What are media? For me, it's any medium through which we express ourselves, whether from one to one,

from one to many, or just from one to one's own self. We can do it with our style, our hair,

especially our glasses, choices that express not just our aesthetic, but our politics, too. And so for this end of year

fundraising effort, we're offering something new. It was Poppy King's idea, lipstick designer extraordinaire.

Last year, El Australia listed her Frog Prince lipstick as one of the most iconic shades of all time.

She's a devoted listener to, so she designed in collaboration with the show,

a special lipstick offered entirely free of charge.

To us, that is.

Not to you.

The singular item offered this hour is an on-the-media-inspired lipstick called Well Red. That's R-E-D-R-D-red.

Stay tuned to the end of this interview for instructions on how to get your hands on one of these

lipsticks. Anyway, a while back, I asked Poppy about her unified theory of lipstick.

My theory is that unlike other makeup, you know, mascara, blush, which conceals, corrects or enhances,

lipstick is very much about who you are on the inside.

But what if you're a coral on the inside, but burgundy is what suits you?

The best way I can describe it is Meg Ryan and Scarlett Johansson, okay, if you picture

both of those ladies, they have very similar coloring, but they're totally different personas.

And your persona is a combination of nature and nurture.

Lipstick is much more about the gateway to who you are and the messages that you're giving yourself, most importantly,

and then the message that you want to give the outside world.

For you, a creator, it isn't just what you want to tell about yourself to the outside world.

It's how you interpret the outside world in your creations, as you've told us, you look at the

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