We were talking about creamy lipsticks yesterday, when I stumbled upon some very erm… interesting news online that naturally had me thinking.
You see, there’s this whole range of NSFW penis-shaped lipsticks making their rounds online, that has people giggling naughtily behind their hands as they surreptitiously click on the links to see what the fuss is about.
This placeholder picture is Jennifer Lawrence for Dior Addict lipsticks – those are perfectly safe for public consumption and perfectly safe for work!
These things aren’t new. I came across them a few years back, where people were also giggling naughtily behind their hands as they surreptitiously click on the links to see what the fuss is about. Some things never change LOL! But then, I got to wondering. Look, it’s a lipstick. It’s cosmetics. Would you use these?
Before you proceed, please note that the following images are NSFW (Not Safe For Work) under any circumstances, unless you work in a sex shop or have a very liberal office. So, be warned and don’t come and cry to me if your boss catches you. But if you have your own office, make sure no one catches you grinning or they might want to see what it’s about too! Now, onwards and let’s have your say! ;)
BE WARNED: NSFW IMAGES!
Ok, here are the lipsticks in question, and here is the article on Huffington post and Buzzfeed, both of which contain many NSFW images. Be duly warned and proceed at your own risk.
If anyone is interested, you can actually buy them off Amazon and they’re sold in a pack of 12 by a brand called Mushroom. They naturally come in various shades of erm…. lip colours :P
While I reckon they’d be a hoot at hen parties, I’m kind of wondering if there’s anyone who’d actually whip this out for a quick touch up in public outside of a lark. You know, wave a penis-shaped lipstick about as part of your daily makeup repertoire… as you do :D
Will I?
Actually, no I won’t. As much as I’d love to shock and scandalize people around me, I do think that everything has its place, and for me, waving a penis-shaped lipstick in public as a matter of course just isn’t quite on. There’s a reason it’s called a PRIVATE part :P
Granted, it will lose its shape with regular use, so perhaps there’s nothing much to be scandalized about once it wears down. They aren’t very expensive either, which further strengthens my belief that these are more of a novelty item, than serious makeup. I’m not sure what’s in there either ingredient-wise, so this makeup snob will likely not have these go anywhere near my lips. But still, I do think it’s rather funny, and a novelty but it is a little much for conversative society :D
So what say you? Is this something you’d use? Don’t be shy!
I suppose if we can have lipsticks shaped like cats (Paul & Joe) and stars (Anna Sui) it didn’t take a genius to come up with this idea. It’s amusing, but a little much for polite society methinks. Over to you! Would YOU use it? :D
Paris B
Dicks on lips? Erm, NO. :P :P :P
Ahem! ;)
Chee chee! No way! Not because I am a prude or anything but I have young daughters and I would not want to be whippin’ that ol’ thang out for touch ups! My hubsy would have a good laugh though…..
LOL! Oh yes, I remember your very supportive hubby! Good on him :D But no, definitely not to be dangled before young kids!
Gosh No!!! I am feeling kind of eecky just looking at the photos. My imagination tends to go awry and its not a nice mental image using the lipstick. Plus my kids would be shocked to say the least. Makes a good hen party gift though.
The mental image it conjures up isn’t pleasant any way you look at it! Haha I do think this is purely for novelty purposes. The funny thing is that there are people who say the formula is good. I’m just amused they used it long enough to figure it out, or actually used it at all! :D
Don’t dare to use in public. Shy ah! Hahha
Imagine if old aunty next to you sees it. Oops! :D
I would never use or buy this lipstick. I think they are nasty.
Quite! I wouldn’t either :D
I would use it.. If the formula is good.. But if not, i will stay on wth normal lipstick . thanx. Hahaha!
LOL!! Thanks for your honestly Shija, you’re the only one who said you’d use it! :D :D
LOL!!!! Will you judge me if i say i want it? XD
Because it’s you, I absolutely will not judge at all LOL! :D
Mmmm. Classy! No I wouldn’t. If I was going to spend £12 on a lippy, then I’d want it to be a good one I’d actually use regularly! (And, like others, I have children and … just no!)
I tend to agree with you on that! Can’t deny I’d probably stare at anyone whipping this out in public and I’m sure £12 gets you a pretty decent lippie! Once I consider the exchange rate, it will, and it won’t even look rude :D
Lipsticks already look phallic… this is too on the nose. It’s a corny idea, so I’ll pass :D
Haha you know what? You are absolutely right about lipsticks already looking phallic! :D
I think it’s more disturbing that the ad image of JLaw clearly posing in a manner that alludes to smoking is deemed acceptable and that a dick lipstick is somehow oh-so-scandalous. It’s just human anatomy.
This is why I refuse to buy Dior Addict lipsticks because it glamourises and normalizes smoking, which is way more harmful than a dick-shaped lipstick.
I rarely apply lipstick directly from the bullet nowadays but I use my finger to transfer the colour in a patting motion, so I guess there is less shock value?
Hmm you know what? I didn’t even make that smoking association! :O But you are right, that is offensive too, but I think more mild, since smoking, despite all the campaigns against it, is still a social norm, while erm, slicking on penis-shaped lipsticks in public isn’t :D I do sometimes wonder, that with all the banning of smoking ads and the major reduction in smoking scenes portrayed in the media, if people are making this association anymore? I won’t buy Dior Addict simply because their quality has deteriorated :D
I guess I can’t accept the discrepancy in incredulity surrounding the whole thing. To me, the harm in smoking is just so much greater.
I don’t think that penis-shaped lipsticks will catch on because the shape is just not practical haha.
Good call on the impractical shape LOL! I think this is just one for the novelty bag – I’d be surprised if any other brand caught on LOL!
To be fair the colors look pretty good!
I suppose there’s some saving grace?! :D
Don’t like the idea of it..it belongs in a sex shop :p
Nowadays people try to sexualize everything!
You know what? You’re right about people sexualizing everything! The more taboo it is, the more we want it out in public
I would buy it as a joke, maybe a birthday present to close friends who can take that joke. If the formula is good, and if I was gifted one (no, I won’t buy it for myself), then I might use it, AT HOME. I might have thought it funny when I was in college, but now with 3 very young kids and in my late 30s, it’s just inappropriate – even though it’s just a human anatomy.
I’m not offended even though it did make me raise an eye brow and perhaps let out a chuckle but no. I will never use it in public.
Well, if it was a finger, I don’t think anyone would think much of it – might even find it quirky. But when it’s a part of the body that’s otherwise kept covered for modesty’s sake, it’s unnerving to have it waved around in public! Definitely not child-safe.
Would definitely get it for some of my girlfriends who wouldn’t kill me ;)
Always good for a gag gift :D
A naughty bridal shower gift to a very close friend? Maybe.
Something for myself? NEVER :P
That seems to be the common thread! Maybe that’s what it was made to be ;)