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Where are they now?
We love the '70s and '80s, too. But instead of reminiscing with VH1 about Pretty in Pink, we're nostalgic for Sun-In and Flicker razors. By Alexandra Jacobs
Bobbi Brown has memories. Misty Lilac-colored memories. "It was the nail polish," says the makeup artist of Revlon's now-discontinued frosty brown-mauve shade that all the cool girls wore in her Chicago suburb circa 1974. And she still holds it dear, even though, as she ruefully remembers, "my cousin said my nails looked like doody." That's the thing about cosmetics nostalgia. It's not that the personal-care items of our youth were so flattering or successful. Why else would we ...