LIP SERVICE
May 15, 2019
3 minutes
THERE’S SOMETHING A LITTLE MAGICAL about lip colour. Long before screen sirens like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn fashioned a painted pout as the go-to for instant glamour, it was considered almost as precious as currency in Elizabethan England. Queen Elizabeth I herself is said to have believed that rouge lipstick had lifesaving powers and was rumoured to have been wearing nearly a half-inch of her signature scarlet when she died (ironically, most lipsticks were high in toxic lead back then).
When the mercury
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