RIP Lip Smackers
As of March 29th, Lip Smackers will no longer be available in the US. The Huffington Post reports that Bonne Bell is closing their operations in Westlake, Ohio. After March 29th, Lip Smackers will only be available in Asia, Europe, and Australia. What was your favorite flavor?
Oh no! Lip Smackers were an integral part of my 12th and 13th year of life. I remember going to the mall with my bestie every week and picking a new flavour lol. My fav's were the classic vanilla, ice cream cake and cotton candy :p
ReplyDeleteHow sad. No more Dr. Pepper lip smackers. That was my "lipstick" when I was in high school.
ReplyDelete^this. Definitely Dr. Pepper.
DeleteI'm not sure I ever had any LipSmackers. I would think Strawberry if they had that flavor which I am sure they did. How come you never see apple flavor stuff? Always watermelon or berry but rarely apple. I need to go get an apple fritter...
ReplyDeleteThey have apple! Well, Candy apple, but close enough :p and Sour apple lol
DeleteAll the popular girls had strawberry, but I wanted Dr. Pepper so that's what I got. I did go with the enormously popular bubblegum for lip gloss, though.
ReplyDeleteMy fave was Piña Colada :)
ReplyDeleteI loved Lip Smackers as a kid too, but I think they're too full of chemicals for today's hip kids. There was a rip-off version called Baby Lips that all the girls in my daughter's class were throwing out after it was revealed they contained chemicals that could alter your hormones. At any rate, what's really hip among 10-year-olds now is EOS lipglosses. Not sure if they contain the same stuff.
ReplyDeleteI loved Lip Smackers as a kid too, but I think they're too full of chemicals for today's hip kids. There was a rip-off version called Baby Lips that all the girls in my daughter's class were throwing out after it was revealed they contained chemicals that could alter your hormones. At any rate, what's really hip among 10-year-olds now is EOS lipglosses. Not sure if they contain the same stuff.
ReplyDeleteI like cherry roll on gloss. Idk if it was lip smackers or maybelline, but that stuff made your lips look like an oil slick. Lol
ReplyDeleteThat was Love Potion! God we were all walking around with greasy lips. No guy wanted to kiss that!
DeleteBonnie Bell! Goodbye useless products!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite flavor was Dr. Pepper. My friends and I would take our allowance, walk to the mall, and then try many flavors before finally deciding on which new flavor to get. This announcement is making my lips feel chapped, and I'm craving some Lip Smackers!
ReplyDeleteI hope they don't announce Dittos are going out of business, because I might be compelled to go looking for a pair.
DeleteYou're lucky none of you kids got herpes Or anything from doing that back in the day. I still remember going to the mall makeup counter and physically putting on every lipstick On my lips.. we all did..
DeleteI remember a girl trying on lipstick at a Rihanna concert claimed she got herpes A few years ago.
All Lace - girl I lived in Dittos in highschool. Got me many a backstage pass in the 70's wearing those pants. You can find them on eBay occasionally. Lol that's a flashback!
DeleteRemember the jumbo orange crush ones? Did anyone ever actually finishis one up?
ReplyDelete@Sugar you hush now! Let us mourn our lipsmackers!
Give me your PO Box and i can send you some.
ReplyDeleteNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Everything lately is a conspiracy to make me feel old! (I am old.) In the 70s I loved everything strawberry - Strawberry lip smacker, strawberry oil slick gloss, strawberry suave shampoo... I did also have the cherry oil slick rollerball gloss, & I remember Dr. Pepper and 7-Up lip smacker. Oh, & bubble gum lip gloss! In the 90s, I had this stuff from Bonne Bell called "lip lix" & I loved it, in sherbet or surebet... I still have the tube, I check the internet and e-bay for it. It was the perfect color. These days, I love that rose salve stuff.
ReplyDeleteIn yet another manifestation of my (predictable) mid-life crisis (& ongoing treatment for depression/anxiety/PTSD), I went ape creating a "Happyland" of stuff on Pinterest in December. One whole board is all those goofy, happy 70s memories like Lip Smackers.
DeleteEvery Christmas I would get the giant long plastic sleeve with LipSmackers stacked in it. I had the ones you could hang around your neck and they were originally a really fat tube not the skinny ones of today. I had a grape one and I still remember it. I also had those little square cubes of super shiny metallic silver lipgloss and the rolling ball lip glosses too. Robins egg blue eye shadow was also on my dresser. I wore more makeup in 7th grade than I do today...
ReplyDeleteMemories! My first eye shadow in 7th grade - '75/'76 - was robin's egg blue! I remember those big tubes of lip smackers you could wear around your neck!! The 7-Up flavor was in the big tube! Remember how "Life Savers" candy came in a "storybook" & was always a Christmas stocking stuffer? :)
DeleteWhen I was 17, my Mom got totally fed up with my cheap makeup - by then, I loved new-wave and using a half-pound of black kohl pencil on my eyes, I looked like a stoned raccoon - so she marched me to the Clinique and Lancome counters and made me get "makeovers" & a bunch of high-quality makeup... which I then very happily wore with... a half-ton of black kohl eye makeup!! :) :) :)
Bubble gum was the only one I ever used.
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