"The Red Lipstick"

This is a story about courage.

Red lipsticks – how many women out there who actually wear red lipsticks? Most of them know that wearing a red lipstick actually make their lips very beautifully visible because of the colour, but it would attract a lot of attention that most don’t think they could handle it. Even if red lipstick will make them strikingly noticeable, most of them prefer to settle with any colours that more humble,  which mostly are in the range of brown or pink or orange - never the bright red. They thought not wearing red lipstick means that they still want to look attractive, and humble and they are not really attention getters. Red lipsticks make them look overdone and mostly not suitable for just any occasion. Think for a second, if you ladies don’t worry about other people’s perception, I bet you would agree that Red Lipsticks give the best daring justice to your lips. 

The Red Lipstick is a symbol of COURAGE for all the women out there. It doesn’t mean that you must wear a red lipstick tomorrow in order to look courageous, hey hey…No. Courage is not for show. It’s in your spirit. The spirit to move forward, to face every obstacles and to fight anything that is going to make you feel embarrassed to be yourself, ashamed to speak for yourself and to ACT according to what you think is right for yourself. Imagine how many times that you feel down because life is treating you unfairly. Imagine how many little laughs that put yourself down and lies that made you lose faith in yourself as well as in other people. All these slow us down one way or another. These sometimes stop us from facing reality and facts in front of us. Sometimes we are too afraid to even face the world with what we have. We worried that we might not be as good as what people expect from us. We worried that people might talk about our shortcomings and judge us just because we are women. Social discrimination is still around and we can become the victim anytime. Or maybe...Not Anymore.

YES LADIES. All the things that stop us and slow us down. No one can make us inferior without our consent. The saying is right. The world can throw at us so many things that make us feel down and discourage, but it’s us who decide to feel down and discourage in the first place. If the decision is ours, WHY DECIDE to be discouraged? This is to call upon all the ladies out there TO STAND WITH COURAGE because before we can take on the world, we must first take on the enemy within us. We can’t just listen to negative self talking and then feel afraid to look at the mirror. The bad mouths are not the reason for our successes, so they must not be the reason for our failures. 

If you dare enough to put on the Red Lipstick and walk with pride, with all the eyes that are tailing you, YES, THAT’S COURAGE. If you dare enough to face all the men whistling because they could not take their eyes on you with your Red Lipstick and you enjoy every bit of it, YES, THAT’S COURAGE. Because instead of feeling afraid, you are proud of the woman God made you. No matter what is there  that is trying to stop you, if you are bold enough to wear THE RED LIPSTICK, you are sending the message straight that NOTHING CAN GET YOU DOWN. This is the spirit of The Red Lipstick. Do you have that spirit? :)

Do you mind if I say that when suddenly you get all the attention when you wear that Red Lipstick, it’s NOT the Red Lipstick that people saw in you. IT’S YOUR CONFIDENCE that you DON’T CARE what people say because what people think doesn’t matter. It’s what you think about yourself that matters. If you want to define beautiful, IT’S YOUR CONFIDENCE THAT MAKE YOU BEAUTIFUL. The Red Lipstick, YES LADIES, SAY YES TO COURAGE! We are fighters! We are survivors. And we never lose our dignity on our way to victory. That's the spirit of The Red Lipstick.

Let’s make it big in this 2011! :))