Shereene IdrissBoard Certified Derm, Founder and Chief Nerd

Derm Tips for Shrinking Lips & Loss of Volume #shorts

27 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Dermatologist Shereene Idriss explains why lips thin and lose color with age: collagen drops in your mid-30s, then fat, hydration, and bone density fade in your 40s. She covers dermal fillers, platelet-rich fibrin from your own blood, and lip stains that restore what time takes away.

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Someone told me today that your lips shrink as you get older. Which lips? Get your minds out of the gutter. Filler done right can make a huge difference, but if you do not want to go down the filler route, we start to lose collagen and we start to notice by our mid-30s that the mid-upper part starts to get a little thinner. Then as we enter into our 40s, we're losing both fat and hydration and our lips start to shrivel all across, compounded with the fact that we're losing bone density and this is getting longer. And so look what happens— our color of our lips, we tend to— we start losing blood flow and we lose the pinkness in our lips, hence why lip stains, lip lipsticks all make a huge difference as you get older. If you do not want to go down the filler route and you want to do something more innate, PRF from your own blood, which is what I have done, helps to strengthen and stimulate your volume.