Can i contract the herpes virus from borrowing a friends lipstick?

Can i contract the herpes virus from borrowing a friends lipstick?Last night i borrowed a friend's lipstick who has the herpes virus but she did not have a visible cold sore. Over night she developed a cold sore, is there a risk i will have contracted the virus from using her lipstick as only a few hours later her cold sore appearred? And if so will i develop a cold sore straight away?

kjdela
It is possible to contract the herpes virus from lipstick, but not likely. You first need the virus present on the lipstick and be active. The virus can't live long enough away from the human body to be transmittable, so you would need to use it directly after they did. You are at low-risk. The virus will take 2-14 days for it to develop a sore.

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being that it deals with sores on the lips and u use lipstick on your mouth , it is possible that u could catch it from her , anything personal like that you shouldnt use of another person unless u know they dont have anything u can catch from them , but i hope u dont have it and hope all goes well . good luck

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no you can not my best friend he has herpes and i share stuff with him food chap stick its only through skin to skin contact dont worry about it the virus lives through skin it would die ounce its out of the body only hiv aids lasts long through bodily fluids such as saliva blood discharge and such i know a lot about stds so if u have any more questions you can ask me :) my sister is a nurse to i have hpv genital warts so im positive you wont get herpes by sharing lip stick

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