10 OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE AND HIGH QUALITY LIPSTICKS IN THE WORLD

Lipstick - a woman's weapon, which helps to look luxurious and seductive. We offer to talk about one of the most popular cosmetics, which along with the mascara is always to be found in women's handbags. Today, from cosmetics and requires more money. The selection is not just the most expensive lipstick, but also the best quality. 10. Lipstick Pure Color Envy Sculpting from Estee Lauder - $ 30




Lipstick Pure Color Envy Sculpting from Estee Lauder Cosmetic product costing $ 30 can change the lips, and the mood of the image. With it will be possible to improve the lip line and pigments make the color perfect. The structure of the lipstick is very tender and well moisturizes lips all day. Lipstick gently falls evenly. She deserves to be in your purse! 9. Lipstick "Voluptuous Monica" from Dolce and Gabbana - $ 34





Lipstick "Voluptuous Monica" from Dolce and Gabbana fashion house Dolce and Gabbana presented a collection of 6 lipsticks named Muse, Italian model and actress Monica Bellucci. The collection includes such lipstick: "Italian Monica" 160 "Attractive Monica" 140 "Magnetic Monica" 120 "Elegant Monica" 100 "Only Monica '80" Natural Monica "60." Voluptuous Monica "- is resistant lipstick with a silky texture. Special components are visually enhance lips. Rich colors and creamy texture make them more sensual. 8. Red Lipstick №999 from Christian Dior - $ 34





Lipstick №999 Red by Christian Dior Lipstick by Christian Dior cost of $ 34 is presented in the new formula, and in 32 fashionable shades, scallop extract stimulates skin renewal lips. Delicate texture envelops lips lipstick delicate silk. Red lipstick on her lips Natalie Portman got her number 999 on the combination of red lipsticks and №9 №99. 7. Lipstick "Red Rose" by Givenchy - $ 36





Lipstick "Red Rose" by Givenchy Lipstick "Red Rose" by Givenchy worth $ 36 is characterized by a bright coral color, shine and silky texture. Thanks to the lightweight structure of the lips moisturized and visually increase. As a result, they become not only a beautiful shape and tenderness, but also a beautiful matte color. The cap is made ​​of leather, which is not only pleasant to the touch, but also protects against scratches. 6. Persistent lipstick from Kanebo Sensai - $ 40





Persistent lipstick from Kanebo Sensai resistant lipstick from Kanebo Sensai Intense Lasting costs 40 dollars. It is odorless, ideally kept on the lips for a long time. Lipstick is available in several colors, for example: 112 (Hazemomiji) peach color with golden sparkles, 103 (Usuiro) soft pink with gold glitter, 102 (Soubi) - orange-red, 110 (Hananadeshiko) red and pink, 109 (Neshoubu) warm Pink and 101 (Hitoeume) bright pink with silver glitter. The names of colors are in Japanese, and the color number you can find on the website of Neiman Marcus. 5. Lipstick "G Jewel" with a mirror from Guerlain - $ 51





Lipstick "G Jewel" with mirror by Guerlain It's not just lipstick, but also an exceptional jewel. Besides luxury case, lipstick strikes amazing formula, which includes ruby powder for a luxurious shine, kapsulki with hyaluronic acid to smooth skin of the lips and mango butter for long-lasting hydration. When you open the case of the Parisian designer Lorenz Baumer found lipstick and mirror. 4. Lipstick "Cellular Luxe" from La Prairie - $ 55





Lipstick "Cellular Luxe" by La Prairie Because that case is made ​​of silver, the price of lipstick "Cellular Luxe" by La Prairie is 55 dollars. Besides the luxurious appearance, her dignity is considered caviar extract combined with other moisturizing and visually enhance lips components. Limited edition lipstick. 3. Moisturizing lipstick from Sisley - $ 60





