilling – filling skin folds with your own purified fat. This technique perfectly rejuvenates the skin, gives volume to the lips and smoothes purse-string wrinkles.

At Platinental, we advise our patients to use lipofilling as part of a comprehensive correction of age-related changes: young lips on a withered face will not deceive anyone.

Thread lift Waylock, Happy Elevator, Spring Fred. Lifting the skin and soft tissues with biodegradable threads solves the problem of nasolabial folds and marionette lines.

SMAS lifting in the comprehensive rejuvenation program, it also allows you to get rid of the deepest wrinkles in the mouth area - nasolabial and labiomental.

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Wrinkles around the mouth form with age or prematurely due to the habit of grimacing, heredity, certain diseases, improper care, excessive love of tanning, smoking. These are nasolabial folds, lines from the corners of the lips to the chin, as well as purse-string lines. As soon as a problem has arisen, it can be removed or reduced by gymnastics, massage with oils, cosmetics with peptides and hyaluronic acid, masks with honey, aloe, and fermented milk products.

Sometimes a flaw can be masked with a tone, the right lipstick and a contour pencil. But with pronounced changes, only injections of fillers, Botox, plasma, lipofilling or surgical tightening will help. And all this does not negate the need to return to a healthy lifestyle and routine care.

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Wrinkles around the mouth: features

Wrinkles found around the mouth can be age-related or facial, barely noticeable or pronounced. Purse-strings are depressions located at right angles to the border of the lips. They often occur among those who like to “fuss around their face.” But even with moderate facial expressions, the problem is inevitable after 40 years of age due to a natural deficiency of estrogen. It is provoked by smoking, tooth loss, malocclusion, sudden weight changes, and lack of skin care.

Types of folds under the lower lip and above the upper

The folds above the upper lip and the grooves under the lower lip, near the mouth, can be divided according to the following characteristics:

Facial expressions are easier to correct, since regular care and less expression of feelings through facial expressions are sometimes enough to “erase” them.

Purse-string wrinkles – what are they?

Purse-string wrinkles are short straight lines located vertically and at a slight angle to the contour of the lips. They usually form by the age of 40 due to the dryness of the dermis that occurs in this area and insufficient collagen production. The folds extend into the red border of the lips and make it difficult to apply lipstick beautifully. An additional factor in their occurrence is smoking, since tobacco smoke and tar directly affect the skin.

Purse-string wrinkles

What does purse-string mouth mean?

The purse-string mouth is the extreme degree of severity of the type of folds in question. With age, not only lines appear on the skin, approaching the red border of the lips, but also vertical wrinkles on them themselves. On the top they are smaller and more frequent, on the bottom they are longer and with a greater distance between the grooves.

Wrinkles on the lips: causes of appearance

Wrinkles on the lips have the following causes:

1. physiologically determined absence of the subcutaneous fat layer in the area around the mouth and a small number of sebaceous glands;
2. its dependence on the amount of estrogen in the body, which decreases with age;
3. diseases, especially those associated with hormonal imbalances;
4. heredity (if the mother and grandmother had early wrinkles around the mouth, most likely the daughter/granddaughter will experience the same);
5. active facial expressions and articulation, that is, smiles, the habit of curling or biting lips, the need to sing, speak a lot and clearly, play some musical instruments (trumpet, trombone, etc.);
6. smoking, which thins and dries out the skin;
7. problems with teeth and gums, in which the mouth recedes or protrudes;
8. negative external influences (heat, frost, frequent exposure to the wind, poor-quality lipstick and care products);
9. severe weight loss, leading to sagging skin on the entire face and gathering it into folds;
10. position of the head while resting or working at a desk (do not sleep with your face in the pillow and prop your chin and cheek with your hand).

How to remove wrinkles around the mouth

You can try to remove wrinkles that “gather” around the mouth:

1. soft peeling performed using natural ingredients 1-2 times a week;
2. applying homemade masks, including after exfoliation, every 2-3 days.

If the problem is severe and home remedies do not give the desired effect, you should consult a cosmetologist and choose from injections of hyaluronic acid, Botox, vitamin cocktails, plasma or fat cells.

