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PolitiFactCulture & entertainment

Says that in 1770 "British parliament banned lipstick, saying it had the power to seduce men into marriage, which was classified as witchcraft."

Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire

Research from related reporting discusses the same 1770 British Parliament act described in the claim. The article says the act applied to women who used “scents, paints and cosmetics” to “seduce or betray into matrimony” a subject of the Crown, and that the penalty was the law then in force against witchcraft. The excerpt supports the claim’s central description of the act, but it does not provide the act’s title, reproduce a full legal document, or describe how the article verified the wording. It therefore establishes what this related report says about the measure, rather than supplying further documentation or investigative methods.