The Real Reason My Lips Kept Cracking (It Was My Hands) + My Decorté Lip Serum Routine

 Now that mornings and evenings are getting chilly, are your lips going crazy too? Mine always crack, but only the lower lip. And that's even though I have more lip products at home than I could ever use.

But it turned out the real culprit was something else. My hands. 😂 Whenever my lips got flaky, I'd catch myself picking at them without even noticing.

And I have one more confession. I'd buy good lip products and then barely use them, because I hate the feeling of something sitting on my lips. Hahaha. This time, I made up my mind to use them properly.

So today, I'm sharing how I got my lips back on track with two Decorté lip serums, and one habit I had to break.

Decorté Liposome Advanced Repair Lip Serum and Plumping Lip Serum

How I got them: a set at a department store beauty event

I bought them as a set, the "Liposome Advanced Repair Lip Serum Set," during a beauty week event on a Korean department store's online mall.

I got more than ₩30,000 off, and the set came with one for night and one for day, a perfect pair. Korean department stores often put together sets like this during their beauty events, so if you're curious about Decorté's lip products and you're shopping in Korea, keep an eye out for those.

Why my lower lip keeps cracking

For some reason, it's almost always my lower lip that gets flaky. So I started paying attention to what I was doing whenever it happened.

That's when I noticed it: I kept picking at the flakes without realizing it. Picking exposes the skin that hasn't healed yet, it dries out again, I pick again… Once I was stuck in that cycle, it didn't matter how good the product was.

I'd been busy looking for the right lip product, while overlooking the one thing I could actually change: leaving my lips alone.

Night: Liposome Advanced Repair Lip Serum

Decorté Liposome Advanced Repair Lip Serum jar

This is a lip serum from Liposome, Decorté's signature serum line. It comes in a small round 7g jar and is made in Japan.

Decorté describes it as using its liposome technology, and the formula contains moisturizing ingredients such as hyaluronic acid, ceramides, shea butter and jojoba oil. What I like most is how comfortable it feels when I put on a generous layer before bed.

For someone like me who hates the feeling of something on her lips, putting on a generous layer before bed was perfect. While I'm asleep, I don't care what's on my lips.

Day: Plumping Lip Serum 01 Blue Lily

Decorté Plumping Lip Serum 01 Blue Lily

During the day, I use the brand's Plumping Lip Serum. It's an oil-based lip serum with a soft tint and shine, so it moisturizes and makes my lips look fuller and fresher.

I put it on before I start my makeup. It has time to sink in while I do my base, and when my base is done, I do my lip makeup last. That way, my lip color goes on much more smoothly instead of clinging to flakes.

It's called "plumping," but I didn't feel any tingling or stinging at all. According to Decorté, 01 Blue Lily is the mildest of its three plumping levels, with a warming ingredient. So your experience may differ. Or maybe my lips are just numb… 😂

The routine I changed

• Night: a generous layer of the Repair Lip Serum before bed
• Morning: Plumping Lip Serum before makeup → base makeup → lip makeup last
• During the day: when I see flakes, reach for the lip serum instead of my fingers
• After meals or drinks: reapply if my lips feel dry
• No picking! This was the most important one.

So, the result?

The next morning, my lips looked calmer, and the flakes were much less noticeable.

Of course, I can't give the products all the credit. I was also making a real effort to stop picking, and that probably made a difference too.

Let's not forget: lips are part of your face too. I used to skip my lips when I put on lotion or anything else, because I eat with them and didn't want to swallow skincare. Now I just put it on my lips too, no hesitation. Lips, you're part of my face too~ 😂

In the end, finding a lip product I actually enjoy using matters, but so does breaking the little habits that keep irritating my lips. Repair serum at night, lip serum during the day, and most importantly, fingers off. That's how I'm protecting my lips this fall. 💋

How do you take care of your lips? Fellow lip-pickers, raise your hands! ✋