The Meaning of Lipstick from Time to Time

Today's teenage girls believe that using it is a symbol of femininity and rebellion against the norm. Therefore, many American parents.

Seen backward the presence of lipstick actually existed for thousands of years ago when the civilization of the world is still concentrated in Mesopotamia. Journal of Sarah Schaffer entitled "Reading Our Lips: The History of Lipstick Rules in Western Power Seats" records the history of colorful lipsticks ranging from Queen Schub of the ancient Ur, an important city during the Sumerian civilization, 3,500 BC.

This lip color was originally made of white tin and red brick that has been flattened. This practice also does not recognize the sex, because both men and women can color their lips.

The colored culture of the lips then reached the emerging Egyptian kingdom and shifted into a clue of social status. Men and women wear them in everyday life with resins or rubber mixtures for the finishing touch to last longer. Color choices also began to vary, ranging from orange, magenta, to black, although the red color remains an option. The use of carmin red as lipstick in Egypt was recorded in 50 BC.

When the trend of coloring lips in Egypt began to decline, in Greece this practice is even more energetic and spread. However there is a shift in the prevailing social and legal patterns in which the use of lipstick in women is associated as a prostitute. Under Greek law, prostitutes appearing at the wrong hour and not wearing lipsticks and other perfumes can be punished for being disguised as ordinary women.

Unlike the Greeks in seeing the practice of coloring the lips, Minoans in neighboring regions such as Crete and Thera have a more open tradition in the use of lip color. This can be seen from the wall paintings featuring women with lips that appear protruding red. They get the red color from the glands in the murex skin.

But next, in the range of 700 to 300 BC, the lip coloring model eventually seeped into the classical Greek mainstream culture. From the Greek period tombs found a closed box called pyxides: a place to store cosmetic equipment. Dyeing materials for this new Greek period come from vegetable ingredients such as mulberry, seaweed, or plant roots.

The Greek period in turn fell and changed with the rise of the Roman Empire between 150 and 31 BC, and the role of lipids increased. Once again a marker of social status and no longer gender-related. After the days of Poppaea, the second wife of Emperor Nero, Roman women tend to use red or purplish lip color.

Entering Europe during the Middle Ages, lipstick was forbidden by the church because the red lips were associated with the devil worship ritual. Thus, colored lips are found only in lower classes, especially prostitutes.

But then in the 1600s, Queen Elizabeth I popularized the trend of using red lip color with a blend of white face with a cold expression. Users are only for upper class women or workers as actors. The raw material in this lip color is made from beeswax and red plants.

In the United States, noted actress Sarah Bernhart who started wearing red lipstick in her appearance in the decade of the 1880s. The first make up shop opened in New York in 1867 and in the same year Harriet M. Fish from the same city patented lipstick and blush with karmin dye, strawberry juice, beet juice, and some kind of plant roots.

The First World War was also marked by changes in packaging from lipstick or lipstick. Maurice Levy of Scovil Manufacturing Company in 1915 modernized packaging wrapped in paper into a more modern form: a cylindrical tube with replaceable lever to lower and raise the lipstick. His name is Levy Tubing.

In 1923, a model of lipstick with a rotary cylinder tube as it is known to date is outstanding. This model is patented by James Bruce Mason, Jr. in Nashville. The discovery is what makes lipstick easier to apply.

In the 1930s, businessman Elizabeth Arden began introducing different lipstick colors. He inspired other companies to create different colors of lipstick. Mitchell and Jacqueline in her journal entitled "Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia" explains that lipstick is considered a symbol of sexuality at the time.