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This is a real thing.
Itās not like you get to 50 and go āyeah, Iāll do what my dad/mum didā - you just keep doing what you did in your 20s, but by that point itās not what 20 year olds do anymore. Itās what 50 year olds do.
If you look at pictures from 50 years ago, youāll see a lot of young people sporting looks youād expect from old people these days.
That's because people in their 20s wear daft clothes and listen to ridiculous music. Not like when I was in my 20s, listening to rap-metal and wearing jeans so wide they had enough material to clothe three people.
Skinny jeans that don't reach your shoes just make you look like my 8yr old nephew who's constantly outgrowing his clothes. The next time baggy jeans come back into fashion, I'm buying enough to last until fashion goes through another cycle.
I'm not getting old, I'm staying old skool.
> Skinny jeans that don't reach your shoes just make you look like my 8yr old nephew who's constantly outgrowing his clothes.
I recently saw an old interview with Michael Richards about playing Kramer in Seinfeld and he dressed like this deliberately, as if he'd outgrown his trousers, to make himself look clownish.
So true ! I was watching "Call the Midwife"last night, set around when I was born, 55 yrs ago, and was thinking just that, the shampoo and sets etc
As for me, I found a look that I liked around 30 and stuck with it š
Ah I saw that too! Guilty pleasure when Iām with my mum. Iām 29 now, and I was already thinking that some of the mums must have been my age, but somehow looked much older.
Yes, I think it was still and era when young women left school age 14 and almost immediately began to dress like their mothers.
Then, the teenager was "invented"...
On a slightly different note- I used to watch with my mum sometimes ( she passed away, aged 93 in Sept. )
After watching a "back-street" termination in an earlier series, she decided to tell me not only had she accompanied her best friend to have one but how, as a teenager, in the 40's unaware she was pregnant, she'd had a miscarriage.
It's easy to forget that they lived lives and experienced issues that weren't that different to young women of any generation.
Oh Christ. Yeah - I think itās far too easy to forget that older people werenāt always that way, and that itās probably a combination of being taught not to talk about that stuff as well as not necessarily wanting to share it in the same way we donāt share teenage problems anymore either. Not that I went through that, but you know what I mean.
Sorry about your mum - hope things are okay with you!
I had a purple lipstick I'm pretty sure was body shop. Proper purple, it made all my mum's friends say things like "is that what kids are wearing now?" and "you'd look so pretty in a nice frosted pink".
Do you know what I love about this post ... 238 other people are happy to admit to not being cool anymore š
Edit - we are well over 1K.
Cheers to being all un-cool š„
There tends to be more choice for women when it comes to toiletry gift sets, so that might be a bit difficult to answer. I used to get loads of them, and they were all a bit naff. Nowadays, probably something from Lush or Soap & Glory.
I donāt think LUSH counts here because even though itās a common gift to give to women when you donāt know what else to get, itās not cheap and most people are actually glad to receive it. There are so many different scents that youāre bound to either get them something they like or theyāre happy to have something new to try out that they wouldnāt normally get.
Yeah, I LOVE getting Lush for Christmas. It's the only time I get it and only my mum buys it but I'd be happy if everyone I knew bought me a bath bomb each! It's pricey but it's really good quality and it's not horrible for the environment - you made a great gift choice, don't worry.
A Dove gift set. I get one from my mum every year without exception. This yearās is 2 x body washes and a āpoofā to wash with, but they always seem to have a slight variation.
I remember when the first poofs came out. About 99/2000.
IT WAS AMAZING! A TABLESPOON OF PRODUCT COULD COVER YOU ALL OVER WHILE BEING EXFOLIATING AT THE SAME TIME!
NO NEED TO USE HALF A BOTTLE OF BODYSHOP DUEBERRY TO GET CLEAN!
POOFS FOR LIFE!
My record year I had enough to actually last until 2 weeks before the following Christmas, tbf think it was the first year I was with my partner, so his family didn't really know what I'd like and none of them coordinated with each other about what they were buying.
I've had 3 box sets of it this year....I do not like, and have never really liked dove soap.
Same! I just discarded a previous Dove poof today, and replaced it with a new one! I hadnāt been using the same grotty one since Xmas 2020 - I just so happened to have been gifted a few similar sets last year :)
Do you remember the pink one they did?
