{"id":3430,"date":"2019-01-06T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tilibeauty.co.uk\/?p=3430"},"modified":"2019-01-06T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T07:00:13","slug":"bridget-minamore-red-lipstick-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/beauty-insider\/josie-e\/bridget-minamore-red-lipstick-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridget Minamore: Red lipstick lover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BridgetLipstick used to be something that Wasn\u2019t For Me. These days, however? Things have changed.<\/p>\n

I was relatively late to make-up. As a teen, my friends would drag me into Superdrug or Primark on Saturday afternoons, but I\u2019d rarely buy anything other than those two great staples of early 2000s teenage make-up bags: glitter eyeshadow and cheap mascara. As the years went on, I gradually grew less scared of making myself up. Foundation, mascara, powder, and eyeliner all made their way into my bathroom, but anything on my lips was a no-no. Lip balm? Only if it was clear. Lipgloss? Once a year perhaps. But lipstick? No way.<\/p>\n

For black women like me, lipstick, especially bright ones, can be fraught in the way race informs so much else. Our lips are often deemed \u2018too much\u2019 and lipstick, something that accentuates said lips, can be shied away from as a result. While people like journalist and lipstick-lover Gena-mour Barrett<\/a> show the joy and beauty in bright colours on black skin, comments from public figures<\/a> about the so-called \u2018problem\u2019 with dark-skinned women in a bright lip can be still depressingly common.<\/p>\n

And then, last year. It\u2019s 2017, I\u2019m 26-years-old, and can count on one hand the number of time I\u2019ve worn lippie in public. I tell the friends in my group chat how young I feel I come across, and how I want to feel more \u2018grown and sexy\u2019 in 2018. They all had the same answer: \u201cbuy a lipstick!\u201d But which one? Red, was the answer. Your first lipstick has to be red.<\/p>\n

Wearing a bright red lip makes me feel as though I\u2019m taking up more space<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest, as they say, is history. I listened, and two days later I found myself in possession of a small tube of lipstick, and a lip liner to boot. Cautious at first, but not for long, my love of my one beautiful red lipstick has ballooned over the past year. Make-up is not something I consider a feminist choice – or, an especially un-feminist one either. All our choices, especially as women, do not exist in a vacuum, and so wearing something that exists solely to make you fit a narrowly defined version of beauty does not applause, or ridicule. I think lipstick, and the new love I\u2019ve found for a red slash across my face, comes from a more simple place.<\/p>\n

I love my red lipstick. But better than that? I love how I feel when I wear it.<\/p>\n

Wearing a bright red lip makes me feel as though I\u2019m taking up more space,<\/span>\u00a0as though I must be bold enough to keep such a bright splash of colour around my mouth. It fills me with confidence, gives me a boost to be firm when I need to be, and reminds me that I am not the little girl I\u2019m so often treated like, but a grown woman in her late 20s who knows what she wants. In the street, I smile at fellow \u2018red lip\u2019 women, and they always smile back.<\/p>\n

Recently, I\u2019ve loved seeing rising American political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on news clips, her bright red lip a regular feature. There\u2019s been so much discussion about the statements she may or may not be making, but I think it\u2019s simple. If I was the youngest woman in a political institution, I don\u2019t know many things about how I\u2019d behave, but I do know one thing: my red lipstick would be the first thing I\u2019d reach for every single morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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