Lip Licking Lip Balm, Rollerball Kissing Potion Gloss and Gag Me with a Spoon

Picture it, New Iberia, Louisiana, 1982. It's a hot and humid day, as is normal at any time of the year in south Louisiana. But on this particular day, you are looking at a group of 5th grade girls at North Lewis Elementary. It is the HEIGHT of Valley Girl times and Robin Tipton is throwing "like" and "for sure" into every sentence.

While Stephanie Breaux and myself going crazy over Hello Kitty erasers

and these amazing lip glosses.

and these...

OK, so Robin was crazy for them too. We all were. That's the point. Mrs. de la Houssaye must have given us so many demerits over pulling out the lip gloss and applying it. But you know, we were 5th graders. Lip gloss was important. Even if we didn't have air conditioning in the classroom, we still needed our lips to shine LOL

At some point we stopped wearing this glamorous shiny gloss and lip balm. It was probably some time in junior high when we got to start wearing "real" makeup and aspired to look like Madonna.

And just so you know, me looking like Madonna was a big NO at my house. Other than the bracelets. Thanks, Madonna, I STILL wear bracelets and stack them 😁

So imagine my excitement and how it brought me right back to elementary school when I found Tinte Cosmetics. They have that luscious rollerball Kissing Potion and all the flavors of lip balm in the vintage tins. It kills me to think that something from my childhood is vintage. I swear I am not that old. I went ahead and bought some just to see if it was as good as I remembered. Guess what?! It was! It smelled the same and tasted the same and I have the spearmint, vanilla and bubble gum ones on my nightstand. I am sure I will be buying the girls some for their stockings this year.

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