https://www.snapdragonlife.com/blogs/blog/ A fuzzylime (cms+) autogenerated channel feed. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss fuzzylime (cms+) https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1492 In reply to SnapdragonJaneYes. Come to think of it, most of the pictures I have seen of Eva Braun did portray her as wearing lipstick. I think he wanted German women in general to follow the Aryan stereotype (although he certainly wasn't) and touted modesty and motherly figures as being ideal. Also, it has been said that he was a vegetarian, and the cosmetics industry up until the last few years ago were made with animal extracts; lipstick being made with a red pigment from crushed cochineal insects! Later though, he was claimed to have said that it was attractive and most people wanted to see it. ??? Whatever you are mixing is most attractive. I like using a brush, even though I have lipsticks in tubes. I remember that my mum, who was a WREN during WWII, told me that most things were heavily rationed; and what they had at the beginning of the war probably lasted that long; since they were indeed scarce and extremely hard to get.]]> Unknown user https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1492 Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:54:14 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1491 Unknown user https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1491 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:13:40 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1490 In reply to Claudia OwensHi Claudia I also read that Hitler hated lipstick and that it was banned from his houses - and yet some photos of Hitler and Eva Braun or Unity Mitford clearly show them wearing lipstick. So I don't know how accurate that was. It certainly wasn't something publicised at the time . . . . I could only find a single secondary source from 2014 which had been repeated over and over. I currently wear a mix of Tom Ford and Guerlin reds - stubs melted, rather like the women of 1940s, into a little tin and applied with a brush!]]> Katie https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1490 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:47:06 +0100 https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1489 Unknown user https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/red-lipstick-myths-what-the-history-actually-says/#comment1489 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:34:41 +0100