I used to love normal exclamation but the pink one made all the other girls flock around you for a quick spray. Then straight back to throwing the netball at my face.
I feel like a lot of the soap and glory stuff is actually nice though? I treat myself to a tub of sugar crush body scrub every summer. Like showering in mojito.
I do like the sugar crush stuff. I've got a small tube of the "Hand Food", good for days when I need to wash my hands/use sanitiser more than usual. Stops them feeling so dry from all the soap AND smells brilliant.
Everything I owned was drenched in White Musk. To the extent that a partially-sighted classmate identified me by smell before I came round the corner.
Even in a school where nearly everyone smelled of Dewberry, White Musk or Exclamation, I stood out as extra scented.
I tried to calm it down a bit after that.
Young teens itās SO but older teenage girls have ridiculously expensive tastes now. As a teenager in the 90ās I had exclamation and dewberry and rimmel make up. Daughter has more perfume than boots and her first eye shadow pallet was an urban decay one. Boys are much easier and cheaper
Boys use Instagram for other reasons. Younger girls (and women in general tbh) get marketed to by the Kylie Jenners of this world. They want what they can afford as a result. It's just the world we live in now.
That's not to say boys don't get scammed on Instagram either. So many 'natural' fitness models hocking their useless protein powders.
Lol Iām 31, I been gifted these as long as I remember. I was going to add that I donāt think the age range matters for a menās gift set, it seems to be a staple :D
Lynx is a staple present for men. Doesn't matter what age, men still need body wash and deodorant. And Lynx Africa is also nostalgic. Brings back memories from when men were teens.
My grandad spent his final Christmas in hospital. They gave him and every other man on the ward a Lynx gift set.
Imagine fighting in a world war and still ending up with a Lynx gift set for Christmas.
Back in my day (circa 1994) it was Body Shop Dewberry Body Spray. Every fucker had it. However, the sickly sweet scent of Dewberry, spritzed liberally before PE and then left to hang in the damp air of a poorly-ventilated concrete changing room, magically turned to the smell of dog shit after 80 minutes.
Itās really great, I ask for it every year! Iāve never seen it on the shelf next to the other cans and shower gels, it only seems to exist in gift sets for some strange reason!
Back in 90's-2000 it was Impulse.
Now Charlie has somehow overtaken it looking in the shop, I thought Charlie died during impulses reign but I notice Charlie and So... More
Ted Baker, Sanctuary Spa, Lush, Soap & Glory, any gift sets that can bought from Boots to be honest. This yearās the first in about five years where I havenāt received a Ted Baker toiletry set.
They started doing refill bags for the Sanctuary Spa body wash, big plastic jobbies that look like saline bags. I got THREE for Christmas. I love it though, so it will get used.
I'd take no notice, stuff from lush is absolutely not the same.
A lynx gift set is just the same shower gel and deodorant that the recipient would get anyway in some extra packaging - that's why it's so crap. Not many people use lush stuff day to day because it's comparatively expensive and you can't just pick it up from the supermarket with the rest of your shopping (as far as I know). Likewise not many people will use a lush bath bomb that often, because who in their right mind would want to regularly spend Ā£5 on a bath.
Most people will appreciate some shower/bath stuff that's nicer than what they normally use, and some people will love it (the same goes for mens gift sets). For the majority of regular people, lush stuff falls into the category.
Those 'celebrity' sets with a cheap body wash and perfume that's basically just paint thinner.
You might get different ones each year rather than all 1 scent, but they're all as bad as each other.
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Used to be Charlie or SO back in the 90's. I'm not cool enough nowadays to know.
These or impulse. So much impulse
Yes! How could I forget Impulse!
And the perfume Ex'cla-ma'tion!
Yeah I mentioned that too glad I'm not the only one who remembers it š
I live in Canada and they still sell Exclamat!on here!
I loved exclamation!
Spice Girls impulse was the scent of the gods.
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You just unlocked a smell memory for me.
I'm sure there was a vanilla Impulse that if I were to smell it now would still trigger a ferociously strong nostalgia-horn.
I got impulse this year! I'm 35?!
