Create a wonderful Lipstick drawing with piece of cake, step-by-stride instructions and video tutorial. Great for kids and beginner artists! Spring to the step-by-step instructions. Cosmetics like lipstick have been used since aboriginal times. The ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, and others used lip color. Queen Elizabeth I of England used a red chemical called mercuric sulfide, a pigment also used to make vermillion paint. A cosmetic called rouge was used both as a lipstick and equally a blush on the cheeks. Today, "lipstick is made of dyes and pigments in a fragranced oil-wax base of operations." Beeswax, carnauba wax, or candelilla wax may be used. Lipstick is considered "an almost universal cosmetic since, together with the eyes, the