80’s Make-up; wasn’t it great!

[MrsCatE]

Nostalgia from another thread.
Anyone remember multiple eyeshadows?! I used to have bonkers palettes and do mad combinations e.g inner corner would be fluorescent pink, middle would be shimmer, outer purple - normally set in stone with wetted brush! Then crease emphasised with deeper colour and brow bone highlighted with more shimmer. Coloured mascara was a thing plus I may have had matching eyebrows on occasion! However, I was on the London club scene. As for clothes . . . I yanked myself into a black, PVC dress (talcum powder involved - then baby oil) - then was too chicken shit to take my coat off. Sigh. I would love to yell at my younger self - ‘you look amazing - get that coat off!!’ (plus that’s the last time you’ll ever be able to pull off a size 6 latex dress )

My favourite 80s make up products

A Yardley's Holly Red lipstick
Mary Quant Black Cherry lipstick
Dior bright blue mascara Spacial Blue

I haven't read the whole thread, so someone else might have mentioned this: Keeley Hawes in Ashes to Ashes

Blue eyeliner inside the bottom lid, always ended up with blue gunk in the corner of your eye.
Navy blue eyeshadow and a shimmery shadow above.
Amethyst shimmer lipstick, think it was Rimmel.
Mahogany shaders and toners until I dyed my hair black in 1982
Loved it, wanted to be a member of Bananarama.

@TopTabby

So happy that someone else remembers Twilight Teaser: a shimmery cardiac arrest lilac. Worn with electronic blue eyeliner/mascara or purple eyeliner/mascara, the whitest, matte-est base imaginable and an indescribably crisp, scrunch dried perm, set with Hard Rock hairspray. I loved the 80s ❤️

So grateful to have been a teen in the 80s, when eyebrows were left untamed. As a result mine remain luxuriant. If I'd come of age in the 90s I'd have little thin lines of brow to play with

If I'd come of age in the 90s I'd have little thin lines of brow to play with

Exactly what i have now . My eyebrows are outraged at the frenzied tweezering that befell them to make them look like angry sperm.
They are all "Nahhh why should be bovver . you're just at at with the Tweezermans"

If I do get an unruly long browhair now I do a sort of comb-over and maybe trim with scissors .

I love love love 80s makeup.. did then and still do! Obviously don’t wear it daily but any excuse and I do. Luckily I work somewhere where we get to dress up quite often. I did a Siouxie Soux a couple of years ago. I adored going to work like that… and round Tesco’s after!

Electric blue eyeliner!! 😁 😂 With that tiny sponge in the end of the pencil for 'smudge' 🤣

I was a child in the 80s but remember being a bridesmaid in 1988, at my auntie's wedding. Her DH's younger sister was 10, I was 9, and I was very jealous of her crimped blonde locks, and sandals with a small heel. My mum had done my straight brown hair in a French plait and put me in pink satin ballet shoes, and I wanted to look grown up like the other girl. My granny kept muttering about how ridiculous the other girl looked, how common. I was never allowed to crimp my hair, although my mum did let me get a perm at 14. I looked like Brian May...

Windywuss, the colour changers were Constance caroll and were the best, mad colours that were pink when warm but turned purple if you got cold

I found my mums old 60s lipstick and wore it every day, dug it out of tube. It was a pink white colour I loved it so much. Tried and failed to find similar. Turquoise eyeliner on bottom lid and black on top with flick on inner and outer edge. Huge hair too