Anti-wrinkle lip mask

A mask against vertical wrinkles around the lips will help if they are caused by dry skin or excessive muscle tension in this area. If there is a problem, you should use the following formulations:

1. 1 raw yolk plus ½ tsp. olive oil and 1 tsp. honey Apply 3-4 times a week for 30 minutes.
2. Add chopped carrots with ripe pear pulp, 1 tsp. cream and the same volume of honey. Use for 20 minutes 3-4 times a week.
3. 1 tsp. Mix honey and milk with grated onion to form a paste. Apply 2 times a week for 10 minutes.
4. Chop the fresh cucumber and add the raw yolk to the pulp. Apply to the area around the lips for 15-20 minutes, use twice or thrice a week.
5. Turn cottage cheese, honey and sour cream into a homogeneous mass, taking 1 tsp each. each component. Keep on the skin and lips for 10-15 minutes, make a mask three times a week.
6. Mix AEvit and olive oil. Apply for half an hour, then blot with a napkin, do not rinse.
7. Take approximately equal amounts of crushed avocado pulp, grated carrots, add yolk, cream and honey. Keep on the skin for 30 minutes, make a mask 2-3 times a week.

Each product should be applied along massage lines and rinsed off with warm water after completion of exposure.

Watch this video on how to remove wrinkles around the mouth:

Peelings

Peels for smoothing the skin around the lips should be as gentle as possible and used before using a mask or other care product. Without fear, you can use for this purpose:

1. tomato pulp;
2. thickened honey, after slightly warming it in your palms;
3. strawberries mashed with a fork;
4. grated lemon zest with a drop of sour cream.

Taking one of the products, massage it into previously cleansed skin for 1-2 minutes, after which it is washed off.

Purse-string wrinkles above the upper lip: correction with injections

If purse-string wrinkles above the upper lip are not removed by conservative methods, correction with injections of various drugs is indicated:

1. With hyaluronic acid. These products replenish the moisture deficit in the dermis, causing wrinkles to straighten. The first effect of biorevitalization is noticeable almost immediately, but it will increase and last for 6-12 months.

1. With vitamins, peptides, collagen. The mesotherapy procedure stimulates the skin to rejuvenate over several sessions. As a result, the rate of cell regeneration is restored, and after some time the folds will disappear. The results will last for six months or more.
2. With botulinum toxin. Injections of the drug will relieve muscle tension and prevent the muscles from contracting as actively as before. As a result, the skin will become smoother. The effect will last from 5 to 8 months.
3. With the patient's own plasma. Its introduction in 3-4 sessions starts the process of rejuvenation in the thickness of the skin, due to which wrinkles disappear. The effect will remain for 8-12 months.
4. With your own adipose tissue. This is a lipofilling procedure. It is indicated for those who want to increase the size of their lips. By increasing the volume of tissue, the skin stretches and folds are smoothed out. The effect will be present for up to 1 year.

Watch this video about rejuvenation of the perioral zone using the injection method:

Surgical lift

Surgical methods for getting rid of wrinkles around the mouth include:

1. Using special threads, most often biodegradable. They are inserted into the skin with a needle, forming an additional frame. The effect is formed due to the tension of the threads and the stimulation of tissue regeneration by their presence. Therefore, it persists for some time after their resorption. The procedure not only eliminates purse-string wrinkles, but also lifts the corners of the lips.
2. Lift surgery. It is performed under general anesthesia and solves the problem of not only purse-string folds, but also nasolabial and marionette folds. The skin is peeled away from the muscles, stretched and fixed in a new position.

Result of surgical facelift

The first method is quite applicable at a relatively young age. But surgical lifting is advisable when the problem cannot be solved otherwise, and it is complemented by other serious changes in appearance.

How to remove wrinkles around the mouth at home

You can remove shallow wrinkles around the mouth at home using:

1. gymnastics for this area of ​​the face;
2. massage, including with an ice cube;
3. course application of homemade wax-based cream;
4. ready-made anti-aging serums and other cosmetics.

All methods require regular use, not occasionally.

Exercises for wrinkles around the lips

The proposed exercises for wrinkles formed around the lips help strengthen the muscle frame, increase blood circulation in the skin and reduce the severity of negative changes:

1. Take a deep breath into your mouth, rounding your cheeks. Exhale sharply, stretching your lips.
2. Stick out your tongue, but do not open your mouth wide. Try to reach with the tip of your chin.
3. Raise your upper lip towards your nose and return to normal position. Immediately pull the lower one towards your chin.
4. Pronounce vowel sounds. But at the same time, move your lips more actively, almost without involving your cheeks.
5. Take air into your mouth and move it from one side to the other. You can diversify the exercise by releasing a stream from the left and right corners of your mouth.
6. Use your palms to hold your cheeks in a stationary position. At this moment, you need to slightly stretch your lips, feeling the muscle tension.
7. Fix the corners of the mouth with the index and middle fingers. Try to raise your upper lip.
8. Take the starting position as in the previous exercise. But stretch your lips with a tube, overcoming the pressure of your fingers.

