Happy Halloween: Avon Beauty Vision
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2023
- We play with the Avon Beauty Vision Personal Color Computer from 1987. Our color palettes are discovered, explored, and ... modified.
Thanks to our Goth Friends in Retro:
(in order of appearance)
Veronica from @VeronicaExplains
Ken from @CanadianRetroThings
Evie from @EviesRevue
Bil from @BilHerd
Robin from @8_Bit
AJ and (vic)Tim from @mydrunksibling
and for the programming skills of:
Amy from @TiltFive
Jeri from @jeriellsworth
#retrocomputers #makeover
Thanks for the help with the makeover. Much easier to present my quarterly reports now.
I mean, got to look on point for the board meeting!
woot! Or as Jeri would say Wøøt!
@@fractalMDWhen you want EVERYONE to notice you for your talking points, there's only one option. ;)
You ladies took this with EXACTLY the right amount of seriousness and comedy. I laughed sooooo hard.
That ending was brilliant...
Thank you!
Wow I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. I couldn't even breathe with the Bill Herd part. lol
Bil went ALL IN!!!!
That "processing" sound effect is AWESOME! And the ending was epic!
Beep boop beep boop
I think this is the only youtube channel I watch that makes me giggle out of nowhere.
That is all we ever wanted. 😅
@@fractalMD Mission complete!
I love your videos thay make me laugh all the time. I put your Taylor and Amy Show sticker on my Honda Scooter, that I got at VCF Midwest 2023.
That is so cool!!!!
Amy is warm and Earthy! I got a kick out of the 1980s look. Taylor with the side ponytail for the win! The goth cameos at the end were great!
That make up was a WHOLE THING!!
@@fractalMD Now you and Taylor have a great side hustle for expos and shows, just bring the Avon computer and charge $5.00 a pop per face scan 🙂
@@geekwithsocialskills Oh, this begs to go to a show.
This is WHO I AM NOW..., I'm never going back!
so about using a chisel to remove makeup...
@@BilHerd might I suggest an oil-based makeup remover (may have been Amy's response to my same question...)?
@@drjohnfisherHe is right!
You made me laugh so much with your cameo! Too good!
everyone is gonna get messy before this is over with. They great WIG WARs has begun!
@@amylouiseherndon1196
You guys are a breath of fresh air in the retro computing community!
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"I was trying to get it to deploy!" A splendidly technical word which I don't think the original Avon Lady would have used.
Statistically I'm with you on that one.
Thanks for giving me my awesome makeover!
YOU ROOK MAHVELOUS
You looked thrilled🤪
I never would have thought such a thing existed. That's amazing. I literally busted out laughing @9:56. Great job all around.
The last time I saw an Avon lady, a late September many years ago, she acted super-skittish and didn't want to wait even though I assured her my wife would be home momentarily. After she bolted, I sat down to resume playing Ultima Online and realized I had never taken off the coveralls from the Halloween costume I was trying on earlier. They were, of course, covered in fake blood and had "Property of State Asylum 23568" on the front. It was kind of a relief - "Ohhh... she wasn't crazy! I'm just stupid!"
I'll bet she is still telling that story!!!
17:13 love the Veronica look!
Right?!!?
Ha! I saw this device foreshadowed (fore-eye-shadowed?) at VCF-MW; a Chekhov's (skin-tone-analyzer) gun if you will. This exceeded expectations -- who doesn't love a device that emits random tones when computing?
You two make the best 8-bit Halloween episodes. :)
You foretold the future, David!!!
OMG! I laughed so hard after the 1st break. Then again after the 2nd break. I was not expecting any of that. Totally hilarious and so much fun. Thank you.
We do retro our own special way.
As ever, this was a delight. Thank you for making the video and sharing this wonderful, life-altering technological marvel. Clearly gothware was the answer all along.
Gothware forever!
That has to be preserved for future generations!
It's true
This is rad! I love having an omni-function supercomputer in my pocket but I'll always have a soft spot for these specialized PCs. And leg warmers.
Mmmmm. Leg warmers.
So many colours. Apart from the screen. But everyone needs to know their colour palette. Don't they?
And gosh, that is a lot of product it recommends.
Slightly disappointed the hack didn't gothify the "working" tune.
Awesome, love how you two turn my week from a stress filled nightmare to a wonderous joy
We really should hack the tune. That's a good idea. 😃
I can't deal with how awesome you two are! Phenomenally hilarious stuff!
Woo hoo!
