I gave myself a 1980s makeover and I kind of love it...💅🏻😳

[@AbbyCox]

Play Merge Gardens for FREE and build your own garden 🌷🌷🌷: t2m.io/AbbyCox Here's my apple sweater if you wanna be twins 👯‍♀👯‍♀kieljamespatrick.com/collections/womens-sweaters-1/products/apple-harvest-sweater Also, just in case anyone is confused: I am *not* a makeup channel. I am a very average makeup girlie. 🤣 Don't come here for a tutorial. Come for the history, stay for the chaos. 💋💋

[@sebeckley]

I was in high school from 83 to 87 and omg. It was amazing. I was a nerd who didn't have any money but I did get a few Esprit pieces that I adored and still miss.

[@wanya_telborn]

My hair was doing this same thing hunney I’ve been using Rogaine for a year and it’s coming back

[@nidomhnail2849]

The second you apply the teal to your eyes, your transition into the 1980's began.

[@dawnlovejoy8917]

For me it was blue mascara and blue eyeliner😂

[@kristinewatson3702]

I lived for my teal mascara in HS!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

People think 1980s was Permed Hair and Neon but it’s so much more than that. Also, THE PUFFY SLEEVES AND BIG SHOULDERS were fierce.

[@moxiebombshell]

I HAD SO MANY versions of that dress as a kid in the late 80s 😂

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@moxiebombshell Nice!

[@lynn4861]

I remember a bridesmaid dress I wore in 1987 - Laura Ashley knockoff with huge puffy sleeves, dropped waist, and a butt bow.

[@moxiebombshell]

@@lynn4861 oh my god I almost forgot about THE BUTT BOWS 😭

[@indiabilly]

I had a knock off princess Diana wedding dress as my bridesmaid dress and if I could have worn it everyday for every occasion I would xx

[@TarynsTime]

I was 17 in 1987, your look is spot on for everyday. In '88 when I was an office worker we used way more makeup, lots of color on the eyes, bright lipsticks and way too much blush looking back. Older women, 30s etc, would definitely wear it more modest like your look. So glad you weren't afraid to use the teal. I still like using a little blue eyeliner, just like you applied it, just when I get the urge.

[@bitchenboutique6953]

I was also 17 and I was so bad at makeup that I always looked like a tropical fish 😂

[@Tvianne]

yep, she went with a very light hand 😁

[@jgordon8278]

Yep, me too. Your look is definitely the subtle, professional version, but spot on for that. I was… not subtle with my makeup in high school. And I was personally responsible for part of the hole in the ozone layer - Aqua net purple can for the win!

[@somewherenicefarmstay6146]

@@jgordon8278 Haha I had hair lacquer that set like concrete. My hair wouldn't move in a hurricane. Bloody flammable, I once caught my fringe on fire as I lit a cigarette. Cause smoking was cool back then - not now! Uggh, great times though.

[@Fubs_the_queen]

Never too much blush!!

[@sarav2209]

So, I like to watch Murder She Wrote while I do my crafting, and it's all so spectacular. Jessica Fletcher is a fashion icon.

[@thehalfmoonmirrorsvenus1234]

MSW and Golden Girls have been my happy place since I was a little; my Gigi had the full series for both on diy vhs's from reruns. I always found their depictions of older women just genuinely living their best lives really, really inspiring.

[@magswilliams-fuller8879]

Oh the memories. Electric blue eyeliner or lilac for me, and of course blue mascara. I was early 20's in 1987 so very nostalgic for me.

[@LifeOutsideTheBubble]

Desperately want her glasses

[@lauramathews3151]

The thing that always got me was why people would remain friends with or host JF when everything goes to hell in a handbasket wherever she goes. She was like a harbinger or lightning rod for death. Loke when peole blame the full moon for making people crazy...Love the show though.

[@jgiard9030]

Using less than 3-4 eyeshadow colors WAS minimal in the 80s, lol. I miss the 80s. Makeup was never too much and hair never big enough.😂😂

[@indiabilly]

One of my friends was so amazing at makeup I didn’t recognise her without it, literally thought I was at the wrong house when she opened the door, we had palettes with 6 colours in stripes and the look only counted if we used every colour xx

[@janinawaz4596]

I do not miss the pressure to have big hair all the time. It was time consuming (blow dryers, hot combs, rollers, hairspray). It fried your hair, and honestly they weren't the most flattering styles.

[@alixlowe7665]

I feel the same way about foundation/concealer now. A minimal look needs at least 2 colours of concealer, foundation, blush and highlighter!

