What was the first beauty product you ever bought for yourself?
What was the first beauty product you ever bought for yourself? Share!
I think it was Benefit’s Show-Offs – they were loose eyeshadows, sort of.
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my grandmother let me pay her and i bought one of those enormous eyeshadow palettes from her mail order magazine haha. the first specific product i remember buying myself was a bottle of Revlon Street Wear in Gun Metal. I still have it.
Mine was the too faced chocolate soleil bronzer I couldn’t resist the chocolate even though I didn’t know how to use it
I think it was Maybelline Great Lash Mascara in Blackest Black. I was a big fan of Avril Lavigne at the time (oh middle school) and remember reading in a magazine that it was her mascara of choice.
Avon nail polish when I was 12 🙂
Bare Minerals lip gloss in Wild Honey. I was 13 and it was my first time at Sephora. I still have a soft spot for that lip gloss. 🙂
Bonnie bell lip smacker large size strawberry
Felt and smell so yummy
Covergirl eyeshadow quad in blue, black, white and silver colors.
I’m 90% sure the first thing I bought for myself was a Naturistics lipgloss in a tin from the drugstore meant to smell like honey.
Wow, I just googled the brand and those ads are like stepping back into junior high.
The first thing from a department store I ever bought myself was a MAC lipglass in ‘Lust’.
MAC Russian Red
A Christian Dior lipstick (Mohair) back in 1986 for $15. Loved that lipstick and it’s probably the only one I have ever finished. I can still remember how it smelled.
Was it that all then?
Love Christian Dior regular lipsticks.
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Hmmm, well, at first I bought through my mother from AVON or when I was out with her(I still buy with her money, but on my own, mostly)…..so the first product I bought by myself was a Maybelline Fresh concealer, I think 😀 (well, my dark circles are my main concern) It was very good….they stopped making it, tho.
I think it was a Manhatten eyeshadow trio in brown. That was about 20 years ago.
MAC lipgloss I can’t remember a name of a product but it’s a MAC LOL ah~i feel so old right now :'(
I think I bought a discontinued Revlon lipstick one of their sheer ones lipstick+balm in a brown tube.. Cannot remember the name.. I went through three of them before they were discontinued.. and I haven’t found a better MLBB/Nude after that! It was a great loss 🙁
I bought my first products from helena rubenstein: One neon-orange sparkly loose eyeshadow, one neon green pressed eyeshadow, one foundation and a black eyeliner. It was in 2000 and I was 14 years old and had saved money from my first job, actually it was my first BIG purchase. My mom never wears make up so I didn’t have any help(which I could have needed e.g didn’t buy mascara!!!) but I loved the experience and since then i have loved buying and creating with make up:-)
Wish Helena Rubinstein was still around….sold it at saks.
It was a baby blue eyeshadow when I was 12.
I think it was (I’m dating myself here) a Maybelline Blooming Colors eyeshadow palette. The shades were blue, green, brown and this awful yellow ocher. I always wore all four colors at once, with no other makeup, gah! Well, live and learn, I guess!
Mine was also Maybelline Blooming colors. Light blue, light green, peach and I do not remember the last one. I thought I was so cool.
A MAC foundation and two Max Factor mascaras. Unfortunately the foundation made me feel itchy and yellow while I accidently ended up getting the same mascara twice for some reason (I wanted a brown and a black but got two blacks instead). I had to give one mascara away to my cousin instead. I think I got a pink eye shadow as well. I placed it all over my eye and it looked sooooooooo terrible in pics at a school party.
I think eye pencil. Black eye pencil 🙂
Bonne Bell Lipsmacker in Cherry … no child of the 60s/70s left home without it. 😀
Clinique DDML and a lipstick.
I believe it was MAC’s Expensive Pink shadow. Still have it and still love it a decade later.
I have no idea. It’s been way too long. But I know it was something from the drugstore.
I remember being a young teenager in the mid 80s buying baby blue and seafoam green Cutex nail polishes. I also bought baby blue and seafoam green Wet n Wild lipsticks, because I loved the colours in theory, but I didn’t wear them very often.
Around the same time I remember buying eyeshadow and blush in pale lavender packaging, I think it was Maybelline’s (or another drugstore brand) line geared towards young people.
