the-BA : Lipstick

A few years back a group of Shanghai nurses protested because they were told they had to wear lipstick to work. The hospital said people had complained – saying the nurses looked worse than the patients! One nurse was actually fined when she turned up to work lipstick-less. As she rightfully pointed out: “surely wearing lipstick is a matter of personal choice”.

Have you ever wondered what makes lipstick colourful? And how long does it stay on your lips?

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Develop procedures to compare the durability and/or water resistance of different lipsticks
Try making your own lipstick, following the recipe on http://www.makingcosmetics.com/. Explain what the different ingredients are for; modify the method in various ways and look for differences in the results
Find out what’s used to colour lipsticks, and how these can be identified in lipsticks
Find out what the differences are between lipstick and lipgloss.

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