This week's question is sort of a continuation of the question from last week's Lipstick League post. I cannot express to you how much I enjoyed reading your responses to the question: "What was the first beauty product you ever tried?"
The answers I received on Twitter, Facebook and on the blog were amazing and SUCH a stroll down memory lane! So I thought I'd continue with this theme and ask you this question:
If you could bring back one beauty product from your youth, what would it be?
For me, without a doubt, it would be Village Lip Lickers. In fact, my lovely reader Anne told me about a Facebook page devoted to Village Lip Lickers, and their photo gallery blew my mind!! In my Lipstick League post, I explained how I even had one of the big, double-barrel tins with lemon and lime glosses, and the Facebook group has a picture of that exact tin! What a blast from the past. I would give anything to have some Village Lip Lickers again.
So what about you? What one beauty product from your youth would you love to have in your possession again? Feel free to leave a link to a site that has a pic of your beloved, long-lost favorite beauty product, if you can find one!
Definitely Revlon Street Wear nail polishes.
ReplyDeleteOmg sooooo many things!!!
ReplyDeleteOld school Urban Decay and Hard Candy nail polish.
Skinmarket brand cosmetics, especially all the black-light reactive stuff.
Old-style Herbal Essences (not so much for the effects, but the smell OMG so good!)
Lots of old Bath and Body Works fragrances (they've really gone downhill lately): Iced Pineapple, Fresh Lilac, Limelight, Wheatberry, etc. etc.
Revlon Street Wear cosmetics, especially the nail polishes!!
Salon Selectives shampoo and conditioner, these were my go-to's before I discovered salon hair care.
John Freida Beach Blonde line especially the beach waves spray. I loved that stuff. I wanna try to make some homemade sea salt sprays. Has anyone ever tried this, if so what is ur recipe. Most recipes i see online call for 8oz warm water, tsp of sea salt, and a tsp of conditoner and hair gel(any cheap brand will do)The conditioner suggested to use was the suave coconut for the smell and just any cheap hair gel.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with the old Hard Candy and Urban Decay polishes and the OMG Herbal Essences. I just finished my last bottle of very old rose HE conditioner (a product I admittedly hoarded).
ReplyDeleteBut the one product I would bring back...would be my pink and aqua Caboodle. I loved that thing.
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ReplyDeleteMine would be Outrageous shampoo in the black & red bottle & Salon Selectives. I've seen Salon Selectives at some Big Lots and have wondered if its the same after all these years. Oh yeah and my fave hairspray of all time Rave microspray in the white can!
ReplyDeleteRevlon SkinLights Face Illuminator Stick Brightener. It was like the NARS multiple. It probably wouldn't go great over foundation ... but at the time I didn't need foundation! Anybody remember those days?? I totally agree that John Freida beach waves spray NEEDS to come back onto the shelves. It was THE best. And I would like the ability to carry roughly twenty Bonne Bell lip smackers in glosses and balms without looking like a weirdo. Good times.
ReplyDeleteFaberge Babe cologne.
ReplyDeletewell, I'm only 16, so everything I own currently is what I used when I was younger.
ReplyDeletethe only thing I can remember was painting my toenails with glow in the dark nail polish, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the brand was. (this was circa 2001.)
You know, there's not much that I can think of that I'd want to bring back. I love the new technology and ingredients for makeup so much! Hm, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe the sally hanson nail prisms which were like duochrome nail polishes.
ReplyDeleteWell I was a kid when the Sally Hansen Nail Prisms came out...and I remember picking up the blue and wondering why anyone would wear blue nail polish and opted for a red one instead. UGH REGRET. But yeah, I'd bring back those.
ReplyDeleteI totally loved the pink bottles of Salon Selectives too when I was a teen! lol. And the old school bottles of Herbal Essence, especially the Rose one!!
ReplyDeleteThe mini lipsticks from my mom's Avon testers. I'm telling you, Barbie never looked better than when I did her lips. We got mostly the discontinued ugly stuff, so trying them on myself was horrific, but I wish I'd kept a few of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteRevlon StreetWear, absolutely. It's the first line I can remember really catching my eye because its aesthetic fit me.
