The lip gloss is special to the author because it was her mother's favorite lip gloss that they used to share and it reminds her of her mother. The author's mother gifted her the lip gloss when she left for university in another city far from home. When she uses it or smells it, it transports her back to happy memories with her mother and makes her feel less lonely and homesick. The lip gloss represents the deep love between the author and her mother that remains even when they are apart.