Fox lips

Fox lips
 n.pl.— «The new blond is lips, specifically what people inside the industry call “Fox lips,” and they are worn by Fox’s Laurie Dhue, Fox’s Gretchen Carlson, and MSNBC’s Rita Cosby, three top blondes. Achieved in the makeup room in a procedure that sounds one step this side of cosmetic surgery, I’m told that powder, pencil, and paint can turn even the weakest mouth into a juicy vagina dentata.» —“TV’s Aryan Sisterhood” by Jack Schafer Slate Feb. 21, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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