Beauty problems we didn't have in the 80's

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

*Pores- no one fussed about open pores,in fact the only place you read about them was in a science paper at school.

*Cellulite- it was just 'dimply legs' if you were a bit fat,then suddenly magazines made it a 'thing!'

• The right colour foundation- there were only about 3 shades back then and no one made a fuss if you had the wrong one as everyone did

• No one cared about the damage Sun In and lemon juice did to your hair

• No one waxed their eye brows,we all went at them like crazy with a pair of tweezers!

• 99% of people had pubes!

I was contemplating this around Tesco earlier

Worlds leakage! From the bum hole to the fanjo! 🤢😂

I'm all for anal, personally, but the attitude to pubes that the late nineties/early noughties heralded does seem a real step backwards.

Having said that, in certain more ~cosmopolitan young-people-circles the bald fanny and comprehensive lack of any body hair on women is now regarded as hugely passé.

Public hair Over? Mine was never public

Yes Mouse it is now bad form to be completely bald, a bit of hair on the wicket is now the trend.

Shading and contouring wouldn't have worked due to the foundation issues,everything stems back to that!

No wasting hours poring over Youtube makeup videos. You copied your mate, read a few tips inJackie magazine, or, if you were dead sophisticated, asked the orange lady at the Helena Rubenstein counter how to do it.

Freudian slip

No-one even noticed frown lines.
Women didn't worry about 'looking cross'.
If you wanted to look 'rested' or 'fresher', you went to bed early.

Very true! We were far more accepting of ourselves. No one had plastic surgery unless they'd been in an accident.

You didn't need to be toned or have definition, just being slim cut it. Exercise classes were easy to choose, there was aerobics and that was about it.

Shopping for a wedding - so much choice now, then it was straight to Laura Ashley, job done, matching outfits for you and the DD's all in one shop.

And we all ate carbs!

No blogs, Facebook or selfies.
It was quite normal to have a bad haircut now and again.
You could use Shaders & Toners and it would come out in the next wash.
You could wear leg warmers and pixie boots
Only blue, brown or green eyeshadow so not too much choice
Striped highlights were the in thing

Only blue, brown or green eyeshadow so not too much choice

I wore all shades from yellow to mauve and everything in between plus red mascara!

We wore whatever Princess Di was wearing and copied her haircut or Alexa Carrington's from Dynasty. That was the choice.
We thought Ecru tights went with everything if you didn't fancy black and oh how we laughed at our mum's American Tan.
I could afford Topshop on my Saturday girl wages of £6 per day. Now I find it overpriced.

Veneers - we had Gordon Moores Cosmetic Toothpaste or Pearl drops

Doing Your Colours. If someone asked the 80s me if I was Cool Summer or Cool Winter or whatever season I'd have been

Clothes from supermarkets were shit , now they can be quite nice.

Cruelty Free meant Beauty Without Cruelty or BodyShop, or some hard to get brands from Health Food shops.

Blue eyeliner, blue mascara, Twilight Teaser = face done. Crimpers and Elnett = hair done.

It was all many degrees more lighthearted in the 80s and 90s.

Now there are so many minor celebs, wannabes and third rate bloggers who are so po-faced and serious about it all, and spend a disproportionate amount of their time discussing makeup and beauty products. Dull, dull, dull, dull, dull of dullsville.

If you can't be ready to face the world after washing and cleaning your teeth then you are a bit of a twat. Imo.

I wore all shades from yellow to mauve and everything in between plus red mascara!

I've never heard of red mascara! Your nearest shops must have been way better than ours

Well I was a hybrid mix of goth and rock growing up as a teen in the 80's so I looked super pale with a huge covering of thick white foundation, lots of black eyeliner and mascara finished off with bright red or dark purple lipstick.
My mum used to look at me and sigh, she would say that it was such a pity that no one could see how pretty I was under all the makeup

I alternated between red and electric blue mascara. Constance Carroll's finest

Nobody waxed anything.

No one wondered why blushers came with that teeny brush because it was the perfect size for adding a strong streak of blusher across your cheek!

Overstructured eyebrows - just plucked and that was it; orange skin - never the aim back then.
No one was waxed.
Those were the days.

I was looking at a school photo from 1990 and we all had frizzy hair of various lengths and teeth that were imperfect and not day glo white. eyebrows were plucked to oblivion (more mid 90s perhaps?).