MAC Bitter Eye Shadow! I was in my early teens and it was a big purchase for a single item, lol. Oh, if past me could see me now… >.<
I remember a baby blue iridescent cream eyeshadow stick when I was 11 or 12.
It was probably concealer or mascara. My real gateway drug was red lipstick, though. It was a blue-based red from Sephora that I still own (and wear!). It started my obsession with bold lipstick. 🙂
I made a huge ELF haul when I first started wearing makeup lol. I bought a huge 100 eyeshadow palette, lipsticks, blushes and eyeliners
I got mine on the same day the first time I was in New York at age seven. I saved up for a beautiful Betsey Johnson gold lipstick (I still have the tube around. Of course I don’t use it anymore but sentimental value) and a MAC pale gold e/s…but no idea which. I used them into the ground!
rimmel 24h lasting finish foundation, some rimmel sparkly bronzer and covergirl covergirl lash blast fusion mascara (all in the same trip, thats when the love started)
Um…. A purple Stila single and a darker purple revlon shadow for prom. Before then I either stole from my sister or was gifted by friends.
The first ever was N.Y.C. Roll-On Lip Gloss in Strawberry which I wore constantly as a child. The first high end product I ever bought as an adult was MUFE HD Foundation.
It was Jr. H.S. and I bought myself a Cover Girl pressed powder. I remember it smelling like Noxema.
Bourjois lip gloss , i was really happy i think i was 14 or 15
Pretty sure it was a physicians formula bronzer, the one w the half moon design. I was around 12-13 and was SUPER tan at the time so I thought it was a face powder! I was so annoyed by all the shimmer on my face, haha!! I had no idea what bronzer was then!
Urban Decay primer potion!
And I bought the original Naked palette with my first paycheck.
Probably a lipstick from Woolworths.
A black eyeliner Pineaud or Pinaud……..because I had to go to a fancy dress party with schoolmates ( at 12 or 13). I think I still have it in some pencil case at my parents’.
Funny.. I can’t remember the first Drug store item but I can remember the first high end. We’ll drug store was no where near what it is now in my defense..!
Christine, I loved the Show Offs from Benefit! I had the peachy yellow with the pink iridescence.
The first makeup I ever purchased with my own money was probably a loose eye shadow from a booth at the mall. The color is comparable to Club from MAC or Label Whore from Too Faced but in loose form (basically a reddish brown with a blue sheen). Before that I had gone with my mom to a drugstore to buy an eyeshadow quad from Cover Girl but technically she bought it for me.
Aside from rollerball lipgloss (remember those?!), I believe it was Clinique pressed powder. I didn’t start wearing “real” makeup until I was about 19 or 20, but I did wear lipgloss and pressed powder in high school.
Oh, sure, I remember the roller-ball lip glosses!
They were The Thing when I was in junior high.
My first one was strawberry-flavored, then I “branched out” to an orange-flavored one.
By the time I got to high school, I’d progressed to pot glosses.
What *was* that Yardley one?
Pot o’ Gloss?
And there was a L’Oreal one that I loved because it lasted and lasted. Friends were always trying to borrow it from me.
Love those roller ball lipglosses.
Probably won’t sell them know that it is not recycle friendly.
All these bring back memories.
Buying makeup is an addiction.
It was a blood red lipstick when I was 10, perhaps. I didn’t pay for it, but I decided the colour. I wasn’t allowed to wear it out, though 🙂
First makeup I bought for by myself was Rimmel, a mascara in blue, I’m sure I applied in a very clumsy way, but I felt very grown up. Think I was 13.
It’s difficult to remember back that far – I *am* almost 50, after all.
But I vaguely remember when I was about 13, and had just begun wearing makeup.
I guess my mother got tired of me messing around in her makeup, though I *tried* to do it on the sly, because she took me to the drugstore to buy my own.
As I recall, that day, I got Maybelline mascara, Maybelline foundation, and a single eyeshadow (probably green, a shade I wouldn’t touch with the proverbial 10-foot pole today).
I think the first thing I ever bought independently, though, was a Bonne Bell Dr. Pepper Lipsmacker, which was actually an appropriate choice for a 13-year-old.
I could NEVER have imagined the wealth that my makeup future held! 🙂
Urban Decay Eyeliner when Urban Decay first launched. I saved up from my baby sitting to get it. I still love and adore UD to this day!
