Lips Like Peggy Carter, A Nerd Girl’s Adventure With Lipstick

I’m no makeup maven but I do adore lipstick. When I say lipstick I mean red lipstick. And when I say red lipstick, I mean I am on an eternal hunt to find that tube of red lipstick that speaks to my soul. I consider it the next best thing after super powers. I’m past the age where If I were a mutant, my abilities would have shown have themselves by now. (Do mutant powers even stay dormant as long when you’re in your’e 20’s?!) On another note, I highly doubt that I’m an Inhuman. I live in Southern California where yesterday the weather was in the eighties, mind you we’re in in January so I don’t imagine seeing the Terrigan mist any time soon. So….back to my original point: Red Lipstick is a super power. I was livetweeting the third episode of Agent Carter when I came across this tweet from Besame Cosmetics :

Thrilled because I had made a meme that night that would go beautifully with this tweet, I let it rip:

I continued  livetweeting the third episode  (also see the #BaeCarter and #BaegentCarter hashtags)  to find a very important revelation:

Besame Cosmetics is a Californian based luxury makeup brand that brings you “History you can wear”; vintage makeup from eras like the 1930’s and the 1950’s. So when I see women  fawning over these decades sprouting out such lines like “I wish I lived in the 1950’s!”, my first thoughts are “I’m good because I think of  of Jim Crow laws,  lynchings and the internment camps for Japanese Americans during World War II BUT I’m going to ass…