Red alert/ A splash of brilliant lipstick color can shift moods, perceptions

The Gazette | February 11, 2003| | Copyright

In the early days of the Cold War, female agents in Joseph Stalin's secret police sometimes carried a weapon called the kiss of death. It was an inconspicuous silver tube that, at extremely close range, killed with devastating accuracy.

It was a gun disguised as lipstick.

Red lipstick.

If victims didn't die from the bullet, they might have died from the symbolism. Lethal red lipstick, breaker of hearts, irresistible and powerful, inviting and dangerous.

Of all the Valentine's Day icons, the red lip print is the most confounding because red lipstick is so loaded with subtext. Looking at the red ...

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