And this is why The Lindy Charm School’s motto is “Thou Shalt Endeavor to Always Wear Red Lipstick!”
In the early 1900s, women’s suffragette leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman wore bright red lipstick to protest for the right to vote, and declared “lip rouge” an emblem of women’s emancipation.
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Here’s some more interesting facts as found on You Beauty.com & Wikipedia:
In the Roman Empire, both men and women wore lipstick as a display of wealth; only upper classes could afford lip paint made with (dangerous) mercury that came in fashionable shades of merlot and purple.
Men continued to wear lip color for centuries – including George Washington – but the look came to an abrupt end during the French Revolution when wearing lipstick was seen as a sign that you sympathized with the oppressive aristocracy.
A University of Manchester study found that a woman wearing red lipstick capture’s a man’s gaze over three times longer than one who is wearing no lipstick at all.
The “lipstick effect” revealed the state of the economy; when recessions hit, lipstick sales increase as more women boost their moods with a relatively affordable purchase.
In 1915, the Kansas state legislature introduced a bill that would have made it a crime for women under the age of 44 to wear lipstick, under the grounds that it “created a false impression” (of what was not explained!) — it did not pass.
Long-lasting lipstick was first invented in 1950 by biochemist Hazel Bishop, who discovered a formula made with lanolin and dye while furiously experimenting in her Central Park West apartment lab.
In Pennsylvania in the 1700s, a marriage could be annulled on the deceptive grounds that a man’s wife had used lipstick or other cosmetics during the couple’s courtship.
TIP: Undertones? Don’t know if your are a warm or cool undertone…
Have a look at the underside of your forearm and if you veins are mostly blue, you are cool or mostly green you are warm.
There are a million shades of Red.. I say wear what puts a pep in your step and what makes you feel good. The reason the LCS only sell the one shade is because I haven’t met a gal who doesn’t suits our 1940’s classic Russian Red! Keeping our Essential Makeup Kit simple…. BUT… Yes I do wear other shades of red myself from time to time and you are likely to find the following two colours in my bag (as well as our LCS Red), they are: Revlon Fire and Ice (My Favorite Cherry Red) and at the moment I am using Lime Crime Suede Velvet Testing it out and seeing what all the hype is about. So far so good although a bit drying and not as long lasting as I expected BUT killer colours. I am also partial to pinks on a bright summers day. Whatever your colour, where it with pride knowing that our foremothers used it also for morale and to fight for a cause and that cause was our rights and for that we are thankful to them…
(Image from Smashinbeauty.com)
