Often, those afflicted with the grossly unattractive Angular Cheilitis symptoms which tend to look like extremely infected paper cuts in the mouth corners, right at the angles of the lips try to use makeup or blemish cover to hide their embarrassing mouth corner sores.

The problem with this attempt is that the creams or covers usually aggravate an already irritated condition, and the mouth corner splits grow worse and spread to the point of causing the whole lip and mouth area to redden and swell.

This is because the makeup or cover is irritating to the mouth corner splits, and the sufferer unconsciously licks the inflamed areas providing a constant supply of moisture to the Angular Cheilitis causing Candida fungus to go wild.