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Temptalia Asks You – What was the first beauty product you ever bought?

Date: July 6, 2008 - Posted in: Temptalia Asks You

What was the first beauty product you ever bought? MAC eyeshadow in Carbon? Revlon Lipgloss?

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Briodmun

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I can’t remember how old i was (under 10), but i do recall buying a mac eyeliner in brown with saved up pocket money. I also remember everyones face in the store LOL.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Awww, that’s so cute.
- carriespooner
  
  Tuesday, January 27, 2009
  
  I want to hug your 10 year old self. That’s adorable.
pink_candy

Sunday, July 6, 2008

haha that brought back some really old memories.
balms & lipglosses were my very first purchases, I dont remember which brands though.. redearth, the body shop, dior?
howver, i do remember very well my first mac purchases :D
mac carbon & nylon eyeshadows
mac eyeliner in smolder
mac mocha blush
mac lip conditionar spf 15
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  How very fun!!
Jenna

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I bought a Maybelline mascara! Now, though, my Maybelline products are all gone and in place are all the M.A.C stuff :D Love it.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  lol, yes, I replaced any drugstore with mostly MAC, too!
Julie

Sunday, July 6, 2008

A lipsmacker!! It was a tin collection/ Omg, love em!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  I LOVED LIPSMACKERS!
Manny

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I think it was pink nailpolish. I really don’t know how old I was.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aw, pretty!
taj

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I am not sure if that was my first beauty product, but remembered clearly I made an admirer buy me a Maybelline liner in violet !
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, that’s adorable, Taj!
lala

Sunday, July 6, 2008

i could remeber my 1st mac purchase:
honesty
creme de violet
improper copper CCB
pearl CCB
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Very nice first haul, Lala! First of many ;)
Tus

Sunday, July 6, 2008

OMG I really don’t remember, I used to steal my older sister’s stuff, but my first make up from Mac was All that glitters eye shadow about a month ago, I know I am late!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  LOL! Haha, I wish I had an older sister to have stolen from!
Vee

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Bonne Bell lip balms?

My first regular makeup purchase was this frosty lilac Cover Girl e/s.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  I used to love those!
erika

Sunday, July 6, 2008

i remember my first mac purchases.
mac e/s in swimming.
mac e/s in electric eel.
mac e/s in pink veus.
mac e/s stroke of midnight.
mac e/s in aquadisiac.
mac l/glass in prrr.

too bad all of those eyeshadows are untouched. i bought them when i was 17 and was attracted to the colors. so not my style! i tend to go with naturals now.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, nice list!!
Tanya

Sunday, July 6, 2008

when i was little my mum bought me a smackers strawberry lip balm from the chemist. it is longggg gone (that was when i was about 5 lol!)

I do remember my first mac purchase, though…and at the time I didn’t even know/like mac!
It was the tinted lip conditioner in petting pink in the old packaging with the white cap and big dot. Of course, now I like the new packaging much better!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  How cute :) I loved buying lip balms!
Chloe

Sunday, July 6, 2008

My first makeup purchase in general was this stark Cover Girl pressed powder and this Strawberry red Wet-n-Wild lipstick. Neither flattered my skintone. LOL..you couldn’t have told me that in middle school, though! My first MAC purchase was their Studio Fix powder in the correct color to match my skin! I hadn’t heard of MAC and no one around me used MAC so I was really testing their products. After that I was sold and beginning with my second purchase, I’ve never spent less than $60 on each of my trips there. I love you, MAC! =D
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Haha, how very funny :D
Claire

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I think it was Max Factor compact make up. Not sure if I bought it myself though. Think I was 11 and my skin was soooo bad – acne galore! My mum went out and got me this to make school a little less embarrassing for me. I doubt the colour match was too great and I also doubt the application of it to my face was any better, but it was certainly better thnan the awful acne on my face!

I think the first thing I actually bought myself was a Miners nail polish. It was my first time out shopping with my friends in the city without any adults around, and I thought I was just the coolest with my extra glittery new purchase. Cringe!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  It’s amazing what kind of products were our “firsts”!
DJ

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I think I was into Wet n’ Wild (cheap for a broke teenager) and some nail polish–the mother of pearl shade that was popular in the *cough* 80s. Lip gloss in the same shade, plus some ‘lip smackers’ or something like that, with the roller ball applicator. Just thinking about this makes me want to find some roller skates.

