How Do I Stop Getting Lip Lines from Using a Straw?

This comes down to how you’re pursing, not whether you use a straw at all. Here’s the technique I walk patients through, and it takes most people about a week to make automatic.

Step 1: Notice your current grip. Take a sip the way you normally would, then check — are both lips clamped tightly around the straw, or is your upper lip resting lightly on top? Most people who’ve been drinking from straws for years default to a tight clamp without realizing it.

Step 2: Widen the contact point. A narrow straw forces a tight seal. Adding a silicone topper — or switching to a wider straw when the option exists — gives your lips a broader surface to rest against instead of pinch around.

Step 3: Rest, don’t clamp. With the wider surface, let your upper lip sit lightly on top rather than pursing both lips inward. This feels looser than what you’re used to — that’s the point. A tight seal isn’t necessary to drink normally.

Step 4: Repeat it consciously for a few days. This is a reflex you’ve built over years, so it won’t feel automatic on day one. Most people notice the tight-pursing habit fading within 5-7 days of consciously choosing the resting position each time they drink.

Step 5: Let the tool do the reminding. This is the part a product can actually help with — a topper that’s already wider than the straw makes the “rest, don’t clamp” position the natural default, so you’re not relying on willpower for every sip. It’s the exact behavior change WRINX was built around, one sip at a time.

The lines that are already static won’t reverse from a technique change alone, but if you’re catching this early, the habit matters more than anything you put on your lips afterward.