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lipstick \'lip-stik\ n (1880):
a waxy solid usually colored cosmetic in stick form for
the lips; also: a stick of such cosmetic with its case
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lip sticked adj.
Lipstick facts
- 80% of American women regularly
wear lipstick.
- Clinique's world-wide retail
operation is reputed to sell one lipstick every second.
- The first recorded evidence
of lipstick use dates back to the Sumerian city of
Ur, 2000 B.C.
- Ancient Eygptians wore lip
gloss.
- The first modern lipstick
with metal "bullet" case was produced in
Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1915 by the Scovil Manufacturing
company.
- 32% of women surveyed during
a 1998 poll claimed that they owned more than 20 lipsticks.
Source: Lipstick,
by Jessica Pallingston, St. Martin's Press, New York.
1999. |
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