What was your first purchase at Sephora?

[itsfi]

Sephora opened its first North American store (NYC) 27 years ago today, 7.17.1998! 🎉 What was the first product (makeup, skincare, bath & body, hair care, fragrance, etc.) you purchased at Sephora (in store or online)? 🛍

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[sister13]

Hello! Popping in on a Saturday night for the first time in a while!! I have missed everyone! 🩷🩷🩷

Is the app like way better for community now? Aside from the double menu I’m seeing at the bottom? 

Anyway, I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure it was either Tarina Tarantino shimmer powder (I have a pinkish and a silver) OR Urban Decay single eyeshadow tins. 

The TT was the sparkliest thing I’d seen in my life at that point! Can’t remember if in bought both at once or probably only one and went back at some point for a second color. (Back when I had restraint, or no money, lol.)

OR, I was desperately trying to recreate a Kevin Aucoin eye from his book Making Faces - this Kate Moss goldy-green eye, actually (pic from Google). It was surprisingly hard to find greens, I still have those somewhere and will try to get pics maybe tomorrow of the TT and UD, RIP to both from Sephora! 

PS- this was definitely in store and possibly preceded online shopping, lol!

 

[itsfi]

@sister13, Tarina Tarantino, a blast from the past! 

[CorgiMommy]

NARS Talc-Free Powder Blush Orgasm – 777 , I still love this color

[itsfi]

@CorgiMommy, it's a classic.

[Samtian]

This was $6.50 

Item #	Qty	Amount($)	Description
1331941	1	6.5	Jurlique / Love Balm™
1390459	1	0.0	Hourglass Immaculate Liquid Powder Foundation Mattifying Oil Free / samples
1520451	1	0.0	Drybar 100 Proof Treatment Oil / samples
1526565	1	0.0	Sunday Riley Good Genes Treatment / samples
1343557	1	0.0	Happy Birthday Beautiful

Merchandise Total:	$6.50
Shipping:	$5.95 (Standard 3 Day)

April 26, 2013!

[itsfi]

Oooouh, I remember Jurlique in Sephora @Samtian! They had a brick and mortar store in the city at on point as well. That's now a Credo Beauty store. 

[sister13]

Wait, omg did you pay (almost) as much for shipping as for the product??!! 🩷🩷 @Samtian 

[Samtian]

@sister13 🤣 yeah lol. I cringed when I saw that. 

[sister13]

Almost as funny that you still have the details of the transacation, lol! 🙂  @Samtian 

[Samtian]

@sister13 I've learned the hard way about not saving receipts lol. 

[Mel231]

@itsfi 

Mine was a Nars eyeshadow (a copper color; I can't remember the name) and an eyeshadow primer.  I think it was from Urban Decay. It was probably around 2010. It was an in-store purchase at a mall.  Sadly, that Sephora has since closed.

Edit:  I figured out that the eyelid primer was Bare Minerals Prime Time in "Brightening Pearl." It came in a tiny, tiny tube. You had to squeeze it out and apply it with your finger.

Edit 2:  The Nars eyeshadow color was "Nepal."

[itsfi]

@Mel231, I used to have so many of the NARS shadows. That is sad that the Sephora closed. 

[sister13]

I loved UD so much! @Mel231 

[itsfi]

I'll start it off. My first purchase from Sephora was one of their shower gels. It was the first time I had been to a Sephora store - in San Francisco!!! I walked in, saw an array of bath & body products in an array of colors and scents 😍 and that was it - I was hooked from that day on!

Photo credit: Sephora.sg

[greeneyedgirl107]

@itsfi I purchased something like this in red as a gift for a friend, as well as some coordinating bath products as my first purchase.   I, too, remember the big bath display in front!  I purchased a multi-stick for myself for lips/eyes.  

Great idea for a thread!

[itsfi]

@greeneyedgirl107, endless rows of bath and body products, and that was just the ones from the store's brand. 😍

[sister13]

Oh yes!!! Throwback! @itsfi 

[itsfi]

100% @sister13! I don't need more bath & body products but if these get re-released (again!), I would pick one up.