A Sister Trope to Anticipatory Breath Spray.
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Anime & Manga
- In chapter 11 of Yui Kamio Lets Loose, Koyagi, the president of Kiito's fan club, uses drugged cookies to trick him into thinking she's Yui and puts on lipstick in an attempt to kiss to him but is thwarted before she can plant it.
- In Ranma ½, Ranma discovers Stalker with a Crush Kodachi Kuno on the roof of the Tendo household, clearly intent on criminal mischief. Kodachi blows "paralysis powder" on Ranma, which renders him unable to move. She bends to kiss him, then realizes she'd better use lipstick first and stops to fix her makeup. Akane kicks Kodachi away from Ranma before the kiss is planted.
- In chapter 373 of the manga, one of the "attacks" Konatsu tries to use on Ranma involves him putting on lipstick to leave a kiss mark, and his stepsisters attempt to seduce him using the same attack and applying lipstick to their giant Gag Lips only for Ranma to dodge them before they can plant a kiss.
- The "Magnetic Lipstick" episode in Urusei Yatsura is built around this trope as Lum creates a special magnetic lipstick that pulls whoever's wearing it towards each other in order to force Ataru to kiss her, only for him to swipe it and attempt to trick the girls in his class to use it in order to get kisses from them, and some of the girls themselves attempting to use it to steal a kiss from Mendou with everyone's attempts ending in failure.
- In chapters 4 and 5 of "Tune in to the Midnight Heart" Nene and Arisu are acting out a script for a voice audition and after realizing it involves a kiss scene, Nene assumes that Arisu is secretly planning to kiss her for real, and puts on chapstick in anticipation. Subverted in that he turns her down for non-comedic reasons because he believes she should save it for someone she loves, but she secretly kisses him after the fact while he's sleeping
Comic Books
- Wonder Woman Vol 1: Holliday Girls and known playgirls Glamora and Bobby are shown putting on lipstick prior to events and missions which will include men around their age. Other women are often uncomfortable when the two of them are going to be around men who are in committed relationships even though they've proven time and again that while they might eye a committed man they won't mess with guys their friends are dating.
Fan Works
- In Those Obnoxious Ghosts, Lum takes advantage of Danny Phantom being un-powered to pin him down, put on lipstick and kiss the heck out of him.
Films
- In The Princess and the Frog after Naveen tells Charlotte about how the spell placed on him can only be broken with a princess's kiss, she quickly applies lipstick and attempts to kiss him before being interrupted by Tiana. Subverted slightly in that Lottie does still leave him Covered in Kisses afterwards to try breaking the spell, but it has no effect since time had already expired.
- In The Secret of My Success, Brantley makes the mistake
of complimenting the looks of his boss' wife when she's feeling unattractive. As "Oh Yeah" by Yello plays, the boss' wife prepares to seduce him (to his dismay) as she applies her lipstick.
Live-Action TV
- Happens in Drake & Josh at the end of the episode "Little Sibling", where two goth girls apply lipstick and attempt to kiss Drake before Josh helps him escape.
- In Wizards of Waverly Place, Harper briefly glosses her lips when she suggests to Justin they should kiss while locked outside the lair...while Alex is about to join a revolution to destroy the Wizard World. Justin escapes before Harper can kiss him.
Western Animation
- Batman: The Animated Series: In the episode "Pretty Poison", Poison Ivy applies poison lipstick to her lips before kissing Batman so she can poison him.
- Chowder: Happens at the beginning of the episode "A Faire to Remember" when Panini chases Chowder to have him "try out her new lipstick" and puts some on in attempt to kiss him, but he runs away before she can succeed.
- Darkwing Duck has Morgana McCawber do this a few times, sometimes to genuinely show affections, other times because she did something bad and tries to distract DD. In her introduction episode "Fungus Amongus", she even puts on a special lipstick that would have made anyone she kisses a zombie with the intent to use it on DD.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy is the page image. The Kanker Sisters regularly put on lipstick every time they're about to forcefully kiss the Eds, leaving them Covered in Kisses. The Eds, naturally, are mortified by this.
- The Fairly OddParents!:
- Done in the episode "Stupid Cupid" when Wanda is hypnotized by one of Cupid's love arrows, and stalks Wandissimo as she puts on lipstick to kiss him while he attempts to hold her off, but effect of the arrows is broken before she can kiss him.
- Also featured in the episode "Love at First Height" when Vicky mistakes an older Timmy for a supermodel, and puts on lipstick in an attempt to kiss him in the Tunnel of Love. However Timmy returns to normal as they leave the tunnel and she ends up kissing the normal version of him instead, to both their dismay.
- In Red Hot Riding Hood, Granny applies lipstick before running at top speed towards the Wolf. Wolfie ducks just in time, and Granny kisses the wall instead, leaving a huge lipstick mark on it.
- In The Proud Family, Dijonay puts on lipstick in attempts to kiss Sticky in the episodes "Surf and Turf" and "Rumors" but he runs away from her before she can.
- In Goof Troop, a female Bigfoot attempts to seduce Goofy, and puts on lipstick to try and kiss him, though it is subverted slightly in that he remains oblivious to her advances and has no clue what she's doing the entire time, rather than attempting to trying to run away from her kisses.
- Played with in Little Rural Riding Hood in that the wolf is seemingly the Abhorrent Admirer in the beginning of the short, and attempts to kiss the rural Red Riding Hood, but she apparently reciprocates and puts on lipstick to take the wolf up on it until he becomes more interested in the city Red Riding Hood and places a cow in front of the rural one before she can kiss him.
- Gender-Inverted Trope in one episode of House of Mouse - Prince John puts on lipstick before kissing Abu, who had eaten a poison apple.
- In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Something's a Ms." When Ms. Bellum enters Town Hall, she is shown pulling out a tube of lipstick, which she applies off-camera. When she is done, she proceeds to seduce Mayor into giving her the day off. When he is hesitant, she gives him a kiss on the nose, which makes him agree to her request.
- The Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? episode "Popularity": Shannon tells Robot that she had just gotten new lip gloss for their date. She immediately pulls it out and applys it to her lips before giving Robot a big smooch. Her kiss puts Robot in a brief Post-Kiss Catatonia, while also leaving a giant pink Lipstick Mark on his cheek.
