"Lipstick itself dates back to Queen Schub-ad or Puabi of Ur, a Sumerian ruler around 2500 B.C. The first documented lip tint was made with pulverized red rocks and white lead (this was not the last time people were like, “Check out all this sweet lead! Hey, what if we put it on our mouths oh god I’m dying”)...
There was also more colour variation than one would think: In ancient Egypt, popular colours outside of red included orange and indigo, which means that the ancient Egyptians were the original goth kids...
For geisha, the way that lip pigments were applied depended on the stage they were at in their training, and whether or not they were considered a new full-fledged geisha or a more experienced one (shown by painting only the upper or lower lip, for example). Aside from geisha, lip colour went in and out of popularity in Japan...
During the Dark and Middle Ages, lip rouge was worn by lower-class people in various European countries, including England, Germany, Spain, and Ireland. They used herbal and plant-based dyes to redden their lips. The Church did not look fondly upon this, and deemed the look to be “Satanic”... By the 1500s, things began to change. Queen Elizabeth I was a dedicated devotee of lip rouge, to the point where she believed that it had healing powers and even the ability to ward off death"
http://the-toast.net/2016/01/04/history-of-red-lipstick/
This was fun. I super wish I could pull this look off
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