Those old make up brands that have gone- a bit of fun for the oldies.

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I was thinking today how many old brands have gone.

I remember buying my first 'real' foundation in a dept store when I was about 15. The store was the House of Fraser group. I bought Yardley foundation and my Mum came along with me to look at the shades. It was in a turquoise tube, not unlike the packaging now of some Clinique products.

The others I used were
Outdoor Girl
Miners
Mary Quant ( a real treat as it was expensive.)

Me and my friends used to spend ages on Saturdays in Woolies looking at Outdoor Girl and Miners.

I used to love a tiny pot of Miners lip gloss.

Just seen this Bergasol one!! 😱😱😱

Definitely not for today, hard to believe it's real!

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There was one called Gordon Moore Cosmetic Toothpaste that was red , made your gums red so your teeth looked whiter.

Back in the old days (1970s !) we had one called Gibbs/Gibsons that was in a round tin -blue or pink varieties - it was solid , you rubbed your damp toothbrush across it . The tin was a 'mare to open though !

Oriflame! The height of sophistication to me as an 80s teen.

I used to love Mary Quant makeup, in the cute matte black packaging with the 60s-style silver flower. And I had dozens of Rimmel and Boots 17 eyeshadows in improbable pastel shades. The best ones were marbled or mosaics of all the pastel colours together. Maybe not green. For some 80s/90s logic reason, blue and lilac were fine but green was not acceptable.

I remember Cherish toothpaste!
And the rollerball lipgloss- Kissing Potion
Ultima II Brighten up Tighten up eye cream was indeed amazing, I was buying it in the 90s and would use it now if I could.

Obsession and Poison. You could tell if someone had been in a lift before you wearing either of those.

Studio Line - loved the branding. Can still remember the smell of the hair gel.

OMG the sparkling foundation was like spreading lard on your face it was so thick 😃

Charles of the Ritz, my friend was distraught when they stopped selling it in the UK

I had Copper Knockers!

I remember either Marks and Spencers OR Sainsbury's doing really nice eyeshadow palettes and blusher palettes in earl- mid 1980s. I loved the blusher one. They were in tins.

The roll on lip gloss I remember is Constance Carroll. They did all sorts of cheap make up in chemists.

Charles of the Ritz was amazing stuff. Another ahead of its time. I still keep my paperclips in a CotR loose powder tin. It was called Revenescence and it was my mum's - light reflecting particles a long time before Estée Lauder introduced Lucidity which was the first time "light reflecting" was part of the USP.
I also had their lipsticks around the time I graduated, so 1988. Gorgeous nudes with incredible staying power.

Me and my friend had the Miss Selfridge cream eyeshadow stack pots. She had the blue and silver as he had blue eyes 😂 I had the gold as mine are brown. The funny thing is I'm cool toned so would suit the blue and she's slightly olive so would suit the gold.

The Bergasol ads above have made me think about how other beauty products used to be advertised in the 70s.

Teenage girls' mags seemed to especially target anyone with skin issues, with the ads using either shame or impossible promises to lure in customers to buy their products.

There was one for some kind of cleanser, with an illustration of a girl who had just been rejected by her crush saying to her friend "He said I had skin like a peach... he meant a football pitch!" Another one had an illustration of a girl using a peel-off face mask. The pic showed her peeling off the mask and every one of her spots coming off with it, leaving a radiant, unblemished complexion behind.

I loved Anne French cleaning milk in the triangle bottle. And Bonne Bell 1066

Love all the nostalgia! My first lipstick was an Outdoor Girl in Fuchsia, worn surreptitiously to youth club, and scrubbed off before going home.

Also lots of Miners makeup. I also remember wearing a mascara called Tattoo, came in a tiny tube, which made my eyelashes look like falsies, but had one drawback - it dissolved in the rain! Only cost 1/9d. So then changed to Max Factor block mascara.

I loved the Mary Quant makeup, I had a face palette called Shaders with a dark and light tone, to sculpt your face, hoping to not look like war paint.

Thanks to the PP who mentioned Madeleine Mono - I adored the tiny pots of iridescent eyeshadows in jewel colours and saved up to buy 5 or 6 pots in turquoise, deep green, purple and bronze, like a peacock’s feather.

I was given two perfume sprays at the age of 14, by Faberge, Tigre and Gin Fizz which smelt just like gin and lemon - loved that one!

Also spraying my hair with Sun-In, to gradually bleach it, but ended up with straw hair.

Lots more that I can’t remember too.

Was it this one? I remember it well.

That's it @Blossomtoes thank you hah memories.☺️

Anyone remember pHisoHex in the green bottle? Smelt like burning rubber and took the paint off our bathroom shelf.

Has anyone mentioned Ten O Six? I loved the smell. It stripped your skin something rotten!

The green bottle my brother had. My mother bought me witch hazel for my spots, black heads

Lordy...my mam used that Gordon Moore's toothpaste back in the 40's/50's and I tried it in the 80's. I can still bring the taste and texture of it to mind...

My first foundation was Leichner bought in 1979 when I was 15. It was beige ...and there's me with porcelein skin...and in true style stopped at the neck

I used to pore over those Rimmel adverts in my mam's 'Woman' magazine. I wish Rimmel still sold that pink tinted nail varnish

I can too @Gatekeeper. It was more magenta than red if my memory serves me.

DuchessOfSausage · Yesterday 10:19
@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe , I remember that. It was a flat square tin. The orangey (lower left hand corner) blusher was popular at school, from what I remember.

Yes! Same in my school too, that was THE colour to be wearing. There was also a purpleish one and a brownish one too? They were really nice blushers - coral/orangey one first, then the purple one and then finally, the brown one.