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Alien (with or without additions) I can probably leave alone, but funny you mention OJ Tolu - I am in fact right now waiting for my order from OJ, which includes Tolu bath oil. (I will mix it with shower oil and so have the most fragrant gym showers ever ...)
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The Tolu bath oil will be dandy (multiple uses from bath oil to moisturizer to doctoring your shower oil) - but there's also Tolu shower gel available, from what I remember.
DeleteI rushed out to buy those extended mixes of 80's hits (on vinyl, of course) -- Tears for Fears, Wham, Human League, Yaz, Thompson Twins, Howard Jones . . . synthdrums were my cotton candy treat, especially after having grown up in the rural Midwest on a steady diet of Rush, Rush and more Rush.
ReplyDeleteBut that's kind of out of my system now (as of almost thirty years ago), so a buttered caramel Alien isn't on my Shop Now Shop Often list. But it would have been. When I was 18. And synthdrum crazy.
I can still remember the style of dancing done to those extended Syndrum breakdowns: kind of a swooping side-to-side move ending in a little crouch at each end. Also a New Wave kind of "pony" bop. Interspersed with grandiose Siouxsie Sioux/Jim Kerr sweeping arm gestures.
DeleteWe obviously hung out at the same clubs.
DeleteI remember you.
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ReplyDeleteindeed, OJ is to be commended for making the whole line of bath products for most scents (unlike, ahem, Chanel, which makes an oil every 10 years or so...). My skin likes Eucerin shower oil - it gets too dry with most showergels - so that's why I need a frag in oil form to give a mild scent to scentless Eucerin.
cacio
I'm an oil fan for the same kind of reason. "Lubricate" is my motto. Weird motto.
DeleteI liked the Alien and Womanity ones, and felt the latter was an improvement on the original - in the spirit of less being more.
ReplyDeleteI remember catching The Human League at the Ulster Hall in Belfast c1980! I wore the full New Romantic tackle for a while, complete with Crazy Color-ed auburn hair (though I toggled between that and aubergine).
Random trivia facts about Phil Oakey: he shares his birthday with Mahatma Gandhi and my brother, and used to be married to my ex-lodger's girlfriend, who read auras, no less.
My Manic Panic color was "Pillar Box Red."
DeleteI remember it well from photos or the telly? - your Signature Scarlet phase. I am unintentionally sporting an orange thatch in place of hair at the moment, but hope to have corrective surgery shortly.
Delete"I can still remember the style of dancing done to those extended Syndrum breakdowns: kind of a swooping side-to-side move ending in a little crouch at each end. Also a New Wave kind of "pony" bop. Interspersed with grandiose Siouxsie Sioux/Jim Kerr sweeping arm gestures."
ReplyDeleteI want to see you demonstrate said moves in your next video.
My six-year-old son's favorite fragrance is Alien, which he describes as "it smells like grapes, artificial grapes. I just love it."
Nora, it takes little-to-no encouragement to get me to execute ridiculous dance moves.
DeleteI adore the confidence of your six-year-old's Alien analysis, ending with the flourish of "I just love it."