I have been dealing with this problem for like 5th year now. Everyday my lips get dry at the night (even though I drink a lot of water) and after I try to remove the dead skin they get inflammed and painful and I look like Lana Del Rey. Lately also the area above the lips and below the nose started getting dry and I am hopeless. I literally tried every unguent possible but each of them helps only for a few days and then they just irritate it even more and not help. I visited the skin doctor but that bitch just pulled " face" and told me to stop eating oranges and start eating apples

It eats my confidence cos I look like ****, it hurts, it's itchy, the eating hurts, kissing is uncomfortable and I won't even get further

So, what do u use, what helped you etc? Thanks for recommendations.

But did you start eating apples though?

Anyway, I used to brush my lips, very softly to get those dead skins of.

Apples mess it up actually

EOS is pretty good but I've found that I have to apply a lot to keep them hydrated. It's a cute little egg.

The best I hear is Nivea's lip balm. There's even a men's version that doesn't leave shine.

It happened to me once I just applied a ridiculous amount of Vaseline before I went to sleep and I was back to soft lips in the morning

is that a normal problem!?

Dude, get that checked asap

EDIT: just saw the part where you said you went to the doctors. welp.

as someone else, use nivea lip balm***

I have dealt with this for years. They are so horrible and it hurts your self confidence. I get it when fruit juices irritate the skin around my lips and it becomes flaky. It also happens when I get the cold. I've always had eczema so it could be related to that but I do know what your talking about.

The skin doctor should have prescribed some sort of emollient cream or even a steroid cream. Go talk to another doctor about it and see if they can give you any creams to deal with it. Normal moisturisers and drinking water didn't help me personally but the creams did.

Well that old frog prescribed me some cream, yes and it really helped for a few days but it I want to GET RID OF this disorder like forever. It's re-curring

Also she prescibed me some other tube but that one hurt more than helped so I didn't use it.

Unfortunately I don't think you can get rid of it. At least that's what my doctor said to me What you can try doing though is applying the cream before you eat anything like that. It will coat the skin so the juices don't irritate the skin.

U wanna tell me my lips will look like **** forever?

Well I am tempted to order that Carmex **** from internet.

Vaseline/petroleum jelly. Lip balm doesn't do ****.

Only when they get irritated. Just keep using those creams until the skin looks fine again and then just make sure that you always moisturise the area.

Just make it part of your morning and evening routine!

Today I bought Vitamin E in cream and also started using glucocorticoid steroid called Diprosone It's working so far

Are you using acne medication that's drying out your skin? I remember I heard acutane really dries out your skin and causes depression as well.

No I don't have acne (thank god)

I use something called Rosebud Salve. You can get it from Sephora, it's good.