Lips.

A New Zealand-based woman accidentally superglued her lips together when she mistakenly applied the glue instead of her lip cream.

The Dunedin resident, 64, reached for what she thought was lip cream in the dark in the middle of the night, and was horrified to discover that it was in fact superglue.

According to the Otago Daily Times, the woman was only able to make grunting sounds on the phone when she called the emergency services to come and help her out of her predicament.

Senior Sergeant Steve Aitken told the publication: “[The] ambulance received a call, but due to the muffled speech, they were unsure whether it was a medical event or whether someone had been gagged.

“Basically, she could only grunt. She got up in the middle of the night, in the dark, and grabbed what she thought was the tube of medication”, Senior Sergeant Aitken went on to say.

As a result of the grunting sound, ambulance staff alerted police who then went directly to the woman’s home. She was admitted to hospital where she received treatment to unglue her lips, and has now been discharged.