1 Red Lipstick Gives 5 Extra Seconds of Attention

Did the picture above catch your attention? A research study done at University of Manchester found that red lipstick draws more attention to your mouth. Especially with the opposite sex.

In their study, they traced the eye movements of 50 men who were looking at different pictures of women wearing different shades of makeup. They found that men spent longer looking at the pictures of women wearing red lipstick.

They found that they spent 7.3 seconds staring at red lips, 6.7 seconds on those with pink lips, and 2.2 seconds on those who wore no lipstick. Wearing red lipstick gets you an extra five seconds of attention from men. Seven seconds may not be a long time, but it’s better than 2 seconds.