My mom got me some Clinique when I was allowed to start wearing makeup–my first lipstick was crystal mauve (? the name–in the silver striped tube).
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Clinique skincare was probably the first high end makeup my mom got for me!
Lydia

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Omg I can’t even remember! I think mine was probably wet and wild woo. :)
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  lol, WnW is a popular brand amongst the teens, I know!
Julia

Sunday, July 6, 2008

my first product was a white cream eyeshadow when I was 12, probably maybelline :D

my first MAC purchase was last year:
electric eel e/s
chrome yellow e/s
orange e/s

I now don’t only focus on really bright colors, but it was a great way to start out!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aw, very fun MAC purchases :D
Nicole

Sunday, July 6, 2008

4 Issues, a brown e/s duo, brown lip pencil, black Mascara and a Clearface powder (all by Manhatten)

My first MAC product was the Mulch e/s.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Oh, Mulch!! Great choice.
Chica

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I’m not 100% sure to be honest. If body glitter counts then that when I was about 10/11 because I thought it was cool as!:oD
Proper make up wise I think it was a Wet & Wild liner and some crappy Collection 2000 mascara.
I didn’t get into make up properly until I was 17/18 and didn’t wear foundation and blusher until really recently (the last few months) – I’m 21.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Body glitter counts ;D
cloudburst

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Something from Bonne Bell, either a frosty apricot blush or a bunch of eyeliners. My makeup addiction started very young.

My first MAC purchase was Mylar e/s, when I first got it, e/s was $8.00 or something crazy cheap like that!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Bonne Bell Lip Balms :D I used to collect those, LOL.
Sarah

Sunday, July 6, 2008

My first Mac purchse was in 8th grade-nine years ago! It was Cherish lipstick, e/s in Bliss (now replaced w/Jest), Nehru e/s, and Studio Fix in C3! I was hooked then as much as I am now!! Mac wasn’t near where I lived in hicksville. I saved my $$ up every time I went to visit my cousin in Dallas and spent all my money there!!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, how cute, Sarah! Love it.
Ashley

Sunday, July 6, 2008

First purchase I remember making for myself were Strawberry and Watermelon flavored Lip Smackers. I only started getting into high end makeup a year or so ago, I bought my first MAC with my 19th birthday money last year!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Oh, Lip Smackers, how I adored thee.
S.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

From what I can recall, it was a Bonne Bell Lip Smacker set (you know the ones that had holes in the tops and a string so you could wear them like a necklace? Yeah…I was that cool), My favorite was (and still is) strawberry…14 years later, that’s still the lip balm I wear before going to bed at night, lol.

My first MAC purchase was not all that long ago. It was a paintpot in “Delft”…great for a smokey teal eye!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Hahaha, I so remember those!
Kendra

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I don’t recall my first beauty product that I bought- probably lip smackers or something!

I do remember my first MAC pruchase though! It was vex e/s and trax e/s!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, nice first MAC shadows!
Hillary

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Well, the first thing I think I actually bought was prob. just eyeliner at hot topic, in the 7th grade.

But most of my makeup has been bought for me, so powder/eyeliner and chapsticks from earlier…but I hardly buy my makeup. not even 1/5 of my entire collection was bought by me :D
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  I used to buy sooo much from Hot Topic! Sigh, those were some crazy days.
kobri

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Bonne Belle Kissing Potion in Bubblegum I think. It’s been a mad whirl of products since then!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, so cute, Kobri!
marquita

Sunday, July 6, 2008

My first purchASE That i can remember was avon bubble gum chapstick.
My first mac buy was oh baby lipglass
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  What made you buy Oh, Baby, do you remember?
Meesh

Sunday, July 6, 2008

It was in 1996, and I was a sophomore at this all girl’s high school in SF. I passed by this counter at Nordstrom’s that look wayyy too cool for school (AKA the infamous MAC counter). Dark lipstick and knee highs were very in that year (that sounds so inappropriate, but that’s why no one should send their daughters to all girl’s high schools). So I saved up a bunch of allowance money and bought Paramount l/s, with Chestnut liner. And that’s how the collection began, or rather the obsession. Later on in the semester I splurged on Jest, Cork, and Corduroy e/s’s with a 266 brush. All my first eye shadows to hit pan with.

Eventually my parents got really sick of the Paramount on me, so began the Coconutty phase. To this day I can’t look at any of my high school pictures with out LMAO.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Ahh, I have heard tales of Paramount!! And it is still around, it’s amazing.
Asta

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I was strictly a drugstore makeup girl until recently. The first makeup I wore was stuff Mom didn’t want from her GWPs from Lancome and Clinique, but the first stuff I bought was Wet N Wild and Revlon nail polish. I’ve always been a polish freak. When I was in high school and college I worked at CVS (a drugstore), and I bought all my makeup with my discount. I used to go crazy on the 75% off bin. It’s only in the past year or so that I’ve started spending money on the good stuff at Sephora. Partly because I now have a “real job”, and partly because we finally got a Sephora at the local mall!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aw, how cute. I used to steal GWPs from my relatives!
vonnie

Sunday, July 6, 2008

My first makeup was an eyeshadow quad from either Avon or Mary-Kay. My mom was big into those back in the day, so I utilized it!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Very cool, Vonnie!
Selene

Sunday, July 6, 2008

some horrifically glittery eyeshadow from claires. LOL. :)
- Selene
  
  Sunday, July 6, 2008
  
  and my first MAC purchase was last year (8th Grade) was Golden Lemon Pigment (such a great summery color), Plushglass in Fulfilled, and Mascara X.
  … the start of an addiction. :)
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  LOL, Selene!
Bianca

