Yahoo Lifestyle Beauty Flashback: The Best Products From Our Youth
"Who could forget Sun In? Like plastic jelly shoes and earrings, the spray-in blonde hair dye was a 90s fashion trend my mother never allowed me to try (which of course only made me covet it more). Plenty of my friends did, though – including guys, who used to spray the ends of their scruffed up 90s dos."
"In my teens I used to do athletics competitively and blue was our predominant club colour. I vividly remember retreating to the bathroom at the athletics track with my best friend so we could paint blue streaks in our tightly-pulled back ponytails before competition. There may have also been glitter gel involved, but hair mascara was our main means of war paint."
"After I finished university, I managed a Red Earth store at my local shopping centre as a way to save money for an overseas holiday. The weekdays were notoriously slow, so I would pass the time painting each nail a different shade, and trying out new eyeliner techniques. As soon as four o’clock hit, the schoolgirls would swing by and squirrel the lip-gloss pots up the sleeves of their school jumpers."
"I went to a conservative all-girls high school where make-up was strictly forbidden. Being boy-crazy teenagers, we thought we were so clever getting around this by wearing clear mascara and dabbing our pulse points with The Body Shop Vanilla Perfume Oil, and then hitching our uniform skirts up to flirt with the boys at the bus-stop."
"I accidentally left a fruity Lip Smacker in my pocket once and it did a round in the washing machine. The result: my clothes smelt like bubblegum for an entire week."
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