Sappho Cosmetics?
October 24th, 2008 Sassafras <div class=\"postavatar\">
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Ok, so maybe I’ve been living under some sort of rock, but this is the first I’ve ever heard of Sappho cosmetics- a new makeup brand that’s targeting to the L word crowd (I will resist delving into my *huge* issues with the L word and the ways in which it reinscribes heteronormative femininity and how folks have continually referenced characters as being femmes….).
I mean just for the name it might score some points with The Femme Show’s own Beatrice Llewellyn and Phillis Troubridge of SPPSSM ; ) but I haven’t made up my mind what I think about it. I think that maybe my main issue with them is about how they were described on AfterEllen where the ‘lipstick lesbian’ lines were flowing freely. I’m biased, and I’m pretty sure I’ve referenced it here before, but I HATE the term lipstick lesbian so I guess that didn’t immediately make me fall in love with the product. I’ll admit that their mission of “making up fearlessly” and “learning how to make up and being as daring as you please” is enticing, though I doubt it will be pulling any business away from my drugstore cheap makeup anytime soon, after all I don’t see them with the colors and intensity that I demand from my cosmetics….
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