A Cupid’s bow gives the lips a heart shape, which may be how it got its name. Some upper lips are uniform in shape, and others dip down in the middle, revealing two distinct peaks of the upper lip.

A Cupid's bow appears on a golden bowl from 1400 B.C. that's now in Paris, in the Louvre. The bow's design had been established by then, maybe long before. The best thing about it was that, unlike ...

SPENT last week exercising my upper body with a spot of archery. Yes, I decided to dust off my ol' Cupid's bow and arrow and help two of my single friends alleviate their mutual loneliness together.

Flappers further influenced how women wore cosmetics with looks that included dark makeup around the eyes and a defined shape in the lips aptly called a “Cupid’s Bow,” according to Hernandez.