THE LIPSTICK QUEEN

EVERYTHING about lipstick is beautiful, and has to do with beauty and glamor! How I wish I could live in The Lipstick Building! This is a real skyscraper, shaped like a lipstick tube, in Manhattan, New York (Third Avenue, between 53rd and 54th Streets).

There is nothing not glamorous about lipstick, from its shape, design, history and purpose.

Many women find employment and careers in beauty and the manufacture of beauty products. I am now reading Ugly Beauty, which tells the story of the rivalry between Helena Rubinstein and Eugene Schueller, who founded L'Oreal. I am amazed that Rubinstein's empire started with the manufacture, on a workbench, of her facial creams. I am also amazed at her immense dedication to beauty and making beautiful!

Lipstick makes us more beautiful and is a symbol of independence. Women who marched for women's rights wore red lipstick for freedom! I will say more about how lipstick and make up are revolutionary in a later post.

Have a beautiful Thursday afternoon, always with a good book, and a tube of lipstick nearby! xxx
P.S. Optional: Male readers can erase the last bit of the sentence.