[@ruth649]

​@alixlowe7665 One of the reasons I don't wear make-up is because of how many steps and products tend to be required even for a "simple" or "natural" look 😂

[@naolucillerandom5280]

​@@ruth649 Same, I'd need to get up earlier and right now the sleep deprivation just won't allow for it 😅

[@alekseimonizmirov1395]

As an elder Millennial/young Gen X, you definitely nailed it. My Momma, God rest her, was a nurse in the early 80s, then left nursing to work in our rural public library, and I remember her makeup well. Very peachy/apricot blush and loads of frosted, shimmery lipsticks. She had a hoard of the Avon sample lipsticks, they were so tiny, and all of them were a different frosty colour, except for one bright cherry red lip she saved for greeting Dad's ship when it came back into port. She loved the shoulder pads and the tunic sweaters over stirrup pants, and she wanted to look like a brunette Princess Diana. It was glorious. She wore Black Opium perfume at night and Yardley Lavender during the day, and that's one of my strongest memories of the 80s, those perfumes and the smell of the powder compact. I could smell it when you opened it! You really nailed the look, and honestly, the teal suits you immensely. Embrace the 80s! Life's too short not to have fun, after all.

[@Lisa-hl5ch]

I graduated from high school in 1982, and you did a great job with the makeup! Concealer was used for zits and hickies. Eyebrows were more natural than today, eyebrow pencil was used to fill in sparse areas. Sponge tipped shadow applicators are great for packing on shadow as you discovered, but also are good for smudging eyeliner. I think the "put together" explains '80s fashion. The '60s and '70s were chaotic in so many ways. The '80s felt like a new era where the hippies metamorphised into yuppies.

[@wangofree]

Class of 82 here too! I remember all these!

[@bonniestormcloud]

Class of 1992 don't forget you Bic lighter to put your eyeliner on

[@JohnAllenRoyce]

"The '80s felt like a new era where the hippies metamorphised into yuppies." and too damn bad it was too

[@ninaradio]

Another GenXer here. I know a lot of us did use concealer on underuse circles, but that was rarely included in magazine tutorials. So we all just sort of made it up on our own with varying degrees of success. For some reason, magazines then rarely acknowledged that dark circles exist.

[@ByrRaven]

The Noxema smells giving me flashbacks. The concealer was in a thing that looks like a lipstick tube. I remember them.

[@maya-gur695]

You're the second fashion KZbinr who made an 80's video this week and I'm here for it, because I've been on an 80's fashion kick lately.

[@_bloodymarii]

Who was the other KZbinr pls??

[@agnieszkakurzyk960]

Karolina Żebrowska also had collaboration with Merge Garden. She made 1880 meet 1980 dress.

[@elizabethwillis885]

I loved Karolina’s look. It was so cute.

[@heathermayfield4247]

I have completely blonde eyelashes and was an absolute slave to the bright blue mascara which meant my eyelashes weren't a bit of a blue tint they were the brightest of electric blues - happy days. As soon as you put on the teal you were in 1986.

[@showandtellmeg]

As an "elder millenial", I feel exposed by this makeup tutorial lol. This is 100% how I learned to apply makeup and its still what I fall back on to this day (minus the blue mascara, but I totally had some as a kid). My mom always looked hot in the 80s too and ive never lost that idea as far as makeup goes. Also yes - the panty hose were a requirement and I wore them until about 2002 lol.

[@Maguire708Julie]

As a teenager of 1987 (high school graduate 1991) I feel qualified to say you’re nailing it. Very Ally Sheedy!

[@LilyMunsterMum]

I thought she looked just like Ally Sheedy too!!

[@moniqueleigh]

Class of 1990 here, & YES! Ally Sheedy is exactly right.

[@SoMagicalMichele]

Another class of '91 agreeing with you!

[@mersea.714]

Cheers to the class of ‘91!

[@krausekreation9179]

1991 as well!! Agreed.

[@mothra4prez]

i love how 80s womens fashion takes up a lot of intentional space, also reminds me of the A team so its slay

[@BurningheartofSILVER]

After seeing Karolina’s video earlier this week, I saw “1980’s” in the title and knew exactly what was up! 😂 I lowkey miss when advertisers would sponsor a group of KZbinrs and you got to see all of their different takes on the same content. I’m sure it still happens, but I haven’t seen them in a while. Just know, I expect to see 1980’s videos from Bernadette, Racheal, and Morgan as well now! I need all my historical fashion girlies to get in this theme ASAP!❤

[@roxiepoe9586]

You know the build up inside the lid/rim of the liquid foundation? That is your concealer. Dab and brush it over your flaw, soften the edges of the spot, and carefully do your foundation over it to keep it from skidding off. :) I really enjoyed dressing all the eras of my life, but the 80's were the age when I had my own money and could do as I pleased with fashion. Sometimes I still dream of myself in my peach pants suit. The shoulders on that girl were epic! This was fun.

