How to remove purse-string wrinkles around the lips - 7 effective ways to eliminate wrinkles around the mouth

Wrinkles around the mouth are beauty sadness that creeps up unnoticed. As a rule, the forehead and the area around the eyes are the first to become covered with grooves, and all forces are thrown into fighting them. You may not even notice the wrinkles around your mouth until the problem is revealed by lipstick bleeding into them or by a random photo taken in which you are caught in a relaxed pose.

But forewarned means forearmed. Perioral wrinkles are a problem that is easily preventable. Self-control and simple exercises are enough.

If the defect has already occurred, do not worry: this is a reversible process.

We erase wrinkles around the mouth in three weeks on our own, without injections or threads.

Why do wrinkles appear around the mouth?

Do you have a good idea of the mechanism of wrinkle formation in principle?

The root of the problem always lies in muscle function. Due to constant contraction, they spasm, shorten, and lose elasticity. At the same time, the skin, constantly following the moving muscles, stretches. And now we have two terms: “shortened muscles” and “stretched, flaccid skin.” What will they give in total? That's right: wrinkles.

The area around the lips is one of the first to be affected. The thing is that she is very active. The orbicularis oris muscle works tirelessly. It contracts when we talk, chew, smile, laugh - and this is just its standard daily load. Imagine what it would be like for her if you also:

kissing
you smoke
eat,
you play wind instruments,
drink drinks through a straw,
chewing gum
you inflate balloons.

All this causes the orbicularis oris muscle to be constantly tense.

In terms of load level, the orbicularis oris muscle is in no way inferior to the most facially active zones - the area around the eyes (orbicularis oculi muscle), forehead (frontalis muscle), and between the eyebrows (proud muscle). Even ahead.

What happens if you constantly strain the orbicularis oris muscle? It will become shorter and the circumference of the mouth will decrease. Where will the “extra” skin go? Will gather into folds.

You can observe the mechanism of wrinkle formation right now in front of the mirror. Curl your lips to blow or whistle. Have wrinkles appeared? At some point they will become static - the inevitability of hyperactivity of the orbicularis oris muscle.

When will this happen?

As a rule, wrinkles around the mouth are not the first to appear. First, “crow’s feet” form near the corners of the eyes - there the skin is thinner and more delicate than in the perioral area, so it quickly loses its shape and structure, wrinkles, following the ever-contracting muscles.

But the skin around the mouth is also vulnerable. It is, for example, much thinner than on the same cheeks. The orbicularis oris muscle is attached directly to the skin, and with each contraction of the muscle, it is stretched in different directions. Moreover, it is extremely difficult for the dermis to recover here: in this area there is almost no subcutaneous fatty tissue and very few sebaceous glands.

Result: wrinkles around the mouth appear quite early. By age 40, they are usually already noticeable.

With age, the process accelerates because:

Muscle spasms intensify.
The condition of the skin worsens. It becomes thinner, loses moisture, its turgor decreases, and the key components of youth - elastin and collagen fibers - are damaged. This is especially noticeable during menopause, when estrogen production in a woman’s body decreases, and as a result, less collagen is synthesized.
The subcutaneous fat layer in the lips disappears. Even in his youth there was not much of it, but it still performed some kind of function of a shock absorber between the muscle and the skin. What happened when the fat disappeared completely? The muscle began to act directly on the skin. At the same time, the lips were deflated, but the skin area was preserved, so it turned out to be “extra.”

Exactly when you will develop wrinkles around your mouth depends on several factors.