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I hardly recall my first buy because I had been stealing makeup from my mom since I was very little (5), so I guess it was mascara, lipstick and eyeliner from maybelline. What seems really funny is that most of us don’t recall what was our first makeup buy but we can certainly recall our first MAC buy, no matter how long ago it was. We’re all MAC addicts!!! My first MAC buy was Studio Fix in NC20 and wedge e/s.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  lol, that’s adorable, Bianca!! I wish my mom wore makeup so I could have stolen from her!
Darkangie

Sunday, July 6, 2008

I think that my very first purchase of makeup was a powder from Clinique :). And my very first MAC purchase was Jewel Blue ^^.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aw, fun purchases!
Alison

Sunday, July 6, 2008

i remember my mum didnt want me wearing makeup but when i was 12 i got my first pimple and i took my lunch money and went to the chemist to buy a blackmores medicated tea tree concealer stick.

i pasted that stuff on my face until mum broke down and took me shopping for some proper, subtle makeup at bobbi brown.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, that is so cute, Alison!!
Jennifer

Monday, July 7, 2008

It’s probably telling that I don’t remember when I started with makeup…

First (real) beauty product I ever had: Wet’n'Wild nail polish in a dark purple shade, it was a present on my 8th birthday

First beauty product I remember buying: a Jane eyeshadow in a lavender color

First high-end (okay, from Sephora) purchase: an opaque purple lipstick from Club Monaco, it cost $13 if I recall correctly, and I still have it

Yeah, I had a purple thing going on when I was younger. But I don’t think I’ve used purple makeup in about two years now…
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, very cute present to get, Jennifer!
Jennifer

Monday, July 7, 2008

And my first MAC purchase, only just back in September, was Ricepaper eyeshadow…

‘Twas the beginning of my ultimate downfall…
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  LOL, the first of many, right?
Zsofi

Monday, July 7, 2008

my very first makeup purchase was when i was 13years,my Mom bought me a light pink frosty CHANEL lipgloss,i think its number was 13,too :-) very funny is,that after that,every year i got a new CHANEL lipgloss,almost every time the number of my age :-DDDDD
i was soooooooooooooooo happy,like never since.
owning such a high quality poduct as my very first was a really uplifting experience :-)
i saw its advertisement on the back of my very first Cosmo,that i got that same summer :-)
- Zsofi
  
  Monday, July 7, 2008
  
  oh,i forgot,my very first MAC was Old Gold pigment. i went into the store,and asked the makeup artist boy to show me something special :-)
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Oh, you started off high end right away, Zsofi!!
Leilah W

Monday, July 7, 2008

I believe my first purchase was a Yardley Slicker lipstick! About 1966 or 1967. Every girl in Jr High had to!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Wow!! How great!
Martha Urriola Hess

Monday, July 7, 2008

When I was 9 a Maybaline vanilla lipgloss.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, that’s great, Martha!
Courtney

Monday, July 7, 2008

MAC Icon lipstick before prom :) ahhh, memories!
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Oh, wow! :D
Tina

Monday, July 7, 2008

Estee Lauder eyeshadows
MAC Sketch
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Sketch! That was one of my early MAC purchases, too.
michelle

Monday, July 7, 2008

i can’t remember makeup in general, but mac was electric eel.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Oh, nice first shadow!
Alice from Italy

Monday, July 7, 2008

I was 5 (shame on me!) when i bought a fuchsia nail color, i guess it was some Rimmel, my aunt paid for me.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 8, 2008
  
  Aww, how cute, Alice!
Erin/slipnslide

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

I think it was probably something from Wal-Mart, like a Jane mini sample bottle of foundation or something (when I say I have always had dark circles, I mean it). They had lots of tiny samples so it was easy to try out different lipsticks and stuff.
- Christine
  
  Tuesday, July 15, 2008
  
  lol, ahh, Jane, I remember those days!!
carriespooner

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Ok sisters.. I’m going all the way back to the 70’s. My mom was a beauty junkie so I always had little makeup bags and her cast offs which I adored.

When I was 10 I saved my money to buy those giant lipsmackers. They cost $2.50 at the drugstore. They had a rope on them so you could wear them around your neck. My first one was 7up. I worked so hard to earn money for them. I got Bubble Gum, watermelon, Dr. Pepper, Orange Crush, Cherry, mmmmmmm

I also remember saving for Gee your hair smells terriric shampoo.

Those were such good days!! I still get just as excited shopping now.
Sasha

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Well the first makeup I ever owned were gifts and hand-me-downs from my mom and a couple aunts, including a blue (Almay maybe?) automatic eyeliner, some purple lipgloss (Revlon Street Wear or similar), a cover-up that was too dark for my skintone (but I must have done a fair job at applying it, because quite a few of my classmates would ask me if I’d gone on vacation lol!).

The first makeup I ever bought for myself (that I can remember) was either Lip Smackers or Bonne Bell along with Wet n Wild eyeliners.

The first product I ever bought from MAC was Nymphette lipglass, which I still love =)
Andreita

Saturday, March 6, 2010

I remember mine was a Lip smackers Starburst lip balm…good times!!! And believe it or not…I have never bought anything MAC *hides face*