Word: lipsticked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...French giant revamped the brand's drab packaging, relabeled it Maybelline New York to give it an urban edge and took it on the road. From 1996 to 2002, sales of Maybelline outside the U.S. grew 93%. Propelled by products like the glistening Water Shine Diamonds lipstick, which cashes in on the trendy wet look for lips, Maybelline is now the preferred cosmetics brand for 44% of Chinese women...
...move into China, where the cosmetics market grew 14% in 2002 and where L'Oreal's sales grew 61% that year. In L'Oreal's view, it is selling products to an archetypal Miss Yu, who is 18, still lives at home and would like to buy rouge or lipstick; to an imaginary Mrs. Li, who is in her late 20s and has a good job and some disposable income; and to the thirtysomething prototype Mrs. Wong, married, with one child, and more inclined to use skin care than makeup. Even the type of transport is factored in--L'Oreal...
...cover photomontage of George W. Bush sporting a lipstick kiss mark and a black eye definitely got a rise out of readers. "When I saw how you defaced the President's picture, it felt like a slap in the face," wrote a reader from Colorado. That feeling was echoed by many, like the Georgian who declared, "Whether you like him or not, he's our President, and we're at war! Our enemies are probably plastering this picture all over their walls." A Missouri man compared the cover to "graffiti sprayed by an ignorant adolescent." But another Coloradan caught...
...Oprah mom to update her style, these teens usually expressed resistance by shouting numerous expletives with accompanying foul gestures to their parents, the host and the audience. After such resistance, they would reluctantly agree to be made into the son or daughter their parents really wanted, abandoning their black lipstick, chains, vinyl or belly-button ring, leopard miniskirt and sequined thong for more sensible garb. When little Susie reappeared with pearls and natural hair color her mom cried while she continued to scowl. These shows never had happy endings, as the host would always catch up to the participants...
...eyeball covers, and the wires used to keep people’s jaws together. Chauvière admits that funeral makeup doesn’t offer a lot of cosmetic options. “Traditionally, we glue the lips together,” he says, and in terms of lipstick colors, “you pretty much have the options of beige or rose...