🇬🇧🇨🇳 lipstick - 口红 : English Lesson

Meaning of "lipstick" ("口红"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Lipstick is a smooth, colored stick of makeup that you twist or push up and gently rub on your lips to change their color and make them look bright, shiny, or fancy.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I tried lipstick for a magic trick, but all I turned into was a clown with wiggly lines.

I put on purple lipstick and my friend asked if I had just finished kissing a grape.

I tried invisible lipstick, which is also known as absolutely nothing on your lips.

My friend’s lipstick was so shiny, the sun practically needed sunglasses.

Ancient Mesopotamians crushed gemstones to make early lipstick, so wearing it used to be like putting sparkly rocks on your lips.

She pulled the new red lipstick from her bag and checked the lipstick in the café window. A smear of lipstick landed on her cup when she sipped, and another mark brightened a napkin. She laughed, put on the lipstick quickly, kissed the cup to test, then tucked the small lipstick into her pocket, pleased.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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