# Allergies and fish lips **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 3, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergies-and-fish-lips/1151 "2000-04-03T20:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergies-and-fish-lips/1151/1 "2000-04-03T20:24:00Z")
In Cecil’s latest column, he talks about fish scales in lipstick. Now, I know some people (well, one person, but I’ve heard of others) that are allergic to seafood. Has anyone ever heard of someone having an allergic reaction to the herring in Revlon’s Passionate Pucker Purple? The link is: [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000331.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000331.html) * * * This is getting hard. Somebody relieve me. (A Wallian exclamation) ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergies-and-fish-lips/1151/2 "2000-04-03T22:37:00Z")
Well, allergies to cosmetics aren’t uncommon, but I’m not sure what the ususal culprits are. I think, though, that when people have seafood allergies, they are generally to shellfish, not regular fish. ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/allergies-and-fish-lips/1151/3 "2000-04-08T02:49:00Z")
Passionate Purple?? fishy isn’t it! That explains the scales on some womens lips. ## Yes people are allergic to some kinds of lipsticks, maybe it is the fish scales. whatever