It May Look Gross, But I'm Using It Anyway

I'm obsessed with this lipstick: It moisturizes like gloss, it lasts for hours, and the color is the perfect nude-mauve. The tube is strangely, appealingly light-saber-like (there's no cap; you twist it and the lipstick emerges from a small trapdoor), and it was developed by a dermatologist with SPF20, peptides, and antiaging ingredients.

... Which is why I can't throw it out even though it looks like this:

I've had it for months and left it in a hot car, took it to the beach, squashed it one day when I was in a rush, and now I'm down to the very end. But I promise that when you order one it will arrive shiny and new. Looking like this:

—Dawn Spinner, associate beauty editor