At the citizenM near Schiphol, an otherwise all-white room gets a lipstick-like jolt from a red Verner Panton C1 chair.
Leonard Lauder coined the idea of a Lipstick Index a decade ago to show how lipstick sales rise in a bad economy.
She swiftly draws an invisible line around each calf with a lipstick-sized tube and hikes up the thick white socks slumped around her ankles.
"A lipstick may cost a month's wages for a shop girl, but she'll buy it because it comes from South Korea, " says one local resident.
Mr Chaudhury said the party leader Bal Thackeray had said that women should carry a "Rampuri (small Indian knife) in their purse rather than a lipstick".
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In her white-washed office set against a pulsating Times Square background, Wintour sat sipping a lipstick-stained Starbucks and sneaking emails before the camera was on.
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There are still aren't, you know, very many lines dedicated to women of color, so you really have to shop around--you know, going to Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, and then going to the drugstore to pick up some Black Opal foundations, and then going to Wet 'n' Wild to get a lipstick.
"Putting on a bold lipstick is a way of saying, 'I'm here, ' " said makeup artist Jorjee Douglass, who often works with lipstick-loving actress Zooey Deschanel.
Despite its name, Clinique's Chubby Stick is taller and actually a little narrower than a traditional lipstick cylinder which helps women apply color inside the lip line without a mirror.
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The original Chubby Stick is a tinted lip balm, with less pigment than a regular lipstick and requiring less-precise application.
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On the other hand, Kozlowski also had a knack for putting lipstick on a pig--not to mention putting his hands in the till.
With a string of victories to his name, the 18-year-old Thai transvestite had shown his taunters that you can have a fondness for lipstick and nail varnish and still survive in the brutal wor ld of kickboxing.
Ms. Carole checks the weather report for the town of choice, hands her driver a note with the address written in lipstick, and delivers a personalized message.
She was wearing a beige miniskirt and had applied lipstick, but she seemed more like a teen-ager who had messed up her makeup, so that her face appeared older than her petite body, which was curvaceous but tight.
Then once I find a color, barely an hour after I apply it, I'm haunted by the ghost of lipstick past, a Kool-Aid stain less appealing than my bare lips.
Traditional lipstick requires a certain skill level, says Janet Pardo, senior vice president of global product development at Clinique.
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They've thought about how some sentences, such as "you look great in lipstick and a dress, " can become offensive if delivered to males specifically.
Dodge's La Femme featured space for a woman's lipstick and purse.
And then of course there's the charge that when he said putting lipstick on a pig he was referring to Sarah Palin, which seems to not to be supported by the evidence.
Donning red lipstick, a flight attendant's skirt and high heels, the maverick businessman served drinks, made intercom announcements and chatted up passengers on an AirAsia X flight from Perth, Australia, to Kuala Lumpur.
"Without the legally binding contract that the European retailers have signed, it's just putting lipstick on a pig, " said Bob Ross, a critic of sweatshops who teaches sociology at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
Don't get us wrong, the refinements definitely help, but at the end of the day we just hope it isn't RIM trying to put lipstick on a pig -- guess we'll find out when we get a commercial release to really bite into.
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So when Obama talks about McCain's economic policies as being just like those belonging to the White House, and makes his lipstick on a pig comment, it becomes a way for the McCain camp to cry foul and say he was referring to Palin.
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News on Monday that two more Wall Street institutions had faltered -- 158-year-old Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch accepted an offer to be bought out by Bank of America -- allowed the Democrats to go on the attack after being mostly on the defensive when the political debate focused on Palin and whether the phrase "lipstick on a pig" was sexist.
"I believe every gal can add a little glam to her life with small things, " be it red lipstick, leopard pumps or a rhinestone necklace.
His firm occupies the eighteenth and nineteenth floors of the Lipstick Building, a distinctive oval tower on Third Avenue at East Fifty-third Street.
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In the late 1960s, he managed to transform his alma mater a little, when he erected a controversial 24-foot lipstick sculpture at Yale.
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