[@marloflanagan7421]

I think you really nailed it! I was 21 in 1987 and you were almost spot on! My only complaint is you were too sparing with the blush. Blush was KING! We wore it high on our cheekbones and up the temples, on our nose and chin. We were blushy!

[@anitalauer2715]

A whole lot of blush high on the cheeks was supposed to be like contour. Mostly, it looked unnatural.

[@1015SaturdayNight]

Totally rad! For an even more 80s look, contour with a darker blush! Racing stripes, baby!

[@beagleissleeping5359]

I remember the 80's. Mostly I remember my teen sister wanting to use me like a life sized Barbie fashion head, to create her ultimate vision I guess? To this day I still wince at the sight of an eye liner pencil and can hear her voice demanding, "Hold still!!" 😂😂😂

[@moxiebombshell]

😂 I just had a comment on here remind me of the older girls at my elementary school doing my makeup, complete with blue mascara. My memories are fond ones, but then again I was the one asking for it as opposed to the one stuck being their sister's living Barbie head 😅😬😅

[@LeighIR]

1989 HS grad here. A sponge was fancy. Everyone used their fingers with no issues. I don't think any of us did anything with eyebrows. I wasn't brave enough to wear colored eyeliner but it was a THING. We all just did the best we could with whatever we had/were given. Lip colors went from gloss to matte. I remember putting on lipstick in the morning, then dusting it with powder to make it as matte as possible. Mother bought me a by mail sample kit from Max Factor. It had a liquid blush, Pan stick foundation, and one or two other items. I thought it was the fanciest thing I'd ever seen and used it very sparingly.

[@AbbyCox]

Omg this is a great “oral history” 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@beachton]

I agree on the eyebrows. I would just tweeze out the middle so I didn’t have a unibrow and any stray stuff but that’s it. Eyebrow pencil was for old ladies. The thin brows at the end of the 90s was when eyebrows became a focal point and it’s been a rollercoaster ever since

[@LeighIR]

​@@AbbyCox"Oral history". It was at this moment, I decided to name my next gray hair "Abby". LOL!

[@algarvestrikk]

My sister would brush her eyebrows the wrong way and put gel on them. Personally, I just stuck with using hot pink blush as eyeshadow until my mom told me I looked like someone had punched me.

[@YsabelGamache]

Abby you look radiant lately. I’m glad this move and new house seem to have given you the energy you needed.

[@sunsets.starlight]

I love this. I think my mum was at her best in the 80s. She was building an incredibly successful career as a business woman in London, she married and divorced her sh*t of a husband. She looked fabulous and permed, shoulders to her ears, wonderful. Met my dad. Yeah, good decade.

[@lyannnnnnnwolf]

My exact reaction after you put on lipstick: "wtf you look exactly like my mom- Oh....... so *that's* why she wears her makeup like that" I just got legit enlightened by the realization that my mom was a teen in the 80s You look great and I got explanation for something I never knew I needed!! Absolutely stunning look

[@perryh.-r.4419]

I know what you mean! My mom was in her 20s in the 80s and the more I learn about 80s style the better I understand her sense of aesthetics 😂

[@SibylleLeon]

The 80s were my youth, and it was the best of times! Aside from the over-the-top styles (massive hair, shoulder pads...) there were so many actually pretty looks and the music was incredible ❤

[@starrystarrynight52]

I was born '72! The 80's were great years to be a teen. That music! The fun fashions! Remember neon clothes? lol.. I could never get the hair right though.

[@SibylleLeon]

@@starrystarrynight52 Me in 1970! And yyyyyup, I did have the inevitable poodle perm at one point 😂 My fav were the cable-knit sweaters with polo shirts underneath! And the colour-dyed jeans!

[@patriciakellyadams134]

I went through my 20s in the 80s. Make-up was my area of expertise. You got the frosted lip correct. Any color as long as it had a peachy undertone and was frosted. The eye was lined both on top and bottom. Teal, blue or green eyeliner and matching mascara. There was nothing natural about the look. You started with a neutral of any peachy color that best matched your skin as long as it was frosted. Apply to the entire eye lid up to the brow. Blend in your second color along the outer 2/3 of your eyelid below the crease. A soft turquoise... frosted. Place your third color in the crease... a soft, but opulent purple... frosted. It gets more prominent as the color goes the outer eye. Blend into each other with no harsh lines. Top the upper lid with a pink that has peach undertones OR a light lavender... whatever you used was frosted. Blend so no harsh edges are seen. No less than 4 colors. Liquid make-up was applied first with a wedge sponge. Then powder. You would use a matching compact of powder. Blush usualy matched the color family of your lipstick, had a peach undertone and was frosted. Apply blush liberally along the check bone aiming to highlight or mimic the look of a high cheek bones. The eyebrow color matched your hair color. You wanted a strong, opaque eyebrow that followed your natural arch. THIS WAS A DAY LOOK. For evening looks, we then could get much more colorful and dramatic. The bob would be an appropriate hair cut, but it would have been teased for lift, ends curled under, and bangs teased, curled and placed high on the forehead as if they were going to take flight. A half can of aquanet held it in place reqquiring nightly hair washing. You got the pantyhose correct too. No one went without pantyhose. It just wasn't done. Tres tacky. Like I said, I spent my 20s living through the 80s. I'm begging you... leave the 80s in the 80s. It was horrendous. The clothes were over bright, over padded. The fried and over styled flying buttresses that were hair styles were just weird. The jewelry was chonky and just ugly. The shoes were pretty cool. No one, I repeat, no one looks good with giant bows attached the shoulders and derrieres of their dresses.

