COVID 19,LIPSTICK INDUSTRY AND NEW EDUCATION POLICY 2020

Lipstick is one of the most favourite cosmetics of women .It has been with us since the dawn of civilization. Covid 19, social distancing and mask culture have cast a gloom over lipstick industry all over the world. Present study makes a brief history of our encounters with lipsticks since ancient Mesopotamia to Modern world. It analyses how covid and its mask culture is possibly going to affect lipstick industry from demand side. At the end of the article, the investigator analyses the socio economic impacts of child labour involved in the supply chains of mica, one of the major ingredients of the lipstick, in the background of New Education Policy 2020 of Government of India.