Here's another reason not to redo your lipstick while you're on a call: the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has tested 33 leading lipsticks and found traces of lead in 60% of them. There was no difference between cheap brands and expensive brands: some discount lipsticks had no detectable lead (which proves that lipstick can be made without it) and some famous brands, such as L'Oreal Colour Riche "True Red" had up to 0.65 ppm (parts per million). In the US, candy can have up to 0.1 ppm, but that's permitted only for practical reasons - lead is naturally occurring in many substances. Still, no lead level is safe, since the neurotoxin builds up in the body throughout your lifetime. A commenter on a CTV.ca news story points out that if a woman reapplied L'Oreal Colour Riche three times a day, she would be officially lead poisoned at the 10 ppm level within three years.
Call center managers frown on their agents doing their makeup while they're supposed to be working. Obviously it's hard to type with both hands while one of them is applying lipstick. But I've always thought that cosmetics were a sign of male oppression. Do women really want to go through all that to make their bodies look good? Men don't, and we aren't as naturally soft and smooth as women are. This isn't the first time women have risked lead poisoning to meet someone else's standards for them. Cosmetic companies says that the threat of lead in lipstick is an old urban legend and they don't plan to issue a lipstick recall.
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