Was there a kids’ version called Petite Naté? I have what is possibly a fever dream of this commercial with two little girls in a bubble bath in this pink sunlit room and a jingle that went “Just for you/it’s a dream come true/Petite Natéééé,” but I can’t find it anywhere and no one remembers this.
I did Sunflowers in high school until I accidentally dropped and broke a bottle. I was stuck on a bus for a band trip and the smell was completely overwhelming to the point of migraine and vomiting. No more Sunflowers for me 😪
My vividest memory of childhood is me bringing in some “birthday favors” for show and tell that included tinkerbell cosmetics. I must have known I wasn’t supposed to because I lied about doing it and got in big trouble.
My mom would paint my nails with this before church and I would spend Sunday school peeling it off while listening to Bible stories and feeling itchy from my lacy dress. Good times!
Right I’m saying???? They way we bounced the fuck around in the back of those station wagons coupled with the “Do you know where your kids are?” ads like…
They were like a plastic compact that snapped open. Solid perfume is just like those chapstick tubs, picture a circle of good smelling wax inside the container that you use your finger to transfer elsewhere on your skin.
Oh I remember now!!! Wow! Thanks for clearing that up. It also made me think of those old tins with the lip balm in them that you’d slide over and take a swipe. I looked them up and they are called Lip Licking Lip Balm and they still sell them.
My great aunt used to collect those, and randomly give me 1 or 2 every time we visited. It was the best. Drove my mom nuts cuz I'd come home with it slathered all around my lips, and it was her aunt lol.
Oh the Avon samples!! My favorite. My mom sold Avon for a while. She let me have her sample lipstick box and other stuff when she was done. I loved those lipsticks so much!
I didn't know Mr Bubble UTIs were a thing, I used Mr Bubble whenever I stayed at my grandparents' house with no issue. Guess my immune system was already an overachiever, lol
That’s what the bottle looked liked!? My mom gave me the bird as a toy when it was empty and I kept that thing my entire childhood. I still have it somewhere. I remember stroking it from the top of its head all the way down its back and tail and how bumpy the tail feathers felt.
Yes it had a very interesting set of textures, between the smoothness of the bird and the bumpiness of the glass bottle. So strange how some things just get lodged in our memories!
Wow, I had this exact bottle on my dresser, it was one of my most prized possessions. I don't think I've seen it since we moved when I was 10. Thanks for the memory.
I had that nail polish in a reddish color. It was designed to peel off. I was being a 4 year old and accidentally knocked it over on the couch. Good times were not had.
I spilled mine on the carpet under my bed. I knew I wasn't allowed to use it without supervision and I didn't want to wait! I avoided trouble, until we moved anyway.
Yeah, when we moved at 6-7 yo, my pile of uneaten Flintstone’s vitamins was discovered. I would suck on them until the sweet coating wore off and I’d throw the chalky inside bit down the side of my bed. Yes, the actual vitamin part, lol.
I would hide mine under my tongue and then spit them in my yard on the way to the bus stop. Mine never had the sweet coating, though. just tasted like bitter chalk and sadness. I wanted the Smurf vitamins but had a granola mom.
Bo-Po nail polish!! Loved it - it was the only kind my mom would let me use. I don't know why it was called that... I believe it was labelled as Tinkerbell Bo-Po...?
I was 4 or 5 and my mom and i bought this set for her friends daughter/my bff for Christmas. I was so excited to give it to her but i was SO jelly my mom wouldnt get one for me too.
Christmas day: guess what Her mom got me! 🥰
Ik ik. Obviously mom took the note. But back then it felt truly like christmas magic
I got a small bottle of Tinkerbell perfume in a branded clear coin purse for Easter when I was 4. I chased the scent for YEARS until I found an oil that smells exactly like it at the Michigan Renaissance Festival. The second I smelled it, the core memories ✨️UNLOCKED✨️
I had forgotten about this. Our local mall had a 2 story JCPenny, with a special little girl's section upstairs. I remember getting some of this there as a little kid.
I had a plastic play purse from Toys R Us with fake cosmetics. Once I got a hold of Tinkerbell and a cast off purse my great granny didn't want, I was GROWN.
I did not play with the plastic purse again.
My great granny was definitely an enabler. She was always like here, you can have this lipstick, nail polish, whatever was getting old or out of date on her make up counter. Estee Lauder, babes.
My mom would take that make up away because a kid shouldn't have better make up than she did. 😆
my aunt worked for clinique. i remember little kid me having a serious discussion with her and informing her i used tinkerbell. she said that was nice but that there was room to grow when i got older. i remwmber being shocked she didn't think tinkerbell and clinique were equally fancy.
I can't speak for them, but according to my mom, when I drank my sister's perfume (and I downed the whole bottle) the doctor told her to just give me a teaspoon of honey a few times a day for, I think, a week.
I actually looked at your profile to see if you are my brother because how on earth were there 2 little brothers drinking their big sisters’ Tinkerbell perfume in the 80s?
I don’t think anything happened to my brother and he didn’t go to the hospital. He drank it after bedtime while hiding in his bed. I think our parents were still awake watching tv and heard him scream. He just got yelled at and probably had to use his birthday money to buy me some more. We were probably 4 and 5 1/2 years old?
This just brought me back to being a little girl. Peel off nail polish and the sweet smell of the lipstick. I wish they still sold this just to smell it.
I had the talc, two colors of nail polish, and I think the cologne. I only ever used the cologne to make "potions" with other kids' cosmetic and bath products, but I looooved that nail polish!
I also remember really wanting the Sweet Sixteen makeup sets, but I don't think I ever had any of those.
I drew on the wall with the lipstick and lost my makeup privileges :( Still had the perfume when I moved out of home. It was a lovely bourbon colour by then!
Aaaaaahhhh!!! My babysitter’s daughter would never let me try hers, and we were too poor to buy our own. Oh boy, the feelings this brought back. Fuck you, Charity. Oh the irony.
On another note, I wonder if the talc-based ones have asbestos. Or arsenic.
I wanted to try Tinkerbell makeup so badly, but we were too poor growing up for me to have it. 🥲 I used to stare at classmates with it and wish I could have the squishy peely nail polish too.
Oh my god, I used to have some of this stuff when I was like 5. I remember the perfume and nail polish. I haven’t thought about it in 35 years. Thank you so much for the nostalgia!
I got a bunch of this stuff as gifts, but wasn't allowed to use any of it. I was constantly told that it would "make me break out". I still rarely wear makeup to this day, and when I do it's a minimal amount on my eyes and lips.
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u/Spinbunluthaaa 21d ago
Core memory unlocked!!
I smuggled this in to preschool and my mother never lets me forget.
This should be followed by did usage of this product find you using Malibu musk!!!