Each exercise is performed 15-20 times. You need to pause between them, relaxing your face. And before starting gymnastics, cream or oil should be applied to the skin and red border of the lips.

How to disguise wrinkles around the mouth

You can use cosmetics to disguise minor wrinkles around the mouth as follows:

1. Apply day cream to this area and wait for absorption;
2. use tone;
3. outline your lips with a transparent pencil to prevent lipstick from bleeding;
4. trace an outline over it with a soft colored pencil;
5. apply lipstick with a brush, using a color that is not too dark;
6. put glitter on top of it.

The shades of lipstick and contour pencil should match. You should choose cosmetics with a fairly oily consistency.

Watch this video on how to disguise wrinkles around the mouth:

Massage, self-massage

Massage will help with wrinkles around the lips, making them less deep, if you do it like this:

1. Use your palms to smooth the skin from the center to the sides and towards the ears;
2. With your index and middle fingers slightly apart, hold the skin, using your other hand, smooth out each wrinkle between them in a circular motion;
3. press in turn on both upper points of the “Cupid’s bow”, then on the corners of the lips and finally on the places on both sides of the center of the lower lip;
4. Lightly tap your fingers on the surface around your mouth.

This procedure should be done after applying the oil, preferably before bed.

From time to time it is useful to massage the problem area with an ice cube. And lips - with a soft toothbrush, having previously lubricated them with cream.

Watch this video on how to do interoral massage for wrinkles around the mouth:

The best cream to remove wrinkles near the lips

You can prepare a cream for purse-string wrinkles around the mouth yourself using the following recipes:

1. Melt 60 g of cosmetic wax in a steam bath, add 125 g of almond oil and 60 ml of rose water to it. When the mixture becomes slightly warm, add 15 drops of essential rose oil. The product is used in a course for 1.5-2 months, twice a day.
2. Mix 100 ml olive oil, 40 g wax, 1.5-2 tbsp. l. calendula flowers, put on low heat and boil. The product is left to cool under the lid. After 10-12 hours, filter it and use it for a month, applying it 2 times a day.

Ingredients for preparing cream for wrinkles around the mouth

Anti-aging cosmetics for purse-string wrinkles

Purse-string wrinkles will become less pronounced if you use:

1. FILDERMA cream for filling age-related folds from SESDERMA. It contains Asian centella extract, a known anti-aging ingredient, as well as vitamins and antioxidants.
2. Cream-filler 3D Hyalu Fill from GIGI. Contains hyaluronic and citric acids, aloe extract, tocopherol.
3. CAVIAR DELIGHT cream for the contour around the eyes and lips from DERMATIME. It contains caffeine, peptides, sodium hyaluronate, vitamin E, caviar and hibiscus flower extracts.
4. Unstress Absolute Relaxer wrinkle filling serum from Christina. It contains squalane, hyaluronic acid, extracts of pine, St. John's wort, aloe, cucumber, and wheat germ oil.
5. BioZone Double Effect serum from GIGI. It contains argireline, a rejuvenating complex.
6. Premium Polyfill Active filler cream. It works due to the presence of hyaluronic acid, arnica extract, and chokeberry.
7. Serum “Cellular renewal” from “Cora”. The composition contains hyaluronic, folic, glutamic acids, collagen, olive and almond oils.

Cosmetics for purse-string wrinkles

Preventative against wrinkles around the lips

High-quality products against wrinkles that form around the lips should also be used to prevent them:

1. COLLAGENIST RE-PLUMP cream from HELENA RUBINSTEIN. It is applied not only to the lips, but also to the area around them.
2. Serum “REVITALIFT LASER X3” from L’ORÉAL PARIS. The product will prevent the appearance of premature folds in the nasolabial triangle.
3. SLOW AGE care composition from VICHY. It is intended for use morning and evening on the skin around the mouth.
4. Serum RETEXTURING ACTIVATOR from SKINCEUTICALS. The product can be applied under night and day creams.

