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Friday 19 March 2021

Flashback Beauty Friday 16: Hard Candy Mix Tape Makeup Palette

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Hard Candy Mix Tape Makeup Palette in shape of cassette
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.
back of black compact makeup palette with Hard Candy label
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!
slim black makeup palette by Hard Candy
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.  
open makeup palette with eyeshadow and lipgloss trio, mirror and brush applicator
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.
close up of trio of lipgloss inside palette
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.
close up of eyeshadow trio inside makeup palette
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 🤣  

2 comments:

  1. That is an amazing palette! I love the style! :-D

    I don't remember having tapes as such, was always vinyl then to CDs in the early 90s. I do remember taping things off the radio and putting my vinyl onto tapes. C60 or C90 haha! God what has happened to the world :-(

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    1. I feel like the changes are happening quicker...like mp3's are a thing of the past now as everyone streams. I remember blurays being such a big thing, but they fizzled out quickly too. My sister is really into music (despite starting with Jason Donovan!) and she likes a physical CD still. She misses the days of going into Woolworths to buy the new releases on a Monday!

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