I have played a lot with fire(eating), I think your worries about your eyes and lips are unneccesary.
Your lips and mouth are among the most heat resistance of all of your body (and the most quickly recovering), try extinguishing a match with the middle of your tongue. A falling match which carries very little heat energy could almost impossibly hurt you.
Your eyes are less fireproof, but your reflexes strong enough to close and backoff should you need to. I've once burned all my eyelashes away on one side, (a flame quite a bit larger than that of a match) but my eye or facial skin did not hurt at all.
by Daniel Simu, in response to this post 2016-01-19 13:41:01