I'm black and I smoke sometimes. My lips have darkened. Are there ways to get them back to their natural color

Answer 1

As opposed to ranting about the dangers of tobacco and all that worthless crap that every brainwashed 14-year old girl throws out, I'll try my best to answer your actual question.

The darkening of your lips can more than likely be attributed to the contact made between either the smoldering tobacco or the smoke itself. By taking measure to avoid such contact, like exhaling faster with a more open mouth, or keeping your lips further from the burning end of the cigarette, chances are that you can at the very least minimalize the discoloration of your lips.

If such attempts fail, a daily cleansing routine may be successful in restoring your lips to some semblence of their previous coloration.

Answer 2

Try exfoliating your lips with a soft baby toothbrush and then using Vaseline on them afterwords. This will slough off the top layer of skin on your lips and hopefully restore your natural color. Of course, smoking would just darken the skin again (assuming that's the culprit). Are you sure you just haven't gotten a lot of sun too? Use a chap stick with SPF in it DAILY.

Answer 3

If darkened lips is the worst thing that smoking does to you, consider yourself extremely fortunate. But you could get lucky -- the odds are 2 out of 3 that smoking won't kill you.

Answer 4

For one thing you ought to immediately stop smoking. It seems the nicotine is sucking all the oxygen from your blood stream. Secondly, eat plenty of fruit, especially oranges.

Answer 5

Stopping smoking may help. Otherwise, you may need to consult a cosmetic surgeon.

Answer 6

lemon juice...brush them lightly with baking soda...stop smokin' crack!