Dry lips woes

[BracesChick]

Ever since I got these brace on my lips have been so dry! I'm been using lip balm, and even vaseline, but within 10 minutes they are bone dry. Any tips?

[Tobilei]

This too shall pass! Mine are still more dry than they used to be, but not like when I first got them on. I just kept applying the lip balm and making sure I was drinking enough water and waited till it went away.

[Ciara]

It will pass. I had this problem for about a week. Drink lots of water and continue with the lip balm.

[Snowglobe32]

It has never "passed" for me...the entire time in braces, it has been off and on for me. I use either vaseline intensive lip therapy, burts bees lip balm and neosporin...the regular, anitbiotic medicine. I know neosporin makes a lip therapy, but the regular stuff works better.

[starfish88]

Just buy loads of lipbalms and store them in every bag/pocket you have and all round the house. When you open a cupboard and a lipbalm rolls out is ideal! Then you can use lip balm whenever you need it. I found a guava flavoured lip balm in my fiances toolbox yesterday! But seriously - this will get better with time.

[SparklyMouth]

vaseline is wonderful! I also avoided sparkly lip gloss (boooo!) because I think it's extra drying because of the glittery particles. I like the balm all over idea...

[Alisonpv]

I don't have braces yet, but Toms from Maine is some of the best lip balm I've ever used.