Make-up and perfume of years gone by.....

[loupyloutoo]

Thats the stuff....I'd have never remembered that! I thought it was a staple of every teenagers make-up bag!!
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There is a secret in our culture – it’s not that birth is painful, it’s that women are strong. (Laura Stavoe Harm)

[PamT]

I had Lipcote too, it used to strip all the skin off your lips.

I had some irridescent eye shadow powder - there was a pot of lilac powder with a smaller pot of irridescent in the top. It might have been Biba or Bibi. I've still got it upstairs somewhere.

I also had the blue mascara.

About 15 years ago I told my mum that I liked Channel No 5 and she has continued to buy me a bottle every time she has been on holiday ever since

I remember when Shaders and Toners first came out, there were some free samples in my magazine (possibly Jackie?) and as I had strawberry blonde hair I tried the rich mahogany one. I ended up with carrot coloured hair for months until it finally wore off (so much for 6-8 washes).

[sapahesi]

Gosh, Lipcote.....evil stuff Used to sting like mad when you first put it on and you had to walk around like a goldfish for 2 or 3 minutes while it dried.

I was always disappointed with Shaders and Toners, they never really took on my hair which was naturally red back then. I do remember a friend putting a whole bottle of Sun-In on her hair though, and it went a lovely shade of orange

[gimme chocolate]

[figgy]

never got into makeup, but wore dewberry lots. my sis had fuzzy peach & white musk. I liked ananya too.

my best mates used to wear lulu & poison but i could never afford them. i did love lulu tho.

my little sis had exclamation!

i do remember trying testers of nailvarnish & having multicoloured nails. I still have my 1st hairdryer i got from Boots aged 10

[loupyloutoo]

Oh I just remembered my perfume!!! Georgio the one in the yellow and white stripy box....Still love the smell of that!

I still wear Loulou now, but then it's my name and clearly it was named after me!!!

I loved Shaders too, I had a bland sort of brown colour hair, the red shades were great on me and worked a treat! Never tried Sun-in, my friend said it was too expensive and to use lemon juice instead!!!

Oh and what about stick on nails....used to do that ALL the time! Never used to cut them down first though, so I'd always end up with talons!! Oh and after I'd painted them I'd decide on a different colour and the nails would melt under the nail varnish remover! The glue stung if you had a cut cuticle! God what with Lipcote, I must have thought that beauty came with the price of PAIN!
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There is a secret in our culture – it’s not that birth is painful, it’s that women are strong. (Laura Stavoe Harm)

[PamT]

I never used Sun In but I did lemon juice a few times - it worked a treat in summer. When we were in 6th form my friend was really into bands like The Smiths and had her hair shaved at the sides with the top and front all stuck up in spikes with sugar and water spray - great until it rained!

That was the Duran Duran era too where everyone had a top-heavy layered wedge and almost triangular splodges of blusher, after having the A-symetric Human League fringe and black kohl. My school photo (whole school - 3 foot long panoramic job) is a tribute to 80's bands.

Ah! those were the days.

[Don Hathor]

I always wanted my hair that lovely bluey plummy burgundy, but no matter what I did it always ended up orange.

val xx
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[blind-as-a-bat]

[moogyboobles]

I remember sun in, didn't it really bugger up your hair?
I hate not being allowed that perm everybody had when I was about 13. If you didn't have it boys wouldn't go near you.

Did anyone else have the sock thing? Really long ones that were pedantically pleated around your ankles?
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[PamT]

We used to wear short skirts and over the knee socks to school, my mum thought we looked disgusting.

[Jeni]

[Spiragirl]

I loved my electric blue mascara and eyeliner! Never into perfume but remember everyone stinking of Dewberry. We use to have to wear yellow ankle socks to school and would put on at least two pairs to try to achieve the thick socks pushed down look - never really worked because you had to wear the school bought ones which were really thin and crappy. Spent most of my youth in DM boots with over knee socks and tiny mini skirts with cycling shorts underneath.

Kate

[Flopsybunny]

[Flopsybunny]