What's Kim K and the Crew Got In Common?

By BR Kellie

I never thought I'd have anything in common with Kim K-W. Not in a million years. She lives the life you read about in Danielle Steel-type novels. Money, fame, drama, love, heartbreak, more love... I have a life that you'd just not really be bothered reading about (I mean, mum/wife/work really doesn't exactly send thrills down your spine). She has an empire that's growing by the month. I have... um... the nearly complete collection of Buffy on VHS with the picture running across the spine of the videotapes. Kim also has a team of people whose job it is to ensure she looks her best, I rely on myself to make my face not terrifying to small children and on my husband to help me when I have a sartorial nightmare (the man has style).

But now? Well I think Kim and I could be besties... okay, probably not... but she's just got a whole lot more relatable, because she let slip in this article what the first beauty product she ever bought was - and I thought, SAME!!! Well kind of same. That lip product?

Bonne Bell lip gloss in the shade 'Cappuccino'. (I can only assume it's the lip gloss pictured above as it's the only Bonne Bell lip gloss image I could find with that particular name.)

Okay, I didn't buy the coffee named flavour and I was no way mature enough to buy gloss, or even know what gloss was. What I bought was the Bonne Bell lip balm in Strawberry. And didn't I feel a bit special slipping on that lip balm every five seconds, feeling like a bit of a grown up. Yes. Yes I did.

So I had to wonder... what was the first beauty product the rest of the crew bought? Well, it turns out I'm not the only one who has something in common with Mrs West.

Merilyn's first beauty purchase? Well it wasn't the Bonne Bell Lip Smacker - that was her second beauty purchase. Her first was Bonne Belle Ten-0-Six, which she describes as just about burning her face off. Sounds pleasant.

Nat broke Bonne Bell ranks with her first purchase... Hers was the 17 lipstick in Frosted Mulberry. She still misses it. 

Amelia was all about The Body Shop's little pots of lip balm, with her first being in the strawberry flavour. I remember buying one of those too... and I felt next level fabulous. There's just something super grown up about going into town to a dedicated beauty store to buy a fancy pot of balm... 

And Tabby... well turns out she was a Bonne Bell Lip Smacker girl too. Yes, in strawberry.

(Don't you love how when you're in your youth strawberry seems to be the go for lip balms? I wonder if it's because it's red and that screams glamorous?)

So do tell... what was your first beauty purchase? Were you on the Bonne Bell train? Did something else capture your attention? And does knowing that Kim Kardashian was just like us at one point in her life make her more relatable for you like she does for me? Chat away...