Holiday 1984 Pt. I: Berry Frosty

 

40 years ago Bonne Bell unveiled a BIGGY Christmas collection for Holiday 1984 that featured a blustery blizzard of frosted berries and candied sweets to gleam our glossers too for the most festive time of the year! Though it feels like Last Christmas (Wham's famous Christmas song also first hit the airwaves this same year), four decades have passed since these frostily festive Smackers debuted. Holiday 1984 was a six piece collection but I decided to split the post and start with the Frost's since Bonne Bell promoted this collection for both Holiday 1984 and Holiday 1985. 

Sizing up the 80's .14 oz. Strawberry vs. the .60 oz. Frost Biggy's.

By 1984, Bonne Bell Lip Smackers were just 11 years on the market since their explosive 1973 debut. They were still the leading flavored lip gloss on the market and held this position in the decades to come. While there were handfuls of innovative flavors already, Bonne Bell decided to give core flavor favorites an added icy frost for this part of the collection. The flavors were familiar but had a frosty shimmer in the gloss, that was similar to the then Frosty Gloss and we’d later come to know in the Cosmic Lips formula. 

The incredible retro block script the flavor names donned with the icy details made these extra special. They also had the classic Bonne Bell logo of the time on them as well that only the Canadian Lip Smackers saw before this, making this a newly added embellishment for the decades design.

The Lip Smacker logo stayed the same though as this didn't get an update until the end of the 1980's. They still used the "Good for your lips, shines and smoothes" slogan on the tubes which would eventually show up again in the 1990's and last seen in the early 2000's.

Holiday 1984 Frost Biggy's:

Strawberry Frost

Raspberry Frost

Cherry Frost

Strawberry Frost- The same fresh strawberry sensation as the original Strawberry with a snow frosted shimmer.

Raspberry Frost- The wondrous Wild Raspberry chilled out for the cooler season with an iced capped gleam.

Cherry Frost- The cool and collected original Cherry with a glamorously glistening snowy glimmer.

Fawn over the scintillating shimmery Strawberry Frost in all her glossy, Biggy glory. If you zoom in you can see the shimmers in the gloss. ❤️

Take a gaze at the wildly lustrous Raspberry Frost in her striking icy orchid Biggy tube. 💜

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Marvel at the coruscating Cherry Frost that quickly catches the eyes in her bright maraschino-red Biggy brilliance. ❤️

These came with and without the iconic loop on the bottom of the tube with the attached string to wear around your neck. You know, the original lip accessory that came decades before the recent surge of lip products with carriers and added accessories of today 😉. 

I have some very special memories about this stunning collection even though they came well after their debut. I hope to share in more detail with everyone one day but until then stay tuned for Pt. II of this marvelous and merry Holiday 1984/1985 collection coming next year.

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