How to sort my dry lips out? Lip balm doesn't work (pics)

[Pyjamasdontfit]

I use lip balm everyday without fail, I’ve tried burts bees, Nivea, Vaseline - among others. I put it on before bed and during the day yet I still have dry patches on my lips. My bottom lip is the worst and actually looks bitty when I apply lipstick. Plus lipstick clings to the dry bits and slides off the other parts of my lips within 30 minutes.
I’ve even tried lip balm under lipstick but still no joy.

What can I do? Is there a magic cream I can use? Fed up with trying to look nice and ending up like a patchy mess within 30 minutes!

Photos aren’t very good but hopefully gives you the idea.

I get this when I allergically react to lipstick which is alot more than I'd think. I use carmex continually for days and avoid drying lipsticks. I now go for moisturising lip gloss type lipsticks.

I’d see a gp as that looks like an allergic reaction to me.

Or, stop using all of your skin products including face wash & moisturizer. Get hydrocortisone ointment from the chemist & eucerin aquaphor. Tiny bit of hydrocortisone & slather on the aquaphor. Wash your face with water only, just use moisturizer in the morning. Add products back in one at a time to see which is causing this.

I would guess from experience that it’s one of your lip balms but could also be face wash or moisturizer, or toothpaste or mouthwash.

I find a teeny slick of hydrocortisone cream calms it down. I suffer with dry lips too. I slick baseline over the hc45. I would only do this once or twice max. I think i have a dermatitis type thing that flares up on my lips.

In light of the new info, it does sound more allergy based, start by chucking that lipstick. No need so see a GP, just work out what triggers it by process of elimination.

Use a Lush lip scrub (the popcorn one is nice) and any ordinary moisturiser (NOT vaseline or anything else made of paraffin), quite thickly till they're better, then get out of the habit of lip balm. Honestly, it creates its own problem. I use my normal face moisturiser on my lips every other day and they are lovely and soft.

I get this occasionally- I have found that Vaseline is the worst thing I could put on my lips. What I think helped me was using sudocreme! At night time obviously, not during the day..