Invention & Innovations of Lipstick

Egyptians and lipstick

Feb 19, 1800

Mesopotamians used crushed jewels to color their lips. Egyptians made a red dye for their lips from a micture of fucus-algin, iodine, and bromine mannite. Cleopatra used a mixture of beetles and ants to color her lips red. (47 BC) http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/Lipstick.htm

How it got it's name.

Feb 19, 1880

The actual term "lipstick" was not used until late 1800's.

First manufactured product

Feb 19, 1884

Historian's claim the first factory manufactured lipstick was made around 1884.

Innovations of Lipstick

Feb 25, 1915

In 1915, Maurice Levy created a metal lipstick tube, which could be lowered and raised. He called this the "Levi Tube" http://www.covergirl.com/beauty-products/lip-makeup/lipstick?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=lipstick&utm_campaign=CoverGirl_Search_Desktop_Category.Lips&utm_content=scLcJz1Xv|22167358238

Lip Gloss

Feb 25, 1930

Max Factor invented lip gloss in the 1930s. http://www.maybelline.com/Products/Lip-Makeup/Lip-Gloss/Color-Sensational-Lip-Gloss.aspx#shadedetails

"Long Lasting" Lipstick

Feb 25, 1950

Years later in 1950, Helen Bishop invented a new version of long-lasting lipstick called No-Smear Lipstick. http://www.maybelline.com/Products/Lip-Makeup/Lip-Gloss/Color-Sensational-Lip-Gloss.aspx#shadedetails