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Chances are if you are reading Skin Fitness Facts, then you suffer from one form of troubled skin or another — just like me. Well, what can you do other than educate yourself and follow a skin care regiment that gives you the healthiest skin possible, right?

Read all about my suggestions on treating troubled skin over at Chic Critique, which by the way, is an awesome site devoted to all things chic.

Dry skin is part genetics, part hydration levels, and definitely a result of the weather-particularly winter weather.

If the chill has got your skin looking ashy and feeling scaly, consider these skin facts.

• There may be more moisture in your skin than in the air, which is why moisture is evaporating from your skin. Try a humidifier and lowering your thermostat to even out moisture levels in the air at home.
• Baths, long showers, and hot showers pull all the oil from your skin. Try short, cool showers instead.
• Your skin can only absorb so much product at one time. Apply a bit of moisturizer throughout the day. I’ve gotten the best results from shea butter.

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Women with melasma often struggle with dark pigmentation that forms on the upper lip. No matter how much bleaching cream or sunblock that is applied, the tricky hyper-pigmentation will persist and that is enough to make anyone wish they actually could grow a real stache to hide the funky skin.

No one knows the exact cause or fix for melasma. It is a combination of sun damage, hormones, and inflammation of the cells. Melasma treatments run the gammut of creams, chemical peels, and nutritional supplements. All of these items will help a little, but unfortunately there is no magical cure.

For those that suffer from melasma and have dark skin on their upper lip, here are a few skin fitness tips:

1. Evaluate your birth control with your doctor. Often times estrogen is to blame for melasma.

2. Bleaching and waxing the hair on your upper lip may irritate the melasma. Talk to an esthetician to see how to best remove the hair.

3. Be extra diligent about sunblock around your mouth.

4. Find a sun block with vitamin C and apply it to your skin liberally and every day. The sun is now your enemy so be sure to protect your skin at all times.  Murad Energizing Pomegranate Moisturizer with SPF 15 is a great moisturizer/ sun block combo for melasma sufferers, and if you order it from SkinStore.com you’ll get free shipping and free samples.