My husbands mustache is very prickly and sharp, he keeps it well trimmed but everytime he kisses me my lips get poked terrible, they are swollen and chapped and very very sore..ive tried everything...we are newlyweds and kiss alot..is he maybe trimming it wrong? my lips are a mess and hurt. anyone have any ideas how i can heal them?
No kissing till you heal! Also once his mustache grows out longer it will be soft. If he likes it at a shorter length and is always trimming it then it is always going to poke you. I would rethink the mustache.
You know how the hair on your legs is really prickly when it first grows in, but if you let it grow, it softens? Tell him to
1) stop kissing you for now
2) stop trimming so much so that there's always a sharp, fresh cut
3) stop insisting on having a mustache if he won't do 1 and 2.
Seriously, this would drive me nuts.
Your lips are never going to get better as long as you keep letting him kiss you. If he cared one wit about you, he'd either grow it longer until it didn't hurt you, or he'd shave the darn thing off.
He doesn't get to have his cake and eat it too. Stop letting him kiss you until he's no longer making mince meat out of your face.
Google "facial hair conditioning oil". He should use that. Especially before the situation starts to effect "areas other than your mouth".
My husband occasionally grows out his facial hair. There is a day or so when it is at a length that it is very pokey. After a couple of days it is longer, and does not poke me. He has to keep it trimmed at a certain length, so maybe you two can figure out what length his needs to be to keep from hurting you.
I would think it would be the same when lips are irritated, chapped and sore - balm would be what I would reach for.
Sounds like cut too short.
head on over to the baby department, mixed in wiht the bottles , pacifiers and breast pump items it a little tube of lansinoh lanolin. buy one. apply it as chapstick every night at bedtime (or more often if you like) and it will help protect while the lips heal. and as other poster said he should grow it out a bit to lessen the prickliness.
He needs to let it grow out a bit more so his facial hair isn't as scratchy.
Your lips will toughen up a bit after awhile.
In the mean time - try some vaseline or Bag Balm on your lips - it's very soothing.
My husband had a mustache for years but got rid of it after it started going white.
I miss it sometimes.