Hydrating Lipstick by Sisley In third place on our list is a moisturizing lipstick from the company worth $ 60 Sisley. This cosmetic product offers long-lasting hydration and protection of the lips, which is the most important characteristic of quality tools. Among the ingredients in lipstick contains vitamin C, vitamin E and calendula extract. Lipstick is available in a variety of colors with different effects - from pearlescent, transfusion of color to a silky shine. 2. Lipstick "KissKiss" by Guerlain - 62 thousand dollars




 
Lipstick "KissKiss" by Guerlain At one time it was the most expensive lipstick in the world. But not today! Lipstick "KissKiss" by Guerlain is available in 15 exclusive colors and luxury boxes, which are the cause of high prices. The case is made ​​of 110 grams of 18 carat gold and 199 shimmering diamonds weighing 2.2 carats. This is the perfect gift for a loved one.Mozhnodazhe engrave your name or inscription on the case. Co-author of this masterpiece Herve van der Straten said that lipstick is just magical, because no one knows how it will be transformed, after the first layer with the time has come. 1.Lipstick and mascara from H. Couture Beauty - $ 14 million





Lipstick and mascara from H. Couture Beauty is the most expensive lipstick cosmetic kit from the company H. Couture Beauty, which was established in 2006 in cooperation with TayshaSmit Ueyliz. Besides lipsticks, complete represented mascara case which is made ​​of 18-carat gold and encrusted with Swarovski crystals. Mascara itself costs about $ 600, and lipstick 150, but thanks to the popularity of the product among women of Las Vegas, the price soared. New case for mascara encrusted 2500 blue diamond instead of Swarovski crystals, and a lipstick case - 1200 pink diamonds. The price, $ 14 million, includes a number of services: the services of lifelong personal assistant, servicing, discounts on products, packaging and clock telephone support. Here are just a cosmetics store will have a safe, but not in the usual beautician.) 

THE TRUTH ABOUT LIPSTICKS

 

Girls devote a lot of time applying makeup and cosmetics to choose from and even more. Take, for example, lipstick. If properly and correctly in choosing lipstick - nuances before buying there is not enough.

 

 

One of the first in the history of lipsticks found in the excavations by archaeologists, are hollow stems of plants, filled with coloring matter, mixed with animal fat. Turning to the history of fondant, we note that this item makeup is not always used only by women. For example, in the XVIII century lipstick needed only to men. Half a century later, lipstick became an actress. With the advent of cinema came the fashion for very defined lips. They were given fanciful names: "rosebud", "bitten by a bee" - "vampire lips" and "bow hunter." From 20's to the 40 years of the twentieth century, women did not paint the tips of the lips to the end, to make the mouth visually less, and in the 50s moved on natural forms and colors.

 

What lipstick are?

 

Moisturizing lipstick - life-giving water

 

Estheticians are advised to use a lipstick in the spring and summer, when the sensitive skin of the lips is particularly needed moisture. In addition to staining it prevents peeling, as well as often protects from exposure to sunlight. On the package is abbreviated SPF 5, 10, 15 (degree of sun protection factor).

 

The second variant of the name moisturizing lipstick - Satin. Its composition generally includes various oils, such as cocoa, avocado, sunflower oil or coconut. A basis is mineral or vegetable waxes. A woman of any age can pick out your own color, as represented by very wide range, from deep red and thick burgundy to pale pink or pale beige. At this lipstick there is one drawback: it is very fast and therefore erased lips constantly have to tint.

 

Nourishing lipstick - saturation

 

Nutrient lipstick unlike moisturizing is not peculiar to a glossy shine. It differs haze or slight shimmer. This is due to the fact that in addition to vegetable waxes and pigments it contains powder. Nourishing lipstick is perfect for winter, as it protects the lips from cracking. The only drawback is that it may become blurry.

This will help avoid eyeliner used before applying lipstick. One of the secrets of make-up is as follows: to avoid the effect of "flat lip" will drop of oil in the middle of the lower lip.

