He tried the same method with colours and invented solid lipstick. Such a novel substances earned lipstick a slightly superstitious and wicked allure. As the Dark Ages cast its shadow over Western Europe however, religion clashed with cosmetics and churchmen wrote about lipstick as a form of sacrilege. During the Crusades of the Middle Ages, when Europe began rediscovering the Middle East and its superstitious beliefs surrounding cosmetics, intrigued, the wealthy and worldly elite would have alchemists create their lip rouge and apply it while doing incantations.
Macabre became the beauty trend du jour of the Middle Ages. Women who were brave enough to disobey the church, used lip color to make their complexion look paler and ghostly by contrast, and would concoct their rosey lip rouge from mashed up red roots, rose petals and sheep fat. In Venice, the most prosperous city in the West and far removed from the backwardness and poverty of medeival Europe, high society ladies wore bright pink lip rouge and the popular class wore an earthier red lip rouge.
During the Renaissance period with its famous courtesans, women used lip rouge with abandon. Finding its way up the social ladder again, lipstick made its way back into the embrace of high society royalty, while still holding onto the mysterious allure of its Dark Age superstitions. Queen Elizabeth I, a lip rouge devotee, had her own recipe for her own personalised shade, and is said to have invented the lip pencil with one of her close aids by mixing colours with plaster of Paris, rolling the paste into a pencil shape, and drying it out in the sun.
The great English queen was such a devotee to lipstick that she believed it could ward off illness, and was reportedly wearing half a inch of lip rouge on her deathbed. This adulation of lipstick and its mysterious powers trickled down into mainstream English society, where it was even traded as a substitute for money in some cases.
This metrosexual trend paved the way for the storied 18th century macaroni ; well travelled British male aristocrats who dressed in an embellished androgynous style. They sported rouged lips and cheeks, pox patches, powdered wigs, lace cascading from their collars and sleeves, bejewelled fingers with painted and manicured nails. A Macaroni paid great attention to his appearance with tighter waistcoats, heeled shoes, and elaborate hairstyles that matched the towering hairstyles of the female coiffure.
Meanwhile in the New World, American women emulating the European obsession came up with enterprising ways to achieve the rouged look — rubbing red snippets of ribbon across their mouths and carrying around lemons to suck on throughout the day. Yet lipstick retains some of that daring flavour of revolution. When the World War II broke out, women in Britain and later in the US were encouraged and applauded for wearing bright red lips to boost the morale of the country and the soldiers.
It became a symbol of resilient femininity in face of danger. That was all the more reason for England to promote and encourage women to wear lipsticks as almost a patriotic duty.
Even nurses and red cross volunteer women wore lipstick during this time as standard protocol. These fiery shades were literally part of putting on a brave face and came to be associated with patriotism. A butch-style woman with prize-winning biceps, Rosie also wears red nail varnish and red lipstick. According to Debra Merskin, professor of media studies at University of Oregon, lipstick sales in the US have always shared an inverse relationship with economic downturns and calamities.
In other words, when the going gets tough, women buy more lipstick to keep marching astride. Lipstick is also the most shoplifted cosmetic. Lip color of all shades also became an undeniably popular trend in Ancient Egypt, where Cleopatra was known to wear lip paint created using crushed insects mixed into a vibrant paste. Other additives, such as ground fish scales and some other frankly very harmful elements, gave early lipstick a variety of hues, textures, and finishes.
Some of the additions were toxic when applied to the skin, so all in all, we're glad these particular practices have been lost to history. Throughout the stretch of time from the origins of the practice to today, wearing lipstick has been an ever-changing social signifier.
Depending on the decade, century, or region, wearing lipstick has carried with it a multitude of meanings: It could be alluring, a proclamation of social status, or a performance of wealth. It could be an admission of wickedness, vanity, or a failing of morality. It could be a showing of elegance or a visual statement of confidence—all depended and, indeed, still depends on the ideas swirling through the social conventions of the era. For example, at one point in Roman history, men regularly took to wearing lip color, red and otherwise.
The supplies of all materials were scarce, and as for lipsticks, the metal tubes were temporarily replaced with plastic and paper. Due to the lack of materials, makeup in this era was creative and breezy. Women were actually encouraged to wear reddest of the lips to boost the morale during the grim time of the war.
Women wanted to look like their favorite Hollywood actresses and lipstick was popular than ever. Bold red lips were especially popularized by Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor and women in s embraced the trend. In , Queen Elizabeth II created her own shade during her coronation. The color matched her coronation robe.
Lipstick drew inspiration from arts, and popular culture and a variety of shades came and went from the fashion scene. These became an instant hit with the younger crowd. Lipsticks in the s, much like everything was all about shimmers and gloss. The concept of power dressing came into being, and bold red lips were a statement once again. Matching your lip color with your outfits was common and in vogue.
Hot pink lips became all the rage keeping up with dance party culture of the era. Goth lips were popular in some alternative sub cultures. This was the era of grunge and makeup was simple. People were getting more and more conscious about environment and demand for chemical free, natural formulas for lipstick grew. Tattooed or getting semi-permanent color on the lip was getting popular. But if the 90s is remembered as the era of lip liners. Nothing screams the s more than darker lip liners with a lighter lipstick.
Brands such as Mac and Urban Decay came into the scene.
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