You both rocked the 80s look! 😁
Lol, we went for it!
That was hilarious! Way back when I wrote a JIT inventory control program for Estee Lauder that ran on a SX-64. That brought back memories of the crazy color names for cosmetics that I had to put into the database LOL! You made my day.
No way!
9:57 I was eating delicious rice dish and choked on airborne rice! ...... Tantric breathing and lots of water later....... Please keep this device and donate it to a deserving museum so that in 20 years time youngsters can take the pee out of us for our naff marketing ways. *hugs*
Keep breathing!!
Oh that computer sound is the best ever. You know its science when you hear that.
And the end result has turned you into Shakespeares Sister Amy.
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I came here from Veronica's channel. I was not expecting the transition to the 80s outfits and lol'd for real. 😂
We keep you guessing! Btw Veronica is just THE BEST.
I laughed when you came back with the makeup...but I legit think you both looked hot!
Ah, shucks.
Bil Herd! The Hack-A-Day Alice Cooper we didn’t know we needed!
That was hilarious!!
It's what has been missing from all of our lives!
Flawless 80's makeup
RIGHT??
Wow! That’s quite a find! I had a couple of T1000’s back in the mid 90s. Made a great serial terminal .
Why use as a serial terminal when ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS? 🤣🤣🤣
As usual - totally bonkers, totally loved it! Brought a lot of laughter to my Friday morning. What a bizarre gadget… and the weight - you’d get strong arms going door-to-door with that. Makes you wonder how many other niche, customised computers were made, or which ones should’ve been made. Also, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to watch Bil Herd's channel the same way again 😊
Many thanks, ladies!
Bil sent us so much! He is HILARIOUS.
😂 you guys having fun with geeky stuff makes me giggle all the way!!! way to go!!!
Success!
Gotta tell you that you've got MULTIPLE fans of your neon '80s look up here in Thunder Bay.
Loool! But those nails!
The length of the printout/analysis reminds me of a CVS receipt for a single pack of gum 😆
Exactly!
Glad to see you got it working! Too funny 😮😅
And for real!
Omg, I was not expecting some many things from this video. First of all, love how you were going with your inner Bill and Ted with the 80s makeup, haha. And secondly, now I need "Gothware" to be totally a thing in the retro community, lol
Let's make it happen!
😂😂🤣 YO! This is hilarious and totally tubular. AVON for the win.
Radical
LOL! Makeup colors I haven't seen since high school....
Glorious!
Grufty greetings from Germany ... (*closing coffin*) ... Hilarious 🤣🤣🤣
Hearty hallo! ⚰️
I love your charm! You make such a good show togheter.
Awe,, thx :)
OMG! I'm dying here! I needed this! Thank you! lol
All the welcome! 😂
Oh no.. Poor Ken. I can't stop laughing. Poor buggar. He just looks.... beyond sad.
He looks amaze!
This might be the best video yet.
Lol, glad you liked it!
You guys are awesome, love the humor and the tech stuff!
Thanks!!
Yall this is amazing 😍
Right??? 🤣
Hoot = This! Awesome stuff!
Woo!
This was my first time ever seeing this channel and the slow reveal that they're both hackers was absolutely perfect, lol
Welcome to the weird!
hahahahaha the computer nailed it! looks awesome. the new software will change the world!
FLAWLESS!!
This is so much fun!
We had fun doing it!
I totally remember the Avon computer at VCFMW. The only thing you both were missing were IOU Sweatshirts LOL Awesome Video
I the before times pre goth ware!
Loved the video! Sorry I wasn't able to partake... but all the people you got would have outdid me anyways! And boy do I remember a lot of people made up like the 80's version you did from that time. (I was also glad to see that AJ finally had complete victory over Tim at the end...)
He was truly her...vicTim.
@@fractalMD - LOL! (And also, grooaaannn…)
@CurtisBoyle Wish I could take credit for it, that was ALL vicTim and AJ. 🤣🤣🤣
What a rad neon vibe you two had going on there... and then, you both managed to spread the drabness of gothware to the world! Of course, you must total recall that drabness is a state of mind -- NOT a color. Your AVON overlords like feel like you like totally dissed them for sure!
Yeah, waiting for that cease and desist from Avon!
Fabulous!
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6:28 BEEP BEEP BOOP BOP BEEP BEEP It's working of course!!
That's how you know!
COFFINS ARE FOR CLOSERS
I am speechless. My meager collection of still-functional synapses can only utter a single word: RADICAL
Bonus points for the side ponytail. OMG.
