Where have my lips gone?

I have never been any good with applying lipstick so when I worked years ago I used a very subtle shade. Then stopped altogether.

Due to thyroid I lost the outside of my eyebrows. A month ago on impulse I approached Benefit in a local store. Best move ever and really helpful young women.
I asked about my lips and bought lip stain. It's easy to dab a little on and just gives a lift.
Their brow pencil works a treat now. I rarely use the brush enhancer. Why didnt I do all this long ago?? I like a natural look and am so pleased
Lip stain is fabulous

My lips are not thin but I have a multitude of fine lines on the top and a few scars from an accident I had falling under my horse on a gravel road when I was sixteen . So I have to paint on lipstick (max Factor usually) and cover with gloss. Otherwise an ordinary lipstick bleeds into these lines and I look like a vampire! Trying an ordinary lipstick and chancing it without looking in the mirror has caused shock results! !

I too am 67 and post-menopausal. As a girl, I had lovely full lips - my mother used to kiss me and call me 'luscious lips!', my lips have thinned considerably, but I outline with one colour of a lip-stain pen, then fill in with, another colour - and reds rather than anything pale. A touch of gloss makes them look fuller too.
I have also lost the long thick lashes I used to have - what I'm left with is far too short to apply mascara to - any advice there to emphasize eyes without it, or eyeliner, as I just finish up poking myself in the eye with that!

My lips are thinner than they used to be but still have some volume.
I use Eluzabeth Arden eight hour cream overnight, it's too thick and greasy for daywear, it keeps them moisturised.
I always wear lipstick, it stops them disappearing.
Current favourite is NYX lipstick in LaLa No 612 a beige rose colour. I do outline with a pencil L'Oreal Bois de Rose but keep the line just on the natural lip line.
Other than that there's nothing we can do unless you go for fillers, which I don't.
By the way, my dentist is offering this service now!

I've found that a Matt lipstick is good using a brush to apply it gives a fuller look. Try a warm colour but nothing darker than your natural lip tone. Also use a lot of lip balm at bedtime and apply this regularly to keep natural moisture in.

How’s about a free makeup makeover with a sympathetic makeup house Clarins, Lauder, No7 I did just that recently took 10 years off me, less is more. Funny attempting to get it right as I dodge between perching glasses up and down nose. I think one of the best things an older woman can do is be aware of clothing. A skirt doesn’t cost more than trousers and always looks well turned out. Am very aware of my three little granddaughters and how I would like, in part for them to remember me

I also lost a lot of plumpness from my lips after menopause . But have taken the plunge and had a little filler . I found a great girl through recommendation and all she has done is make them more like they used to be. Am very happy and will go again when it dissolves away. I also had my non existent eyebrows microbladed ( same girl) and very pleased to have them back. None of this looks crazy obvious . Just a little more like ‘me’ . A little self indulgence goes a long way .

@Framilode

My eyebrows fell out some time before I turned 60 so for my 60th birthday I got them tattooed back in. I didn't want to end up looking like Groucho Marx the way young women do nowadays so I took some trouble and found an eyebrow specialist who basically does nothing else. She very lightly tattooed very fine lines back in and I looked suddenly ten years younger. Went back a few weeks later for retouch and expect to have to do it again in a year or so. Google Microblading.
My family were all amazed because only after the treatment did they realise how much older I'd looked with no eyebrows.
(The first week or two I did look like Groucho Marx but that' was only because of the scabs)

Hi, what a joy you lot are! Loved reading the posts.
Post menopausal too and hypothyroid for 20+ years. Still got eyebrows which will occasionally sprout extremely long white hair or two! Where did they come from? I know where they go. A x5 mirror helps.
Facial exercises helps definition. Do them whilst driving and enjoy the looks from other drivers and passers by. Our face, is full of muscle. I’m quite defined underneath this fat, but that’s another issue??

My lips have gone very thin. I am almost 70. If I am going somewhere Inwant to look as best as possible, I use a lip brush and lipstick. Keep,it minimal. Somehow using the brush helps to look natural

There was an 'older' lady at work who (unfortunately) had thin lips, sunken eyes, no brows and a skull-like face.

Age and/or heredity had been very unkind to her.

She wore orange lipstick, pencilled semi-circular brow lines and 'finished' her look with bright blue eyeshadow. Result? The 'scary clown'!

Something in a book I read, "....as thin as an old woman's lips.." Mine too, very depressing. Author could have thought of something else if he'd (would have been a he) tried.

Noanana - ^ I’m quite defined underneath this fat^
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Never had lips to speak of.... so haven’t noticed them getting thinner.... come to think of it I’ve never had much of a bum.....which now my friends envy me for...as they spread out of control in the rear!! My daughter bemoans her lack of bum now ( and blames my genes) but lives her plump lips ( dads genes)...told her...life ain’t perfect.

Whatever you do, don't go without your lipstick. I see people on tv with masses of eye make and no lipstick and it's very ageing. Always wear lipstick and try to do as you have been advised by the lovely people on gransnet. Better to have some lips than nothing at all which it appears to be when you don't wear lipstick at all.
I don't come downstairs without lipstick and eyebrow pencil so I look a little bit reasonable, even if just to myself.

I was blessed with, what my mother used to call my 'luscious lips'. At school others were cruel calling me 'rubber lips' and Mick Jagger and I agonised, as young children do, when subjected to relentless teasing.

However, at the grand old age of 67, who's laughing now! No sign of these lips diminishing I'm pleased to say.

I’d like to know where my DH’s bottom has gone! Use to be so rounded and cute! As for my post-menopausal face, enough said..

I have the thin-lip problem too. My mouth isn't even symmetrical now, and lipstick just tends to accentuate this. Anyway, lipstick never stays in place for long, it comes off whenever I eat or drink (which is quite often) and I can't be bothered with it. I hate seeing women in a pub or restaurant reapplying their lipstick in public, in between courses.

My eyebrows (once enviably neat and shapely) are very sparse, but I draw them back on again every morning. I use Avon's Glimmerstick, a push-up pencil that is cheap, easy to apply and can be found on eBay.

As a beauty therapist & dental nurse was married to a dentist.
Recession of gums , makes you long in the tooth.
Collagen & elastin reduces in your face & lips, as we age.
Only one solution pump back in . So no miracle except fillers.
Implants in the mouth to fill the cheeks again.
My eyebrows are fab since I had microblading.

Absolutely no lips whatsoever. They have completely disappeared. Don’t ask me where they have gone either as I’m not quite sure.

They used to be there years ago.

Lips just about OK but eyebrows disappearing.

Is eyebrow tatooing painful. And is it very costly, and how long does it last for .
Questions , questions, questions

I'm loving the comedy on here. lol
My lips aren't too bad. It's the jowls appearing that bothers me, and getting told to cheer up. I must look right miserable when I'm not.
I can't afford a face lift.

Don’t be frightened to have a little filler, and I mean a little, what a difference! My friend has v thin lips and likes a natural look and her filler (not permanent) is perfect. I’ve had it too and love it (I follow her..)
rowanflower0 I have hardly any eyelashes to speak of but use a white primer, L’Oriel, it’s fantastic, also a mascara with fibres then a good mascara, voila, it’s magic.

My lips disappeared years ago, but I still like to wear a bright red lipstick on what is left of them. I wouldn't feel I was me without that splash of colour.