You may think that wearing Red Lipstick is unique and artistic, but if you do your research you will find quite the opposite. Wearing red lipstick is unoriginal and an attempt at replicating your grandma.

Who knew your grandma was more of a fashionista than you?

On the runways,  designers have been having their models wear red lipstick for decades.  Finally, in the past couple of months, this catwalk trend has hit the hallways of Verona High School.

Why is this ancient trend becoming so popular in 2013?

“Both makeup and technology have continued to evolve at a rapid pace, with a new colour and a new look, a new trend develops and unveils every season,” according to TheVine.com. The advances with makeup engineering have created a limitless varitey of options when chosing your lipstick.

After Maurice Levy’s 1915 invention of the metal lipstick container, it became widely popular. TheVine.com explains how it became “available in salve, liquid, and stick forms, and long-lasting, indelible stains were the most popular.”  More women found the application to be much simpler than ever before.

After WWI, women found a new need to wear more make-up. A skewed postwar sex ratio created a new emphasis on sexual beauty.  After the war, women thought they could attract men with their lips.

Questioning their role in society; women became accustomed to holding their husbands’ jobs while they were off on the battlefield.  Celebrities and fashion icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn adapted this look which instantly became a hit with the public.

“I idolize these women of the past, like Monroe, with how they look so well put together with lipstick,” reveals VHS Senior Kim DeRosa. Kim has been daring enough to wear red lipstick to school since her freshman year, and has been a huge fan ever since.

“Monroe was known for wearing the seductive vivid red lipstick, Hepburn the independent, wearing a more subdued pink,” TheVine.com says.  These stars established a look that was clean and put together which has become the signature look of the past.

“Red Lipstick pulls any of my outfits together,” Kim, the bold fashion icon of Verona High School says. “If my outfit is not complete, it makes it complete.”

“You definitely need to have confidence with yourself before you add the extra boost of wearing red lipstick” Kim warns future lipstick wearers.

This is why women began to wear lipstick in the 1950s, to gain confidence.

“Women began to enter the professional world, publications such as the French Beauty Industry encouraged women to wear makeup so as to look their best while competing with men for employment,” according to Health.com.

But, feminists reject makeup altogether in protest to vocalize their disdain for the symbolic meaning of lipstick. Women felt others should look at them as an individual, not as a sexual object. This is why women began to play up their eyes in order for others to look into their “soul”.

But now the lips are back.

“Everyone should wear red lipstick at least once in their life.  Everyone is entitled to do so,” says Kim welcomingly.

Classic red lips will never go away, so I think it is time for you to sport the lips.