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Women have been wearing lipstick for thousands of years. Even the ladies of ancient Rome wore lipstick, however much of the lipstick from the old days were made with toxic ingredients like lead for example.  (No wonder they didn’t live for very long back then.)

Today, lipsticks are safe and come in millions of shades and textures.  What’s another word for the noise made by smacking one's lips?  Plapper! Lipsticks also range from inexpensive to the dramatical, or luxuriously extravagant.  The most expensive and exclusive lipstick in the world is Guerlain’s Kiss Kiss Gold which retails for $64,000 a tube.  Of course, this may be because the tube is made of gold and encrusted with diamonds.

Winston Churchill once remarked that lipstick will continue to be produced during the war because it boosted the morale of the women who wore it, and the men who beheld it.  What’s a word for a person who is attracted to someone’s lips?  A cheiloproclitic! This leads us to the kiss. One kiss uses up to 3 calories, with or without lipstick.  Let's hear it for osculating. What’s a word for the art of kissing?  Philematology