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Kate: Yeah. As we'll discuss in a little bit, I can tell you all the ingredients in it, and I could have easily called the name lip Ginger. It. It's lip venom is a very deliberate marketing strategy. So here's a video clip I found featuring Christina, one of the co-founders of DuWop, and she is applying the product onto a model and kind of talking about it. So why don't we both take a beat and watch this? Kate: So you can hear in that clip, which is kind of just like a tutorial video of just showing the product the language that she uses, right? This idea that if you, that you can feel it transform. And if you watch the video, which we will link to so you can see it for yourselves. I don't know. Doree, did you notice any transformation?
The secret behind all Lip Venom's is a blend of essential oils, which include cinnamon, wintergreen, and ginger, that cause the blood to rush to the surface of the lips, flushing and swelling them slightly. The gloss also includes jojoba and avocado oil that moisturize and give the lips intense shine. You end up with a shiny, naturally rosy pout that cannot be achieved by wearing ordinary lip gloss. Doree: I mean, that makes no sense.
Kate: I dunno. Yeah. Thank you. Rich, troubleshooter Rich, rich Deniro doing the Lord's work. Now, what I think is fascinating is the fact that this person and I am currently again, still wearing this lip vena. My lips are still tingling, but the fact that she thought she felt her lips feel larger. Did you catch her say that? Kate: But today I'm taking you on a journey, Doree. And we're not talking about Noxzema though. We are talking. Talk about a product that is also tingly. Doree: Wow. Yeah, I mean, I definitely bought into it also, even though I don't think I really believed that it did anything, but it was so of the times. As one of the most innovative brands in beauty, DuWop has made a name for itself by figuring out what women need and creating it. Doree: Well, she still had two younger children at home, but I don't, and don't know if this was a conscious thing, but it didn't seem coincidental to me that she really took to this show in a way that, I mean, my mom is also someone who gets very into TV shows, but she got very into Felicity to the point where when I lived in Fort Green in the mid aughts, so did Carrie Russell, the star of Felicity, and one day we saw her walking down the street and she passed us. We were walking one direction, she was walking in the other. And when she passes us, my mom turns to me and she goes, Oh my God. And was freaking out almost collapsing with ecstasy. And then she and Carrie had just had a baby, and my mom was like, you should offer to babysit
Kate: So this product kind of took hold during this time, and this was happening at a time when lip injections and lip filler was becoming more common, but it hadn't quite reached the peak of what we've seen in the last five to 10 years. So you'll see kind of the parallel, and it also kind of mirrors the obsession in, and when we say beauty, I'm talking about really white beauty culture, right? With bigger lips. So before we get into that a little bit deeper, I want to share with you, Doree, a news clip from a TexArkana, Texas local newscast called Test It Tuesday, in which a news anchor named rich tests out lip venom. Okay, Kate: And as we will learn today, lip venom is a product designed to un-thin your lips. And what was interesting to me in starting this research is learning that over a hundred years ago, thin lips and kind of bow lips as popularized by the silent star Clara Bow were in. The secret behind Lip Venom is a blend of essential oils, which include cinnamon, wintergreen, and ginger, that cause the blood to rush to the surface of the lips, flushing and swelling them slightly. The gloss also includes jojoba and avocado oil that moisturize and give the lips intense shine. You end up with a shiny, naturally rosy pout that cannot be achieved by wearing ordinary lip gloss. With high-quality ingredients and a collection of cool, problem solving products that you can't live without; DuWop brings you “Modern Beauty Solutions.” Kate: Okay, here we go. I'll also describe what I'm feeling. I really like to experiment with these products and product recall. And I should note, I have no lip filler or anything. I've done nothing. No lip augmentations. These are my natural lips, and I've coated it in lip venom. It has the taste of a bubble gum, like a minty bubble gum.Kate: Yeah, it was a catchall kind of product for their family. This would've been in the fifties. So I thought that was fascinating. And he was like, it's been around forever. I was like, yeah, you probably learned that in my product recall episode, dad.
For added definition, apply Lip Venom to the lip line and using a neutral lip liner press Lip Venom into the lip line. The result, the lip line looks more pronounced, creating a fuller, sexier, pout. Kate: When I first got this product, I think I came to it in 2023, no 2003, and I legitimately thought it was made with snake or Bee venom, and that it irritated your lips with the venom. And that is what made them quote plumpy. And I think what's interesting about this name and just that idea is that there was something about using the product that felt like slightly terrifying and edgy and exhilarating. And I notice when I hear language about this product that it mirrors the language of Noxzema, meaning, oh, they focus a lot on the tingling sensation and the idea that you can "feel it working." And I think this is a really interesting kind of form of language, but also marketing the idea that you, If you can physically feel the product doing something on your body, that is how you know that it is working.They also have stimulant ingredients designed to increase blood flow in the lips (such as cinnamon and menthol essential oils) to make them flush and swell. Lip Venom was the very first lip plumper on the market, creating the lip plumping category for the beauty industry. The tingly gloss uses essential oils to enhance lips' natural color and shape by increasing circulation. The result: fuller bee stung lips! To really plump up your pout, use a toothbrush to gently scrub your lips before applying Lip Venom! Kate: Okay. So, tell me what you know about this product. Doree, just me saying it, saying lip venom. What is it? What do you think of? Do anything about who makes it, do you know where you can get it, what it costs? What is your familiarity with lip venom? Kate: Look, I'm just feeling a little sexy and lusty about my product to talk about today. Maybe it's the product I put it on this morning, so maybe it's the product I'm going to be talking about. Kate: This is wild. Your mom was the last person I thought you were going to say. I really, really did not expect that.