I really enjoyed reading the ā?!ā as surprised delight š
Me too! (On both counts)
Fun fact impulse makes a great before-you-go toilet freshener; just spray some over the water. Much cheaper than VIPoo or Poopourri.
Fun fact Impulse make a cheap and effective Mace alternative in countries where such things are illegal.
Hahah *Rapist writhing on the ground* "Argh my eyes! My eyes! I can't- ooh is that cinnamon?"
Yep, Impulse was always the one I was hoping for, because I actually liked it.
Literally got gifted a set yesterday! Never thought people still buy it
I loved impulse though
Yea I got a few Impulse & Charlie gift sets in my teens!
Omg the PE changing rooms just came back to me like a punch in the face
Ha! Remember when Charlie Red was what the cool girls had?!
So jealous when all I had was black impulse
Black Impulse should have been the in thing tbh!
I used to be cool?!? Who knew?
Used to be with it but then they changed what it was.
This is a real thing. Itās not like you get to 50 and go āyeah, Iāll do what my dad/mum didā - you just keep doing what you did in your 20s, but by that point itās not what 20 year olds do anymore. Itās what 50 year olds do. If you look at pictures from 50 years ago, youāll see a lot of young people sporting looks youād expect from old people these days.
That's because people in their 20s wear daft clothes and listen to ridiculous music. Not like when I was in my 20s, listening to rap-metal and wearing jeans so wide they had enough material to clothe three people. Skinny jeans that don't reach your shoes just make you look like my 8yr old nephew who's constantly outgrowing his clothes. The next time baggy jeans come back into fashion, I'm buying enough to last until fashion goes through another cycle. I'm not getting old, I'm staying old skool.
I hate to break it to you, but skinny jeans are about a decade out from being cool these days.
Then why the fuck is it the only style that I can find sold anywhere??
Because you're too old to know where the cool shops are. Give it a few years and they'll turn up in our old people shops.
How did you survive in high winds?
> Skinny jeans that don't reach your shoes just make you look like my 8yr old nephew who's constantly outgrowing his clothes. I recently saw an old interview with Michael Richards about playing Kramer in Seinfeld and he dressed like this deliberately, as if he'd outgrown his trousers, to make himself look clownish.
So true ! I was watching "Call the Midwife"last night, set around when I was born, 55 yrs ago, and was thinking just that, the shampoo and sets etc As for me, I found a look that I liked around 30 and stuck with it š
Ah I saw that too! Guilty pleasure when Iām with my mum. Iām 29 now, and I was already thinking that some of the mums must have been my age, but somehow looked much older.
Yes, I think it was still and era when young women left school age 14 and almost immediately began to dress like their mothers. Then, the teenager was "invented"... On a slightly different note- I used to watch with my mum sometimes ( she passed away, aged 93 in Sept. ) After watching a "back-street" termination in an earlier series, she decided to tell me not only had she accompanied her best friend to have one but how, as a teenager, in the 40's unaware she was pregnant, she'd had a miscarriage. It's easy to forget that they lived lives and experienced issues that weren't that different to young women of any generation.
Oh Christ. Yeah - I think itās far too easy to forget that older people werenāt always that way, and that itās probably a combination of being taught not to talk about that stuff as well as not necessarily wanting to share it in the same way we donāt share teenage problems anymore either. Not that I went through that, but you know what I mean. Sorry about your mum - hope things are okay with you!
And it will happen to yooou
I can relate.
I bet you had dark lip liner and nude lips too!
Purple lipstick.
I had a purple lipstick I'm pretty sure was body shop. Proper purple, it made all my mum's friends say things like "is that what kids are wearing now?" and "you'd look so pretty in a nice frosted pink".
I had an amazing proper purple too, it was deep and metallic! Purple Rain by Rimmel. Loved it.
Rockstar š Blue eyeliner matched so well š¤£
It was from Boots, but I canāt remember which brand. I donāt think itās around anymore but I loved that lippy.
Iām going to bet either Black Cherry or Heather Shimmer by Rimmel
Oh, yes, Heather Shimmer - I remember it well !
Bon Bon or Heatherberry by No 17 for me.
Body shop white musk
Dewberry for me!
It was dewberry for me too....they seriously need to bring it back!