[@luminariastormreaver]

That was fun! My mom used to wear a dark blue khôl eyeliner that was just iconic with a teal eyeshadow. The combination literally caused her eye color to change! Eightys makeup was weirdly magical.❤❤❤

[@rudetuesday]

I graduated high school in the US Midwest in 1987. You weren't nearly as heavy-handed with your makeup as my friends were back in the day. That teal eye, with some pink? That was the move, especially with blue mascara. I didn't wear any cosmetics myself, but my hair was suitably huge and a bit crunchy from mousse and hairspray. Ah, nostalgia.

[@Absintheskiss]

I was 17/18 in 1987 and that make up is spot on. Thanks for making me smile. Brilliant. 😊

[@catherinerw1]

This is bringing back memories of my purple Laura Ashley party dress, sweetheart neckline and all, wearing it at the school disco in about 1986!!!

[@jenn-k-h]

Oh the Laura Ashley dresses! I just bought pajama bottoms from Winners that were Laura Ashley, I was transported back in time when I saw the label 😂

[@maryhamric]

Love this. As someone who graduated in 1986, this was a nice nostalgic time. I loved my Gunne Sax dresses! Good job! You nailed the make up, hair and clothing! Loved the metallic belt on the mom dress! I had one! I admit, I cringe when you say "vintage" HA HA!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

This reminds me of Safiya Nygaard’s 1987 video and doing these ‘By The Decade’ videos are so much fun! 👏🏽

[@redaleta]

In college in the late 80's. It was a woman's college. The school was covered in Laura Ashely. I will admit to calling the girls/women wearing Laura Ashely and a large bow in the hair, "BowHeads". Not a fan of the Laura Ashely aesthetic , but did love the Preppy look and Madonna's style. Your mother/daughter picture is sooo cute.

[@JenniferNightingale]

"I think I look fun" 😂 I wasn't expecting to love these looks so much, thank you for channeling mom vibes for this

[@charlottenorskau]

Honestly I'm with you. Everyday 80s fashion is hella cool. (I know its not a period reference, but just look at the clothes in Stranger Things! They're amazing!)

[@beachton]

I was in college in Atlanta in 1987. That makeup packaging looks familiar from the other girls in my dorm. I can smell it in my mind. But I always used Clinique makeup because I was so allergic to that exact smell you commented on in the Cover Girl stuff. My mom used Clinique so I started using that in high school. You’d go to a department store Clinique counter and women in lab coats would do a whole makeup look on you and try to sell you stuff. That’s what we did without the internet to show us what to do. I have been wearing the same formulation and shade of foundation and blush for literally 40 years. They know what they are doing when they don’t cancel the old stuff. But now I just order it online and haven’t had to go to the mall in 20 years.

[@mialemon6186]

Those green marbled look compacts from Clinique though!! Such a core memory.

[@leighsweet6846]

When I told my mom I wanted to start wearing make-up (13/14yrs) she bundled me off to the department store to the ladies in the white lab coats! Still use their lip products today

[@amykathleen2]

Clinique has a special place in my heart thanks to my mom. She’s done the same look with the same Clinique products literally my entire life, no matter what my sister and I say about it. We have an entire drawer in our basement FILLED with Clinique free sample bags and every time we needed a storage bag throughout my childhood Mom would pull out something from that drawer. When I needed makeup for my middle school musical, she gave me some of the Clinique free samples she never used because they weren’t her few specific products, and to this day she still keeps buying me the same Clinique eyeshadow duo she gave me then as a Christmas gift every time I run out.

[@GingerByrn1]

Great video! The clothes from that era were made really well for the most part. There were also some great yarn dyed woven fabrics that you just don’t see today. Also, because of all those dolman sleeves, the coats could accommodate sweaters and layered looks easily.

