Lipstick Colors

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This list is the product of a dialogue between my brother Peter and sister Susannah that's gone on since a day in a drugstore in New Jersey way back in 1968. As it happened, Susannah picked up a tube of lipstick and read the name as "BARFLY ORANGE." "Barfly Orange!" she said, "What kind of a name is THAT?" Turned out there was a bad light reflection, and the name was actually "BARELY ORANGE", but it was too late: the game was on.

a kiss in time
a little dab'll do ya
a meeker shade of pink
a rose by any other name
acid rain
afterbirth
alfalfa felafel
am I blue
amber dextrous
ambersand
ant stomp
apple bruise
apple pie sheen
appleplectic red
april maize
arbitrary pink
arf doisy arf oney
aspergum
asterisk*
astrocraze plum
back atcha
backlit sap
balmy ladybug
basketball
beemer ding
beetjuice potato
big brass band
blackhead red
blackish white
bleeding brick
bloke sputum
blood orange
blood pressure rose
bloody ocean
blue dew
blue dog
blue pants
blue your man
bluejay breath
bobber
bonehead
boo eek
boot scuff
brass knuckle
broken dream
bum's rush
burnished solder
bus transfer
caffeine free
carpenter's thumb
chapcrap
cheap latch
check oil
cheese dew
cheesewagon
chicken lips
chili warm
choice of potato
cinderella fitzgerald
clamjamfry
clay ditch
clotted beige
cocktail wiener
code fuscia
code red
cold combover
color on your collar
copperation
coralation
corduroy syrup
cornhole
crap brown
crawdad sparkle
crud bag
cum pearl
customer copy
dampish dawnish
dander ash
day two
dead giveaway
dead man's dimple
deck stain
demure allure du jour
derma firma
dew on dahlias
digger's hotline
dilly bar
dim bulb
dinky tan
distant guernsey
dog doo
doggie hard-on
don't get shirty
doormat
doughboy
DQ white
duck and cover
dumb blonde
dump umber
dumpster froth
dunderhead
dust bunny
dusty parlor
egregious gold
exit
extravaredza
false green
farmer nut
fiddle-dee-dee
filibuster
fir midge
fix-me-up orange
fizzy violet
flamingo mousse
flan
flan tan
foglight
follicular infection
footsie
fresh grave
frostbite
fruitorama
fuchsia breakup
funeral pink
gender neutral
germ jam
gilda gray
girls in jammies
give me your answer dew
glass of whine
glitter and be gay
glitter slobber
glo frigid
gloominosity
glow job
go easy joe
goose lips
grape god almighty
graveyard frost
green party
greenola
grin reaper
gummy mildew
gypsy spank
ham
happy happy lotus
haywire
heard it thru the grapevine
helluva way 2 go
hemptastic
hickey leech
hickey pink
highlighter pink
hiyo silver
howlin' red
hue downs
iceberg shine
imitation green
indigo-go
infidelphinium
injun tribute
invisible searchlight
iris virus
jazz and a half
jesus handshake
just georgia
kandy kaper
keisterwelt
ketchup water
kim chee
kiss me froggy
kiss me hard
kiss 'n' tell
kiss the bricks
kiss the phone
kissable
kite white
kitten lips
kriminally kute
laff it off mauve
lane closed
lanky lavender
lavender hill mob
lens flare
lick'm'aid peach
lip flip
lip-colored lips
liplash
lippity do dah
lipster
liptastic
liver lips
liver spot
loam dew
loose lips
mall call
mandrill sky
mango fight
manx fiesta
mardigradoo
marmite
maroon vinyl hassock
marshish
martian basement
mashed patata
mauve over
menstrual dew
midwife crisis
milk thistle
moat scum
moist otter
mondrian dropcloth
monkey madness
monopoly hotel
morris bell
mosey over
ms. tambourine lady
mudpucker
narcolectric
nasty orange
naughty nightie
neon slime
new twenty
niagra false
nicely tan
noon whistle
notebook red
o wholly white
oh shit bananas
oilman
olde mappe
oleo Leo
orange you cute
organized slime
oxidaisy
painted frenzy
pair o' slugs
pale wishbone
papal purple
party on tan
peach fuzzbuster
peony explosion
pepperminda
peppermint caddy
peppermint cupcake
pepto dismal
pickle pucker
piehole bumper
pinched pallor
pink fondue
pink slip
pinker than you
pinko
plastickled pink
play misty for me
plumber's knee
plymouth flamingo
poisonality
powder burn
prehistoric peach
pretend green
prosciutto plum
pull out a plum
pumpkinesis
pursable puce
pusberry
rabid red
rainbow streaks
ranch dressing
rashers
rebel yellow
red that wrong
red's opinion
restoration red
ripe chew are
riverboat royale
rose up
roulette rouge
royal soil
rufous doofus
rump roast
rush's bum
salsa fiesta
sand on snow
sand tartlett
say it isn't pink
scabwipe
seam ripper
senioritis
sheetrock
shine on harvest lips
shooting star silver
skinny-dip purple
sliver of meat
slower lower
slug-trail silver
small engine
smart bomb
smartie splash
smear of evidence
smooch gasket
snotglo
snowy bus stop
spiderbite
spit shine
spitvalve cork
splat
stan the man tan
steer me right
step aside
stop that girl
storm watch
strawberries 'n hogwash
strawberry shortlips
subgreen
subtle wallflower
sugar wafer flesh
swak juice
sweatwafer
swirl of pearl
swishblade
take the redeye
takes two to tango
taming of the blue
tan o'shanter
tappan zee
tarnished smackers
tarzan legburn
tattletale tomato
tawny town
tell it to your ma
ten foot lollipop
that's a girl all right
thunderhead
today's hilites
tongue twister
too green
tu-lips-a-dancing
twine boy
two alarm fire
ungreen
vended coffee
ventricular violet
vermillionaire
viagra
violet verve
virginia creeper
vulvacious
waffle butter
walgreen
waltzing heliotrope
wannabe green
weeping prune
weiner casing peony
whack it up white
whatcha-in-fer
wheatina
whey down south in dixie
whisper taupe
white knuckle
yam fight
yar matey
yellow cardstock
yesterdaze

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