Flashback Beauty Friday 16: Hard Candy Mix Tape Makeup Palette

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Happy Friday, hope you're all well.  Flashback Beauty Friday is a little bit of nostalgia each week, with a look back at old makeup products and their packaging. Last week we had a Givenchy gloss aka the futuristic pregnancy test, you have to take a look if you missed that quirky gem and this week, I have a retro look palette from 2007.

This is the Mix Tape Makeup Palette by Hard Candy, in Break Up Mix. This is a teeny, wee palette that fits in the palm of your hand and is quite slim too. Inside however, there's a full size mirror, double ended applicator, eyeshadow trio and three lip products. It's the makeup version of the Mary Poppins bag!

I don't really remember this much if I'm really honest, I was surprised when I found it. I feel it was a 'newer' HC item, not from the period where I worshipped at the alter of their candy colours, heart ringed nail polish and eye quads. Oh my goodness the eyeshadow quads, remember those? I still have my collection, I might do them in a oner one week or else we'd be here forever.  I have such fond memories of collecting those.  

Anyway, I don't appear to have used the lip colours at all, to be honest I find lip products in a palette a faff. I just wouldn't carry a palette, even this small, out with me, so what's the point in wearing a colour I can't reapply? They do look like me-ish colours though; a nude, silver sparkle and browny wine.

The eyeshadows I have used a bit. Again, very me colours, so probably why I bought it.  You get a lilac-purple, really lovely looking light teal and then a highlight white shade.

Obviously these came in different 'mixes' offering different shades inside. I do love the cassette tape concept of the palette, something that has been done a few times in the beauty industry over the years. I'm an 80's kid, so cassettes were a big part of growing up. Teenagers today don't know about the pencil twist to fix the tape, the inability to easily skip to a song you liked or those darn DJ's that interrupted the beginning or end of a tune you were trying to record from the charts on a Sunday night! 🤣 My first tape was Kylie Minogue, her first album (my little sister got Jason Donovan). It was in my Christmas stocking and we never had much money growing up (plus there were 3 of us), so we often didn't have the 'real' version of whatever toy or trend was in. So my Mum had recorded it from someone that had the real album and she cut out a picture of Kylie to fit in the case and wrote the track listing, so it looked 'real'! I remember playing the songs line by line, so I could write out the lyrics in a notebook, thus proving I was a Kylie superfan to my school friends 🤣