ReplyDeleteAnd like Cait above, I miss old-school Caboodles. I still have my big oval one, but they just don't make 'em like that anymore and I'd love to have another.
The comments on this are so much fun to read. A couple of things:
ReplyDeleteI had probably eight of those Village glosses. I once rode my bike about six miles one way on a hot summer day to go to a gift shop that I knew sold them.
Despite the fact that they leaked a bit and the cheap gold painted cap used to flake off in your pocket I miss the old Maybelline rollerball glosses in the glass vial because it came in so many great flavors.
Bonne Bell Lip Smackers came in more flavors, including a super strong grape that made you want to compulsively pop the cap and sniff.
I miss old school Herbal Essence but you can get a reissue of it from the Vermont Country Store. They also have Body on Tap, Lemon Up, and Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific. (Sorry, young ones, you probably don't remember any of these.)
I also miss old Johnson's Baby Shampoo. It doesn't smell the same anymore.
I would also bring back SH Nail Prisms because I had three of them at one time and because I was frustrated with how easily they chipped I THREW THEM AWAY. I didnt know about sandwiching back then.
I have an 'old school Caboodle'-- but I use it to keep my gun cleaning supplies in. My makeup doesnt fit in it anymore.
I'd give my right arm to have the original Heaven Scent perfume by Helena Rubenstein.
ReplyDeleteI'm also a Village Lickers balm fan.
I used some super cheap makeup, not even sure what brand, like Wet n Wild.
When I had the money to buy good makeup, I bought Clinique's pore minimizer and an Estee Lauder mascara.
L'Oreal had an eyeshadow palette that had a cream highlight, a nice rich orange, a chocolate brown and an autumn russet copper. I miss it.
Maybelline's kissing koolers!
ReplyDeleteBear in mind this was the mid 1980's!
ReplyDelete1. I'd love to see the Vidal Sassoon colored hair gels come back. I used the purple gel to get that "lift" right at my ears. It drove my boyfriend's mom nuts (I wasn't a good country music-lovin' girl. I was a rebel without a clue)
2. When I was 14 I used to cruise the Payless Drugs cosmetic aisles and stuff my pockets with Chanel No5 cologne samples. I loved those tiny little vials! You don't see that nowadays so please, bring back perfume samples!
the original Clinique Chubby Sticks! They were matte and gorgeous and my HG was Vanilla Brownie!!
ReplyDeletei seriously miss Tinkerbell products, especially the really horrible, super-thick nailpolish. the quality was total crap, but it was SO MUCH FUN to paint it on, let it dry, and peel it off!
ReplyDeleteJane Megabites. Fond memories of that flavored lipstick. I also remember liking their Stay Calm foundation.
ReplyDeleteTo those who have mentioned Salon Selectives. It's still out there! I saw some shampoos and conditioners recently at a supermarket.
I can't pick just one!
ReplyDeleteVillage Lip Lickers - yes please! I ordered a modern day version from VintageSister. Hasn't arrived yet, but I hope they are delicious!
In addition to Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific and Herbal Essences, I miss the original Pantene smell. I used to use the orange/peach bottle with the gold cap.
Maxi Colors-To-Go eyeshadow (link to an old ad on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curly-wurly/2649105926/)
Loved the little Avon solid perfume pins for girls. I had a little collection of them (photo: http://images.cloud.worthpoint.com/wpimages/images/images1/1/0309/18/1_b1ce28e21a7b44c7279462922d2832bd.jpg)
I really miss Clinique's Gentle Light liquid foundation-- first I ever used!
ReplyDeleteI actually saw it at one of those Makeup outlets recently and purchased it... makes me wonder, though, how old it is.. or if they reproduce it for those purposes? So odd to me!
I also miss me some Bonne Belle, but luckily it's still out there, haha!
Not sure if you've seen this, but I received one a while back, from TINte Cosmetics.
ReplyDeleteThey look really similar to the Village lip tins, and are flavored as well. Mine was in Blackberry Jam and rather dark, but it had great coverage.