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Pucker up girls, it's a lip year

This is the year of the royal wedding but, for those of us who care about looking our best, it's also the year of the lipstick.

So far this spring, we've seen new lipsticks launched by Chanel (Rouge Coco Shine), Estee Lauder (Pure Color), No7 (their new Poppy King range) and Clarins (Rouge Hydra Nude).

This month, they'll be joined by Dior Addict and Guerlain Rouge Automatique.

Lipstick is having a moment, as they say in fashion-ville, though, for many of us, it has never gone out of style.

After all, it's hard to resist the way lipstick can lift the spirits by brightening the smile. Not only that, lipstick is a shortcut to glamour and can instantly transform your appearance.

Gwyneth Paltrow summed up the powerful effect of lipstick when she said: "Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick."

The history of lipstick as a staple of our beauty routine stretches back to the ancient civilsations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, when both sexes painted their lips using natural dyes such as carmine, made from ground-up insects, or sheep's blood.

By the 16th century, women were following Queen Elizabeth I's penchant for prettifying her pout by colouring her lips with cochineal paint (made from beetles), while their great-great-grand-daughters, 100 years later, favoured creams made from black grape juice.

But it wasn't always a smooth ride for the early incarnations of lipstick. In the 18th Century, it was banned by Parliament (which associated it with witches) and it was dismissed as "impolite" by Queen Victoria in the 19th century.

Back then, lip colour came in pots or, in the case of Liquid Bloom of Roses - which was imported from England by the founder of Paris beauty house Guerlain - in a bottle.

Guerlain was also responsible for the first modern-day lipstick, made with a wax base, in 1870. Ne M'oubliez Pas (don't forget me) came in a refillable container with "push-up" mechanism.

The first swivel-up tube was patented in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1923 and 13 years later Guerlain created the Rouge Automatique - which is being revived this month - a lipstick with no cap that can be applied using just one hand: perfect for the girl on the go.

And it's not just the design of the containers and the formulation of the lipsticks that have changed over the years. The colours have come in and gone out of fashion.

The most enduringly popular lipstick colour is undoubtedly red, since it's a dramatic variation on the natural colour of the lips.

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