I think it's kind of stupid but I don't see how it is punch-a-baby horrible.

Thank god it's a limited item.

Oh for fuck's sake. Seriously, who needs to die to put an end to this kind of crap? Will it take a dinosaur killing sized asteroid, or should I just pray for H1N1 "Swine" Flu to kill everyone outright?

Sounds pretty sexy to me.

Lip Venom V is not your typical DuWop venom.

I have NO IDEA what this sentence means.

This whole "Lip Venom" product line is weird; It's basically lip gloss that contains cinnamon oil. The theory being that it will irritate the skin on your lips causing them to swell/plump 0_o I think I am more disturbed by this whole concept then the blatant money grab of sticking a twilight logo on the packaging. My poor lips cower in fear of this product.

That's histerical. "Venom-laced?" What on earth is that supposed to mean? Is it the avacado and olive oil (perfect for your vegetarian vamps, of course)? Or is it just a dumb marketing ploy that means they put nothing in their product, but you can pretend Edward spit in it to make you feel---loved, stalked, whatever? I think I'll stay with my Clinique lipstick, thanks; my color just happens to be called "twilight nude" and I snicker ever time I apply it.

@ Merle:

Hah, thanks for the explanation. I just checked their product line, too. Still weird, though. I like my lips nonlethal, thanks.

According to their website, 'lip venom' is not only a whole line of lip plumper, but was the first ever. The description on their site (and I quote): 'The result: fuller bee stung lips.' yummy. They also have 'anti-venom', so there's whole theme going.

Not that I was going to buy it anyway, but it sells for $16 a pop, which sounds kinda pricey to me, seeing as how its 0.12 fl oz.

Hmmm... venom... Part of me hopes this is what Baroness uses in the GIJoe film, just to piss everyone off even more.

I find all these Twilight posts delightfully absurd! Keep it up.

Naive teenage girls will buy ANYTHING!

Also there was a product (NOT affiliated with any movie) a while ago called something like Lip Venom and it was supposed to plump up your lips and it had like, snake venom in it or something like that. So this is not only stupid but unoriginal.

Maybe it goes along with the kool-aide kids. It's a cult made up of people who off themselves by applying venom/poison to their lips. One can hope anyway.

What's wrong with punching babies?

Wait a minute..

Do Vampires produce venom?
Maybe they secrete an anti-clotting agent, but no, not really.
Werewolfs? Probably not.
So, it must be ditzy teenage girls with poor taste in men that produce venom!

It's the only thing that makes sense. And it explains my experiences in high school.

I hope this product really is venomous. Sounds like a pretty efficient way to euthanise the world's retards.

As a lipstick...it sounds kinda cool...but sadly it's connected to twilight, so that killed it.

I agree that this product sounds stupid, but the first question that popped into my head was where did you get a baby to punch in the first place?

I thought Lip Venom was the lipstick that's poisonous to everyone but the wearer. The stuff that all the bad girl, sexy villianesses wore in comics when I was a kid.

This stuff, however, should definitely be poisonous to anyone touching it, just for falling for an advertising campaign that has made some of my brain cells committ seppuku in horror.

just proves that the studieo and film makers are trying to make as much money as possible in all ways and no doubt the female fans will want lady venom to add to their stash

Alright, these stupid people are just getting a little bit too carried away with this Twilight shit. Like, REALLY?
If this shit really was venom, I'd take a bottle(or whatever the hell it's in) and throw in it the creator's face! Hopefully it would be acidic venom or something.

Um...is it just me, or does this sound disturbingly like a comic/cartoon plot to trick the public into buying something hideous, that uses a *really* paper-thin cover story that somehow no one sees through and that the heroes only pick up on when a supporting character gets brainwashed/turned into a lizard-person or something?

Hmph. And people says that Hayes Office warped the American public's perception of morality and storytelling.

I tried one of those lip venom things a very long time ago and had some sort of allergic reaction to it. Either that, or it's actually supposed to make you feel like your lips are melting off and is supposed to be painful enough to make you want to kill yourself. Which, fittingly enough, feels a lot like being forced to watch/read Twilight, as I was.

