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pinkcolette | 16:01 Mon 21st Jun 2004 | Body & Soul
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Any one have any memories of beauty / styling products from the 70's?
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My main memories are of Avon products - I was given a jar of Pretty Peach perfume (the jar was kind of shaped like a peach) when I was about 8 or 9 and I really thought I was grown up. Trouble was it smelled rank. They did a great nail varnish called Rock-On Plum, very daring in those days to have purple nail varnish. And I remember the Lentheric perfumes, Tweed, Panache, Just Musk and another one I have forgotten. And we musn't forget Charlie.
Oh this takes me back. I remember the Avon, mainly the cream perfumes in fancy jars...topaze, wishing, here's my heart (yuk!). There were lots of stick foundations & blushers I seem to recall, heaven knows what we looked like, & a trend for drawing in 'false eyelashes' under your lower eyelid & a black line in your eye socket but I never did that. (I've got some old copies of Honey magazine somewhere, will have a flick through & see what the ads were for). Oh yes - the hight of sophistication - Youth Dew by Estee Lauder...it was soooo strong!
wasn't that the era of the "great smell of Brut"? very trendy for young ladies to wear, not just blokes. Also I remember Goya "Aqua Manda", spicy orange scent in brown bottles with a flat top. Then they introduced Aqua citra (lemon) but never so popular. My mum used to wear Lentheric's TWEED, very evocative scent.
Hairspray - Harmony or Silvikrin - you just HAD to wear it to keep your flick in place, and look like Farrah Fawcett. The problem was that it gave your hair the texture of glued-together cardboard, and every time the wind blew the whole flick would move at once, we really were sophisticated. And I bet you all bought your grandmas bath cubes and talcum powder gift sets for Christmas - probably Sandalwood scented. I wonder if people still use talcum powder? Aqua Manda, that takes me back.........
A dreadfully strong perfume called Omen in a dark blue bottle with a red lid.
Woodley/Woodleigh Green Apple Shampoo - stinking, toxic, bright green shampoo. We actually thought that it smelt of apples!
someone was selling a bottle of aqua manda body lotion on ebay a few months back,i got outbid and it sold for �41.00 yes thats 40 pounds sterling for a 30year old bottle of body lotion ,so quite a few other people remember it too
me and my mates used to wear brut, the boys also wore it as well but they also used Jade East, us girls then went on to Charlie. I also loved Aqua Manda by Goya
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Are you advertising mavick? That's the second time you've posted that link, along with your own question about eyebags.

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