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Women's Masaail The Majlis Vol 21 No 12, p.2

If the lipstick does not contain any haraam ingredient and it also allows water to pass through to the lips, will it be permissible to use?

Question

If the lipstick does not contain any haraam ingredient and it also allows water to pass through to the lips, will it be permissible to use?

Answer

Women apply lipstick, not for their husbands. They apply lipstick when they go out of the house, and the intention is to attract gazes. Women who apply lipstick are akin to adulteresses. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "A woman who applies perfume and passes by a gathering is like an adulteress." Furthermore, even if the intention is strictly for her husband and only at home, then too it is haraam since the ingredients of all lipsticks are haraam, and it prevents the validity of wudhu and ghusl. Lipstick is haraam.

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