RED ALERT

RED alert at The Lipstick Papers! The BBC announced that, for the first time, the sales of nail polish have overtaken the sales of lipstick!!!!!!!!!

Nail polish has a long and lovely history, of course, to which we can get back at a later post. Charles Revson (founder of Revlon) popularized it by famously trying polish on his own nails at promotions.

The BBC (in the You and Yours Programe) had a very interesting interview with Thea Green, the founder of Nails Inc., the new and budding nails industry. I loved the interview. Thea Green spoke about how she was editor of Tatler and then borrowed money to start her own business, and that nail polish is a way to make a fashion statement. Many girls start their own business with a nail bar. If Thea Green writes a memoir, I am buying (you know I collect beauty books and memoirs).

The story had all the things I love! Beauty, female entrepreneurship, fashion, the beauty of nail art! It was a wonderful story.

But I have to say this: I still prefer lipstick...