Top 12 main causes of wrinkles around the mouth

Smoking
To hold a cigarette in her mouth, a smoker specially tenses the orbicularis muscle and folds the skin of her lips. The result is muscle spasm and breakdown of collagen and elastin fibers of the skin.
Moreover, nicotine also destroys youth from the inside. Skin and muscle cells do not receive enough oxygen and are poisoned by toxins. There is less elastin and collagen, the skin becomes dehydrated, thinner, and becomes like dry tissue paper.
Hormonal imbalances
The skin around the lips is an estrogen-dependent area. The less female hormones are produced, the less elastic the skin is.
Active facial expressions
Do you laugh and smile a lot? Maybe you still have harmful facial habits - curling or pursing your lips? All this leads to the early appearance of wrinkles around the mouth.
Occupational risks
The orbicularis oris muscle wears out faster in people who have to talk a lot due to their occupation (announcers, actors, teachers, etc.), as well as in singers and brass players.
Anatomical features
The tendency to wrinkles around the mouth increases if you have an incorrect bite, missing teeth, a “bird-like” face (underdevelopment of the lower jaw bone), or disproportions of the facial skeleton.
Sleeping with your face in the pillow
In this position, the skin is compressed and microcirculation worsens.
Negative natural factors
The main enemy is ultraviolet radiation, which penetrates deep into the skin, destroys the main components of its youth, and deprives it of the ability to retain moisture. Frost, temperature changes, dry air, wind, and dust are also harmful.
Violation of drinking and eating habits
Unbalanced nutrition, overeating/starvation, consumption of “food waste”, lack of fluid – all this leads to loss of skin turgor and elasticity. It is important to drink at least 2 liters of clean water per day and eat only healthy foods within the daily calorie intake.
Sudden weight loss
In case of rapid weight loss, the skin does not have time to recover and, being stretched under the weight of fat, wrinkles.
Genetics
The thickness and density of the skin, as well as the amount of fat layer, is inherited. For example, European women have worse these characteristics than women of our latitudes, so their skin quickly becomes covered with a network of wrinkles.
Poor posture
A stooped back, a stiff neck, and a forward head are powerful catalysts for facial aging, including the appearance of wrinkles around the mouth. Due to problems with posture, blood and lymph circulation is disrupted, facial muscles spasm, and the skin fades prematurely.
Punitive cosmetology
Pumped up your lips with filler? Did you inject Botox to lift the corners of your mouth? Did you stretch out the mesothread so that the nasolabial was not visible? Don’t be surprised if your body soon reacts with even more wrinkles and creases to the violent invasion.

Types of wrinkles around the mouth

How to get rid of wrinkles on the skin using cosmetology

Do you want to straighten out the creases on your face?

To avoid making mistakes, understand how different cosmetological techniques for dealing with creases work.

The most popular methods are injections of Botox (botulinotherapy) and fillers (contour plastic). It is believed that “injections of youth” can get rid of deep wrinkles. If the creases are severe, Botox and fillers are combined.

Few people recommend hardware cosmetology (radio waves, electric currents, lasers, etc.) in the fight against creases. It is inferior to injections in terms of effect, and in the case of deep creases, you need something to be sure.

More radical options compared to injections, which are also used to combat creases, are threads and surgical lifting. But they are used less often than injections.

Cosmetology procedures

As a rule, cosmetologists offer to remove wrinkles around the mouth with injections. Hardware cosmetology is less popular: it gives a weak effect.

Let's figure out what the main cosmetic methods of combating wrinkles around the mouth are.

Botox injections
A drug based on the strongest poison botulinum toxin is injected into the orbicularis oris muscle, which paralyzes neuromuscular activity. The muscle stops contracting, lengthens and the skin straightens behind it. The effect lasts for several months.
Filler injections
Foreign fillers are injected into the skin. The most popular gel is based on hyaluronic acid. Collagen filler, plasma filler (gel based on patient plasma), etc. are also used.
The drug literally pushes away the tissues and lingers in them for several months. The skin under the pressure of the gel is stretched and smoothed out in places of folds.
Lipofilling
The patient's own fat tissue is injected into the skin. This creates volume, which makes wrinkles appear smoother.
Mesothreads
Artificial threads are drawn along the contour of the lips (with a slight indentation from the red border). The conductor for them is a flexible needle: it, together with the thread, is inserted into the subcutaneous fat layer, and on the return stroke of the needle, the thread is separated from the conductor. To reinforce only the upper lip, you need to install 5 such threads on the right and left.
The principle of operation of mesothreads is pathological. Places of injury are scarred by connective tissue. After the threads are absorbed, a “framework” of unhealthy fibrous compactions remains - this is what prevents the skin from folding.
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Biorevitalization and mesotherapy
The lips are pricked with a large number of injections (several dozen) in one session, and 4-6 sessions are needed. The drugs are said to enhance collagen synthesis in the skin. In fact, the main effect is achieved because the skin is scarred by connective tissue due to multiple needle injuries. Unhealthy fibrous tissue is the very “new frame” that cosmetologists promise.
As a rule, biorevitalization and mesotherapy are offered in addition to Botox, fillers, and threads. As independent procedures against purse-string wrinkles, they are ineffective.
Laser or chemical peeling
You deliberately expose your face to a burn. It doesn't matter whether it's laser or acid. Wrinkles are removed along with the top layer of skin. It literally comes off like sandpaper. This is a serious resurfacing with all the ensuing consequences: a long healing period (several weeks), risks of infection, pigmentation, etc.

Prices and descriptions of procedures, and whether they should be done in the clinic

The cost of the botulinum therapy procedure depends on the drug and the treatment area. If you do Botox, then it takes about 20 units for areas such as the eyebrow area, forehead, and nasolabial triangle. Considering that a unit of the drug costs approximately 300-400 rubles, the treatment of all these three areas will cost approximately 20 thousand rubles.

