Do you have any favorite beauty products from your teens or pre-teens? Current teenagers are so spoiled because they have Sephora and MAC stores, and then of course the internet with an endless supply of fabulous beauty products! Actually, it’s a good thing I’m not a teenager now, because I wouldn’t have nearly enough money to afford everything that I’d covet, since I would want everything!
Back in my day, (the 80s) there weren’t nearly as many options for beauty products, and I only purchased stuff from the drugstore. I don’t think I purchased a single department store product until my mid-20s!
My favorite 80s products (that I can remember) include: Sea Breeze toner, Buf Pufs, Noxema, Zinka hot pink chapstick, Sun-In, Bonne Bell lip smackers, Clearasil cleanser, everything by Wet ‘N Wild (especially blue mascara, blue eyeliner, and blue nail polish), and Secret Shower Fresh deodorant (which I’m still mourning over to this day).
Depending on your age, what are you favorite beauty products from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s?
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February 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am
From the 70’s-early 80’s: Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific Shampoo, Sea Breeze esp. Breezettes, Sea-n-Ski lip balm in mint, Farrah Fawcett Shampoo, A Coty perfume named Mizuki,
Thats all I can think of now.
February 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
70’s - (when I was a kid) Lemon Up Shampoo. 80’s - Tenax hair gel in a green and silver tube. Best hair gel ever. Stiff Stuff Hairspray for big NJ hair.
February 8th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
My favorite product - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Chapstick.
February 8th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I was a teen in the 80s and I basically had really expensive taste. My first makeup line was Yves Saint Laurent and I exclusively wore that line for many years. In the 90s I started wearing MAC and then discovered Bobby Brown in 2001.
Gisele B.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Beauty Schools,
Haha! I never had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle chapstick. I really missed out:(
February 11th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Bain de Soleil tanning oil from the 70s before they changed the scent. Blue Jeans perfume. I can’t remember the name, but the runny lip gloss that came in glass bottles and rolled on and had really interesting flavors - I liked cola best. Chanel’s Cristalle perfume - my first adult perfume and still the best! - before they changed the formula.
February 12th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I loved this post! I actually did one of my own as well and linked back to this one in it. You can check it out here — http://beautychick101.blogspot.com/2008/02/nostalgic-beauty.html
Keep up the great posts! :)
January 18th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I loved makeup when I was teenager, much more than I do now. I loved Clinique’s Glossy mascara, Origins mint face wash, and Quick stick by L’oreal . Bonne Bell, St. Ives, anything I could get my hands on
February 4th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
The 60’s introduced me to pink sponge rollers, banana curls, detanglers, and Dippity Do.
Bonne Bell Lip Smackers in Chocolate Mint and Birthday Cake were my favorites in the 70’s. Love’s Musky Jasmine Flower, a Coty (?) blush stick - go lightly or you look like a clown, and pale green eyshadow also made the list.
Chanel’s Christale perfume in the 80’s, eyelash curlers with heavy mascara and navy or purple eye liner lining the innner lids (potentially harmful), patchouli and white musk oil lightly dabbed on the wrists and behind the ears, tanning gel for the face, Noxema, Johnson’s Baby Oil for tanning in the spring and Bain de Soleil oil for the summer, Sea Breeze, Ten-O-Six, and Cherry Chapstick.
March 3rd, 2009 at 2:10 am
I was just thinking about this last night. Here are the ones I remember (may be different as I’m from the UK and I know some of these are still available in the US.) Tenax hair gel, shampoo and consitioner. You could only buy it in salons and it disappeared in the early ’80’s. Neutrogena liquid face wash. So much more convenient than the Neutrogena bars. Noxzema (although that was only available very briefly over here) A perfume called Eau Jeaune L’Orientale by L’Oreal. Aqua Manda bubble bath. The original Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner which smelt of almonds. 10-0-6 cleanser which could have probably stripped paint off wood it was so strong. Bonne Belle lip gloss, very gloopy and in a variety of nasty flavours (mine was mint.) Delph lemon cleanser and toner (which bleached my freckles.) Happy days…probably why I’m still such a beauty junkie now.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:07 am
I loved the Gold Pantene Mousse! Mousse in general was the it thing! I loved blue Chanel mascara cake. I loved Dionne Von Furstenberg’s make up line which has totally disappeared………..I loved Calvin Klein’s perfume with just his name. Chanel poudre powder, loulou perfume, roll on lipgloss in spearmint (forgot name) the original Pantene shampoo line with its gold caps, sigh good memories