The next time a total stranger plants a kiss on your lips, don’t panic. They’re just saying hello.

IF YOU thought being air kissed by a complete stranger was bad enough, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Lip-to-lip kissing is fast becoming the new air kiss. And it’s not just your nearest and dearest puckering up. Even people who have forgotten your name — or only just met you — are planting one on the mouth. It’s true. Last week, the London Telegraph reported that the air kiss is out and the mouth-to-mouth kiss is in, after a spate of saliva-swapping sightings at London Fashion Week and the GQ Men of the Year Awards, where every winner received a wet one on the lips from hosts Lilly Allen and Sir Elton John. “On the party scene, air-kissing — that horrible ‘mwah, mwah’ used by the kind of people who know your job title and dress size but forget your name — is out. Instead, there’s a far worse social plague doing the rounds: being kissed on the mouth,” the article read. Read Article

By Rachel Wells