At first, this amount will have to be paid twice a year. Then it will increase (the dose will increase), and the frequency of visits will increase to 4-5 times a year. Count for yourself.

Correcting creases with hyaluronic acid filler will be even more expensive. For example, the nasolabial area requires 2-8 ml of the drug. Just for one zone, pay 50 thousand rubles or more.

But the main argument against “youth injections” is not the price, but the fact that, in fact, these are “old age injections.” I took one injection and disrupted the natural physiological mechanisms of my body. Vessels, muscles, skin have forgotten how to perform their functions.

Due to atrophy of capillaries and gluing of blood vessels, blood does not deliver sufficient nutrients and oxygen to the skin and muscles.
The muscular system takes on an unnatural configuration, since some muscles have spasmed, others have atrophied. As a result, the skin “creeps” down and wrinkles into folds. And here they are: wrinkles, creases, ptosis of the upper eyelids, “Pierrot smile”, nasolabial folds, jowls, etc.
Due to constant lack of nutrition, the skin becomes rough, dry, flabby, and gray.

What happens when the effect of the injections wears off? You will see in the mirror a woman much older than her years. You will cry and run to a cosmetologist. Now for you “injections of youth” are a life sentence.

How to quickly remove purse-string wrinkles above the upper and lower lips

Cosmetologists do not see any other way to quickly remove wrinkles around the mouth other than invasive intervention. And this is a dangerous misconception.

Another option is exercise and self-massage. He is better. Moreover, only it is safe and effective in combating wrinkles around the mouth. The result will not be immediate, but quick. You can make amazing improvements in just three weeks. And this will not be an appearance, but a real solution to the problem, restoration of the natural mechanisms of the body.

But first things first

Why can’t you rely on “magic” injections and threads?

We have written a lot about how “youth injections” and other invasive techniques age the face. They disrupt the natural mechanisms of the body. Skin, muscles, blood vessels, lymph - everything begins to work in a distorted, unhealthy form, and this accelerates aging.

Let's give examples.

What happens when you inject Botox into the orbicularis oris muscle?

The unfortunate paralyzed muscle is inactive, and neighboring muscles, which are simply not designed for such a load, work for it - and these are new spasms.
In the affected area, microcirculation is disrupted, the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to tissues deteriorates - the skin withers.
When the illusion of youth dissipates (along with the expiration of the drug), the wrinkles around the mouth will become deeper, new folds and grooves will appear, the nasolabium will sink even more, the corners of the lips will droop, etc.

Maybe it would be better to inject fillers then?

They have their own pitfalls. Fillers stretch the skin and dry out its deep layers (moisture is attracted to the epidermis, which creates the appearance of skin hydration, but in fact, dehydration occurs). When the filler dissolves, you will be left with loose and wrinkled skin.

And we are not yet talking about the fact that “injections of youth” disfigure faces. The treated area inflates and the proportions are disrupted. Asymmetry occurs everywhere (the lips on one side “float” down or become distorted when smiling), facial expressions are paralyzed, and articulation is impaired. The drug can migrate to neighboring areas and shine through the skin (in the case of filler). Lumps, hematomas, ulcers, severe swelling, etc. form.

In addition, all invasive techniques are associated with enormous health risks, including terrible inflammation, tissue and vascular necrosis, and nerve damage.

Read the articles on our blog about Botox and fillers to find out more about the harmful effects of “youth injections” on health and beauty.

How to smooth out marionette wrinkles?

It is difficult to smooth out chin wrinkles - due to the fact that the habitual reaction to a spasm is already embedded in the subcortex of the brain. To change the habit and remove this information, you have to resort to self-control of your emotions. It’s not for nothing that at our comprehensive marathon “Youth. Reboot”, one of the four experts is a psychologist who helps participants change from the inside! And then it’s a matter of technique: improve blood circulation in the tissues, remove all blocks and hypertonicity of the muscles. It’s not always easy, but for the sake of the main goal - the youth of our face and inner harmony - it’s worth trying!

The absence of tension will allow the muscles to automatically acquire physiological tone, the facial expression will become cheerful and natural, and at the same time the fear of getting new wrinkles will disappear. Isn't this the dream of every woman?

How to remove wrinkles above the lip at home

Do you have a good understanding of the mechanism of formation of wrinkles around the mouth? Then, probably, you yourself already understood in what directions you need to fight the problem.

Relax the orbicularis oris muscle.
Increase the strength and elasticity of the skin of the lips.

