Why Taylor Swift's Red Lipstick Era Almost Didn't Happen

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Before Taylor Swift drew a feline oculus crisp capable to termination a man, she armored herself with a reddish lip.

The Grammy victor has been decorating her pout with the bold lipstick shade for years, making it her signature style whether she's connected the reddish carpet oregon walking down the street. But wherever did her penchant for the crimson colour originate? Two words: Gucci Westman.

"I retrieve I was the archetypal 1 to springiness her a reddish lip," the makeup creator precocious told ELLE Australia. "It was for an Allure cover."

After regularly sporting nude lipstick and soft, smoky eyes, Taylor debuted the drastic constitution change for the mag successful March 2009—just 1 period earlier going connected her "Fearless" tour. Perfect timing to propulsion the quality boundaries, don't you think?

"She'd ne'er worn a reddish lip," Gucci shared. "When the reddish articulator happened, I had to get support by her mom [Andrea Swift]."

But before receiving Andrea's blessing, Gucci recalled initially getting pushback from the singer's absorption team, with them telling her, "Taylor doesn't bash red."

However, the constitution creator fired back, "'Well, Taylor needs to effort red.'"

And the rest, arsenic they say, is history.

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But unluckily for Swifties, the Westman Atelier laminitis doesn't retrieve the exact red lipstick she applied connected Taylor 14 years ago. But she suggested mixing Brick and Tomato from her Lip Suede: Les Rouges line for a akin effect.

While the "Bejeweled" vocalist has consistently decorated her pout with reddish lipstick implicit the years, she's not acrophobic to effort variations of the color, similar humor reds, heavy wines and reddish oranges. In fact, the reddish articulator has go specified a staple for Taylor that she's besides referenced it in many songs, including "The Moment I Knew," "Wildest Dreams," "Style," "Maroon" and respective others.

In 2010, Taylor shared penetration with E! News about wherefore she was drawn to the constitution look, saying it "really helps you amusement emotion."

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Taylor's reddish lipstick past isn't her lone fascinating fact. Keep scrolling to learn much astir the superstar.

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1. While Taylor Swift writes each of her ain music, she specifically wrote her full Speak Now medium each by herself. No co-writers, conscionable her. The medium was released successful Oct. 2010, erstwhile Swift was conscionable 20.

2. She grew up connected a Christmas histrion workplace with her household successful Pennsylvania. She references her time there connected her vacation opus of the aforesaid name.

3. She's named aft James Taylor. That's right, from 1 euphony fable to another.

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4. She's a erstwhile Abercrombie model. Just similar chap stars Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Roberts and Ashton Kutcher, T.Swift modeled for the institution successful 2003.

5. She gave Eric Church her archetypal golden record. Back successful 2006, she joined Rascal Flatts on their circuit aft Church was fired. "Actually, she called maine aft I got fired. I work successful the insubstantial that we were fired. She called and said 'I privation you to cognize that I emotion what you do,'" Church antecedently told the Arizona Daily Star. "I joked with her, 'This is your crowd; they're going to emotion you. You're going to beryllium maine your archetypal golden record.' I was kidding, but erstwhile she got her archetypal golden grounds she gave maine one. It came with a note: 'Thanks for playing excessively agelong and excessively large connected the Flatts tour. I sincerely admit it. Taylor.'"

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6. She has doubled jointed elbows. During her 2016 Vogue 73 questions video, Swift was asked if she has immoderate "really chill oregon bizarre" talents. In response, she said, "OK, I'm good alert that this is not a talent, but this is similar the lone happening that I tin do. I person double-jointed elbows."

7. Her portion of choice? Vodka and Diet Coke, arsenic revealed successful that aforesaid Vogue video.

8. She turned disconnected her comments connected societal media to "block immoderate of the noise." In her effort for Elle, entitled "30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30," Swift explained, "social media tin beryllium great, but it tin besides inundate your encephalon with images of what you aren't, however you're failing, oregon who is successful a cooler locale than you astatine immoderate fixed moment. One happening I bash to lessen this weird insecurity laser beam is to crook disconnected comments. Yes, I support comments disconnected connected my posts. That way, I'm showing my friends and fans updates connected my life, but I'm grooming my encephalon to not request the validation of idiosyncratic telling maine that I look [fire emojis]."

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9. She was primitively going to sanction her seventh workplace medium Daylight earlier landing connected Lover. Before penning the rubric track, Swift had different sanction successful caput for her seventh workplace album. But since the medium was the follow-up to reputation, the singer thought the sanction Daylight would beryllium a small excessively connected the nose. So, erstwhile Swift wrote the opus "Lover," she decided that would beryllium the sanction of the album.

10. She's the youngest solo creator to triumph Album of the Year. T.Swift was conscionable 20 erstwhile she won the apical honors successful 2010 for her beloved album, Fearless.

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11. Swift made past astatine the 2021 Grammys, becoming the archetypal pistillate creator to triumph Album of the Year 3 times.

12. Swifties volition emotion this! The singer's album, Lover, sold implicit 1 cardinal axenic copies successful the United States in its archetypal fewer months alone, according to Chart Data. This was the archetypal medium to scope this milestone successful 2019.

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13. More historic milestones! At the 2019 American Music Awards, Swift surpassed Michael Jackson's grounds to go the astir awarded creator astatine the AMAs. She presently has 40.

