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8 reasons Irish girls were obsessed with hair mascara in the nineties

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Mar 23rd 2016, 10:59 AM 4,926 Views 2 Comments

IF YOU GREW up in the nineties, you definitely wore mascara to come across as a cool kid.

1. You could get it in all sorts of colours

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Neon pink in my lovely brown hair? SURE.

2. If you were particularly fancy, you’d have some with glitter in it

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And it wouldn’t be washed out for WEEKS.

3. Your mam wouldn’t let you dye your hair so this was the next best thing

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4. It just looked so effortlessly stylish

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Mmm, solid.

5. Especially if you wore it with these clips

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6. You could switch them with your mates, for rainbow hair

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7. The sticky hair was a small price to pay

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8. For looking like an actual masso hun

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