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I am really enjoying my 🏴‍☠️ Pirate look thing I’ve been cultivating - it really is the only decent look for a woman in her 50’s with front teeth missing, she said mildly.

Purple lipstick makes your teeth look green but in my case the few I have left are actually green so that’s cool.

I’m only writing this to try out the blogger app on iPhone but it’s a fiddly chuffing nightmare.

This is my darkest shade lipstick, Punk Couture. I’ve become obsessed- I’m going to become one of those people making Mac lipstick collection swatch videos on YouTube, having mood & memory associations attached to each shade. But no really it’s been a joy

I had lipstick as a rockabilly teenager, I had orange & red I remember, but I was entirely make up free bar black kohl eye  liner from about 17 until this birthday 54 - that’s a crazy long time. But yes, it’s really pleasurable. I actually find doing my makeup to be very soothing & significantly reduces anxiety, I guess that’s the tight focus & the fact it is an “”Art” that requires creativity & attention to colour & stuff.

I posit that the high take up of lipstick by women may have something to do with the disproportionately high number of sensory nerve endings found in the lips, probably higher in women, my own hypothesis, and the production of the lovely bonding neurotransmitter Oxytocin - one of the best neurotransmitters in my opinion  💕 just rambling  I can always delete it later