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There are a few days left to get ready for a 2015 New Year's Eve party to ring in the best year of your life!
Kissing at the stroke of midnight is a long standing tradition. Perhaps a statement colored lip is needed?
If you need a lipstick to look memorable in, try Glo Minerals in snapdragon for NYE 2015 parties. $17.00 on the GloMinerals website.
Where did the tradition of kissing on New Year’s come from? Historians date this practice back to the Ancient Romans who would throw a big party every New Year’s Eve called the Festival of Saturnalia where they would kiss and generally debauch one another as much as possible.
Later on, the English and Germans would celebrate by kissing the first person they met when the bells rang twelve o’clock. Europeans have also traditionally held masked balls on New Year’s Eve for hundreds of years. In these traditions, the mask symbolizes evil spirits from the old year and the kiss (after removing the mask) is an act of purification.
There is also a superstitious element to it — supposedly kissing those closest to you at the stroke of midnight will strengthen the bonds of your relationship in the year to come.
Tradition and superstition aside, don’t waste your New Year’s kiss. It is one of our most life-affirming pleasures and only comes around so many times. Tonight, use it as an excuse to grab hold of someone you love, someone you’ve had a crush on for ages, or someone who is standing by the drinks table with nice lips. Throw some confetti in the air, grab them round the waist, lean them back and kiss them with everything you’ve got.
Happy New Year!
Reposted from www.kissingmatters.com and written by Josh Shayne
Remember: you are beautiful! Thank you for visiting the blog and check back for promotions and beauty giveaways!
There are a few days left to get ready for a 2015 New Year's Eve party to ring in the best year of your life!
Kissing at the stroke of midnight is a long standing tradition. Perhaps a statement colored lip is needed?
If you need a lipstick to look memorable in, try Glo Minerals in snapdragon for NYE 2015 parties. $17.00 on the GloMinerals website.
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Later on, the English and Germans would celebrate by kissing the first person they met when the bells rang twelve o’clock. Europeans have also traditionally held masked balls on New Year’s Eve for hundreds of years. In these traditions, the mask symbolizes evil spirits from the old year and the kiss (after removing the mask) is an act of purification.
There is also a superstitious element to it — supposedly kissing those closest to you at the stroke of midnight will strengthen the bonds of your relationship in the year to come.
Tradition and superstition aside, don’t waste your New Year’s kiss. It is one of our most life-affirming pleasures and only comes around so many times. Tonight, use it as an excuse to grab hold of someone you love, someone you’ve had a crush on for ages, or someone who is standing by the drinks table with nice lips. Throw some confetti in the air, grab them round the waist, lean them back and kiss them with everything you’ve got.
Happy New Year!
Reposted from www.kissingmatters.com and written by Josh Shayne
Remember: you are beautiful! Thank you for visiting the blog and check back for promotions and beauty giveaways!
