Undocumented history alleges beautician Elizabeth Arden handed out thousands of bold red lipstick tubes to New York suffrage marchers as they passed her Fifth Avenue salon in 1912. Photographs of both the May and November suffrage parades show no evidence of ‘painted lips’ on these protestors demanding their right to vote. Arden, herself a suffragette,Continue reading “The Lipstick Effect: Beguiling Empowerment, Beauty as a Duty, and an Economic Indicator”
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Catherine Grove 