Sometimes a girl needs to indulge herself -- or, better yet, be indulged by some generous other. (You could always clip this column, color-highlighting your most-desirables, and leave it lying around in some conspicuous spot to drop the perfect hint.)
One of the reasons makeup and perfumes sell so well and so constantly is that these delights offer relatively affordable ways to treat ourselves or someone else to a little luxury in the name of nothing more practical than beauty and pleasure.
I did say relatively affordable! A new top-of-the-line lipstick is not cheap, but it seems so when you compare it to the cost of a new dress, a day at a spa, or a holiday in Tahiti.