Beauty products from your school days

[CrocInASock]

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

[WhatTheFork]

I have a bottle of Flex conditioner that I found at the back of a cupboard at my late PIL's place. It still has the smell.

I use it when I want to be reminded of my late grandmother.

[JennyOnTheBlocks]

Rebel perfume and Tweed for your mum gran

Pretty Peach from the Avon book

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Did anyone ever wash their hair then tie it in tiny plaits , tie each one with a band and sleep like that.
Next day you'd have soft waves (like Kate Bush on the cover of Lionheart)

Then along came crimping irons

[JennyOnTheBlocks]

Corn Silk foundation powder - think it was actually made from cornflour!

[WhoMovedMyVuvuzela]

Body shop coca nut shampoo, back in the day when everything still had green labels and you could take your bottle to be re-filled.

Bright pink Sure roll on deodorant.

Body shop Brazil nut tanning lotion...to be fair later branded as a sort of after sun that helped you keep your tan, but back in the 80's I do remember smothering it on and lying in the sun.

Hair gel...everything from Shock waves to superdrug own, it was everywhere.

[Cocolepew]

I used to use Coconut hair gel from the Body Shop, if I didnt use it quick enough it went mouldy.

[JennyOnTheBlocks]

70is, I used to get a mate to plait my long hair in about 30 small partings on a Friday night ready for town on a Saturday

[jonicomelately]

Just remembered the name!


Iced Champink!

[ColdTeaAgain]

Impulse O2 and a vanilla one as well

Number 17 make up from boots

Herbal essences shampoo

[JennyOnTheBlocks]

Iced champink! Of course

Then I found Black Tulip

[facedontfit]

Boots No 17 Twilight Teaser Lipstick

[HouseofEliot]

I also bought the Miss Selfridge lip print dressing gown it was very short.

O2 Impulse reminds me of when I met my husband I still have a bottle

Definitely coffee shimmer/heather shimmer

Dewberry or white musk from the body shop

I love the smell of exclamation still now

[shggg245]

Miss selfridge iron lady lipstick - like twighlight teaser but would stay on ell week!

[StairsInTheNight]

That makeup that you ordered from a leaflet in magazines, you had to fill in a quiz about your face shape and eye colour and stuff and they sent you makeup and a personal booklet on how to put it all on?

I still have the purple eyeshadow palette :-D

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

I have a bottle of Exclamation on the go now I like it.

[FuturePerfect]

Twilight Teaser lipstick.
Lou Lou perfume.
Corn Silk.
Vitapointe.
Electric blue mascara.
'Stu-stu-stu-stu-studio line' hair gel for our perms!

[thenightsky]

heater hair curlers called 'Benders'

Two eyeshadows from Boots... a shimmery blue one and a shimmery heather coloured one. Cannot remember the names, but the whole of Year 4 at Ilkely Grammer wore one or the other in 1975!

[HibiscusIsland]

Aapri apricot exfoliating wash.
Toners and Shaders
Body Shop raspberry ripple bath

[MrsAtticus]

There was a face wash from the body shop that lots of girls used and I was jealous - can't remember the name of it now, smelt lovely!

[thenightsky]

And Anais Anais of course.

[WhereDoAllTheCalculatorsGo]

I liked woody sandlewood perfume from the body shop. And their Ananya one. My mum said the woody sandlewood nod made me smell of BO.

[thenightsky]

Woodlea, or was it Woodleigh, Green shampoo. Smelled of apples.

[shggg245]

Stairs YY - I persuaded my mum to do the mail order make up 'tailored to my individual colouring'!

I remember my French teacher being appalled at my interesting combination of bright orange nails and the abovementioned iron lady purple shimmer lipstick!
I probably had plum hair and blue eyelashes. Bloody gorgeous - I seriously thought I was the dogs. [big grin]

[TheFirmament]

Body mist! I can actually smell it now, reeking out the PE changing room.

This thread is also making me smell body shop dewberry, white musk and coconut hair gel.

And wash & go... It was so funny, it was the 80s fgs not 1523, we had actually already invented telephones and computers and aeroplanes. Yet when they invented a mixture of shampoo and conditioner the entire country was gripped in flabbergasted awe. It must have been the most successful ad campaign ever. EVERYONE bought it.

[Patrickstarisabadbellend]

Does anyone remember those gift baskets full of smellies that boots used to sell?

I loved the blueberry ones