The Trauma of the Discontinued Lip Gloss

Trigger warning: this article discusses the death of several lip glosses and one eyeshadow.

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I remember where I was when I learned of the death of Estée Lauder’s Matte Mocha lipstick, a dark, dusty purplish brown that stuck to your lips like a layer of crazy glue. It was 1990, I was in college at a fancy liberal arts school, and my…