To ask what make up you loved in the 90s

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I'm on a bit of a nostalgia trip this afternoon after finding a stub of MAC Viva Glam (the first iteration) which I bought from Harvey Nichols in 1994 (amazingly it still smells fine and applies just like it did 26 years ago). I bought it from one of my first pay packets and went on a waiting list to get it. I also remember being on a waiting list for ALL the Hard Candy pastel nail polishes a couple of years later - £12 a pop and I bought five or six! Also waiting list for Chanel Rouge Noir - took months to get my hands on it and in the meantime I mixed black and red nail polish which resulted in a lovely streaky mess 😂

At the start of the 90s I was a sort of goth/Manic Street Preachers fan hybrid so lots of smudged black eyeliner and red lips and glitter for nights out. Mid 90s I was Courtney Love obsessed with hair, clothes and makeup to match. Towards the end of the decade it was all MAC Spice lipliner and Carmex with shimmery eyeshadow. And for all of it, skinny perma-surprised brows which never grew back.

What were your favourite looks/fondly remembered but long gone 90s beauty staples?

Great thread. Anais Anais and Lou Lou were big then.

My mum got the mini selection box of perfumes duty free on a flight from Ibiza. It was Casharel so mini Anias Anais and Lulu were in there, so cute and dinky!

Lipcote is still going, I bought a bottle after seeing it mentioned on here a while back. Will dig it out again!

I miss the Boots Christmas catalogue, and all the talk of old perfumes is making me want them again!

Ice Musk everything from the Boots Naturals range. I'll never get over them discontinuing it.

Omg yes lipcote! Does it work at all? I definitely had a bottle but don’t remember it being much cop.

Body Shop!

Don't think I ever bought more than 1 or 2 items, but me & friends would be in there using the testers, and also they used to offer the free makeover- would be useful pre big night out!

and the White musk body spray!

I think Lipcote helps (or it at least stops lip colour transferring to cups/glasses) but it's not a guarantee of 16 hour lip colour IME, yours may vary

I still have a Sun Moon and Stars bottle on my windowsill. Long empty but I cannot bear to throw it away.
I loved Tea Rose perrfume from The Body Shop - I had some in what looked like a pen. little roller ball at the end.
I also loved the Body Shop Elder flower eye gel - that was amazing for sore and tired eyes (worked in a hotel and had many late nights)
I wasn't (and still am not) a great makeup wearer but I did love purple nail varnish and I seem to recall being overjoyed when I found a biro in France with a purple barrel! Then my pen and nails matched and I thought that was the best thing ever.