Pretty sure Avon beauty products were my first as a gift from my mom at Christmas time since her friend was a rep, I remember there being matching rose gold lip gloss and nail polish. Still have the nail polish because it is so sentimental I cannot throw it out! I think I was 10 or 11. When I was young my mom always was the one who bought me my cosmetic items because we would share them, only thing I had for myself was my own mascara and brown eyeliner. I remember buying my own product at the drugstore when I was 13 and it was this really pretty iridescent pink Covergirl wetslicks lip gloss that smelled like mint! I remember buying it the day before school started when I was going into 8th grade and being so excited to start the school year with a pretty new lip gloss. I mainly used Avon products that my mom bought me so when I started buying drugstore items with my own savings it was a big deal for me!
It was either lipgloss or wet n wild nailpolish in elementary school. I used to paint my nails all the time as a kid.
Agree, but mine was Watermelon!
I think it was an Elizabeth Arden cream eyeshadow (Gris brun) and a Maybelline black mascara. I can’t remember for sure but I think I also bought a Max Factor clear lip gloss stick. That was many years ago………..
Yardley (loved Yardley anything) Lavender Cream eye shadow. 1971 Guess I was always a bit “out there” but it was Northern California. Still love Lavender eye shadow. I actually wore a lavender cream eye shadow at my wedding in 1974
So 70s. Love these stories.
yes, very 70’s even then I got comments about my eyeshadow, but it wasn’t blue!
I think either Mac or Bobbi brown!
But Ive tried many!!! Love makeup!
Tried so many I could never list them all:)
It was probably a Cover Girl single eyeshadow from my first grocery store job when I was 17 or so. Before then, I didn’t work yet, so my parents had helped me buy stuff.
I’m so glad I no longer use those stupid little sponge applicators and have found better products haha.
The first beauty product I remember buying has to either be a Naturistics Grape lipbalm, maybe 1990 -ish, or a double ended eyeliner from The Body Shop, somewhere around 1992! I still think about those two items LOL!
A Cover Girl pressed powder and a grayish blue eyeliner with a sponge tip to blend – I thought this sponge was the most genius idea! I also got a baby pink Maybelline cream blush with a matching lipstick that I loved so much because it made me feel like I was wearing the most high-end cosmetics out there!
Ye gods. I’m having trouble remembering, actually. It think it might have been a (horrible) Maybelline Wet Shine Diamonds Lipstick in the ’90s? 😀
Those Wet Shine Diamond lipsticks!! Argg I was so intrigued by those.
The first product I *remember* actually purchasing on my own was this heinous metallic copper lipstick from the drugstore when I was eleven. No idea what brand it was, but if I remember correctly it was some random no-name brand in a white tube. I went on a summer trip with my best friend to a campsite and wore it like, every single night while we were hanging out with the cool older kids. Thinking back, it was probably a pretty awesome grunge look for 1993!
The first decent product I ever bought was when I was about 21 working at a store that sold discounted drugstore makeup, so I naturally bought heaps of it. I got Tapestry Taupe eyeshadow by Cover Girl and wore it constantly.
My first high-end purchase was a 4-pan eyeshadow palette from Mac that was filled with Satin Taupe, Star Violet, Woodwinked, and Sumptuous Olive. All shadows I still love years later!
Maybelline The Falsies Black Drama. It was on sale and I grabbed it on a whim. Still got it. Not very hygienic is it? :p
I guess it was some eyeliner pencil from a drugstore brand (brown, before I started wearing black), or a roll-on clear gloss mint scented… or some avon metallic lipstick from the 90s.
Wet N Wild lipstick #527. My favorite lipstick of all time.
It was probably a Chap Stick lip balm (if lip balms count) OR Clean and Clear face powder. It was all the rage in school when I was in 6th grade. If not that, because I probably didn’t have money in 6th grade, then it would be a Wet N Wild bronzer that I loved but forgot the name, or Maybelline blush in Cinnamon. I tried looking for those two when I could afford makeup but failed miserably!
An Avon powder and Maybelline The Colossal mascara.
I am going to date myself here. It was probably a Bonnie Bell Lipsmacker in either grape or root beer.
Probably one of those disgusting oily roll on lip glosses that were so popular during the late 90s/early 00s! lol
Oh my first was Benefit Show-offs too! I loved those things! Especially the one that was a pink/gold that shifted colors depending on the light! It was so pretty!