5 Red Lipsticks That Don’t Contain Crushed Beetles

Edited by Jessica Lapidos

There’s a secret ingredient in your red lipsticks that make them so vibrantly crimson: Beetles. Cochineal beetles, to be precise. They’re also in most red food-coloring. But you’ve looked at the ingredients! It says nothing of pulverized insects. No, they pass under the name “Carmine” and have been crawling on your lips for eons. While you wipe away your heeby jeebies, we’ve stirred up a few lipsticks for you that aren’t bugged. And somehow term vegan, becomes a whole lot less crunchy than the alternative. 

A Venom That Cools The Tingle

Edited by Marissa Moshell, Student

With tons and tons of lip venoms out there, I’m sure all of you know what I mean when I talk about the tingle. It’s fine at first, it’s really the only way you know the venom is working and giving you that fuller pout. But after about five minutes, the tingle is a bit too much tohandle. Pain may be beauty, but not that much pain! When DuWop released their first lip venom there was quite the craze, it was one of those products that actual did what it claimed, it really worked! Only problem was the tingle, a bit too long lasting. So they came out with 2nd Sin, a lip venom that kills the tingle with an instant cooling effect after a couple of minutes, and it works just as well as the first!

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BEAUTY: DuWop To Launch ‘Blood’ Colored Lip Venom Inspired by Twilight

Edited by Rebecca Alexander

DuWop will launch a makeup collection inspired by the movie Twilight at the end of this year. It will include a movie version of Lip Venom, a lip plumper that looks like blood, which has already been used on set on Robert Pattinson.