13 '90s Beauty Products You Loved and Totally Forgot About
You can still buy, like, almost all of these, FYI.
In the most '90s tale ever told, a rock idol misinterpreted some graffiti, created a hit song, and made a personal care item immensely popular with adolescent girls.
TBH, even though we're adult women who use adult-woman hair products (that also smell amazing), that Jolly Rancher scent is unbeatable.
3. Caboodles
The colorways these days, man. Though there is a roaring vintage Caboodles trade on eBay...
4. Lip Smackers
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*tucks one into back pocket* *licks it all off*
Tempting you from those canisters near the cash register for 20-plus years.
6. Bath and Body Works anything in Cucumber Melon
Step 1: Shower with the gel. Step 2: Apply the lotion. Step 3: Douse self with the body splash. Step 4: Repeat.
Can we all agree the Clear Mint Chocolate sucked?
8. Hard Candy Nail Polish in Sky
Thank you, Alicia Silverstone, for bringing our attention to Chanel Nouvelle Vague before it was Chanel Nouvelle Vague. Plus the plastic rings.
What I would give to have plastic-flake-encrusted arms/collarbones/cheeks again. (Answer: about $4.)
10.
Revlon Street Wear nail polish
THE ONE WITH THE HOLOGRAPHIC BARS.
Some say that, at midnight, every grade-school locker room in America comes alive with the sound of a thousand phantom spritzes.
12.
Sun In
Before babylights and blonde dictionaries, there was just the acid, some rays, and the pursuit of platinum.
In the second most '90s story ever told, Alexis Bledel modeled for an ad campaign wearing marabou-festooned raver buns and a green choker. And *that* is our saccharine, sparkly youth summed up in one image. #takemeback
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Chelsea Peng is a writer and editor who was formerly the assistant editor at Marie Claire. She's also worked for The Strategist and Refinery29, and is a graduate of Northwestern University. On her tombstone, she would like a GIF of herself that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, she's into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard she has to go lie down.
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