By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
Most everyone experiences dry or chapped lips whether from a seasonal cold, being outside in the frigid weather, sun, wind or just from being inside with the heat on. Regardless of the cause, dry lips can be cured by any number of products from heavily marketed, never-fail moisturizing salves to old-wives remedies but — if you ask 9-year-old Victoria Leavitt of Connor, what she prefers, she most likely will say, Lip Gloss, of course.
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Victoria Leavitt works on placing her collection of 192 Lip Gloss containers just right in the display case at the Caribou Public Library where they may be viewed over the next two months. Assisting with the display efforts is Victoria’s mother Jill. Story on page 3.
Leavitt, a fourth-grade student at the Connor School, recently decided that it would be nice to share her very unique, yet sensible collection of Lip Gloss in a display case at the Caribou Public Library. So on March 2, right after school, assisted by her mother Jill and younger sister Jessica, Victoria proceeded to organize her variety of Lip Gloss containers — all 192 of them.
“It all started on our 100th day of school, when students bring in 100 of something to share,” said the very articulate 9-year-old. “I asked my Nana (Barbara Walker) what I could bring and she said why not take your Lip Gloss collection? Everyone at school was very excited about it and thought it was a very unique collection,” she added.
As with most serious collectors, Leavitt separates her Lip Gloss into specific categories ranging from odd shaped ones to very unusual ones such as the mood gloss which changes colors depending on the user’s mood; one that resembles a snow-globe, a glittery gumball; one that tastes like the Easter Peeps marshmallow treats; tubes that look like different types of soda; to a fruity one that is a keychain to those that look like miniature Yankee Candle jars.
“Every time we go to the mall,” said Leavitt, “my Mom or my Nana buys me a new Lip Gloss and sometimes I get them as gifts from my friends, pointing out one in particular — that one was a gift from one of my friends during a pageant — it has a lot of good memories,” she said.
Collecting the popular Lip Gloss for the past two years Leavitt doesn’t just keep them to display — like all ladies she always has one handy and “I definitely use a different one everyday, it depends on what I’m wearing.”
The unique Lip Gloss collection will be on display at the Caribou Public Library over the next two months.
Aroostook Republican photo/Barb Scott
Victoria Leavitt has nearly 200 lip glosses on loan to the Caribou Public Library.
