Beauty products from your school days

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The new loreal advert for hairspray got me thinking about my school days when Insette was the hairspray of choice. Hair never moved for weeks and you could practically snap it off. Vidal Sassoon that smelled like apples. Constant Carol that only did foundation in orange, oranger and orangist. Care to add yours

BTW when trying to decide whether to buy beauty products in future, I'm going to ask, 'Will I make fun of this in 20 years?'

Natrel was the coolest deodorant to have in my school as well. I wonder who decides these things when you're a teenager? Although Soft & Gentle was also quite cool until we discovered it was tested on animals. Arrid was crap - made you choke and it would form into weird clumps under your arms and fall off throughout the day.

Body Shop raspberry ripple bubble bath and their cucumber cleansing milk.

Linco Beer shampoo (this was the business)

Organics shampoos and conditioners (mid 90s, green bottles, distinctive smell)

I used to buy Bourgois lipsticks and find myself to be very sophisticated as they came in very posh tubes. I was disappointed to discover recently that they are no longer in beautiful packaging.

I remember spraying It by Lentheric in vast quantities when I was 11 or 12.

I loved the roller ball lip gloss.

When I was a bit older and feeling rich, I used to shop in Yves Rocher. I thought it was the height of sophistication.

I thought Collection 2000 was relatively new

Cosmetics To Go (Lush before they became Lush)

What about those banana shaped hair grips for doing a big side ponytail?

Does anyone remember Laval? My friend used to buy it all the time, it always smelled "off" but was about £1 a tube.

Vespre sanitary pads!!

Oh yes to rimmel heather shimmer and v05 hot oil. Was mad keen on massive pots of lurid green hair gel too. And Anais Anais.

Oh and apparently I used to smell of tcp because my mum insisted it was the best thing to shrink spots. I met a bf from my teenage years many years later and he dreamily reminisced about how the smell of antiseptic made him horny for years because he associated it with me.

I suppose that's a kind of compliment. hmm.

Sometimes still get flex in £shop
Its a walk down memory lane this is,ooh everyone drookit in impulse body spray

You can still get Laval makeup
www.lavalcosmetics.co.uk/

Vespre pads were the only thing to wear if you didn't want to wear Dr Whites thick mattresses they smelled of pine air freshener but at least they were thin and discreet!

Almay! What happened to them?

I saw almay in a chemist really recently

Gosh I'd forgotten about the Body Shop cucumber toner.....

I bought the first edition of Just Seventeen. I think there was a nifty red comb on the front that could slide from "Afro" to "fine".

Did anyone else suffer hideous injuries involving an Afro comb and big plastic hoop earrings?

I remember they did the first kind of "Street fashion" article involving their target audience. The first one was at a fairground. I was so jealous of those girls.

Does anyone remember miss Mary of Sweden makeup?

You used to get it in massive pallette sets from the club book (possibly Kay's), they seemed to do makeup and also underwear which was possibly built for the older lady as it seemed to be entirely reinforced!

Don't remember the make-up, but I always remember the "Before & After" pictures of the lady with the elegant grey/blonde "updo" when I was looking through my mums catalogue to see mens nobs in the pants section

Eyeshadow, applied all the way up to your eyebrow

Petite-that would be eye shadowS

Constance Carroll off the market.
Boots natural collection elderflower eye gel.
Body shop ice blue shampoo.

Um, hello, nearly 250 posts and no one has mentioned Coty Sunshimmer fake tan?? I was proudly orange for much of the early 90s, it was the look for schoolgirls in Dublin doncha know

Haha, yes Dame. Sounds like you might be the same age as me

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And yes yes to that natrel spray after PE!

I bought two bottles of Anne French Cleansing Milk in Boots only yesterday! Have been buying it online but pounced on these. Lovely fragrance, takes me right back!