{"id":43538,"date":"2016-03-30T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/?p=43538"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:19:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T08:19:27","slug":"the-power-of-red-lipstick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/makeup\/the-power-of-red-lipstick\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of red lipstick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The power of red lipstick has been known for centuries. Even one of the presidents of the United States knew that.\u00a0But do you know when the first lipstick appeared?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First lipsticks appeared around four to five thousand years ago in Ancient Mesopotamia. Women ground down gems and used the dust to color their lips. In prehistoric times, women may have used fruit juices to stain their lips.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Early in the Greek empire, red lipstick or lip paint signaled that a woman was a prostitute. That\u2019s why most women during that time went without\u00a0makeup.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Powerful and wealthy Ancient Egyptians \u2013 on the other hand \u2013 used lipsticks regularly. It\u2019s said that Cleopatra made her red lipstick from crushed Carmine beetles and ants.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Queen Elizabeth I, known for her\u00a0piercing\u00a0red lips.\u00a0She believed that her red lipstick\u00a0had healing powers and even the ability to ward off death.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>George Washington, the first President of the United States, would occasionally wear red lipstick.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red lipstick had a big part in the feminist movement. The first and most famous manifestation of red lipstick was in New York in 1912, when the suffragettes took to the streets and fight for the vote \u2013they all wore bright red lipstick.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elizabeth Arden created red lipstick shades specifically for women in the armed forces serving during World War Two.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marilyn Monroe used to only wear red lipstick. She had to put on 5 coats of it so that she could receive the most appealing and sexy results.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Elizabeth Taylor loved her red lipstick as well, but\u2026 she did not tolerate competition: in the movies with her participation only she could be the one wearing red lipstick.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The international diplomatist written statement says that the first ladies (of all the presidents in the world) can\u2019t wear red lipstick on official business and events.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of the most expensive red lipsticks in the world is Guerlain\u2019s KissKiss Gold and Diamonds Lipstick which costs $62,000.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CoverGirl and Harvard teamed up to survey 1,000 women to see how lip color changes the way people perceive others, and found that people who wear lipstick more often post twice as many selfies per week than those who go natural. Red lipstick lovers came out on top, posting selfies three times a week<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Some numbers regarding lipsticks *<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>70,000:<\/strong>\u00a0The number of beetles necessary to yield one pound of the carmine dye used by Cleopatra to paint her lips.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1880:<\/strong>\u00a0The year Guerlain introduced the first commercially successful lipstick, a pomade of grapefruit mixed with butter and wax.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1915:<\/strong>\u00a0The year that lipstick was first sold in oblong metal tubes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>58:<\/strong>\u00a0The percentage of women who owned at least one tube of lipstick in 1938.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>98:<\/strong>\u00a0The percentage of women who owned at least one tube of lipstick in 1950.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>$93 million:<\/strong>\u00a0The amount American women spent on lipstick in 1959.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1770:<\/strong>\u00a0The year that the British parliament passed a law condemning lip painting, stating that \u201cwomen found guilty of seducing men into marriage by a cosmetic means could be tried for witchcraft.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4 pounds:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s said that women who wear lipstick daily (even on sick days!) unintentionally eat about 4 pounds of lipstick in their lifetime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*\u00a0<em>www.allure.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The power of red lipstick has been known for centuries. 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