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Monday, March 09, 2009


A lipstick is worth a hundred words
by Jessica M

When I was in college, I noticed this poster hanging in several girls’ dorm rooms. Why was it so popular? And why, although I mocked it as being a cliché, was I secretly just as entranced by it as they were? Well, for one thing, who wouldn’t want to have a romantic rendezvous in Paris? And the girl seems so nonchalant, putting on her lipstick before she even puts on her shoes. Is she absorbed in her own reflection, or is she deliberately seducing him? Is the man enchanted by her gesture, or just wishing she would finish getting ready?

Image: Pamela Hanson, “Bis”

Labels: 40 Days and 40 Nights of Lip Service, Jessica's Reviews

posted by Annieytown @ 5:31 AM   5 Inspired Comments

5 Inspired Comments:

At 12:01 PM, Blogger Annieytown said...

I always thought she was absorbed in her relection. Very Echo and Narcissus by Waterhouse!!!
Thanks J!

 
At 12:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, nice classical reference! ;)

I wonder whether this poster is still so popular in dorm rooms. It's definitely still available...

 
At 10:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

....hes looking up her skirt.

 
At 1:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

As a current college student, I've never seen this poster in my 3 years.

 
At 3:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Okay, there's this theory of lipstick that says that women, who do not go into estrus and are, at least compared to other animals, up for sex whenever in their cycle, use makeup to simulate certain sexual signals that would normally be prominent on, say, a rhesus monkey. Lips in particular are seen as stand-ins for another set of, er, lips, that when sexually excited, flush and swell. Hence the enhancing effect of lipstick. While I tend to think explanations like that are perhaps too pat and oversimplified, when one notices in the picture that she is putting on lipstick while her legs are spread open in front of a mirror ... well, did that guy who wrote "The Naked Ape" set this up?

 

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