Gold mask for wrinkles around the mouth

General Tips

You can remove folds that appear over time near the lips if you wisely use the above remedies, but also follow the following recommendations:

1. eat right (eat fruits and vegetables, unrefined vegetable fats, white meat, fish) and get enough sleep, as this has a beneficial effect on the overall condition of the skin;
2. grimace less unnecessarily;
3. stop smoking and staying in the open sun without protection;
4. use moisturizing lipstick or lip balm;
5. never go to bed without removing your makeup;
6. After cleansing your face of cosmetics and washing your face, do not rub the skin with a towel, but pat dry.
7. drink 30 ml of water per kilogram of weight per day;
8. do facial gymnastics, massage, but without fanaticism and with the obligatory use of oils;
9. after exposure to exfoliating cosmetics, apply a nourishing mask, serum or cream and only along the massage lines;
10. For daily care, use products with vitamins A, E, C, antioxidants, and from 25 years old - also with coenzymes, hyaluronic acid, collagen, keratin.

And here is more information on how to prepare a gelatin mask for wrinkles.

The occurrence of age-related manifestations in the lip area is inevitable. But with the help of a healthy lifestyle and quality care, their formation can be postponed to a later date and made less noticeable. It is possible that regular use of conservative methods will make not only plastic surgery, but also “beauty injections” unnecessary.

Useful video

Watch this video on how to remove wrinkles around the mouth using gymnastics:

Which wrinkles age a woman's face the most? At first glance, the question is incorrect, because any fold on the skin, whether it appears on the forehead, in the corners of the eyes or in any other area, does not add youth to the image. However, for many women it is deep wrinkles around the mouth become “beacons” indicating approaching decline.

Lips are the most sensual part of the face, to which the attention of a partner is riveted during intimacy, an interlocutor during a conversation, or a friend during a meal together. If you purse your lips and stretch them forward, you can easily see what your mouth will look like in old age, and, possibly, even in adulthood, if timely measures are not taken and care is not taken of the skin of the lips and the areas directly adjacent to them.

Purse-string wrinkles, which is what numerous small “rays” are called, diverging in different directions from the line of the upper lip, are facial wrinkles. In youth, they appear only when a person tenses the muscles of the mouth, and disappear after they relax, but in mature years, folds remain on the skin, which can only be removed cosmetologist If wrinkles in the corners of the lips are added to purse-string wrinkles (and most often this happens!), then a tired and sad expression “freezes” on the face, depriving a person of attractiveness.

Causes of oral wrinkles

Constant activity of the orbicularis oris muscle is the main cause of the formation of facial wrinkles. A person speaks, eats and expresses emotions, often without thinking that every contraction of a muscle that does not have a rigid connection with the jaw bones leaves an imprint on the skin. In addition, there are few fatty glands in the area around the lips, and the layer of fatty tissue underneath is very thin, so the skin in the oral area is usually dry and thin. The situation is further aggravated by the fact that the lips are practically defenseless against external influences (UV rays, dust, exhaust gases), and in addition, the skin in this area is sensitive to a natural decrease in fibroblast activity and a deficiency of collagen fibers.

Expression wrinkles around the mouth appear:

1. after sudden weight loss;
2. in singers and musicians playing wind instruments, who, due to the nature of their profession, are forced to constantly strain the orbicularis oris muscle;
3. in people with peculiarities in the structure of the skull and malocclusion;
4. in smokers: this bad habit, on the one hand, provokes tension in the orbicularis oris muscle, and on the other, leads to a decrease in skin turgor due to the negative impact of nicotine on structural proteins;
5. for dental problems (gum disease, caries);
6. with hormonal imbalance;
7. due to lack of sleep and psycho-emotional overload;
8. due to the refusal of cosmetic preparations intended specifically for lips.

Wrinkles around the mouth: video

Types of lip wrinkles

Purse-string wrinkles above the upper lip they look like radially diverging, mostly short folds of small depth; the same wrinkles (they are also called pleated wrinkles) are also characteristic of the lower lip. The appearance of purse-string wrinkles is caused by the habit of pursing and folding the lips into a tube, especially with a small thickness of subcutaneous fatty tissue and age-related changes that have already affected the skin in the oral area. Wrinkles around the lips are typical for smokers and people with active articulation.