[@amber_kitty8782]

The second I saw the thumbnail I squealed! I've been dressing in 80s style for about a year now, it's so fun.

[@gayanderson2242]

Boy, this takes me back. I was 30 in 1987, and I had several of the dresses you wore in this video in my closet (and the pantyhose). I liked the jewel-tone colors that were popular, especially that deep electric blue. Thanks, I have more appreciation for the fashions of this time.

[@desertrose0027]

I love this! I was just a kid in the 80s, so I never paid attention to the makeup then. I did wear a dress a lot like the striped one "Brenda" is wearing, but with pink stripes and less shoulder pads. Also every little girl I knew wore jelly shoes! My mom was in her late 30s / early 40s then and always had a perm. I swear I had multiple elementary school teachers wear an outfit like the one your "Susan" museum curator wore. 😄

[@zeaxanthin7572]

Yeah you nailed it! I was 16 in 1987 and coloured eye-liner and mascara were super trendy, also the pearlised/frosted lipstick, though I was always more eyes than lips kind of girl, (and still am… I think your formative teens influence your make up style forever! As a teen with not much money I would buy really good quality granny clothes in charity shops (tweed skirts and jackets, evening dresses, cocktail coats) and make it look cool. Sadly today most the second hand shops are full of poor quality or supermarket clothes. Also sewing skirts from scratch and knitting were still things your mum knew and could show you how to do. Happy and creative days, cos there was nothing else to do ha!

[@jenn-k-h]

Wow, the nostalgia! I was born in 1981 and this was a fun trip down memory lane 😄 And I appreciate the reframing of the 80's as an interesting era to look back at - I tend to make fun of the clothes and extreme looks, but it was very fun 🥳🙌 And the blue mascara was the only thing I ever wanted when I got into makeup! I LOVED this 💙

[@moxiebombshell]

Oh wow... Memory Unlocked!!! Reading your comment I suddenly remembered being in... kindergarten, maybe? And one of the 6th grade girls did my makeup at lunch -- complete with blue mascara (this would've been c. 1986, after all). I absolutely LOVED it. You couldn't tell me NOTHIN for the rest of the day; I knew I was fierce, even if I didn't know the word 😂 Of course, I also remember the teachers being significantly less entertained 🤔 😅

[@enduringbird]

I definitely wore blue mascara in middle school and loved it.

[@alisav8394]

How can you be nostalgic when the oldest you were during the 80's was 8? You hardly remember anything.

[@moxiebombshell]

@@alisav8394 I must be misreading your reply. I assure you most people have lots of memories from before they were 10, and that many people are nostalgic for the world as it was during their childhood. Of course people have different experiences of the world depending on their age, but age doesn't make those experiences any less or more valid - just different.

[@jenn-k-h]

@alisav8394 Wow, you don't remember anything from when you were growing up? I remember my clothes, the stuff I wanted for Christmas, the stuff my mom wore and had around the house. Computers at school when I was six, computer games we got to play in the computer lab. TV ads and shows I watched. Toys I had and what I did with my friends. I remember things from Kindergarten, Grade 1, 2, 3. There's a lot to look back on 🤷‍♀️ PLUS the fact that the late 80s and early 90s were very similar, so lots of stuff was still around as I got older.

[@redessa01]

This just unlocked a memory for me! 1987 was the year I turned 12 and was allowed to start wearing makeup. For my birthday, my grandmother took me to the mall to get my makeup done at Merle Norman. I haven't thought about that in years! I should call my grandmother and ask her if she remembers doing that. (she's 93 now)

[@indiabilly]

Love this so much! Started training as a nurse age 18 in 1988, was in awe of the girls who could produce flawless make up and hair in time for the hospital bus to pick us up from the accommodation, would sit and look at them for ages and when they were dressed up to go out xx

[@nancyt2003]

Soooooo many “mom” memories! I had my daughters in 1980 & 1983! You are so much fun!

[@nikkipooh9]

Your reveal made you spitting image of my favorite art teacher 🙌🏽 I 100% approve this look

[@Rose01bloom]

So much joy in this! Loved it. My mum was in her teens and early twenties in the 80s and the fashion always reminds me of her pictures of that time :)

[@NilZed1]

I remember eye kits with 4 colors set up to match.

[@bethrodgers]

I enjoyed this so much. Im in the UK and was in my teens and early twenties in the eighties. As I remember it, we used concealer only on our spots and foundation was used by older women. Teal eyeliner was a basic neutral. My favourite eyeshadow was a thick pencil which was pearlescent pink on one end and pearlescent blue on the other. The main thing about hair was lots of mousse, blow drying upside down and backcombing to get it to sit up, if it looked natural and shiny you were doing it wrongly.

