Dark lip is the only fashion statement you need to make for 2016

There’s only one statement lip for the 2016 party season: all hail the return of the gothic dark lip – and just in time for Halloween too, says Sarah Nicole Prickett

‘Insensitive to red,” a heartbreaking phrase, is technically a description of early black-and-white film, which converted the colours of blood and red lipstick to black.

Elsa Lanchester’s lips were painted redder than her auburn hair for the 1935s The Bride of Frankenstein; the makeup artist on the film based her look on a 3,300-year-old bust of Nefertiti, who announced her power by blackening her eyes, reddening her lips and dyeing her nails with dark henna.