Beauty products from yesteryear

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For a bit of nostalgia! I’ll kick things off..

• Hard Candy makeup and nail polish. I had a quad of eyeshadows in purples and golds, thought it was the shit!
• hair mascaras. Wtf were they about. Made your hair look like a gunky stringy mess
• body shop dewberry body spray, which was the thing at our school, along with
• wearing boy’s Lynx deodorant (I still recall which boys I fancied wore Tempest!)
• heather shimmer lipstick, obviously
• Rouge Noir nail polish, which everyone thought was the shit cos of Pulp Fiction, but it turned out to not even be the one that Uma Thurman wore)

Hit me with your memories!

Charlie perfume
Body shop pineapple face wash was brilliant.

V05 hot oil
Bath cubes nicked from grandma

I still miss the Body Shop Orchid Oil Cleanser so if this is similar I am interested Lush still makes their Orchid oil cleanser but it’s called 9-5

So many things on this thread I've used, and interestingly it is the smell that you remember - the Vidal Sassoon and Flex shampoos, Charlie, Geminesse and so many Avon perfumes - Sunny Skies, don't think that has been mentioned - and I was a big Yves Rocher fan, mail order at first but then a shop opened up by us which was fabulous! They only stopped selling it in the UK earlier this year and I do go round shops abroad but never buy anything. They did lovely perfumes as well, Clea and Magnolia (which I wore on my wedding day).

Lovely thread. I am bathing in the scent of nostalgia (and scrubbing off the day with Japanese Washing Grains, whilst using elderflower eye gel and carrot oil from the BS).

Cosmetics To Go 'Happy Hippy' grapefruit shower gel
This was sooooo good - I was very upset when they went bust and have never found a replacement as good.

Is Lush Happy Hippy anything like it @EnormousDormouse ?

Thanks tobee! I obviously haven't been looking very hard! I will give it a go and hope the formula is the same

L'Oréal Studio Fixing Spray. My hair was back combed then sprayed with this stuff. Liquid cement. It was like having a monument resting on my head.

^^

Ha! And:
Always unfortunate when Rimmel autocorrects to Rommel

Quite

Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner - smelled of almonds.
Body shop rice bran body scrub
Body shop white musk
Heather shimmer lipstick
A conditioner that was a mousse - I had long blonde hair and it made it lovely and wavy
Shaders and toners - whatever I chose, I always went an orangey colour
Glitter everything + body spray, a powder puff thing my cousin had from Benefit, eyeshadow. The more glittery the better
Gosh that's a lot. I'm old!

Lots of mentions of Anne French cleansing milk!
I switched back to using it last year, tons better than mega expensive ones I had been using, my skin is great,.
Boots still stock it in larger branches.

Body Shop raspberry ripple bubble bath. Didn’t they do an orange bath oil too?
Christy cucumber face mask
VO5 hot oil
Rimmel ginger something perfume
Hartnell In Love
Green colour corrector cream from Boots No 7, probably made me look like Kermit

Gatekeeper- you can still get Fidji quite cheaply but it's a weak reformulation of its former self. It's still lovely though.
I remember the woman sitting next to me on a plane buying it from the duty free trolley and me thinking how impossibly sophisticated she was. (I was probably in Pretty Peach at the time!)

peaceanddove- Oriflame yes! Very good stuff too.
I was allowed to go to the parties with my Mum and loved them.
Of course there'd be a snooty thread about MLM selling these days!

I loved Cover Girl makeup. I think Christie Brinkley was their ‘face’ and I loved her. I had a little palette called Tawny Blush with a peachy glowy blusher and a darker colour for under the cheekbones and following the instructions in Jackie magazine I would contour my face to perfection.

My aunt was a manager and MUA for Almay cosmetics and would give us beautiful eyeshadow palettes that would have cost a week of my parents wages. I was too young to use them but I loved the colours and the shininess and the limitless potential they seemed to offer. I’m still a sucker for an eyeshadow palette now even though I rarely use them but they are just so beautiful.

And I miss Prescriptives custom foundation too. One year in Harrods they had a pop-up counter that made custom lipsticks. I still have mine and it is suspiciously close to Heather Shimmer.

I used to wear Leichner foundation. I thought I had progressed from Rimmel. It is actually still sold on amazon. I am tempted to buy it to find out if I look shiny in it. It seems so thick now, when I think of it. I bet I looked awful.

Just asked husband re Leichner foundation as I wore it early 90s when I met him. Yes, he said, he could remember a time when I wore thick foundation. Yuck. Ironically I probably wore it when my skin was at its best. Early 20s ladies take note: you do not need thick foundation!! I stopped wearing it when i saw somebody else buying it - they looked yellow.

Boots 17 lipstick in Bon Bon
Electric blue mascara
Freestyle hair mousse
Max Factor panstick make up
Bodycon dresses in fluroescent colours
Big hair stiff with hairspray
Mary Quant make up
Sensique make up
Miss Selfridge Copperknockers lipstick
Impulse spray in a string musk scent. Tin was cream with gold writing i think
Rollerball lipgloss that leaked

Body Shop lip balms - the 90s kind, not the ones you get nowadays which are horribly sticky and drying
Flex shampoo - dried my hair out but the scent was amazing
Revlon Rum Raisin lipstick - the shade of the mid-90s
Revlon ad campaigns with Cindy Crawford and Halle Berry
Covergirl Lip Slickers - why isn't Covergirl available in the U.K?
Hair mascara - just why???

But if anyone is missing a particular discontinued shade of lipstick or eyeshadow etc then you can probably find it on eBay or an online outlet like AllBeauty.

Has anyone said the rubber swimming caps with holes in where you used a crochet hook to pull the hair through to apply the bleach to hi-lite hair.
Was v painful round the temples if you had long hair.
Could still be in use??

Ooh can anyone remember hint of a tint wash in hair colour? 👍🏻

This thread has reminded me that I used to really like the body shop. They have discontinued all the oldies. Why?! It seems loads of folk would buy if they brought them back!!

I’d forgotten about Prescriptives, I loved this range. I was ‘Vellum’ in their foundation but also had a custom blend made once. Great stuff!

Also, I think it was called Harmony, triangular small box with a metal tube of wash out hair colour. Happy days!

I still use Anne French Cleansing Milk and Nivea in the blue pot

@Gatekeeper the purple scented shampoo was Sunsilk Shampoo de Parfum. I can still smell it now.

Impulse In the red can. Chic. The ad was a woman in Paris with a beret.

Rommel pink shimmery lipstick. Can't think what it was called. Not heather shimmer, this was an ice pink.

I have really dry skin and have used the thick Nivea in the blue pot for a few years now, it works better than I'd like to admit! I sometimes use a lighter moisturiser for day but the blue Nivea is really good stuff - there is a reason it's still going after all these years.

Also works brilliantly as handcream for me, and can also use it on body to cut down on packing when travelling. Lovely stuff.

These threads always have a high proportion of old Body Shop stuff on them, I hardly ever buy anything from them now

Anne French used to do a sensitive cleansing milk, the normal one is good but a bit stingy for my skin.

I remember Prescriptives. I had a lipstick in a colour called Tourmaline.
I liked the packaging but it would look dated now.
Not on the same theme but last night I used Cien Q10 serum followed by Astral in a blue pot. I'm impressed. The serum was £2.99 from Lidl and the Astral was 79p.