[@alisonjane7068]

i thought the mention of precious moments figurines was my favorite part of the video, but then you used the l'eggs pantyhose package as a mic holder. i'm dead.

[@cathrinewhite7629]

My favorite memento from the 80's was the artsy design pics done of women with dark sunglasses, dark hair, high cheekbones with dark rouge, and red lips! They were ubiquitous...hung in hair salons, department stores and all over malls. I thought they were beautiful at the time. They looked like the women "guitarists"in Robert Plant's video "Addicted to Love".😂

[@IonIsFalling7217]

The 1980s is my absolute favorite decade for fashion. It's FUN and it makes me feel alive in the best possible way.

[@RianShafer]

Fun Vid! I used Cover Girl faithfully because it had actual Noxima (face cream for breakouts & to wash daily with) in it & helped keep my skin clear. The last one I got was early 2007 because I could no longer find it. Before concealer we used an extra layer or so for fuller coverage. Powder was to blot out shine, to this day everyone making their skin extra shiny looks like greasy skin to me. Don't get me started with the neon light dot on the ends of noses! I pinched the tar out of my eyelid using an eyelash curler wayyyy back & I'm still scared of them. Pretty sure the container your Mic was in at the end was call Leggs, panty hose that came in an egg shaped container in the beginning. Am I right?

[@AbbyCox]

Yes! My mom and I were lamenting how panty hose doesn’t come in the eggs anymore! 🤣

[@GOGOSLIFE]

I was in my 20's in the '80's. I still have clothes in my closet from then, lol! Hoping one day I'd fit in them again. Yeah right, who am I kidding? I haven't fit into anything size five or smaller, except my shoes, since then, lol! I should probably donate them to some museum. Since the 1960's, styles come back around, like every 20 years or so, but with different colors or patterns. Thanks to Madonna though, you could wear anything you found in the thrift store, cut it up and wear what was left. Yes I had some 'power suits' too. As a woman, you weren't taken seriously in the office unless you wore something that looked like what the guys wore. The '80's weren't a great time for fashion or hairstyles, that's or sure! BTW, you looked great, and so did your mom!

[@unabashedlybashful]

For numerous takes on mid- to late 1980s looks, Working Girl (1988) is a gold mine. The eyeshadow on Joan Cusack is just as iconic as her character. Sigourney Weaver is also deliciously bitchy and rocks the more elegant fashions from the era. Such a great film for analysing class/wealth, feminism, and Harrison Ford's ability to quickly down fruity cocktails. Sadly, much like 9 to 5 (1980), not that much has changed in the past 35 years.

[@susanpilling8849]

Loved this so much. I hit 30 in the mid 80's. I wore uniform for work but the looks remind me of my off duty times. Thanks for the happy memories. 😊

[@themombat1193]

Thank you for honoring your mother in this fun video. I must be about her age and I remember this make-up and vintage clothing.

[@jgiard9030]

We used concealer in the 80s but it was definitely only for correction or for a "formal" makeup such as for a night out.

[@AbbyCox]

My undereyes were very sad...and dark... lol

[@binary_terror2]

I never expected to like 80s fashion, but I’ve been watching Glow and have loooved the 80s fashion everyone is wearing.

[@kathrynronnenberg1688]

Teal and mauve! You nailed it. My mom was almost a generation older than most of my 80s HS classmates. Teal eyeliner was not her thing. Neither of us ever had 80s big hair or cliff bangs (you know the ones I mean even if they're not called that). She used standard plastic rollers. I did have the apricot blush and teal eyeshadow, though. That sweater gave me a flashback. I had two Fair Isle yoke sweaters, one yellow and one purple, but unlike the ones you can get now, they were wool. My college graduation dress (late 80s) was almost exactly the style of your green striped one, but white with black polka dots (bought in haste, highly unfortunate because I looked, then and now, terrible in either black or white). I did my best to avoid the pantyhose, however. In fact, I set myself a goal of never having a job that required me to wear nylons. So far, success!

[@lilly0741]

The makeup is giving me Ally Sheedy vibes at the end of the Breakfast Club. The JC Penny catalog reminded me of afternoons at my grandma's house. She would pull it out and show me all the little girl dresses. Trying to convince me not to be a tomboy.

[@Molliewithawhy]

I’m very much a makeup girlie (the kind that regularly wears teal to the office 😂) and just wanted to give you props on the makeup!!! It brings me so much joy to watch people have fun with their makeup and feel ✨the fantasy✨ this also made me nostalgic for my own 80s phase I had in middle school after watching 13 going on 30 (along with being raise by 80s coming of age films). Such a fun decade for fashion, thx for the serotonin boost today!! 😊👍

[@marilynleslie472]

Very pretty look on you! When I think of eighties fashion, I think of Stephanie Zimbalist in Remington Steele or Cybill Shepherd in Moonlighting.

