Electric blue mascara

My friend Robin has recently lost a lot of weight and can now fit into the clothes she wore 20 years ago. So she chose a retro theme for her birthday party next weekend in Sydney. Guests are asked to wear something from their past. I’ve been checking out the local thrift shops to try to put together an outfit from the 80s. First, though I had to do some searching online to try to jog my memory as to exactly what was popular back then. Found some great websites and had fun remembering things like coloured mascara, banana hair clips, asymetrical haircuts, crimped hair, anything neon, polo shirts with the collar turned up, rubber bracelets, jelly shoes, friendship pins, fingerless gloves, and Swatch watches.

For those of you who didn’t know me 20 years ago, well, I wasn’t even close to being trendy. So anything I pick out to wear won’t really be in strict keeping with Robin’s theme of wearing something from my past. Thanks to the Salvation Army, St. Vincent DePaul and some cheapie shops, I have an oversized shirt with a belt to go over it, neon pink plastic earrings, and multiple rubber bracelets. I still need black leggings, but I did manage to find lipstick in that shade of pink that Bonne Belle made popular, and the real prize - electric blue mascara. Who thought they made that any more? Why do they make that any more? And for only three bucks, not bad.

And of course, I have the advantage that, if I can’t manage to get the look exactly right no one will know that my outfit wasn't the height of 80s fashion in Canada.