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

Big jugs with an arse the size of a small peach was the order of the day, that seems to have been completely reversed now.

Hopefully pot bellies will be de rigueur next decade.

The jumpers were Global Hypercolour!

Tesstickles - Silkymits??

They were like sand paper , worked a charm then half an hour afterwards you had a slow release of burn that lasted forever. I used them once and never again! Funnily enough they are selling them again on shopping channels I noticed.

herbaceous

Ha yes!

thanks for reminding me of the name!

We didn't have to concern our selves with what to wear with "it's not the summer range" open toed shoes/boots.

Cos "it's not the summer range" shoes/boots had toes. Naturally enough. What with frostbite being an undesirable "free gift" with your footwear purchases.

We didn't have to choose between a rhino hide face, or fish without a fitful of tiny plastic balls. It was a buf-put that got used until it was the depth of a cracker , or apricot kernels turned into rather sharp bits that were very scratchy.

I was talking about this with my (totally bored!) DH the other day!

I was saying that expectations of beauty are so high now. For example, if you watch 80's videos, half the stars have (by today's standards) really bad teeth but back then they were just ordinary teeth. Chipped, stained, out of line teeth but "normal" untouched teeth. Now most faces on the telly will at the very least have had teeth whitening and some positioning correction, all the way up to a full mouth of veneers.

Back then, if you didn't naturally have thick hair it was just tough. Now you can buy thick hair which nobody would ever know wasn't yours.

One or two of the pop stars were considered perfect in terms of shiny bob and perfect lipstick etc, but if you compare them to today's shiny hair and perfect lipstick they look like they were dragged through a hedge back then. Now we are so used to airbrushing and highlighters and undereye concealers and contouring, it's as though we expect ordinary faces to look airbrushed all the time. So it's strange looking back on old pop stars and film stars who were the benchmark of perfection then to see how... unfinished they look by today's standards!!!

gut full fitful of tiny plastic balls.

Apologies. Shrub attack in the garden this morning. Attractive massive special plaster now covering my one decent eye. Typing one eyed is hard !

but if you compare them to today's shiny hair and perfect lipstick they look like they were dragged through a hedge back then

M'Lud I present evidence for the defence of the 80s bob + lipstick

No hedge involvement.

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Am glad. Cos am well off garden plants at the moment.

Online well she looks pretty good TBH, but you can tell that hair's never seen a shine serum, a hair straightener or some subtle thickening extensions

Talking of 80's pop stars, Wendy James of Transvision Vamp was waaaaay ahead of her time in terms of styling, makeup, overall look etc!

There was still a lot of beauty pressure, my eyebrows were plucked to one hairs width in the eighties, there were contouring things, I used to put white highlighter on my cheekbones too (which looked odd). There were always tips about putting your elbows in a lemon half, no one goes on about elbows now. And I used to sleep in foam curlers. And bloody perms which were either growing out messy or too tight, there was a window of about 2 weeks when they looked ok.

Only Americans had manicures

The only perfume choice for teens was White Musk or Dewberry. Grownups had LouLou or AnaisAnais

Oh god the fucking half lemons.

Olennas You forgot Ex-Cla-Ma-Tion!!! Or whatever it was. Or Impulse spray for teens, and Youth Dew (urgh) or Obsession (when it launched) for adults

My mum used to go on and on about elbows and lemons and never leaning on your elbows?!?! Also, necks. Apparently choker necklaces gave you lines

Insette. Now that hairspray actually did what it said on the tin!!
And who cared if you had split ends?!

Running to the phone box at the end of the street to do reverse charges because my tight arse mum put a padlock on the house phone!

Tights that were bobbly because the netting from your underskirt ripped the shred out of them.

The 80's were fucking great.

It was great, much less pressure to be 'perfect' and more room to express yourself. You just put lipstick on (prob Sweet Sizzle or Twilight Teaser) and mascara, afro combed your perm, squirt of Dewberry and you were good to go!

Find had yellow lipstick once, and definitely coloured mascara,. Under no pressure to have my hair and makeup done professionally for my late 80s wedding

I had to get DD some blue eyeshadow recently. Whilst I haven't worn blue eyeshadow for decades, i hadn't really clocked that it is quite hard to find these days. I eventually got it in Superdrug. It was only available in a palette with pinks, purples & greens. I was instantly transported back to my teens.
In 1998, I was dating someone, went to his parents' house and his mum wasn't there as she at the gym. I remember being amazed. I didn't know "grown ups" (I was early 20s, she was 50s) did exercise like that. Now I can't think of many 50yr olds that I know who don't have an exercise routine which involves the gym or training for a marathon or something.

Contouring is nothing new - I remember Rimmel selling blusher in kits of 3 - a highlighter, cheek bone, and cheek hollow colour. Not sure what they called it - shading?

Plastic surgery was an extreme not an ideal - only a few very rich people did it (and most people would t even consider it) - think Nancy Reagan and Joan Rivers. Don't think Botox existed outside of medical treatment for sweating.

Miss Selfridge had a fabulous makeup range in the 80s. I used to spend ages swatching everything and lusting over their palettes. There were definitely more than 3 shades of foundation. I started buying makeup in the early 80s. I was colour matched for my (natural) foundation at boots no 7. Blue & green eye-shadow was definitely naff then. I remember Princess Di's makeup was dated at the time - all blue eyeliner and gloopy lipgloss. I used to pore over all my vogue beauty books and celebrity makeup books . Victoria Principals makeup book.was my absolute favourite.

The desire for an unnaturally smooth forehead didn't exist as Botox wasn't a 'thing'. Personally think it should have stayed that way!

Bone bel paint stripper cleanser or Noxema.

In 1984 I had the Miss Selfridge white make up box

Was it lillypout and Iron Lady? Lipsticks, very dark metallic pink

There was colour-matched foundation - ?Cosmetics a la Carte? Or was it another brand? Never bought it as was too expensive.

My very best 80s memory is when my friend and I dyed our hair pink and red with Crazy Colour. We were sitting having a cup of tea in a cafe when two old ladies wearing bright fluorescent jewellery came over and said 'we love your hair, dears', and we said 'well we love your fluorescent jewellery'.

I miss that playfulness. Also fluorescent nail varnish for wearing when you went out dancing.

Housewife so true about Miss Selfridge's makeup range! They had loose eyeshadow in tubes with wand applicators, a bit like Benefit's. There was a trend for yellow eyeshadow and they had a great one which you would do with three black polka dots going from the end of your eye (in place of a liquid eyeliner flick, very fun!) Also Boots at the same time sold little stars and butterflies which you stuck on by your eyes, you can get these anywhere now but at the time it was groundbreaking and that was early 80's (disco glam follow-on from the 70's).

Also Miss Selfridge had an amazing perfume, called Soft Talk. Every girl I knew wanted it and in fact I found my old bottle which has a third left and it still smells as good today as it did then, the scent hasn't gone off (has been in cold garage storage for years!) and also the actual fragrance is still lovely, I would definitely buy it today if it was available. Wish they would bring it back.