Lipstick an Affordable Luxury
Powerful, Sexy and Glam
Lipstick is an affordable luxury, bold, sexy and sophisticated. Lipstick became accepted socially and morally in the 20th century. Lipstick makes a statement. At one time a tube of lipstick cost a dime. The perfect lipstick has color that lasts, goes on smoothly, feels good, doesn’t smear and moisturizes.
Guerlain produced the first commercially successful lipstick in1880. In perfect harmony with feminine curves, lips immediately regain their fullness and softness thanks to a formula enriched with plumping hyaluronic acid spheres.
The first metal container for lipstick was invented in1915. Lipstick ingredients change depending the on amounts of matte, creme and gloss combined. There are a number of lipstick shapes: angled on both sides, angled to one size, a rounded tip angled on one side and a rounded tip.
In the beginning lipsticks came in numerous shades of reds and pinks. Colors of browns, taupes, purples, burgundies, blues, yellows, blacks and silver colors have been added in recent years. In 1938 congress passed the federal food drug and cosmetic act to ensure safety of lipstick products.
Lipstick colors are incredibly sexy and enticing.
How many colors of lipstick should one have. Every woman is different. Some women prefer one color of lipstick because it is flattering with their skintone. Other women have different color lipsticks that coordinate with different color clothing/outfits they own.
Lip painting goes back to Egyptian times and has continued until today. The acceptability of lipstick has varied over time. It was popular with prostitutes at one time and other times only worn by the upper classes. Lipsticks are accepted today both socially and morally all over the world. Most females would never leave home each day without their lipsticks.
How women choose the color of the lipstick they wear can be by their mood, their skintone or what colors they are wearing. Some women have one or two lipsticks that they wear for years. Other women are constantly changing their lipstick colors or mixing two or three colors together. Originally lipsticks were all shades of red and pink but today they come in numerous colors. Like other fashion trends the current trend is there is no trend, anything goes.
An affordable luxury, bold, sexy and sophisticated.
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Is lipstick gloss in style?
New formulas combine butter and oil for sheerness and replenishes lips without stickiness. Lip gloss is lightweight, playful and transparent, easy to wear and feels good. Glosses are available in an extraordinary range of shades and finishes. Glosses can be used to tint cheeks also. Lip liner is optional with gloss.
Affordable Status Symbol from Hermès
An affordable status symbol! For those who cannot afford a Birkin or Kelly Bag Hermès has a line of lipstick. Rouge Hermès lipstick is available in a refillable metal (same as the metal used on handbags) case and comes in a variety of colors in two finishes, matte and satin.