It’s Lipstick Day in East Nashville. Rep. Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) on Wednesday read a proclamation to make it official.
The proclamation came ahead of the groundbreaking for a sister business for the 22-year-old The Lipstick Lounge, a sports bar called Chapstick.
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