Blue Lipstick and Bullies

Teenage Aliee, Circa Myspace Years

Above is a photo of me with earrings all over my face. I was probably 16 or so at the time this was taken. Its a selfie(before the word "selfie" was a thing) that I took with a flip phone. But the metal hanging from my face is not the point of this. The point of me typing this is whats on my lips.
Blue.
Before bold make-up was the hot thing to do, before Kesha wore blue lipstick in her awesome video for "We R Who We R" there was me. You couldn't find blue lipstick at Wal-Mart, I found mine in my friend's purse. Calm down, I didn't steal it. My friend was more on the girly side of things than I was at the time so she gave it to me. It was Wet N' Wild a dark, glittery, sapphire.  I was growing up around the time of the Emo Trinity and I was into it. Amy Lee was my queen and I sooo hardcore meaning I was no stranger to getting made fun of. Enter our blue lipstick friend. Enter Jr. high. I'm not sure how long I was wearing it before someone said "You look like you blew a Smurf!" "You have Smurf cum on your lips!" It started with friendly teasing from friends, in fact it was my friends who said it. It was funny at first considering that I hadn't even been kissed at this point let alone given blowjobs to small, blue creatures that may make a good stew.  After a while, it got old. I loved the color because it was different and unlike anything my friends wore. It wasn't hurting my feelings in the kind of way that has you running to the bathroom and locking your self in a stall. It hurt my feelings in the kind of way that it pissed me fuck off. But, these were my friends, my group my "squad" if you will. So I said nothing, and never wore it again. It finally broke or went bad and I threw it away.
Years later I started wearing blue again. The pastel goth trend is the new emo and I love it. Pretty pastel colors with laces and gothy boots. It was emo meets girly. Thanks to this trend Hard Candy made an ice blue lipgloss. I got it in a Christmas gift set that my husband gave me and its amazing. Its mint flavored and looks really cool. The only comment I got was from my family(they didn't like it  due to breathing problems I had as a baby, me walking around with blue lips wasn't a good sight for them and I totally understand that)
Fast forward to being at work, I'm doing one of my favorite things. Stocking the makeup, when I see it. Blue lipstick. The same shade that I got made of fun for wearing was now right here. Along with dark purple, bright blue, and even white! I ended up getting the white but put off getting the blue because I just did not want to be pissed about that stupid joke all over again.  Last week my husband and I went and saw Suicide Squad. I loved so much that I did a cosplay of Harley Quinn. I went out and got that blue lipstick. And It looked bomb

My Harley Cosplay.

I'm so happy to be wearing this lipstick again. I missed it so much. It not as dark as black(no shit) and for some makeup looks it looks better.
I stopped wearing something that I loved for almost TEN YEARS because of comments made by other people. Almost ten fucking years! So when you see a girl in blue lipstick or a boy with eyeliner or anything that you may come up with a shitty comment about. Keep it to your fucking self because you aren't the first person who has said that to them and this may be the first time that they have worn that thing in a long time because of people like you. So to the blue lipstick wears, wear on. Fucking wear on!

Me, Today. Like Right Now. I just took this