Scents of the Nineties That Need to Come Back - The Cut It’s back…my shampoo from the ’90s! Would I use it today? That is the question. I recall the original Herbal Essences as being like drinking a cup of camomile tea in the shower. It appealed to the hippie in me during my university years. It really did little for my hair, and like much in the ’90s it was more about the marketing. Remember Fruitopia? As the joke on The Simpsons went, “The iced tea made by hippies, but distributed by a heartless multinational corporation.” I remember with my first job in high school, I used to put aside $30 a week from the $99 I made to go shopping for hair and beauty products. The priorities of a teenage girl. Imagine if I spent a third of my income today so frivolously! 

Scents of the Nineties That Need to Come Back - The Cut

It’s back…my shampoo from the ’90s! Would I use it today? That is the question. I recall the original Herbal Essences as being like drinking a cup of camomile tea in the shower. It appealed to the hippie in me during my university years. It really did little for my hair, and like much in the ’90s it was more about the marketing. Remember Fruitopia? As the joke on The Simpsons went, “The iced tea made by hippies, but distributed by a heartless multinational corporation.”

I remember with my first job in high school, I used to put aside $30 a week from the $99 I made to go shopping for hair and beauty products. The priorities of a teenage girl. Imagine if I spent a third of my income today so frivolously! 

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