Lip size and shape are facial features, which directly impact attractiveness levels. Many believe a person’s lips and smile to be an indicator of beauty. Full lips, especially in Western cultures, are considered attractive. Some suggest that the trend towards fuller lips developed because lips become less full with age. As one ages, gravitational effects and atrophy of tissue and muscles on and surrounding the lips often lead to lips which appear deflated and disproportionate. Fuller lips, however, are often associated with a healthy lifestyle, youth, and beauty.
Patented lip shaper includes contouring elements that change the shape of a user’s lip(s). Various types of lip shapers are included in the lip shaper assembly, depending on the shaping and contouring desired by a user. One type of lower lip shaper is configured to form a fuller, unitary lower lip lobe, while another type of lip shaper is configured to form two fuller, lower lip lobes, using a creaser element coupled to the lower lip shaper. Also a central platform is coupled to either a lip shaper such that the upper and lower lips are at least partially separated during use of the lip enhamayncement and enlargement device.
Patent Information
Patent Number: 9,119,758
Patent Title: Lip enhancement and enlargement device
Inventors: Ho; Thienna (San Francisco, CA)
Family ID: 1000001309157
Appl. No.: 13/586,758
Filed: August 15, 2012
Abstract: A lip enhancement and enlargement device includes a suction element and a lip shaper coupled to the suction element. Each type of lip shaper includes one or more features that allow the device to shape and contour lips. A lip shaper may include one or more contouring elements that change the shape of an upper lip, for example. A lip shaper may also include shaping and contouring elements that form a fuller, unitary lip lobe or two fuller, lip lobes. Lip enhancement and enlargement kits and methods are also disclosed.
Claim 1: A lip enhancement and enlargement method, comprising: applying a lip enhancement and enlargement device having a lip shaper assembly coupled to a suction element to a face; creating a seal between the lip shaper assembly and the face around a surrounding lip area, wherein the lip shaper assembly is configured to enable selective blocking of suction to any selected one of an upper lip or a lower lip; applying suction to a selected one of the upper lip, lower lip, or both lips using the suction element and maintaining the vacuum for a period of time; breaking the seal from the surrounding lip area after the period of time is elapsed; and removing the lip enhancement and enlargement device from the surrounding lip area.