 

Lasting Lipstick - day without touch-up

 

The name of this lipstick reflects its advantage. If you do not like the traces of lipstick on glasses, clothing or the cheeks of her friends left after the kiss when they met - is right for you or superstoykaya resistant lipstick. The duration of its action - from 8 to 24 hours. This effect can be achieved as follows: the main components are the lipstick color pigments and volatile esters, the latter disappear after a few minutes after applying lipstick. Thus, on the lips is a color film. Lipstick is easy to apply thanks to the special texture.

 

Chapstick - Protection

 

If you are looking for useful lipstick that will help your lips to cope with dryness, cracks, sun damage, buy chapstick. They are particularly relevant in the autumn-winter period. In the lipstick composition comprises the nutritional and moisturizing agents, vitamins, oils. However, color chapstick not add, but will help protect your lips.

 

Lip Gloss - natural

 

Gloss, as well as hygienic lipstick may include vegetable oils and vitamins, which take care of the mouth carefully. Shares of oil much more dyes, so shines quite quickly erased and have no bright shade. However, recently manufacturers rely more on color than on the beneficial effects of glosses. Therefore, in cosmetic stores you can find bright and rich colors. Gloss helps to make a more natural makeup and natural.

 

How to choose a lipstick?

 

To Lipstick soft and smooth lay on the lips, caused only a pleasant feeling, it is necessary to pay attention to buying it.Sometimes even in the beauty supply stores across fakes, so if you are in doubt about the quality of products, feel free to ask for certificates. Scratches on the packaging or uniform color pencil says that your chosen lipstick is of questionable quality. The rod must be smooth and strong, have a smooth surface. It is also not covered by drops of water and pleasant smell, easy to apply on the lips. Under the influence of the sun lipstick should not melt or spread.

 

To choose your ideal color, swipe a tester lipstick on a piece of paper or the back of his hand. Qualitative lipstick gives a homogeneous line, without lumps and irregularities. Attach to face and see whether it suits you. In any case, do not apply lipstick tester at the store on the lips. This is extremely unhygienic.

 

Somehow, buying products, we pay attention to the expiration date of the goods, and the purchase of lipstick, forget. Do not do it, because the maximum term of her life of 3 years, but for so long it can last only if stored and applied to the lips with a brush. Therefore, when applied directly to the lips, the shelf life is reduced to one year, and when sunlight on the case and even less - up to three months.

 

 

Secrets of choice of lipstick is divided stylist image agencies Style Guide Hope Ivlev:

 

What shades of lipstick is in fashion?

 

Now in vogue are two extremes. Firstly, very bright neon colors makeup, war paint summer. Secondly, it is a natural and almost invisible makeup. Of course, the main trend of the spring-summer season - it's triumphant return to the fashion cause bright lipsticks: bright red, neon pink, magenta, fuchsia. For the most daring - on the lips over lipstick applied several large sequins or rhinestones that certainly no one doubted the glamorous image.

 

Natural shades of make-up do not take the position that season already. Soft creamy lipstick pink-beige and brown shades of body-as well as transparent glossy lip glosses should still occupy an important place in every woman's purse.

 

Recommendations when choosing a lipstick.

 

When choosing a color of lipstick should not forget about the individual characteristics of appearance: shades of skin and hair. Otherwise, even the most fashionable trend of the season, instead of make you elegant and seductive, can ruin the experience, and even play with you a malicious joke.

 

If you have fair skin and blonde hair, it must be very careful to use bright lipstick, especially in the daytime makeup to a vulgar impression. Better to choose a more restrained shades of pink or over a very bright lipstick apply a coat of light beige lipstick or gloss to soften the color. And even better to give preference to the natural shades of makeup.

 

If you are the happy owner of a bright appearance - light or slightly smuglovataya skin and dark hair, the fashion trend is just for you. The main thing - should be the measure of all things. Makeup should match your appearance and, of course, the situation.

 

Is it possible, in principle, do without lipstick? Say, having made up his eyes, and put blush, lip leave without lipstick?

