The Jerry Effect

Supermodel Erin O'Connor: ''If I'm ever feeling low, red lipstick is the best pick-me-up ever. It makes you feel on top of the world." (British Vogue)

There is a great article by Poppy King in June's Vogue. Ms King is the creator of the Lipstick Queen line available at Barneys.

Poppy was inspired by the great Jerry Hall in the pages of Vogue circa 1977. She fell in love with Jerry's Texan brash beauty.

" I learned that lipstick was a means of doing this, a tool of instant transfiguring power that could make me feel like Jerry Hall even if I could never look like her. True, I had blonde hair, but it was the bushy rather than flowing kind. I had legs, but not the type that can "make a grown man cry", as her boyfriend sang. Mine managed only to raise me to an unlofty five foot three. But what I did have was lips, and as long as I had lips I , too, could paint them red; and as long as I had red lips I , too, could enter a world of glamour."

Years later Poppy spots her muse and inspiration at Fred Segals in Santa Monica.

" Excuse me, Jerry Hall?"

"Yes?" she said with a lovely smile.

" I just wanted to give you this red lipstick that I made, because you inspired it."

"Thank You," she said, and I walked away, not wanting to bother her further.

After all, it was I who should be thanking her...those were the lips that changed my life.

I think this is one of the best beauty pieces I have read in years.

Please Vogue...give us more.

Credits: Photo by Blogdorf Goodman and Quotes from June's Vogue Paint it Red by Poppy King