0792NOTOrpheusEurydice

0792NOTOrpheusEurydice_Kynaston

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Eurydice Lipstick at Illamasqua.com
OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

Julian Kynaston. "Eurydice." Lipstick, Illamasqua Cosmetics.

The color is a bright fuschia pink with a matte finish. Why the color is named Eurydice is presently unknown. The Eurydice lipstick is the only color in the collection named after a specific person or character. The rest of the colors are named after random nouns or adjectives, like Atomic, Corrupt, Posture, and Shard. Whether this is an intentional usage intended to invoke an aspect of Eurydice's character or simply something that someone thought sounded good remains to be seen.

The collection also includes a shade called Underworld, an iridescent purple shade. However, it isn't clear that the Underworld and Eurydice shades are intended to be related.

Slide By CB.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.