I sort of hate admitting that I’m old enough to remember sticker collecting and how obsessed I was with it as a kid. I feel like the fine art of sticker collecting is lost on today’s youth. Can we start a bring sticker books and stickers back movement? I’d be up for that.
Somewhere, deep in the depths of my attic is a little purple crate filled with stickers. This is either testimony to the fact I might be a hoarder, I really loved stickers and love having them around for nostalgic purposes, or I really am convinced that I’ll make the stickers come back movement a thing, and if I do I’ll have plenty of awesome to back me up!
Stickers were just by jam back in the day. Scratch n’ Sniff ones, puffy ones, 3D ones, ones from the Sanrio store, ones you could buy on sheets, and of course, the Mercedes Benz of the sticker world, Lisa freaking Frank stickers! A true legend. I mean, if your sticker book contained Lisa Frank stickers you were a total IT girl in elementary school! Those perfectly awesome pop art stylized images of unicorns, dolphins, pandas, and other kawaii animals splashed across a loud, bold, bright background really were the stuff that dreams were made of.
I remember having sheets and sheets of the damn things!
I always sort of hate admitting I’m old enough to remember stuff like that. I’m one of those people that wants to be forever young and when you compare how I grew up to kids today I feel ancient. I didn’t have an iPhone, several gaming consoles, and Netflix growing up. I had a sticker book and Barbies. And it was freaking awesome.
The Orly x Lisa Frank launched at ulta.com and I have to say it gives me all the feels in the world and brings back so many feel good memories (and it’s 20% off with code 989305).
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