The Politics of Red Lipstick
All products featured on Allure are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through links in this article. This is an op-ed by Allure contributor Marilyn La Jeunesse. Getty Images. Design by Sarah Olin. Red lipstick and white feminism go hand-in-hand. There, golden tubes of Arden’s red lipstick werehanded out to suffragistsas a symbol of female empowerment. From that moment onward,red lipstickbecame an unofficial symbol of the suffragist movement at least for white women....