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!

I loved the Mostly Musk perfume oil from The Body Shop, it was a tiny bottle and you had to put it on and let it dry or it stained any clothing it came into contact with.
Ysatis was my grown up perfume of choice
Giorgio of Beverly Hill perfume.
The Body Shop did a coconut hair gel that went mouldy if you didn't use it quick enough.
Wet look hair gel.
My friend had Odyssey perfume from Avon and it smelled lovely, I was mad with jealously at her Avon hauls.
I loved Orchid Oil cleanser, I'm going to look at the Lush one.

What was the range of cleansers/make up that you could only by mail order? It was always advertised in Blue Jeans, Jackie etc. It sounded French.

anyone remember these magazine adverts for Rimmel

Oh yes
My school mate wore Ruby Sorbet and Grape Sorbet

Johnsons Empathy shampoo was that the one for hair over 40 even though hair falls out after 6 years so the person might be over 40 but the hair isn't

It sounded French

Was it Yves Rocher ? That was mail order around that time

Fruit flavoured lip gloss that came in a bottle with a roller ball.

Yes that was it 70! I thought it seemed very cosmopolitan

Wincarnis- I collect vintage perfumes and have almost all the ones you mention.
When I was about 8 my Fran's next door neighbour gave me some Apple Blossom- so heavy and strong my Mum made me chuck it.
I got some Heaven Sent last year, so powdery and lovely.
I'd forgotten French Almond but can now see the box, 70s brown and pink flowers on it.
Sea Jade, along with Freesia, Lavender and April Violets, all Yardley (still going strong and underrated IMO, some of their perfumes are fab- their Jade is not Sea Jade but it's a dead ringer for Chanel Cristalle)

Yves Rocher - still really big on t'continent. I have their latest brochure on my desk as we speak.

In the 80s I bought some Estée Lauder Country Moist (urgh @ nasty name) foundation and my friend was horrified that it cost £17. Thinking about that, it doesn't seem to have gone up as much as you might have expected over the years.

There was an ad for a Horse Chestnut shampoo which had a wanton woman getting all unnecessary over the Vikings raping and pillaging and swishing her hair and saying 'Ive washed my hair so I do hope they come again"

Honeysuckle perfume oil from The Body shop

Odyssey from Avon was the dogs. I’d love a quick whiff right now.

Didn’t Mary Quant eyeshadows have a little flower on them?

Thanks for whoever reminded me of Spectacular nail polishes, I had a silver glitter one that I loved.

@TheCanterburyWhales

I was looking at this ad on youtube just the other day

all the Mary Quant makeup had daisies on- her trademark. Did anyone have the doll in the mid 1970's? Daisy doll? I had one in 1975

Oh yes Yve rocher, used to order in the 80s. Still have my free gift - striped towel

70isaLimitNotaTarget, I remember Empathy shampoo, as advertised by Nanette Newman IIRC.

An old flame who had gone prematurely bald had a bottle in his bathroom. I'm not sure if he was being ironic.

@Gatekeeper

Rommel

Used to like sketching the beautiful women in the ad and my dad snidely commented my version definitely needed the make up

No positive praise then

Almay stuff was brilliant. I also liked Helena Rubinstein.
Impalpable blush in Apricot was great.

@echt I think I had the cheeky chops stick, it was so thick, shimmery but made me think I would look like Twiggy who advertised a lot in woolies.

"Glints. Just a shade more daring"

Said in edgy London accent.

Always unfortunate when Rimmel autocorrects to Rommel.

Those magazines ads for Rimmel were what made me want to get all their shades of everything.

Does anyone remember the magazine ad for Lipcote? It was a pink ad and told a story about a girl discovering her friend’s use of lipcote, and contained the quote ‘you’re a dark horse’.

@Shangrilalala, I can't believe anyone else had that Elancyl cellulite thingummy! It was bloody expensive and it didn't work. I still have my full complement of cellulite 30 years later.

Lipcote was awful stinging stuff! And it used to flake off if you smiled too widely .

Just remembered I bought that Elancyl thing. God it was so painful!

@thenightsky we'd have been better off with a tube of Copydex.

Organics shampoo in the mid 90s, and jelly like face masks that were peel off. Early noughties - Olay daily facials and those uncomfortable teeth whitening kits where you put gel in rubber 'holders' and onto your teeth for fifteen minutes.