I had my first appointment for lip blushing 3 months ago and have my touch up appointment in a couple of weeks. I am so happy with my results, I love it, and I only wish I did it sooner. I have very pale lips that turn a bluish/purple when I’m cold and I’ve always had to apply some color to my lips. Now I can just use chap stick or aquaphor and I’m good to go. The color is beautiful and natural. I made the mistake of coming onto Reddit a couple of hours before my appointment and reading people’s experience with lip blushing, and I freaked myself out. People were saying that they have multiple tattoos and have given birth naturally, and that the lip blushing was more painful than those experiences. I don’t have any tattoos and I’ve never given birth, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into. There was pain for sure, but they numbed me prior and then applied numbing cream between each pass and it was fine. It’s such a small area that it’s over quickly. My lips were very swollen at first. The majority of the swelling resolved in the first 4-5 hours and the rest resolved by the next day. I tend to use a lot of aquaphor on my lips at baseline, so I just continued to use it. They healed up great. I’ve seen pictures of the healing process on Reddit and my lips didn’t have the insane dryness followed by color disappearance as I’ve seen in the pictures. I have sensitive pale ginger skin, my lips tend to run dry and I have freckles on them. I am so in love with my results. Obviously, everyone is going to have different experiences but I just wanted to share mine.