Now it's time to add some color to this face and I'm going to use a modern, safe alternative to a product called vermilion, which is actually red mercury.
Her delicately formed ears, her vermilion hands, her little feet, curved and tender as the lotus–bud, glitter with the brilliancy of the loveliest pearls of Ceylon, the most dazzling diamonds of Golconda.
The most common locations for oral cancer are the lateral and ventral surfaces of the tongue and floor of the mouth, and the lower lip vermilion because it's exposed to more sun than the upper lip.