 

Finished makeup is unthinkable without lipstick. If you are dealt a tone, eye shadow, blush, and so on. G., The final touch is for lipstick. Even if you prefer to focus on the eyes, the lips should be covered with a light lipstick or gloss natural color, as long as his lips were not "naked". A texture tool, you can choose according to individual preferences, pleasant to feel and even taste. The benefit of the beauty market now a huge selection of different tools for the most demanding women.

Lipstick

Of all makeup, lipstick seems to be the most written about. Unfortunately though, most treatments of the subject tend to blip right past the 1920s and 1930s – the decades when lipstick gained widespread use and acceptance, and became a multi-million dollar a year industry, despite the economic Depression.

It was in 1920 that Max Factor, a pioneer of Hollywood movie cosmetics, began selling his line of Society Make Up to the public. This ushered in a new era of acceptance for lipstick, and cosmetics in general – even his blatant use of the word “makeup" was then new. Before the decade was out, he had also invented lip gloss (1928) and introduced the first commercial lip brush to the public (1929).

Joan Crawford with a lipstick in the handle of her purse, c. 1929.

The older generation may well have shuddered, as Dorothy Cocks wrote in Etiquette of Beauty (1927), at the younger generation’s “frank use of lipstick,” but within a short time, few fashionable women would want to be seen without theirs. According to Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick, a poll of 53,000 households conducted in 1938 (the same year that Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, regulating the industry) revealed that 58% had at least 1 lipstick.

Indelibility was the major problem that plagued lipstick manufacturers during this era. Lipsticks had a tendency to turn bluish or purple after application, and made the wearer look ghastly. Almost all lipstick makers claimed their products to be indelible, non-drying, and creamy, but the first truly indelible lipstick would not be created until the end of the 1930s – again with Max Factor, now headed by Max Jr., – leading the way. His Tru-Color Lipstick came on the market in early 1940, but was heavily advertised in 1939.

The cosmetics industry may have expected sales to plummet after the Stock Market crash of 1929 and the subsequent economic downturn. But, just as women of World War II would cling to their lipstick as a sort of “red badge of courage,” so would Depression era women hold on to their lipsticks, if they could. One popular drugstore brand, Tangee, claimed its sales were better than ever. “1931 a year of depression?” read one ad from 1932, “Not for Tangee, the World’s Most Famous Lipstick and Rouge! More Tangee was used in 1930 than in the prosperous days of ’29, and even more last year than ever before!” High end companies like Elizabeth Arden, reported similar increases.

Tangee ad , 1931

Tube shapes varied by manufacturer. Some were tiny, bullet shaped. Others were long and crayon-like. They often came in a variety of sizes, at equivalent prices. Cases were metal. Early tubes had a sliding lever to raise the product, invented in 1915. This was soon replaced by the swivel technique still used today. A number of compact sets were sold as “trios” of powder, rouge and lipstick, all refillable.

Above: Clara Bow.
Below: Call her Savage! Many lipsticks claimed their color lasted, but it was the bunk before Max Factor's Tru-Color in 1940. Savage, a drugstore brand, in “jungle shades” with “thrilling perma-color,” 1939.

A Word About Lip Shapes
In the late teens, Max Factor created a lip style that came to be called “vampire lips” “rosebud lips” or “bee-stung lips” (depending on the type of character being played) for silent stars like Nita Naldi and Mae Murray. He made the lips this way: he blotted out the actresses’ natural lipline with greasepaint, then dipped his thumb into the lip pomade and made two impressions with it on the upper lip, and one upside down thumb print for the lower lip. The lips were then refined and perfected with a lip brush. He did this because the pomade of the time would melt under the hot studio lights and bleed onto the greasepaint of the actresses’ faces. We’ve used this technique to achieve a perfect, "early 20s lip" shape.

Mae Murray, 1923.

