You as newbie will have hard times here to buy bitcoins via paypal because you can reverse or dispute it very easy the problem is even if you will send it as gift it's still not safe and insecure to trade the best way to get bitcoins is to withdraw your money to your bank account and then try to buy bitcoins
Read this topic if you like to know more about the risk using paypal
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14632.0Interesting problem.
I might be a newbie here but i have for example a decade old Ebay account with zero negative feedback (i guess we could find a way to verify that i'm legit that way!). I also have purchased some other stuff on this forum so i could give you the names of some forum members that can verify i don't reverse/dispute my payments.
But on a wider scale, it seems like there is a market for some kind of bitcoin insurance company