If Mumsnet cannot solve this then no one can. I CAN'T DRINK RED WINE IN PUBLIC <wail>

[MaMight]

Drinking red wine give me the most absurd black lips. Like I've been sucking ink cartridges. It is really really bad and it means I can only drink red wine while hiding in the airing cupboard.

On the odd occasion I have relaxed enough amongst good friends to drink red wine (translation: I'd had a couple of glasses of white and then there has only been red available) all my friends have agreed that no, I really shouldn't drink red in company. And then laughed at me and my stupid black lips.

HELP ME MUMSNET.

ha ha red wine black lips are hilarious. Soo many people get them and it always makes me Some bloke on Come Dine with me had them last night. How about wearing really dark lipstick before you start?

I have banned myself from red wine also.

After two or so glasses I am laughing and generally being scintillating - then I go to the loo and look in the mirror and realise that I have black lips and my teeth are green.

I drink rose wine in public now. I might look like a bimbo twat drinking cherry lambrini but still.

offers a straw

Red wine makes my face go a bright, pulsating pink. It feels like someone has burnt my cheeks. I stick to vodka.

I get black lips too from drinking red wine, tbh it would not occur to me to stop drinking it though at lack of style when faced with alcohol!
Best to stick to champagne I find (I wish!)

you just need one of those little pots of vaseline and keep applying it to your lips - at least it works for me (til I have had three glasses and then forget to apply it!)

I tend to drink it at home for this very reason. If I have a glass with a steak in a restaurant I immediately go to the bathroom and rub my lips with tissue/loo roll.

Does the vaseline work? As I love red wine but also suffer from this, tis extremely embarrassing when you eventually notice!

Your lips tend to go black if you they're dry. Make sure you put a lot of lip balm and then lick your lips often.

I love red wine but have the same problem. Vaseline is helpful, Elizabeth Arden 8hr cream in a thickish layer (looks like overdoing lipgloss which is better than black wine lips), lipstick does nothing. A layer of toothpaste for 5 mins helps next day.

I think you have to drink enough red wine not to get bladdered, and then you wont care.

HTH

Vaseline/lip balm doesn;t work for me - it is the inside of lips as well which go black.

And what do you do about it sending your teeth a greeny grey colour? I suppose you could brush your teeth every 5 minutes but then you would have vile toothpaste/red wine taste combo which would not be very nice.

Yes CatBastard is right!

'not to get bladdered'?? Obviously I have had way too much in the past and now my addled brain is stopping me type properly..

I meant 'enough red wine to get bladdered'

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S'allright I understood ya.

I wonder if it is because I hold the wine in my mouth for a couple of seconds before swallowing? Do you other black-lippers notice yourselves doing this? Maybe it gives it a chance to stain instead of guzzling it straight down.

You could Vaseline the inside of your mouth too? Like swimmers do with their whole body. Get all ly ed up for a glass of Rioja.

All lubed up that was.

Cheers GetOrf

drink it with a straw?

It's even worse when you take a look at yourself in the morning and find all the black gunk stuck to your lips that you didn't scrub off the night before

A hot shower and a scrub with the towel gets it off in the morning.

But HOW do I not get it in the first place? Why do I get it so much worse than everyone else at the party? People comment when I drink red wine.

What about my 'holding it in my mouth' theory?

How do you non-black-lippers do it?

i think you have to go a litle more upmarket. The dye that is making your lips red is put in the wine as the wine is to full of chemicals to give it a natural colour

Interesting. I would be willing to test that theory.