....so much incentive to gouge my eyes out with a spoon.

As one of the founding members of the goth subculture in the very early 80s, I have to say: I'm sorry.

I'm sorry my obsession with horror stories and alternative music fused into something that would be embraced by so many clueless people. I just wanted to be left alone, so I dressed in black and listened to music that the other kids didn't even recognize, but which reflected my appreciation for minor keys.

I'm sorry my thrift-shopping and artistically altering my clothes has turned into a world where Hot Topic sells pre-altered punk & goth clothes for designer prices.

I'm sorry Anne Rice exploited the hopeless romantics in my clique by significantly altering vampire legends into the modern "good looking, misunderstood guy with super powers" model.

I'm even more sorry that, as a fan of role-playing games, my interests may have melded somehow and caused White Wolf to create "Vampire: The Masquerade", which essentially enabled all the closeted cosplayers, and made an entire generation of bubblegum pop-princesses turn into kiddy goths because they liked the romance elements and V:TM was a great way to get pawed by guys in dark cloaks without seeming like a slut.

I really, deeply apologize for my little clique being the seed which caused Marilyn Manson to be perceived as "goth", this inspiring a crowd of unimaginative morons to don "goth" clothes and prance around with lunchboxes in the 90s.

All this led to Steph Meyer writing this vile compendium of preppy-girl-turned-pseudogoth Mary Sue fanfic. It's our fault. If we'd known this would happen, we'd have just remained regular new wave/punk/alt rockers and left the fascination with horror and the macabre out of it.

We're all sorry.

ZeroCorpse, this is hands down my favorite comment you've ever made.

Damn Zero, that's insightful.
I can't accept your apology though, because it's not your fault people exploit something into the mainstream for profit.
You can't blame anyone but the responsible parties. If someone does decide to go and kill Steph Meyer please do us all a favour and stake her in the heart for irony's sake.

Zerocorpse, it isn't your fault. No need to apologize. Never underestimate what people will do to make a quick buck.

PS I've bought Hannah Montana waffles for my daughter. Yes, there are boxes of waffles with Miley Cyrus' face on them. I thought that was a tacky tie-in. But it's not up there with Twilight makeup. Yeesh!

Is it just me or do teenage girls have terrible taste in music/books/clothes/TV shows/movies these days?

@Merle:

Wow. Just....wow. The world is a very strange place. Lip plumping....

Raaaarrrggg! Grrraaahhhhhhhhh! NEAAAAARRRGGHHHH!
*huff* *huff* *huff* Reergh, ahhr, rrrr... guh.

Luckily, there are already tons of lip glosses and crap with menthol(atum) in them that do the same thing and AREN'T associated with Twilight. In case anyone is intrigued by the product but revolted at the theme.

"Now You Too Can Look Like You Want to Abstain from Sex with a Sparkly Vampire"

But we DO want to abstain from sex with a sparkly vampire. Frankly, if most of us thought all men were like Edward "Creepy Stalker" Cullen, the Twilight series would be the most effective contraceptives ever invented, because NONE of you would ever be getting any ever again. I'd rather get my "lip venom" from an actual snake, thanks.

Does anyone know what the extra V in lip venom V is suposed to mean... virginity?

twilight is a monster that JUST WONT DIE

Lip Venom? A lipstick for girls who like Symbiotes? Interesting, although you can't really tell it's by Marvel since there's no picture of Wolver...

Twilight? TWILIGHT?!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKK!

So is it like pedophilia if I eat Hannah Montanna's waffles?

@Magical Shrimp: Thanks for the tip. However, my brain is so disgusted by this that I think even regular lip gloss will feel tainted by association and thus unwearable now.

I'm not one to swoon over bloggers but honestly, lines like this:

"The first time I read this, I blacked out at its awfulness, and when I came to, I was punching a baby -- that's how horrible it was"

Are what keep me coming back to this blog multiple times a day.

Holy crap, that's horrible. And funny. But mostly horrible.

...i didn't know anyone else used "punching babies" to convey rage. seems we think alike. at least in that respect. and in our overall disgust for this Twatlight crap.