Marionette lines (puppet lines) They begin as wrinkles at the corners of the mouth and then move down to the chin. The creases formed in this way highlight the chin area, giving the person a resemblance to a marionette doll. Marionette lines are static wrinkles formed due to gravitational ptosis and decreased elasticity of the skin and muscles that support the corners of the mouth.

Nasolabial folds connect the corners of the mouth and the outer ends of the nostrils. This type of wrinkles around the lips largely depends on the structure of the face and in some people it appears already in adolescence. With age, the “nasolabial lips” acquire depth and relief not only due to articulation and facial expressions, but also due to the gravitational descent of soft tissues. This type of wrinkle is figuratively called “folds of grief.”

Wrinkles around the lips: how to get rid of the defect

You can remove expression lines around the mouth by tightening the skin affected by ptosis or adding volume to areas with thinned fat layers. Although in some cases it is possible to radically solve the problem only by combining both approaches. To tighten the skin, plastic surgery is used (in situations where wrinkles are deep and numerous) and hardware procedures that activate the processes of tissue regeneration (renewal) and stimulate cells to produce protein fibers and hyaluronic acid.

When wondering how to remove wrinkles around the lips, pay attention to the following procedures:

Contour plastic using fillers. The so-called “beauty injections” do an excellent job with small and medium-sized wrinkles above the upper lip - they are smoothed out by filling them with compounds containing hyaluronic acid. Injections are made in a targeted manner - only the “bed” of the wrinkle is filled with the drug, but the adjacent tissues also benefit, to which firmness and elasticity are restored. In order to rejuvenate and improve skin texture, biorevitalization and mesotherapy are used, and the compositions are administered not only by injection, but also using special applicators (mesoscooters).

Bioreinforcement. Patients who have undergone bioreinforcement - strengthening the skin in the oral area with Juvederm Ultra and Surgiderm fillers (18.24) containing high-density hyaluronic acid, as well as Sculptra preparations (based on polylactic acid) and Radiesse (based on calcium hydroxylapatite). It is possible to tighten the skin and straighten wrinkles above the upper, lower lip and in the corners of the mouth by creating a fibrous framework that helps the skin resist gravitational ptosis. Let's talk separately about plasmolifting (injections of blood plasma previously taken from the patient and enriched with platelets) - a procedure that strengthens and rejuvenates the skin, and therefore is often used to eliminate wrinkles of all types.

Lipolifting. A cosmetologist, giving advice on how to remove wrinkles around the mouth, may suggest performing lipolifting, that is, “planting” the patient’s own fat (usually it is taken from the abdomen or thighs) into places where wrinkles accumulate. Experts give credit to this method, considering it relatively painless and safe, but warn that up to 50% of the fat suspension will be quickly absorbed and excreted from the body, so the wrinkles will appear again.

Skin care cosmetics. Wrinkles in the oral area, especially marionettes and nasolabial folds, are often simply impossible to get rid of with the help of cosmetic preparations, however, masks with a rich composition against wrinkles around the mouth will help smooth out the skin texture, and therefore their use in most cases is not only justified, but also recommended specialists. An example is Thai collagen mask with red wine – the effectiveness of this mask against wrinkles around the lips is due to the content of phytocollagen, which fills wrinkles and makes lips elastic and dense.

Attention! Find out about all the techniques in the article “How to remove expression wrinkles.” Although you shouldn’t rely on your own taste when choosing a correction method and it’s better to trust a cosmetologist. You should know that such a popular method of removing wrinkles around the lips as Botox injections is rarely used to smooth out wrinkles above the upper lip (purse-string wrinkles) and is practically not used to eliminate nasolabial folds and marionette wrinkles.

How to reduce wrinkles around the lips: prevention

The formation of wrinkles in the oral area cannot be prevented - sooner or later they will appear, but it is possible to minimize them by adhering to the following rules:

1. do not smoke or indulge in chewing gum;
2. do not reinforce emotions with characteristic lip movements (control facial expressions - do not purse, curl or stretch your lips).
3. use high-quality cosmetics containing oils, retinoids, peptides, collagen, coenzymes and hyaluronic acid.

Attention! There will be fewer wrinkles on the lips and oral area if you protect the skin of the lips from ultraviolet rays by using balms and lipsticks containing UV filters. Facial expressions are harmful to the lips, but special exercises (can be found on the Internet) and self-massage are beneficial, especially if they are performed regularly and correctly.

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