Regain Even Colored Skin

Face Reading Shows the Cause and Solution of Facial Discoloration

Concerned about the white around her mouth, this 20-year-old from Illinois, I’ll call her Darcy, asked for a Face Reading. She wants to regain even colored skin plus she reports frequent nausea and stomach problems. By using traditional Chinese Facial Diagnosis, we can understand the cause of her concerns. This knowledge leads us to the solution.

According to this commonsense Asian folk art, the mouth area reveals digestive health. The top lip shows digestive status, while the bottom lip reveals assimilation. Even colored skin and good digestion are signs of health. Plus, they go together! You can’t have one without the other.

Healthy Lip Features

No matter your age, when your digestion is sound, a mirror will reflect back to you the following:

• Skin surrounding the mouth has normal color and texture
• Lip borders are precise (not blurred, chapped or irritated)
• Color of lips is uniform (not for all people of color)
• Lip size is uniform (not for all people of color)

Let us zoom in on Darcy for a closer look. We see that her lips lack the above features:

• Skin surrounding the mouth—There’s a swath of white circling her mouth. Above the white it is red. The white below her lips (but above the chin and at chin sides) is dark and slightly bluish. See Variable Skin Color Around the Mouth.  
• Lip borders—the edge that distinguishes lip from skin is blurred, as if the skin is irritated or chapped.
• Variable lip size—Bottom lip appears to be three times larger than the top. See Is a Large Lower Lip Better and Swollen Lips.
• Variable lip color—Top lip border and center of bottom lip border are pink. See Photos Show Acid Indigestion. Top lip interior and the mouth corners are dark, almost blue. See Dark Lip Corners.

Additionally, the inner portion of the bottom lip is expanded or pouches out, which typically points to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO). See Yeast Infection.  

Main Cause of Discoloration and Poor Digestion

For all of us, the primary culprit of digestive problems is hard-to-digest foods. We all know this truth from firsthand experience. Eat too much cake and your stomach tells you. Other triggers include poor-quality or greasy foods as well as eating when stressed. 

Additionally, some of our common staples, like gluten, dairy, nuts, and eggs are now problematic for an increasing number of people throughout the world. Since the advent of industrialized food, our collective digestive health has declined.

If Darcy starts eating better and avoids the foods that challenge her system, this alone could restore her health. That she is 20 is a plus, for the young have more resilience. However, some people, especially those with chronic health problems, may also require targeted digestive supplements.

Darcy’s Food Log

Now let’s examine Darcy’s recent 24-hour diet log.

Let’s give Darcy the benefit of the doubt and assume that the chicken and pasta dish are both freshly made at home from quality, easy-to-digest ingredients. A look-alike heat and serve or one from the deli is not as satisfying, energizing or digestible. If you doubt that, experiment. Favor freshly prepared foods for a week and then note how much better you feel, both physically and energetically.

So if Darcy’s entrees were quality, then only the protein bar stands out as potentially shoddy. That’s correct—protein substitutes are typically made of cheap, hard-to-digest ingredients. See, for example, Pea Flour—Looks Good on the Label but Doesn’t Digest.

“I Can’t Get no Satisfaction…” from Imbalanced Meals

In terms of nutritional balance, Darcy’s meals are not balanced. A solid meal contains protein, a good fat, a starch and vegetables. Such a meal will keep you satisfied until the next one. Let’s face it, her breakfast of coffee and a banana was a set-up for the chips and protein bar that followed.

Given Darcy’s nausea and what her lips tell us, her gastrointestinal system is challenged. The odds are fair that she has a food sensitivity/allergy to one her staples, the most common are wheat and dairy.

For a DIY face reading, study the blogs on this page. For help with a good diet, follow the guidelines on this Complexion blog. Good Luck