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Sex appeal, red lipstick, and power
A dark red pout has a statement to make: I'm important, sexy and classic.
By Lisa Moore
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I love the names: Sumptuous Scarlet, Ruby Slippers and Wet Wet Red. I'm at the cosmetics counter in a drugstore and I have a row of red marks on the side of my hand like a cat's scratch: British Red, Pomegranate, Berry Burst and Raspberry Bite. I am going for the reddest. The darkest red there is.
Red lipstick says: this mouth will do you in. Whatever you do, don't make me pout. If I'm dark and wet and pouted up, you're done for.
There's a mirror on the drugstore counter, a white disc of fluorescent light that I tilt, and there's my mouth, ultra-glossy and covered in Liquid Garnet. It socks me back to my early 20s. I remember living in residence, tearing an envelope with such haste that rose petals flew out all over the elevator, swirling in the updraft -- a valentine.
That night I made out with another boy entirely, my back against the red brick wall of the dormitory, a snowstorm devouring the town. It was almost silent in the storm, just my blood pumping in my temples and the snow hissing against the hood of my nylon jacket. My lipstick smeared on his full mouth, a faint red ghost of transference. I had transferred, in that kiss, every drop of love I had in me.
The girl at the cosmetics counter tells me that red is the only lipstick that bleeds.
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