Helpful hint of the day: avoid using the communal lipstick.
From the NY Daily News:
A Harlem woman claims in a lawsuit that she got herpes at a Rihanna concert in Brooklyn from lipstick the singer endorsed.
Starkeema Greenidge, 28, alleges she contracted the virus when a representative of MAC Cosmetics applied a used tube of RiRi Woo to her smackers.
“I wasn’t able to work for two weeks. It cost me a lot of money,” Greenidge, a waitress, told the Daily News on Wednesday.
[…]
“(MAC) didn’t use a fresh or new lipstick tube, but rather one that had been used for other patrons,” the suit charges.
Naturally, Twitter couldn’t help but make a connection:
A NY woman is suing Rihanna,saying a sample of her new lipstick gave her herpes. Ironically, the color of her sore was sort of a Chris Brown
— Tim Hunter (@timwack) May 31, 2013
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/340175025783066625
The colour was "Chris" Brown “@nationalpost: : Rihanna-branded MAC lipstick gave woman herpes, lawsuit claims http://t.co/ZJLR51GWKM”
— Paul Done (@em_pd) May 31, 2013
https://twitter.com/martyxtaylor/status/340445118756712448
It’s getting so you can’t use the same lipstick dozens of other people have used without developing a nasty cold sore. What’s the world coming to?
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