How do we achieve this?

We do exercises and self-massage. This is the basics. The only effective and safe way to defeat wrinkles around the mouth. And this is not a short-term illusion of youth, but the elimination of the causes of wrinkles for a long time.

Self-massage of the area around the mouth is performed with hands and tongue, as well as massagers: vacuum cans and a dry brush.

What we achieve with self-massage:

relax the orbicularis oris muscle, returning it to its natural length and elasticity,
we improve skin nutrition from the inside, activate the production of its “building material” and tissue regeneration, increase turgor and elasticity,
we get rid of excess fluid on the face - the cheeks are tightened, nasolabial folds and marionette lines go away.

Result: wrinkles around the mouth are smoothed out, deep wrinkles are reduced and even completely eliminated, the corners of the lips are raised. The mask of a suffering pensioner has been dropped. In the mirror you see a woman pleased with herself, who has looked 10 years younger.

Be careful! Choose only a proven complex. Don't confuse self-massage with face-building. Facebook building is focused on pumping up muscles, and this can only harm you. The circular muscle is already in hypertonicity. Your task is not to strain her, but to relax her.

The area of the nasolabial triangle is carefully worked out in the advanced intensive “Nasolubella” from MelAnnett. In just two weeks you will erase purse-string wrinkles and “folds of sorrow”, reduce creases, and lift the corners of your lips.

Helpful Tips to Improve Skin Elasticity

In addition to self-massage, which triggers internal rejuvenation mechanisms, the skin in the perioral area definitely needs competent and regular cosmetic care.

We saturate it with everything necessary from the outside and protect it from aggressive environmental influences. In combination with self-massage, we achieve what seemed impossible. The skin becomes elastic and smooth.

Take care of the skin around your lips using folk remedies.
Try traditional “lip” masks made from cucumber, yogurt, sour cream - there should be a lot of moisture and fat.
Follow a daily cleansing-moisturizing-nourishing ritual.
Take care of your facial skin twice a day: morning and evening.
Cleansing the skin of dirt, grease, and cosmetics is mandatory. Use gentle natural remedies for this. Try, instead of washing with water, wipe your face with Beauty365 hydrosols (sold in the online store www.beauty365.ru).
Add anti-aging cosmetics to your daily care routine.
Such products contain a large amount of vitamins and fatty acids. They moisturize, nourish, promote regeneration, fight free radicals - they help the skin retain moisture, elasticity, and turgor to the maximum.
Natural squalane, oils, and balms are perfect for this. Beauty365 has such products. Go to the online store www.beauty365.ru and choose what you like the most.
Cleanse your skin of dead cells.
The most effective remedy is massage with a dry brush. Read about it below.
Protect your skin from the sun and frost.
Use sunscreen on your face and lip balm. All year round, SPF is not lower than 20, in the sun - 50. Protect yourself from frost and wind with cryoprotective creams.

Traditional methods for solving the problem

At home, you can make a large number of masks that will tighten your chin, remove wrinkles and improve the tone of your facial muscles:

Based on glycerin and proteins . Take 10 ml of glycerin, a little flour and egg white. The mixture must be brought to the consistency of sour cream, and then applied to problem areas. You can treat not only the chin, but also the décolleté area. Keep the mask on for 12-15 minutes, and then rinse with a decoction of green tea and treat the area with ice cubes.
With the addition of honey. You should take an apple, peel it, remove the core and cut it into small pieces. Then put the mixture into a blender and add a little honey (2 tbsp.). It is necessary to obtain a homogeneous mass. It should be applied to the epithelium, left for 10-12 minutes, and then removed with chamomile decoction.
Based on alum. 1 tsp. A spoonful of alum powder needs to be mixed with a scrub that contains sea salt. Then add a little water to the mixture. The prepared cream must be applied to the neck and chin, left for 20 minutes, and then washed.

Read also: Homemade masks for wrinkles
Removing wrinkles from the chin using folk remedies is quite simple, the main thing is to follow the proportions of the recipes and carry out the procedures regularly.

Wrinkles on the chin

General tips and tricks

Lifestyle and habits also need adjustment.

We get rid of all habits that cause the orbicularis oris muscle to tense.
These include smoking, chewing gum, harmful grimaces (pursing lips, smacking, etc.).
We lead an active and healthy lifestyle.
We eat right and drink enough fluids.
Let the body recover: get enough sleep, take breaks from work, take all weekends and vacations off.
We avoid stress.
Beware of the sun, frost, dry air.
In addition to special protective cosmetics, there are also hats, umbrellas, humidifiers, etc. Use them.