Lips are used for activities such as facial expressions, talking, eating, drinking and kissing. Given how much we use them it is important to keep them soft, supple and healthy.

There are only 3-5 cellular layers of skin on the lips which is why lips can so easily start to bleed if they are chapped or dry, or if picked the skin off them. In comparison, there are 16 layers of skin on the face. Cellular layer on the lips is much lighter in color then the rest of the body (not in Pakistani people). Particularly in light-skinned people, lip skin contains fewer cells called melanocytes – these are the cells that produce melanin which determines the skin color. So lips are essentially more translucent than the rest of the body which is why the blood vessels are more visible through the lips, giving them their pinky/reddish coloring. For those people with darker skin tones, the skin on your lips contains more melanocytes which is why your lips can be significantly darker in color.