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War paint for lips, disguised as makeup.
means A waxy, tinted cosmetic stick used to color the lips.
from The word is a straightforward 19th-century compound of 'lip' and 'stick,' describing exactly what it is: a cosmetic colorant molded into a solid, twist-up stick. Lip color itself goes back thousands of years to ancient civilizations crushing gems, insects, and ochre for tint, but the word 'lipstick' and the portable stick form we'd recognize today only caught on as cosmetic technology and marketing matured.
- recession theory
- sales rise when economies fall
- ancient origin
- crushed beetles gave it red pigment
- first patent
- tube design patented in 1915
- color psychology
- red reads as confidence, not vanity