Last year on Instagram, I started a makeup purge series (view here). Although, I've been using makeup, and deciding what I was keeping or purging, I never actually posted about it here-or updated on the gram, for that matter.
Life, right?
I was in the states for a month, from December to January, helping clean out my parents' house. In my closet, buried like treasure-I found these Urban Decay flavored body powders. At the time, I wasn't ready to part with them . You know how nostalgia makes it hard to let things go? Well, today's the day. We're doing this.
For the uninitiated: Urban Decay introduced their Flavored Body Powders, later called Sparkling Lickable Body Powders (my sister loved these) in the early 2000s and discontinued them around the 2010s. These powders were part shimmer, part perfume, part edible treat (?). Housed in colorful little tassled boxes with plush leopard-print powder puffs, they came in an array of flavors like Cake, Cocoa, Cherry Lemonade, and more-all designed to add a scented, tasty shimmer to your skin.
Now, I must confess: off the nine powders I own, I've never actually worn one. I have an affinity for tassles, a love for collection boxes, and these products smelled exactly like their intended scents. Once I purchased one, the collector in my just kept going.
Here are the body powders I own with their oh so obvious descriptions:
Caramel: a rich caramel with a warm golden shimmer.
Red Hot: a spicy red hot cinnamon candy with reddish-pink shimmer.
Marshmallow: a sweet marshmallow with a silver shimmer.
Honey: a sweet honey with golden shimmer.
Gingersnap: a spicy, gingere cookie with a golden bronze shimmer.
Peppermint: a cool peppermint with Pale pink shimmer.
Blackberry: a luscious blackberry with a lilac shimmer.
Gimlet: a zesty lime with a pale mint shimmer.
Champagne: champagne with a light beige powder with gold and silver shimmer.
Now, here's where things got chaotic-instant regret in an explosion of shimmer. When I opened Marshmallow, it was like mushroom cloud of sparkling-powder everywhere: on my hands, clothes, sofa, coffee table, and even my laptop. I couldn't help but inhaled some, and believe it or not, after all these years, it still tasted like marshmallow.
In the past and now, I've mostly only worn black. I couldn't imagine wearing these on any part of my body-not even a little. There would be a trail of glitter on every surface I touched. While they never served their intended purpose, I did enjoy seeing them sparkle on my dresser.
*purged
