Red Lipstick To Kill?

OK, here's a post for the ladies (and the closet drags).

Apparently, there is a rumor out there that some brands of red lipstick contain potentially harmful levels of lead, a known neurotoxin. Now why it is just red lipstick that is targeted, I'm not sure.

But, anyway, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, decided to test to see if this were in fact true.

What they found was that one third of the 33 red lipsticks they tested showed lead levels greater than 0.1 parts per million (the federal limit for candy). A full report of the study is available here.

However, don't immediately put away your sexy red lippy, because as critics from the FDA, point out, you're not ingesting lipstick, like you are candy, so it is like comparing the caffeine levels in skin moisturisor to the caffeine levels in coffee.

Therefore, while future studies might say otherwise, for now you can flaunt your red lipstick as much as you want, and feel perfectly safe while doing so.