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In England, "a woman who wore make-up was seen as . It is certain that James Is favorites used more make-up than the most flamboyant .Lipstick culture then reached the burgeoning Egyptian empire | Microsoft Word ; Reading Our Lips: The History of Lipstick Regulation in Western Seats of Power Sarah Schaffer Class of 2006 May 19, 2006 This paper is submitted in satisfaction of the Food & Drug Law course requirement in conjunction with the third-year written work requirement. Abstract This paper traces the history of lipstick’s social and legal regulation in Western seats of power, from Ur circa 3,500 . to the present-day United States. Sliced in this manner, lipstick’s history emerges as heavily cyclical across the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, Western European, English, and American reigns of power. Examination of both the informal social and formal legal regulation of lipstick throughout these eras reveals that lipstick’s fluctuating signification concerning wearers’ class and gender has always largely determined the extent and types of lipstick regulations that Western societies put in place. Medical and scientific knowledge, however, has also played an important secondary role in lipstick’s regulatory scheme. 1 Thus, lipstick status laws, primarily intended to protect men, long predated laws concerning lipstick safety. Safety laws, in turn, long focused solely on human safety before very recently also branching out into environmental and animal safety. In the future, Western societies should expect to see a continuation of lipstick status regulations, albeit probably informal social ones, as well as increasingly comprehensive lipstick safety regulations regarding human, environmental, and animal well-being. Ur and Egypt Historically, one was relatively less likely to die from lipstick than from most other cosmetics products. This does not mean, however, that lipstick has a past lacking in either danger or fascination. Lipstick’s appropri- ately colorful history began with Queen Schub-ad of ancient Circa 3,500 this Sumerian queen used lip colorant made with a base of white lead and crushed red The Sumerian people apparently adopted .