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A Japanese woman applying beni, a type of red lipstick. A Blond Woman. Portrait of Germaine Survage, 1918.
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It would take the lavish intervention of Elizabeth I Queen of
England to restore value to the red lipstick, representative
of women of her court and her power. Lipstick is still rite of
passage from innocence to adulthood, a canvas of nuance
depending on mood, style and personal inclination.
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