Although not very appealing recipe for lipstick: she made hers from ants and beetles. She used the ants as the base and crushed carmine beetles for their deep,red color in 1884 the first modetn lipstick was introduced in Paris it was a solid stick made of castor oil beeswax and animal fat by the 1940s the use of lipstick by glamorous hollywood stars had led to its widespread popularity duringthis period rotating lipstick in a tune was invented today the average woman owns eight lipsticks