Beauty Flashback! Revisit the 1970’s with Me!
Perhaps it’s because my daughter is thirteen or because I was in a reminiscing mood, but I recently found myself recalling something that was a big thrill in my early teenage years -Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific! This distinctive shampoo was the one everyone used and we probably overwhelmed the general public with the unique scent!
I figured that the shampoo was a thing of the past until I was paging through this month’s In Style Magazine (InStyle Makeover, Fall 2007, page 184) and had to laugh – there was my old favorite gracing the pages of a hip magazine – along with the place to buy it! (vermontcountrystore.com)
From thinking about Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific to discovering that you could still buy it, I traveled back in time to a few of the other products that rocked my teenage world! What about Love’s Baby Soft Perfume (I also loved the lemon version), Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, Sweet Earth solid perfume and Tickle deodorant?
Could you still buy these 1970’s favorites? Well, the answer is yes! A quick “Google” search turned up sources for each that I’ve mentioned, with the exception of Tickle, which no longer seems to be in production! At the risk of totally dating myself, I thought that I’d share this trip down memory lane with Busy Bee readers!
What would you add to my list of beauty products? I’d love to know what reminds you of your teenage years! Write back and reminisce with me!
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Just happened to visit the Vermont Country Store today, and in a fit of nostalgia (I’m a 70s girl, born in 1962 so the 70s were my teen years) purchased Flicker razors and Body on Tap shampoo!!! I happened on your post and decided to stop and think about some of my favorite 70s products. I too loved Tickle deodorant with “the big wide ball” - the citrus scent was my favorite, and I was seriously bummed when they stopped making it. I also loved Alyssa Ashley Musk Oil (which I still wear occasionally today!); Maybelline Kissing Slicks (remember those roll-on clear flavored lip glosses?); Lemon Up shampoo (there’s never been a better lemon scent in a shampoo in my opinion - it was awesome); the original Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo; Sweet Earth solid perfume (loved the jasmine one!); Masumi perfume by Coty (I found an almost empty bottle of this at my parents’ house about two years ago, took one whiff, and had an instant, visceral memory of my first date/kiss, so I guess I wore it that night!); Jovan Musk (who DIDN’T wear this one?) and also Woman by Jovan (smelled very sexy and grown-up to my 18-year old self); Cover Girl makeup, powder and blush (which all smelled like Noxzema, a major scent memory from my teen years); Bonne Bell Ten-O-Six Lotion (come on, you know you used it - remember fanning your face because of all the alcohol?? We probably destroyed our skin with that stuff!); Bonne Bell Lip Smackers that were about three or four times the size they are today - these current ones are the size of a Chap-Stik, but the originals in the 70s were HUGE; Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo (another one I still use today)….the list could go on forever. It was a great time to be a teenage girl, and the beauty products RULED!!
Reading these posts reminded me of something else that I used to use a lot of — Sea Breeze! I loved the smell!
Anybody know what the list of ingredients are for these products? Or where I could find them without having to purchase them online? I’m wondering if they’ve been reformulated over the years to include today’s petroleum based preservatives and foaming agents, or if they still contain ingredients from the 70’s (which I have no idea if they’re good or not! )