Miss Piggy Has One. Marilyn Monroe Has One. Why Can’t Selena Have One?

*There’s a festival this weekend, in Corpus Christi, Texas, marking the 20th anniversary of Selena’s death. VL

By Rigoberto Hernandez, Code Switch NPR

This weekend, tens of thousands of Selena megafans are expected to descend on Corpus Christi, Texas, for Fiesta de la Flor, a music festival marking the 20th anniversary of the Tejana pop star’s death. Among them will undoubtedly be hundreds of Selena look-alikes — for the weekend, at least — paying tribute to her quintessential ’90s Mexican-American style: looped bangs, reinforced with hairspray; eyebrows thick and dark as though Sharpied-on; white nail polish; and, of course, the trademark brick-red lips.

There are dozens of makeup tutorials on YouTube showing how to achieve the Selena look, just one manifestation of a cult of fandom going strong two decades after the singer was murdered at the age of 23. The official Selena Quintanilla Facebook page has 2.5 million likes. You can find people swaying and spinning to her famous cumbia “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” in town squares across Texas each year on the day she died. But for a lot of her acolytes, there’s one thing missing.

Unlike Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, Marilyn Monroe, and Miss Piggy, Selena has never been honored with her own makeup line by MAC Cosmetics.

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