[@CFBtechnologies]

The green and white stripped dress was absolutely perfect.

[@Vintagebecky]

1980s is your era for sure! Loving the hair, make up, outfits👍💕

[@johannabengtsson9929]

This was indeed a great nostalgic video, but the unexpected gift of it all was to scroll through the comment section and reading everyone's makeup memories! Truly a wonderful read!

[@amys8842]

The "Collecting Precious Moments" hobby got me good! That was my childhood for sure!

[@seanaepley3180]

The makeup suits you, and that green and white dress objectively looks STUNNING ON YOU!

[@litzgrahmann6468]

The teal eyeliner is awesome! I also agree that the 1980's was the historical height of whimsical fashion.

[@DolceSuono9]

I also love to look at late 80s-early 90s Christmas catalogues, and commercials that were captured on VHS when taping Christmas specials🎄I still love the look of chunky multi-colored lights on the Christmas tree. …I suddenly feel the need to wear teal eyeshadow to work! 🦚 Wow, that blue dress really reminds me of my mother.

[@TSIRKLAND]

It is interesting how time goes by, and each generation looks back at the last. I remember being in middle school and high school in the 80s-90s, and "vintage" "nostalgia" "yesteryear" "oldies" were all about the 1950s, 60s, 70s. Mom and Dad would loan stuff out of their closet from that era: bell bottom jeans, love beads, sandals, etc. Now, "yesteryear" is the 1980s, 90s, 2000s. If my nieces and nephews wanted to dress up in "90s" stuff, I still have a few shirts I haven't worn in decades, that would fit the "nostalgia" vibe. Music goes around, too. Although, with the ready availability of virtually ALL music ever recorded, via streaming and download services, the line between yesterday and today I feel is blurred just a bit more than it used to be, when one's only source of music was the radio or physical media: records, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, CDs, etc. Now with pretty much all of recorded music made digital somewhere: Satchmo, Adele, and Sting are all equally at our fingertips; we can listen to anything equally (algorithms that lean toward, and/or influence, our tastes aside). Personal fashion- makeup, hair, etc- for men and women (and increasingly both or neither these days) is another thing that can go in cycles, or stay firmly in their own time. Makeup look-backs that span the 20th century from the 1920s to 1990s are fascinating- but they also usually only focus on the "it" look of that decade. Few bother to look AROUND the one defining "look" at the everyday; the mundane; the outliers. Plucked eyebrows with high arches may have been "in fashion" in the 1920s/30s, but that doesn't mean that EVERY single woman who was alive during that decade looked exactly like Clara Bow, or Jean Harlow. Thicker, more "natural" brows may have been in fashion in the 80s and 90s, for stars like Madonna or Kathy Ireland. But that doesn't mean that every woman you saw on the street or behind a desk or ringing up groceries were clones of those celebrities. For many people, their fashion choices tend to lag behind "the times." Many people are heavily influenced in their teen / early 20s years, and then stick with some variation of that for most of the rest of their adult lives. So adult women in the 1980s were probably making fashion choices that they learned in the 1960s or 70s. Young women who were reading the teen and fashion magazines of the 1980s probably kept with that style well into the 1990s and 2000s, maybe toning it down, or making certain concessions to fashion changes, but mostly sticking with what they knew. Same with men, and hairstyles, facial hair, clothes, etc.

[@heatherhammerquist6239]

1:07 not everyone with a single full time job could buy a house. We seemed to have a wider middle class that could, but as a poor kid in the 80’s, we lived in rent controlled apartments. Most of the families I knew only had a house because both parents worked.

[@PokhrajRoy.]

In Indian Fashion, it’s kind of interesting that in Hindi Cinema, Sridevi was really setting the fashion trends. ‘Mr. India’ released that year which was a blockbuster and Xerxes (Costume Designer) really gave some great looks. Then, there was ‘Chandni’ where she had a problem with the all-white wardrobe but after the film released, people wanted that all-white wardrobe.

[@bonniestormcloud]

Foundation, powder and blush, concealer was for pimples lol. I loved the revelon pressed powder. No shine!!

[@maksun66883]

i recently started wearing green, blue, or purple eyeshadow and liner again. i think they're super with brown eyes and dark hair. and yes i do have purple mascara!

[@amymay2097]

Thanks for you love of the 80s as a teen from the 80s there were a lot of fashion choices and being a girl with no shoulders but a chest - shoulder pads worked. Also love you hair cut - didn’t comment on your last video but it is very cute. ❤

[@Linn8379]

I was born in 1983. Everyone had their own image of the 80's but we lived it!!!! I still have an original Jem and the Holograms Tshirt that was print in '86. Thanks to that cartoon, I have died my hair ELECTRIC purple. Also I'm in love with your channel and this is me saying hey, finally!!!