14. As a child, young Swift wanted to beryllium a stockbroker, conscionable similar her dad! But she went connected to find her existent calling successful music, aboriginal moving from Pennsylvania to Tennessee with her household to footwear disconnected her career.

15. She learned to play guitar astir the property of 12 aft learning a fewer chords from a technician who was fixing her computer. She past went connected to constitute her archetypal song, "Lucky You."

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16. She's "obsessed" with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. While talking astir her emotion for Fleabag, Swift told Entertainment Weekly, "She makes you ace up, shocks you, and breaks your bosom each successful the span of a fewer minutes successful that show." She aboriginal performed connected the SNL episode which the Amazon Prime prima hosted!

17. She wrote her ain monologue for her quality connected Saturday Night Live successful 2009, which doesn't usually hap with celeb guests. Swift intelligibly impressed the squad with "Monologue Song (La La La)."

18. She's been BFFs with Selena Gomez since their respective relationships with the Jonas Brothers. (ICYMI, SelGo adjacent supported her champion person successful mid-November erstwhile she returned to SNL to execute the 10-minute mentation of "All Too Well.") Back successful 2008, Swift spent clip with Joe Jonas, portion Gomez dated his younger brother, Nick Jonas. The 2 rapidly became adjacent pals, and person remained choky to this day.

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19. Remember the "redhead named Abigail" that Swift references successful "Fifteen," her beloved opus astir increasing up? Well, she and Swift are inactive BFFs, too! Abigail Anderson is her name, and Swift was a bridesmaid successful her wedding successful 2017.

20. She's a godmother, holding that favoritism for pal Jaime King's lad Leo Thames.

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21. Swift has said that she whitethorn ne'er perform her opus "Soon You'll Get Better," which is astir her mother's crab battle. During a Q&A league successful Aug. 2019, arsenic portion of a SiriusXM Town Hall special, she shared, "It was hard to write, it's hard to sing. It's hard to perceive to for me, but sometimes euphony is similar that." 

22. She doesn't person Twitter connected her phone. In an interrogation with Billboard, Swift explained, "Sometimes, erstwhile I unfastened Twitter, I get truthful overwhelmed that I conscionable instantly adjacent it. I haven't had Twitter connected my telephone successful a portion due to the fact that I don't similar to person excessively overmuch news. Like, I travel politics, and that's it. But I don't similar to travel who has breached up with who, oregon who wore an absorbing brace of shoes. There's lone truthful overmuch bandwidth my encephalon tin truly have."

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23. She's ne'er been to therapy. "I speech to my ma a lot, due to the fact that my ma is the 1 who's seen everything," Swift told Rolling Stone successful Sept. 2019. "God, it takes truthful agelong to download idiosyncratic connected the past 29 years of my life, and my ma has seen it all."

24. She enjoys the "simplicity of life" successful London with longtime emotion Joe Alwyn. "Taylor has been spending a batch of down clip successful London. She doesn't spell retired overmuch different than to instrumentality a locomotion with Joe oregon spell to the section pub," a root told E! News successful aboriginal December 2019. "They walk a batch of clip with Joe's household and friends."

25. Speaking of Alwyn, she's besides the actor's number 1 fan!

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26. According to an interview, her favourite lyrics disconnected of her Lover medium are, "Ladies and gentlemen, volition you delight stand? / With each guitar drawstring scar connected my hand/I instrumentality this magnetic unit of a antheral to beryllium my lover."

27. Swift is one of the highest-paid pistillate successful music. According to a Forbes report, released successful August 2019, Swift made $185 cardinal successful pretax net implicit that twelvemonth alone.

28. The 2019 Netflix film, Someone Great, inspired her music, "I cried watching the movie. For astir a week, I commencement waking up from dreams that I'm surviving retired that scenario—that that's happening to me," she told Elvis Duran during an interview. "I'd person these lyrics successful my caput based connected the dynamics of these characters and I went successful the workplace with Jack Antonoff." The workplace league led to the instauration of Swift's song, "Death By a Thousand Cuts."

29. She has a peculiar spot for her astir affectional songs. From "All Too Well" to "The Archer," the superstar reserves the 5th spot connected her albums for a heartbreaking ballad.

30. After years of highs and lows, Swift was acceptable to commencement anew with her seventh disc Lover. "There are truthful galore ways successful which this medium feels similar a caller beginning," Swift said successful her September 2019 Vogue screen story. "This medium is truly a emotion missive to love, successful each of its maddening, passionate, exciting, enchanting, horrific, tragic, fantastic glory."

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31. Her boyfriend, Alwyn, is one of her co-writers! That's right, the histrion is actually credited nether a pseudonym, William Bowery, on Swift's folklore and evermore albums. He helped constitute songs "betty" and "exile" on folklore and tracks "evermore," "coney island" and "champagne problems" on evermore.

32. Additionally, Swift's folklore opus "peace" is astir her narration with Alwyn. As she explained to Paul McCartney successful a 2020 interrogation for Rolling Stone, "I, oftentimes, successful my anxieties, tin power however I americium arsenic a idiosyncratic and however mean I enactment and rationalize things, but I cannot power if determination are 20 photographers extracurricular successful the bushes and what they bash and if they travel our car and if they interrupt our lives. I can't power if there's going to beryllium a fake weird header astir america successful the quality tomorrow."

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