Quote - MikeJ: I suggested to make the lips a separate island. It didn't go over well. :laugh:

Well personally I think it's better to have them separate.
I guess anyone who doesn't like that idea can make their case here. ;-)

But if the lips are part of the face island, they will take up a very teeny part of the UV region, meaning you then have to use a very large texture to compensate, to get any detail into them.
That's not a big deal with computers these days with a whole lot of RAM and high powered processors, but still, efficiency is a good thing nevertheless.

I don't see why anyone should have a problem with that. It's not particularly difficult to select the lips in photoshop from a good source image and paste them over the UVs.
A little translate, a little scale, a little clone, and some liquify, and Bob's yer uncle. ;-)