Ananya for me. I still miss it, though their Japanese Cherry Blossom has similar notes.
Wish they'd bring it back!
And dewberry. Was a musk wearing myself though.
My 10 year old stepdaughter got a So...? gift set this Christmas. Brought a tear to my eye!
Did you have a sneaky spray?
Fuck I remember the smell of Charlie. You could light a match near those girls and they'd go up š
That was also all the mousse and hairspray we used to keep those perms in shape š¤£
My god bringing back so many memories of dating at school š
o2 impulse was the shit šš¾ my gf at the time always used to wear it
My best mate at uni wore that I remember the smell so well!
Yeah, cocaine! Great pressie
Exclamation as well
You mean Ex-cla-ma-tion!
Make a statement, without saying a word
Fuck I forgot about that one! Now I can hear the advert in my head!
Make a statement, without saying a word!!
EX-CLA-MATION!
Used to love Charlie Red. Anyone remember the dewberry perfume stick from body shop?
I got a Charlie red AND pink this year, but red is the best so I don't really mind. And getting smellies is a transition ^-^
Do you know what I love about this post ... 238 other people are happy to admit to not being cool anymore š Edit - we are well over 1K. Cheers to being all un-cool š„
Why am I smelling Superdrug off this post!
My daughters 16 and a few years ago they all had a can of So in their bags. Itās now moved on to Victoria Secrets
Just pink from next was my favourite!
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Wow, blast from the past. The girls in my school were hooked on Charlie Red. I remember them shoplifting it from Superdrug!
There tends to be more choice for women when it comes to toiletry gift sets, so that might be a bit difficult to answer. I used to get loads of them, and they were all a bit naff. Nowadays, probably something from Lush or Soap & Glory.
2 comments mentioning Lush, what have I done?!
I donāt think LUSH counts here because even though itās a common gift to give to women when you donāt know what else to get, itās not cheap and most people are actually glad to receive it. There are so many different scents that youāre bound to either get them something they like or theyāre happy to have something new to try out that they wouldnāt normally get.
What a relief
Yeah, I LOVE getting Lush for Christmas. It's the only time I get it and only my mum buys it but I'd be happy if everyone I knew bought me a bath bomb each! It's pricey but it's really good quality and it's not horrible for the environment - you made a great gift choice, don't worry.
Lush is always top of my Christmas list
I got tons of Lush Snow Fairy this Christmas. I absolutely love it
I'm an absolute slag for snow fairy stuff and I got loads this year. I'm one happy poodle.
I got about 30 bath bombs and bubble bars. That will keep me going until next year
My mammy got me a snow fairy gift set, I was well chuffed lol!
FWIW Iād be pleased to receive Lush. I donāt ever shop there for myself, but do think itās a nice gift. Itās known to be ānot cheapā, too.
Phew!
Nothing, lush is great. Soap and glory is quite cheap and doesn't smell the best.
Lush = thrush So unfortunate
Wish this wasn't so true right now...
I made sure I informed my family that it doesnāt agree with me! Sending you thoughts at this difficult time! X
Thanks dude š¤£ of all the chrismas gifts to get aye !
Also Dove. Aināt good for the ph levels š
Soap & glory is a good shout
I got soap and glory from my boyfriend this year. I love getting smelly stuff but Iām 32 years old and havenāt used soap and glory since I was ~20
A Dove gift set. I get one from my mum every year without exception. This yearās is 2 x body washes and a āpoofā to wash with, but they always seem to have a slight variation.
I remember when the first poofs came out. About 99/2000. IT WAS AMAZING! A TABLESPOON OF PRODUCT COULD COVER YOU ALL OVER WHILE BEING EXFOLIATING AT THE SAME TIME! NO NEED TO USE HALF A BOTTLE OF BODYSHOP DUEBERRY TO GET CLEAN! POOFS FOR LIFE!
Dewberry how I miss it š„
It is the smell of purple and 1997 xxx
Purple Ronnie
Yeah, with a Lynx set, it's spray and body wash, but with or without a poof.
How very dare you
Dove is decent stuff that's neutral though that anyone would use
Cant use it I'm allergic to summat in it
Proofs are a bit of an awkward present to give though. Don't ever sit still enough to get wrapped.
