17. If I Put on Lip Gloss Every Time I’m Around Him?
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Ah, the age-old issue of lip gloss, debated by scholars since time immemorial! Or, at the very least, debated since Lil Mama’s 2007 one-hit-wonder “Lip Gloss.” If your lip gloss is constantly poppin’, are you inviting all the boys to engage in jockin’, or even to chase you after school? We actually have a scientific answer for you. Scientifically, hell yes.
According to Yahoo! Answers commenter “A,” “teen girls like shiny lips and like to bring their boyfriends[sic] attention to their lips lol.” If you constantly apply lip gloss around a certain boy, you could be flirtatiously inviting him to take a good look at your shiny, shiny mouth.
Ask yourself this question: does your lip gloss perpetually pop, or do you only put it on when he’s around? If you use it all the time, that’s merely a kind of general flirtation with the world at large. To target one’s lip gloss so that it’s poppin’ at a certain gentleman with laser-like precision, well, that’s flirting.
