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"Red is the colour is a series of portraits of women wearing the blood of their period as lipstick. Whilst in Western society menstrual blood is considered a taboo, ancient tribes venerated it and by applying on or around the mouth to signal the arrival of menstruate, made lipstick one of the first cosmetics." Ingrid Berthon-Moine.