Fifty-five years ago today, audiences first met Holly Golightly when Breakfast at Tiffany’s debuted on the big screen. The year was 1961 and the croissant-eating, party-throwing, “Moon River”–crooning Audrey Hepburn stole her way into Hollywood history as she swiped a pale pink tube of lipstick on her mouth in the backseat of a car representing wild things everywhere. The plot-moving beauty moment would be borrowed endlessly.
For Thelma & Louise, the envelope-pushing film about friendship, love, and lipstick, the makeup product earns an oft-ignored supporting role, set perfectly in place as Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis take the first optimistic selfie of their soon-to-be wayward vacation. And later, when Thelma accidentally loses their savings to a handsome, cunning cowboy (played by Brad Pitt), as a sign of lost hope, Louise throws her lipstick out of the car. Because, as the film proves, when you know who your friends are (and what your shade is), nothing can stop you.
The heroines in our favorite movies are meant to inspire us, and they do—right down to our makeup palettes. If watching Pam Grier in Foxy Brown doesn’t make you want to take a kung fu class and paint your mouth a particularly deep shade of chestnut, you may want to check your pulse. Here, a look back at some of the most memorable mouths in film, and the modern shades you’ll be wearing the morning after you revisit them, because, to paraphrase Ms. Golightly, a girl shouldn’t read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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