It's all in the lips, apparently

Mood Lipstick. Yup. According to this article the nearly twenty dollar lipstick works with a woman's body chemistry to illustrate how aroused she is by turning colors. Problems: 1) if you need to spend 20 bucks on color change lipstick to illustrate to partners or potential partners that you are aroused there is likely something wrong with the way one of you communicates with other people. Maybe both of you. 2) Who wants to bust out a color wheel to find out how someone feels? 3) Are you kidding me?

The dating expert cited in the article claims that this is the best "ice breaker". So the intended purpose is to let a date know you are physically interested, because this is obviously the most important way for people to get along. Which raises the question: are women who wear this going to hand the color wheel to their dates at the start or wait for the end? It's just silly.

I don't think I'd be going out on a limb here by saying that the primary demographic for this garbage are heterosexual women (and so in a way it is really aimed at heterosexual men). So what does this say about the perceptions of the heterosexual populace? That men are either way too dumb, lazy or both to understand what a partner may want from them and that women are so passive that they cannot initiate any kind of sexual relations with men but have to spend $20 on something that will do it for them. Because women aren't supposed to be aggressive, right, and men are supposed to be that ignorant.

It is bad enough the amount of money both men and women alike spend on cosmetics to appeal to prevailing ideals of our times: hair gels, sprays, waxes, foundations, tans and all this crap just to feel comfortable when someone happens to look in one's direction but going so far as to wear color changing make up to tell someone you are horny seems a little ridiculous and a little desperate. Next thing you know we'll have men's pants that light up when the wearer has an erection. Of course, if this lipstick gets popular I'm going to regret not patenting that idea.