Long-lasting lipstick was one of the first modern cosmetics of its kind, one that took advantage of advances in chemistry and was designed with improved customer experience in mind. The product was the brainchild of entrepreneur, inventor and chemist Hazel Gladys Bishop, who demonstrated throughout her life that an exceptional combination of persistence, resilience and intelligence makes success possible in a variety of fields. For generations, women put up with lipsticks that smeared. In the 1940s Hazel Bishop decided enough with lipstick that did not last. Working by day for a chemical company, at night she conducted lipstick-making experiments in her mother’s kitchen. After more than 300 attempts, Bishop successfully created a smear-proof lipstick. Her invention was a smash success leaving a great impact in the cosmetic industry. Today, cosmetics constitute a multi-billion dollar chemical industry.
Hazel Bishop was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on August 17, 1906. After......
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