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Face Reading with Before & After Photos
Enhance Your Lip Appearance — with Before and After Photos
How Face Reading Helps Health and Moods
Three of my Face Reading clients quickly improved the cosmetic appearance of their lips and mouth region. Terri, Joan and Esther muscled up and shifted from coffee to tea. They gained more than looks, they’re also enjoying greater energy and positive mood shifts. Plus their cravings are reduced.
Was it the coffee or the diary that was most problematic? Or, in Esther’s case, the coffee or the artificial ingredients? We can’t yet know for certain. But here’s what is relevant to you. Compare your mouth region to theirs. Then, perhaps, you may wish to reassess your diet and morning cup, be it black or white, sweetened or not.
Healthy Lips
Of relevance, the mouth region reflects the condition of the gastrointestinal (GI) system according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Lips with the following features reflect a well-functioning gut:
- Uniform in size and color
- Smooth and not overly dry or wet
- Precise borders
- Surrounding skin is toned and with normal color and texture
Given how the modern diet negatively impacts our digestion, the mouth region of many contemporary people typically lacks these classical health indicators. For a sense of the historical norm, review photos and art prior to the advent of the modern diet. Also see these blogs with client photos:
White Line Around Lips
Acid Indigestion
Dark Mouth Corners
Swollen Lips
Is a Larger Lower Lip Better?
Orange-Red Color Near the Lips
White Around Your Mouth
Terri—Fatigued and Lonely
Terri, a 46-year-old schoolteacher from the UK, suffered from fatigue, constipation, depression, anxiety and from feeling “really lonely and alone in the world.” Her breakfast consisted only of coffee “with plenty of milk” and then she drank another seven cups throughout the day. In her 16-page Face Reading Report, I correlated her facial indicators to her health concerns and offered her targeted diet and lifestyle suggestions.
Terri made two shifts. “I have omitted coffee (that was hard) and an occasional glass of wine (that was tricky), but I’m fine now. I’m used to it and I’m not craving either. Plus my sugar cravings have decreased. Thirty-days later sent her second photo and you can see the following positive shifts:
- The dark line at her mouth corners is nearly gone.
- Better toned bottom lip border. The puffy ledge is now reduced by 90 percent (some puffiness remains in the very center).
- Nice tone above and on both sides of her chin.
By stopping her coffee and milk habit, Terri reported feeling better both emotionally and physically. She said, “I am determined to stay off coffee.” Having achieved this victory, she’s ready to move forward with additional dietary upgrades. Go Terri!
Joan’s Ritual Morning Mocha
Joan, a 70-year old Californian, sought help to resolve her fatigue, low immunity, digestive issues and excess weight. In her before photo we see swelling below her bottom lip. The fuzzy border of her top lip is bright red, suggesting inflammation of her upper GI tract, which often translates as GERD or acid reflux.
One month after receiving her Face Reading Report she sent a new photo, diet log and her updated symptoms. Joan owned “I know I need to stay away from sugar and eat more vegetables, but I have to do this at my own pace. So I started by giving up my morning mocha.” One month later, here’s what we see. Incidentally, in both photos, she is lipstick-free.
In our video call, Joan was just back from nine holes of golf and grateful for her increased energy. She’s lost weight, is less bloated and ready to move forward with her next dietary upgrade. For starts, she’s asking support from her walking buddy to switch their routine destination from the patisserie to the shop next door . . . a juice bar.
Esther Resolved Extreme Lip Pain
At 297 pounds, 72-year-old Esther, from New Mexico, has a history of food issues. At intake, she wrote, “I’m feeling extremely fatigued nowadays, I mean, to the point of feeling completely exhausted, without any more energy. I’ve intense cravings for sweets. I feel like my lips are taking life from me. I know that sounds strange. My lips burn, are chapped, dry and red. The corners are cracked and the pain is extreme.”
In her Face Reading report I suggested that she pass on her instant coffee mix, increase meat and good fats and minimize ingredients that challenged her digestion.
In an email a few weeks later, Esther was discouraged by her noncompliance and pain and so purchased some new nail polish to cheer herself up. (I can relate—it’s easy to distract oneself from important tasks.) I asked for the ingredient list of her packaged coffee mix. It contained a dozen ingredients, and coffee was the second to last!
I explained that starting out the day with a chemical concoction of non-foods set her up for cravings throughout the day. She resolved to substitute chai for the coffee mix and to make some diet shifts.
From Extremely Painful to Relatively Pain Free
One month after making diet adjustments, Esther sent her follow-up photo and update. She is now drinking chai and eating more nutritionally balanced meals. Plus she discovered that she is allergic to peanuts, which had been a daily staple. Her ankles are less swollen, she is losing weight, her blood sugar and sleep are better and she has “no more incessant, intense, horrible carb cravings. My lips are relatively pain free, but they are chapped and not yet healed.”
In her After photo, we see that her lips and surrounding skin are less red and inflamed. Another dramatic shift is that her mouth corners now have normal color. As her GI tract is calming down, Esther’s lips are mending.
After giving up her coffee mix and peanuts for 60-days, what will Esther report? I’m yet to hear back, but collectively we send her, and everyone who struggles with health issues, our best wishes for well-being and happiness.
Now it’s Your Turn
If you have lip irregularities, consider them an invitation from your GI system to make dietary shifts. Note what you want to eat. Then recall how you want to feel.
I’m going to repeat that. There’s what we would like to eat. And there’s our hard-earned inner knowing that some foods will make us feel and look terrible. Honor this wisdom; and experiment with your diet. Let yourself be inspired by these women’s examples of making diet changes in doable steps.
If you want help with the process, here’s how I’d journey with you. Purchase a comprehensive Face Reading Report. I’ll assess your photos, intake, diet log and emotional and physical symptoms. You’ll receive your Report, make adjustments and in a month resend new photos, food log and symptoms. Then you’ll know to coffee or not.
Note: Thanks to Terri, Joan and Esther (not their real names) for kindly granting permission to use their photos and information. As the photos are self-taken, their coloring and quality is variable.
May you enjoy tasty meals that enable you to thrive. It’s doable!
Today it seems that people, world-wide, have white color, or patches of white, around the mouth and especially at the corners where the lips meet. The patches appear about a centimeter away from the corners. What could be the reason?
I agree, I see this on the street here in Oregon and in my clients as well as in countless photos of contemporary people. Judging from art and photos prior to the 1950s, it is unprecedented. I attribute it largely to the modern diet. As people regain gut health, they regain normal facial color.