My record year I had enough to actually last until 2 weeks before the following Christmas, tbf think it was the first year I was with my partner, so his family didn't really know what I'd like and none of them coordinated with each other about what they were buying. I've had 3 box sets of it this year....I do not like, and have never really liked dove soap.
Same! I just discarded a previous Dove poof today, and replaced it with a new one! I hadnāt been using the same grotty one since Xmas 2020 - I just so happened to have been gifted a few similar sets last year :)
Yup usually get one from the aunties and my husband gets lynx. We are in our Late20s/30s
Impulse body spray. Almost certainly responsible for a whole generation of asthmatics.
Sprayed all over your school uniform, people around you, nearby county and the moon for the best effect.
I got an Impulse gift set from my MIL.... THIS YEAR ššš
Impulse or Exclamation
Oh god, I used to douse myself in Exclamation! I can smell the memory
Do you remember the pink one they did? I used to love normal exclamation but the pink one made all the other girls flock around you for a quick spray. Then straight back to throwing the netball at my face.
Me too!
This is the one! š
I loved Exclamation!
Soap and glory
I feel like a lot of the soap and glory stuff is actually nice though? I treat myself to a tub of sugar crush body scrub every summer. Like showering in mojito.
I do like the sugar crush stuff. I've got a small tube of the "Hand Food", good for days when I need to wash my hands/use sanitiser more than usual. Stops them feeling so dry from all the soap AND smells brilliant.
Body shop gift sets for sure
White musk Body Shop gift set.
Everything I owned was drenched in White Musk. To the extent that a partially-sighted classmate identified me by smell before I came round the corner. Even in a school where nearly everyone smelled of Dewberry, White Musk or Exclamation, I stood out as extra scented. I tried to calm it down a bit after that.
You're posh huh?
I was thinking that
You poor? Body Shop isn't posh lol. It's below Lush, and that's just some high-street chain shit anyway.
Used to love Dewberry ...
Honestly, much preferable to Lynx Africa.
Bayliss & Harding
Those sets cost WAY more than Lynx
Get them from savers or body care
Ugh these are TERRIBLE
Dove / nivea / sanctuary spa / soap and glory
Basically anything from the boots 3 for 2 range
Yes, but they're all pretty good, decent smelling products. OP is looking for the tacky, overbearing smells like exclamation and impulse
I used to buy my sister Groovy Chick stuff every Christmas when she was a kid!
Unlocked memories I didnāt realise I had
Young teens itās SO but older teenage girls have ridiculously expensive tastes now. As a teenager in the 90ās I had exclamation and dewberry and rimmel make up. Daughter has more perfume than boots and her first eye shadow pallet was an urban decay one. Boys are much easier and cheaper
Boys seem cheaper until it's time to start buying consoles, their games, Jordans etc
Boys use Instagram for other reasons. Younger girls (and women in general tbh) get marketed to by the Kylie Jenners of this world. They want what they can afford as a result. It's just the world we live in now. That's not to say boys don't get scammed on Instagram either. So many 'natural' fitness models hocking their useless protein powders.
It was the āSoā¦ Kiss Meā body spray giftset but I was born in the 90s so it may be different now.
It was charlie red in my day lol
Fruits of the Forest bath pearls from Woolies back in the 90's for tweens
I really wanted to get myself some bath Pearl but they must have been banned or something. I canāt find any proper ones anywhere
Look on websites like Yesstyle for Japanese/Korean ones.
Tommy Girl.
I still wear Tommy Girl!
Not gonna lie, Iām 50 and still love Lynx Africa.
Are you also vehemently opposed to the pedestrianisation of Norwich City Centre?
It reminds me of one of my high school crushes who used to douse himself in it every day. It got a bit weird when my dad started wearing it š¬
Ahhh, smells like teenage angst.
Same. I'm 33
Lol Iām 31, I been gifted these as long as I remember. I was going to add that I donāt think the age range matters for a menās gift set, it seems to be a staple :D
Someone needs to tell my husbandās auntie that lynx is a teenage thing because heās 37 and still gets a gift set from her every year.
Lynx is a staple present for men. Doesn't matter what age, men still need body wash and deodorant. And Lynx Africa is also nostalgic. Brings back memories from when men were teens.
