1970's Makeup / Beauty / Styling Products

[pinkcolette]

Any one have any memories of beauty / styling products from the 70's?

[kags]

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.

[Robinia]

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!

[corrideo]

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.

[kags]

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.........

[thewillow]

A dreadfully strong perfume called Omen in a dark blue bottle with a red lid.

[thewillow]

Woodley/Woodleigh Green Apple Shampoo - stinking, toxic, bright green shampoo. We actually thought that it smelt of apples!

[glenis]

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

[clumberjax]

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

[pastafreak]

Are you advertising mavick? That's the second time you've posted that link, along with your own question about eyebags.