[@diannemh2250]

Lots of 80’s memories here- Now I want to dig out all my 1980’s “Dolly” magazine & read all the makeup and fashion pages, whilst watching re runs of “Countdown” & dancing along to the music ( only fellow Aussies will get those references!) I remember I used to wear 3 colours of eyeshadow everyday, with blush and bright pink pearlescent lipstick…plus plastic bangles & matching slide combs in every colour to hold up my permed hair! Oh the 80’s!

[@krysab6125]

Oh good lord, the EYELINER! The LIPSTICK! My mum still has her navy shimmer eyeliner - and still uses it! Mary Quant 'mystic heather' shimmer lipstick is a core memory, I can almost taste it

[@cindylockie3664]

The make up was beautiful on you and I totally loved the green striped dress. Bring back the 80's!

[@ultimateskillchain]

Karolina and now this! I'm loving this 80s revival 🩷💙💚 And that video game editing! The way you bounced in place with each "fighter" 🤣🤣 I'm OBSESSED

[@mac8697]

I LOVED this video. I'm a big fan of 80s fashion and I had such a great time watching. I don't even do makeup and it made me think, you know, for a party or a holiday, 80s makeup could be fun!

[@plantyfan]

10:00 The apple sweater is definitely 100% teacher

[@AbbyCox]

The way I would unironically embrace 1980s-90s teacher-core if I was an elementary school teacher 🤣

[@wesmiser24]

Omg! The Bloomington Antique Mall is the PERFECT place for a vintage spree! Totally wasn't expecting to see that when I watched this!

[@FlagCutie]

That stripped green dress is giving me life!

[@wendywhitley4611]

Brenda was the look I would wear!! That dress is so cute!!!

[@UniquelyPenny]

Glamour shots was peak 80’s! Ya did good. Me and my love for neon were born early 80’s. We still going strong.

[@mce1939]

I was lucky enough to grow up in the 80s and was at my peak fashion and hair and makeup life, and it was so freaking fun. I still dress 80s and do 80s hair (deliberately). My son says I'm stuck in the 80s, and he's not wrong! I have so much fun reliving my 80s days.

[@angeliaharron]

That teal really makes your eyes sparkle! I was in my 20's in the eighties.

[@DAYBROK3]

things were so enthusiastic in the 80s, it shows in the clothes. i did navy blue eyeliner and navy blue mascara also a muted purple eyeshadow. the blush is sheer so you can have a brighter colour. i liked plum lip.

[@andreadow8253]

You are absolutely Rocking my haircut and wardrobe from 1987 and I am here for it!

[@debbiesivertson817]

High school and college 1980’s girl here!!! Hands down, my favorite fashion decade ever. ❤❤❤ Amazing video!!! ❤❤❤

[@dinaschulz2961]

Oh Abby, I love you to the 80’s and back! The best part has been listening to the valley girl “like” sneak into almost every sentence!!!!

[@aprilgreen2006]

born in 71 was 10 years old in 81. So much nostalgia and some scratching my head and thinking we wore that? I miss the fashion of the 80s, so thank you. I made a lot of my cloth's back then.

[@SouthernArtist77]

I love 80s fashion and the era was pretty fun too.

[@amyjograce5911]

Thank you Abby, I was a teenager during the 80's. You brought back memories. I no longer wear the electric blue mascara and liner and changed some colors but I mostly apply my makeup the same way only now I primer. Thanks again ❤

[@funkycoldmedina29]

I love the photos of my mom from the 80s too. She looked so cool

[@debcarroll8192]

I was in high school and college in the 80's. I have a hard time not looking "stuck" because I am still so in love with Laura Ashley, Gunne Sax, etc.. I love the nods to Victorian and Edwardian fashion that we had back then, and we had a lot of fun with our clothes and makeup. You looked like you had a lot of fun, too!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

17:40 This feels like the ‘80s Version of Barbie Dress Up Games.

[@heidikarpa2278]

1985 - graduated from high school and your look was a fav of mine! You look FABULOUS dahling- I need me some teal eyeliner now. Why not? GREAT video. So much fun and so well done. Brava!

[@obsidianrosestudio2663]

I was just a kid in the 80s but I can distinctly describe all the trends, fashion, and aesthetics that stuck with me. I was 12 in 1989 and remember all these cosmetics in my mother’s arsenal 😅❤ She was more a Rocker girl look through the 80’s, it was great and I always thought she was beautiful 😊

[@loriannfish9488]

The pressed powder compact is nostalgic for me also. I used to use my mom's empty ones when I played dress up.