Lipstick Liberation
Thursday, 31. December 2009, 11:18:36
I bought a tube of lipstick this week. A really bright, crimson red hue which I’ve wanted to get for ages but have never had the cash. Oh ye post-Christmas sales you are wonderful! It was only R10 (little more than a dollar). I’m planning to wear it with a black dress and black peep toes tomight. I don’t even feel like going out on New Years because it’s just another frikkin night of drunken debauchery and drunk drivers celebrating the new year… huh, if people knew how killer 2009 was with the recession and all I’m sure they would NOT have been celebrating! But I also don’t want to sit at home by myself like I did last year. I am a woman of many contradictions! So, I’ll throw on that little black dress and slide on the lipstick and go out dancing. I tried the lipstick on when I got home and I swear you can see it from outer space! It’s that vibrant. It’s amazing what a simple cosmetic can do to your confidence too… I looked at myself and was like “WHO is that person looking back at me?! I like it!” (I almost never wear make up so each time I try something make up wise it’s like a mini revelation). Trying to get it off is quite hilarious.. it sticks like crazy! You look like you have been passionately kissed afterward. I thought about a story I read long ago, and with a little trawling, I found it on the web. Read and weep!
“It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I don't know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it, it was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for those internees than the lipstick. Women lay in bed with no sheets and no nightie but with scarlet red lips, you saw them wandering about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips. I saw a woman dead on the post mortem table and clutched in her hand was a piece of lipstick. At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tatooed on the arm. At last they could take an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity.”
An extract from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO who was amongst the first British soldiers to liberate Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
So next time you see a woman with a beautiful shade on her lips, think of the power of lipstick!
“It was shortly after the British Red Cross arrived, though it may have no connection, that a very large quantity of lipstick arrived. This was not at all what we men wanted, we were screaming for hundreds and thousands of other things and I don't know who asked for lipstick. I wish so much that I could discover who did it, it was the action of genius, sheer unadulterated brilliance. I believe nothing did more for those internees than the lipstick. Women lay in bed with no sheets and no nightie but with scarlet red lips, you saw them wandering about with nothing but a blanket over their shoulders, but with scarlet red lips. I saw a woman dead on the post mortem table and clutched in her hand was a piece of lipstick. At last someone had done something to make them individuals again, they were someone, no longer merely the number tatooed on the arm. At last they could take an interest in their appearance. That lipstick started to give them back their humanity.”
An extract from the diary of Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin DSO who was amongst the first British soldiers to liberate Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
So next time you see a woman with a beautiful shade on her lips, think of the power of lipstick!
I got Lindsay's long lost Nov card.. finally! 
Ok not really but i'm trying a different approach to painting.. the very hap-hazard, abstract, feeeeel the damn painting approach (my drawing lecturer would be so proud! 
) So here's the work in progress. I dont know if i like the blue background... Thinking of changing it. 
WIDGETIZE