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10 weird facts about Lipsticks

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Whether you only wear it for special occasions, or you apply it religiously, lipstick has been around since ancient times and shows no sign of becoming any less popular than it is today!

1. Wearing Lipstick During The French Revolution Could Get You Killed During the revolution wearing lipstick of any kind was taken as a sign that you sympathized with the aristocracy and could get you sent to the guillotine. This ended the era of men wearing lipstick.

2. Lipstick Will Make You Sane In 1928, a beauty parlor with a full line of lipsticks was installed in a New Jersey sanitorium. It’s still used a theraputic technique in many instutions across the world.

3. Lipstick Will Make You A Star During her heydey Elizabeth Taylor was so known for her siren red lipstick that, on certain movie sets, no one else was allowed to wear the color.

4. Pigs Aren’t The Only Farm Animal You Can Put Lipstick On Elizabeth Arden’s obituary read “she treated women like horses and horses like women.” That may have stemmed in part from the fact that she was said to have painted her signature pink lipstick onto all her horses’ mouths.

5. Lipstick Creates A False Impression In Kansas in 1915 wearing lipstick could get you arrested for “creating a false impression.” Like a super-awesome ineffective disguise!

6. Lipstick Is About To Get Medieval On You The first recorded use of the word lip stick (Lippa Sticka) is from approximately 1000 AD. Because I guess, as Holly Golightly says, there really are some things that a girl just can’t face without her lipstick. Like the dark ages.

 7. Lipstick Will Make You Look Like A Corpse Cosmetics giant Max Factor began life as a servant to Czar Nicholas. Max wasn’t that into that. He needed to find a way to escape from the Royal household, so he used tubes of lipstick to make himself look sickly. He was taken to the infirmary, from which he escaped, and made his way to America.

8. Some Lipstick Is Fit for A Queen Queen Elizabeth II has her own special lipstick which was made to match her coronation robes. It’s called The Balmoral Lipstick.

9. Lipstick Is For Witches In the 1700s, it was believed that women wore lipstick to bewitch men and trick them into marriage.

10. Lipstick Is Also For Dudes George Washington? Yeah, he wore it.

by Jennifer Wright

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Did you know?

  • The first popular use of lipstick came from Cleopatra, who had her lipstick made from crushed beetles that gave it the red color and ants, which made the base.
  • A beauty parlor with a full line of lipstick was installed in a New Jersey sanitorium in 1928. Putting on lipstick is used as a theraputic technique even today!
  • The first recorded use of the word lipstick (lippa sticka) is from approximately 1000 A.D.
  • In the 1700s, it was believed women wore lipstick to trick men into marriage by bewitching them.

Source: http://www.wkrq.com/story/2012/08/07/lipstick-trivia