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Calvin you must not have gone into the right down market chemist never to come across Contance Carroll!!!!
Calvin you must not have gone into the right down market chemist never to come across Contance Carroll!!!!
Constance Carroll, that brings back some memories. I had a bit of an obsession with them in the 80s/90s when I was at school. I remember buying a bright orange and pink lipsticks from them, and those lipglosses they did in the glass phials with the rollerball applicators, that were so gloopy your entire mouth stuck together for hours or until you could persuade (via sign language) some over hormonal lad from your class to snog it off for you. Eeww .
Noooooooooooo - oh my goodness that's right - what were they flavoured with? Wasn't it supposed to be like some 'cola-flavour' or something and it was absolutely vile? And then the lid would come off whilst the thing was in your bag. So when you took it back out - the rollerball was always covered in bits of pencil sharpenings/general bottom-of-your-schoolbag-dross that you had to sit and pick off so the rollerball would work and it didn't end up on your lips. YEUCH YEUCH YEUCH. Oh I'm 13 all over again - thank you so much.
My opinion is that it is the YBF logo that makes her make up range now look tacky and cheap. Why did she ditch the name models prefer?
I would have bought this for my DD except sadly I know she would turn her nose up at it........a shame really because when I was 14 I would have loved this...........Mac eyeshadows at £11 each is what was on my DD Xmas list.( I got her only one ):mysmilie_697:
Constance Carroll, that brings back some memories. I had a bit of an obsession with them in the 80s/90s when I was at school. I remember buying a bright orange and pink lipsticks from them, and those lipglosses they did in the glass phials with the rollerball applicators, that were so gloopy your entire mouth stuck together for hours or until you could persuade (via sign language) some over hormonal lad from your class to snog it off for you. Eeww .
Yes! That's right! I'm sure it was Cola flavour. Rola Cola though . And that exact thing happened to me many a time, too. Still, it was a good excuse for not handing homework in - 'Sorry Miss, The Constance Caroll lipgloss ate it...' :mysmilie_701:
It got everywere didn't it? It was like having a snail roaming about in the bottom of your handbag. Aye, Constance Carroll cola lipgloss, Twilight Teaser lipstick, electric blue mascara and American Tan tights paired with a nice pair of frilly white ankle socks - I was all the bash :mysmilie_12: Now we've been discussing this, I think I'm going to watch the Breakfast Club/St Elmos Fire and really trip down memory lane! Much better than watching YBF tosh.
constance carroll has given me a real trip down memory lane. I too had the cola flavoured gloopy lip gloss with the disgusting after taste. I also used to alternate between blue and green eye liner and thought I was the bees knees. My teenage daughter is much more sophisticated then I ever was!
I have a theory about MP. I think the collections were good quality, and you would get so much make-up in the TSVs, that actually it stopped people buying other ranges. I think QVC US must have thought "this is no good for business - lets get rid of it and bring in something of poorer quality, with higher prices and give less make-up in the collections." And so, YBF was born. The only things I really loved in the MP range were the eye brow pencil. I do think Stacey is wonderful, and wish her the best of luck, but I won't be buying her make-up. :mysmilie_698:
constance carroll has given me a real trip down memory lane. I too had the cola flavoured gloopy lip gloss with the disgusting after taste. I also used to alternate between blue and green eye liner and thought I was the bees knees. My teenage daughter is much more sophisticated then I ever was!
I have a theory about MP. I think the collections were good quality, and you would get so much make-up in the TSVs, that actually it stopped people buying other ranges. I think QVC US must have thought "this is no good for business - lets get rid of it and bring in something of poorer quality, with higher prices and give less make-up in the collections." And so, YBF was born. The only things I really loved in the MP range were the eye brow pencil. I do think Stacey is wonderful, and wish her the best of luck, but I won't be buying her make-up. :mysmilie_698: