What was your first luxery makeup product?

I was a sophomore in highschool, awkward, chubby, frizzy, trying my best to find my place in the world. I was sitting in honors chemistry, when a girl who would cheat off of my homework all the time pulled out this lipgloss. It was beautiful. Sparkley, pink, a tinge of brown, and the best feature of them all, not sticky in the slightest. She unscrewed the cap, and smeared the perfect gloss on her lips. My fifteen year old self was eagerly curious, but before I could ask her anything she beat me to it, in her valley girl accent. “Do you like my lipgloss?” She popped her lips so loud it burst my eardrum from across the lab table. “It’s Feeewntyyy.” Yes, the answer I was looking for. That night I begged my mother to let me use her chrome book she used for work to look up what exactly “Fenty” was. I didn’t wear much make up, just this one cover girl waterproof mascara that was definitely three years expired. So I was not familiar with stores like Sephora or Ulta. All I knew was cover girl crusty mascara and elf four pan grey and brown eyeshadow. That’s when I saw it, for a whopping eighteen dollars.

The Fenty gloss bomb in the color “Fenty Glow”.

I didn’t have a job. I did not have eighteen dollars. Eighteen dollars was at least four hundred in my little sophomore mind. I went cushion diving, car searching, under the bed spelunking, scraping for every nickel and dime I could, to scrounge up the money for my mom to order me the exact same lipgloss that one of my chemistry lab partners had. It took me a few weeks but I did it, I ordered, waited, prayed, and finally received the package. I opened the gloss, the smell was intoxicating. I slapped that gloss on my chapped, un prepared, splitting highschool lips, and I was suddenly… beautiful. (At least I thought I was.) And here I am, six years and at least three tubes of that gloss later, wearing it over a proper lip of Vaseline, revlon 535, 300, and 804. I have never found another gloss that I love more. My very first non drugstore makeup product has persisted as my very favorite, nothing could replace my lord and savior, gloss bomb.

I totally spelled luxury wrong, my bad lol