I Never Leave Home Without My Credit Card and a Tube of Lipstick

Women who don't wear makeup wear lipstick. It has the highest usage of any cosmetic product -- according to a report cited in Glamour magazine. Lipstick is an inexpensive luxury that any women can indulge in -- a whole conversation can be built around lipstick - giving us instant gratification.

Remember when we can't afford those fabulous pair of shoes - lipstick we can! We can change our state of mind by changing our lip color - imagine that!

Lipstick Factoids

  • One pound of lipstick mass can produce anywhere from 100 to 150 standard-size lipsticks!
  • A study by the University of Southern California found that men were seven times more likely to develop lip cancer than women simply because women shielded their lips with lipstick!
  • In 1946, Americans spent nearly $30 million for 5,000 tons of lipstick, "enough to pay the presidents salary for 77 years."

A Chronological History of Lipstick

69-30 BC
1781
1880
1897
1915

1928
1940
1952
1946

1988

1995
 Cleopatra painted her lips with henna and carmine
French women are using roughly 2 million pots of rouge a year
Guerlain produces the first commercially successful lipstick
Sears Roebuck catalog begins advertising lip rouge for .50ยข
Maurice Levy designs the first American lipstick in a sliding metal tube
Max Factor introduces the first commercial lip gloss
Max Factor introduces the first truly indelible lipstick
Revlon launches the breakthrough Fire and Ice campaign
Cartier, Paris creates a gold lipstick case with its sunburst design and oval cabochon emerald catch
Revlon's Ultima II line debuts "The Nakeds", heralding the return of the natural look
M.A.C. Cosmetics appoints RuPaul the spokesperson for its AIDS fund and its Viva Glam lipstick campaign