Red Lipstick will make you more Powerful.
History from the ancient Egyptians to the modern-day icons, it revealed that wearing a red lipstick will make you more powerful and deadly.
In a recent report of Bustle, they explore the controversial facts about wearing red lipstick.
Why is red lipstick powerful and deadly?
As the red lipstick has earned a status in the beauty world that exudes power, fierceness, and subversion. This was always tied to something controversial.
Red is a Symbol of Power.
Ancient Sumerian men and women were the first to invent lipstick 5,000 years ago. Egyptians like Cleopatra proved that wearing this shade on your lips will make you more powerful, fierce and deadly.
In Egypt, this color is reserved for the powerful. Wherein the stains were seen as signs of aristocracy.
Red is a sexual statement.
Cleopatra, the ultimate classic sex symbol. Putting this shade in her lips helped her seduce Caesar and Anthony. But in Greece, Red is was associated with prostitutes. Both associated with sex.
Gabriela Hernandez, the author of Classic Beauty: The History of Makeup and founder of Besame Cosmetics, explained that prostitutes in Greece without their trademark wine stained lips could run into some trouble with the law.
Red is related to female sexuality.
Red Disturbed men.
Using Red Lipstick was banned by Adolf Hitler during the World War II. “Hitler hated red lipstick and would not allow any women around him to wear it since he claimed it contained animal fat from sewage,” Hernandez shares.
During the middle ages, wearing lipstick was considered as a challenged to God and his workmanship. Church decided that painting one’s face will be banned.
But Queen Elizabeth “the Virgin Queen” surprised the people after she wore it in the 16th century.
Now, Red lipstick has earned a status in the beauty world and was entirely socially acceptable.
Red is often associated with lust, power and aggression. Putting this color on your lips is a pretty strong statement.