With new advances in film technology and makeup, by the sound era it was no longer necessary to avoid the lip corners and a more “natural” lip shape came to be used. Max Factor created a new lip outline for Joan Crawford, by slightly over-drawing her upper lip and emphasizing the fullness of the lower one. Factor called it “the smear” but it was generally known as the “hunter’s bow” lip. Many actresses and other women imitated this style in the 1930s.

Below: Jeanette MacDonald beautifully demonstrates the “hunter’s bow” lip, 1932.

Colors
As with nail colors, while red dominated, it was not the only choice available. There were also pinks, corals, tawny and rose shades, besides a wide spectrum of reds. In This Way to Beauty (1936), Helena Rubinstein suggested choosing rogue and lipstick colors to harmonize with your costume: with black or brilliant red, she suggested Chinese Red lipstick; with white, Red Geranium; for yellow, Red Poppy; with gray or green, Red Coral lips; for beige or brown, a Terra Coral lipstick; and with blue, purple, or wine red, Red Velvet or Red Raspberry lipstick.

Detail of a black & white ad for Coty’s new lipstick, 1925, from a high-end fashion magazine catering to wealthy women, called Modes & Manners. The 1939 color ad for Coty’s “Flying Colors” shows its newest shade, Magnet Red, “a dashing red, the makeup accent that your fall frock needs.” Other colors that year: Bali, Gitane, Dahlia, and Light.



Lablanche’s subtly advertised lipsticks, also from Modes & Manners, 1925. This was the year Lois Long began writing a column for The New Yorker under the pseudonym “Lipstick.”

Charles of the Ritz' Bonfire red, “A blaze of autumn color for your lips,” 1930. So that explains why our lips are burning!




This 1932 ad for Tangee confused us at first. Who is being quoted here – him? Or her? Oh, it’s him. Well, it was an honest mistake – after all, if she’s wearing a lot of “paint,” he appears to be auditioning for The Mikado. But we think they’re both overeating – he looks ready to punch her, and she says “I could have killed Tom…” Tangee used the tendency of the period’s lipsticks to change color to its advantage – it started out orange in the tube but unlike the others, “deliberately” changed color on application to harmonize with the wearer’s “natural, individual coloring.” It also claimed to stay on all day. Tangee is still available through the Vermont Country Store.


Cutex, primarily a nail enamel manufacturer, introduced the concept of matching lip and nail colors when they began selling lipsticks c.1934-35. Their 1936 colors came in Natural, Coral (warm), Cardinal (tawny) and Ruby (sophisticated).


1935 Tussy ad. Tussy lipsticks claimed to be not only indelible but scented. Did they get the idea from Hips, Hips Hooray?


Tattoo lipstick in “South Sea” hues, 1937.


Dorothy Gray’s “indelible” Daredevil red for fall 1939.

As we discussed in our Manicures post, Revlon did not enter the lipstick market until 1940. The company began advertising their new lip colors in late 1939, such as this ad from Vogue. Like Cutex, their colors were designed to match nail colors. Those first few colors were: Shy, Windsor, Sun Rose, Bravo, Jueltone, Red Dice, Chilibean, Tringar, and Mahogany.


Max Factor's Tru-Color being promoted in late 1939.

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Basten, Fred E. Max Factor’s Hollywood: Glamour, Movies, Makeup (1995).
----Max Factor: The Man Who Changed the Faces of the World (2008).
Ragas, Meg Cohen and Karen Kozlowski. Read My Lips: A Cultural History of Lipstick (1998).
Rubinstein, Helena. This Way to Beauty (1936).
Tobias, Andrew. Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson, the Man who Built the Revlon Empire (1976).
Turudich, Daniela, and Angela Bjork. Vintage Face: Period Looks from the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s (2001).
Woodhead, Lindy. War Paint: Miss Elizabeth Arden and Madame Helena Rubinstein: Their Lives, Their Times, Their Rivalry (2003).
Various period magazines, including Ladies Home Journal, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, New Movie Magazine, Photoplay, and McCall’s.

Top illustration: detail from a Judge magazine cover, May 1931, titled "Most Likely to Succeed"