‘No point in lipstick’: Japan’s cosmetics sales drop as face masks become obligatory

In recent months, face masks have been hard to find in Japanese stores, but there’s one product that is not selling well: lipstick.As face mask usage became obligatory, and as more people started working from home and stopped venturing out under Japan’s coronavirus state of emergency, cosmetics stores have been left with a glut of lipsticks.“I’ve stopped wearing lipstick completely because whenever I go out we have to wear a mask and no-one can see, so there is no point,” said Takako Tomura, a…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3085100/no-point-lipstick-japans-cosmetics-sales-drop-face