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CELEBRATE National Lipstick Day with seven facts from the history of lipstick.
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Since (nearly) the dawn of time, lipstick has been used to make a statement.
It can make the wearer feel bold, beautiful and brighten their day.
It comes in every conceivable shade of colour and the names are unique as they are imaginative.
The humble lipstick can complete a look or even BE the look.
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History of lipstick
There’s no exact date for the invention of lipstick. However, evidence suggests that it has been around for thousands of years.
It has been dated back as far as 2500 BC to Mesopotamia.
Documentation suggests that a Mesopotamian queen was wearing lip colour made from ground stones.
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Another queen who valued her lippy was Cleopatra.
It is believed that she wore a red colour made from carmine dye, with an estimated 70,000 ground beetles needed to make one pound of the dye.
Due to this, the dye was very expensive and so the lip colour was a sign of great affluence and power.
Cleopatra’s subjects, both women and men, who could not afford carmine dye would use ground rocks.
However, this gave more of a rusty colour, preserving the bright red shade for the elite.
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The history of lipstick isn’t done with lining the lips of female royalty.
Queen Elizabeth I wore red lip colouring, supposedly to ward off evil spirits.
When the queen died, there was apparently up to half an inch of lip colour still on her face.
However, the colour she wore was made from lead, potentially meaning that Elizabeth I gave herself lead poisoning by wearing it every day.
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While this might be the history of the lipstick, the cosmetic product didn’t get its distinctive shape until 1884.
This was when Guerlain produced the Ne M’Oubliez Pas, the first recorded tube of lipstick.
Previously, lip colouring came in a glass tub. The swivel technology was added in 1922 by inventor James Bruce Mason Jr.
Lip makeup products have kept evolving. That includes this liquid lipstick that left this Fabulous beauty writer very impressed.
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The words “Suffragettes” and “makeup” may not seem like they belong in the same sentence.
However, the feminist group took up red lipstick as a symbol of female power.
They wore the bold lip colour every day as visual symbol of their movement and strength.
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That includes a bold red option called “Power”.
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According to a 2010 study by the University of Manchester, a woman’s lips are the most attractive part of the body.
The study involved tracking the eye movement of 50 men as they viewed images of women.
The men also stared longer at lips with red lipstick than those with none.
This increased the average looking time from 2.2 seconds to 7.3 seconds.
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After graduating from Southampton University with a degree in English Literature, Katrina Vasey worked as a Content Editor for Law Business Research’s publication the International Law Office. Katrina joined The Sun in 2022 as the Bingo Editor, covering the four gaming platforms: Sun Bingo, Fabulous Bingo, Sun Vegas and Fabulous Vegas.