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Lipstick through time: 100 years of lipstick trends

History of lipstick

Lipstick as an invention is thousands of years old. It was already used by women in ancient Mesopotamia, who applied crushed precious stones and dust to their lips. Throughout history, lipstick has had different meanings, different civilizations perceived it differently. In medieval Europe, lipstick was considered the embodiment of Satan by the church and was banned. It was also the makeup of prostitutes, and the first commercial lipstick was created in 1884 in Paris. Below you can see how lipstick trends have changed over the past 100 years.

Lipstick is that makeup that almost every woman has in her purse. It has become throughout history an indispensable fashion accessory, which has gone through many changes or trends. See how the lipstick trend has changed through time.

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Lipstick over time.
Lipstick over time.

Kandee Johnson walks through the most popular trends, who have ruled for the past 100 years, from 1916 until today. It was one of the most popular shades of the 20th century dark red. Unusual colors only hit the scene in the 1970s, when colors such as iridescent light blue (kanebo) and silver shimmer navy blue (biba) appeared. Black lipstick became popular in the late 1970s and then again in the 1990s, and found many followers mainly in punk culture and emo and goth subcultures. You can see which trends prevailed in other decades in the attached video, which also serves with many interesting facts from the world of celebrities and presents the "flag bearers" of certain trends in the field of wearing lipstick.

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