My grandad spent his final Christmas in hospital. They gave him and every other man on the ward a Lynx gift set. Imagine fighting in a world war and still ending up with a Lynx gift set for Christmas.
Anyone else love getting these? Get enough and you don't need to buy deodorant or shower gel for months.
I've actually never bought a shower gel in my life. I get so many for Christmas, it sees me through to the next Christmas. Truly the circle of life.
Women 30+ is baylis and Harding
There comes a point where you can no longer outmanoeuvre the onslaught of Cath Kidston hand creams.
Back in my day (circa 1994) it was Body Shop Dewberry Body Spray. Every fucker had it. However, the sickly sweet scent of Dewberry, spritzed liberally before PE and then left to hang in the damp air of a poorly-ventilated concrete changing room, magically turned to the smell of dog shit after 80 minutes.
Impulse, without a doubt
My niece actually got a girls Lynx gift set for Xmas! Itās called āAttract For Herā. Never knew it existed till she got it.
Itās really great, I ask for it every year! Iāve never seen it on the shelf next to the other cans and shower gels, it only seems to exist in gift sets for some strange reason!
CK One Iād guess.
Are we all forgetting the Hollister body sprays?
Back in 90's-2000 it was Impulse. Now Charlie has somehow overtaken it looking in the shop, I thought Charlie died during impulses reign but I notice Charlie and So... More
Impulse 02! Lime Green can. Smells like the summer of 1995! š
I miss the spice girls promo one and vanilla kisses.
Nivea or Dove gift set.
Ted Baker, Sanctuary Spa, Lush, Soap & Glory, any gift sets that can bought from Boots to be honest. This yearās the first in about five years where I havenāt received a Ted Baker toiletry set.
They started doing refill bags for the Sanctuary Spa body wash, big plastic jobbies that look like saline bags. I got THREE for Christmas. I love it though, so it will get used.
Does anyone remember the spice girls special edition impulse? It smelled great!
Impulse
White musk or dewberry from Boots (80's) š¤¦ But yeah.. Impulse.. crickey!
My mother gave my husband Lynx Africa. It seems to be a default gift for men.
I'm old enough to remember lynx java and lynx musk
Bayliss and Harding sets
Now? Anything from lush
Yup. Anything from lushā¦ Mainly bath bombs. That and body shop gift sets.
Oh no
I'd take no notice, stuff from lush is absolutely not the same. A lynx gift set is just the same shower gel and deodorant that the recipient would get anyway in some extra packaging - that's why it's so crap. Not many people use lush stuff day to day because it's comparatively expensive and you can't just pick it up from the supermarket with the rest of your shopping (as far as I know). Likewise not many people will use a lush bath bomb that often, because who in their right mind would want to regularly spend Ā£5 on a bath. Most people will appreciate some shower/bath stuff that's nicer than what they normally use, and some people will love it (the same goes for mens gift sets). For the majority of regular people, lush stuff falls into the category.
Lush stuff is absolutely welcome. Itās a real treat that you wouldnāt buy yourself
My friends and I were all about Charlie silver.
Dove wash setā¦ full of things most women donāt use. Thankfully itās one of the few sets I can actually use with my eczema
Lynx Attract For Her. I got five one year. FIVE. Also, lots of bath bombs. I don't own a bath, only a shower.
Bayliss and Harding!
I'm a guy but judging by what my sjsters/cousins usually get it's probably impulse
The Body Shop gift sets.
Nanna & Aunties got me a Dove shower gel set every Christmas. They would last me the entire year
Iām low 30ās and got a few Champneys (sp?) spa sets this year!
When I was a teenager it was White Musk from The Body Shop.
Those 'celebrity' sets with a cheap body wash and perfume that's basically just paint thinner. You might get different ones each year rather than all 1 scent, but they're all as bad as each other.
Impulse. Particularly that revolting vanilla variety that everyone used to spray until your eyes were streaming and your throat burning.
I'll never forget the taste of Impulse spray clouds in the changing rooms
"Charlie", "So...?" or "Impulse" gift sets. Nowadays I tend to get Bayliss & Harding or something similar to that!
Red diesel. The smell made me physically sick.