ALL YOUR FAULT! 🤣🤣🤣
@@fractalMD A, B, C
ALWAYS
BE
COFFINING
@@JimLeonard YOU GET IT
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"Coffins are for closers" killed me. I died after that. I'm a zombie now.
Everyone's talking about ChatGPT, but this thing was peak AI
The PEAKEST
I think my Avon beauty session went horribly wrong!! 😂
Seemed great to me!!!
Who at what marketing department decided this was The Thing to develop. Including that 'processing' melody. Fantastic!
Some genius, clearly!
10:38 oooh nice Chucks. :). And yeah leg warmers should come back. Obvs.
We need them!
I love when companies decide beeping at various pitches is the sound of a computer thinking. For a while one of our internet service providers we used at a remote office would play a very similar sound if you called in to have the modem remotely rebooted. “Boop boop beep boop beep bop beep. Your modem has restarted. Please call us back if issues persist”
8:11. “This is Amy’s…entire life story!”
If there are no sounds then nothing happened! 😂
This is hilarious!
Hooray!
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@@fractalMD 😘
Awesome Show
Thanks!
This is crazy... lol
I think Amy's got the eyeshadow game down to art yo...
That 80's rainbow look is AMAZING!!! ROFLMBO
And that "goth version"... my emo friend is gonna LOVE THAT!!!!
WE ARE NOW A BEAUTY CHANNEL
@@fractalMD Well beautiful women with beautiful minds... kinda saw this coming. ;)
@@NeverlandSystemPunkGirlChloe Inevitable, really. 🤣
@@fractalMD So like the thing I love about your channel is I'm like young enough to NOT know what a ton of this stuff is and you explain it so well and without like making ppl who don't know and don't have that nostalgia feel dumb or lost.
@@NeverlandSystemPunkGirlChloe That makes us so happy to hear!
Hahaha, that's some hilarious retro fun there! A nice video to see after LGR did a video on this, "blasting" himself with the colorimeter, uncertain how it worked (but that lead to some great informative and hilarious comments). 🤣
Hilariously LGR was present when we got this puppy.
@@fractalMD LOL
Totally RAD!!!
Bad to the bone
11:24 GOTH PALLET!!! Fire up the Cure and light some candles.
Hell yes
That was Halloween Gold. No wait... Orange, Halloween Orange. But then nobody will get the ref... *sigh* ... It was great.
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9:14 no whammy no whammy no whammy STOP!
Big bucks!
2:17 I still need Veronica to explain color pallets and makeup to me. lol.
AND SHE CAN!
@@fractalMD ehm. Paging @Veronica Explains.
15:52 YAS!!!!
Daily wear
That was hilarious! Great work.
P.S. I'm still trying to get my T3200's to work properly.
It's a struggle!
11:13 the BIGgest reveal evar! the Goth color chart y'all!@!!
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9:56 I knew to expect something, but that was not it and really caught me by surprise! :D Like walking around in a dark house, then opening a door to a room where the lights are on... :D Loved the beep boop -noises the computer made, I guess those are so the salesperson can say to the prospective customer "One moment please, the computer is thinking" :D The Goth Friends potpourri was brilliant! I need to ask Bil what his list said about the hair, so I can prepare for the loss of my own... :P
You know ppl are like, if it isn't beep booping, then how can anything even be going on?
@@fractalMD The WOPR was beeping and booping all time while calculating the scenarios, surely any computer in a "lesser" (with all due respect to ABV, it can be an important computing job, but measuring make-up palettes is a bit less important job than simulating global thermonuclear war... :P) job would do so too!? :D (English is not my mother tongue, so apologies for using silly words instead of ones that should be there, mainly: important, I feel like that should have been something else, but can not figure out what)
Your words are flawless. Never change.
@@fractalMD I'm not sure if that's sarcasm or not... :D Thanks, and looking forward to the next video! :)
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Wow that was unexpected 😂 You've made my day.👍
Hooray!
I just played this video to a friend of mine who did not believe it existed.
Hahahaha
I like how 8 bit show & tell just did his nails :)
Also, I might be showing my age here but I liked you guys as 80's chicks better than goth :)
Robin is just the best!
I could have just done my nails??! :O
@@BilHerd Looool
dammit I kind of want to do the 80's look (just no 80's hair) now. lol
DO EET!
I'm 27 seconds in to this and am virtually convinced there are half-full glasses of alcohol just outside the shot. 🤣
We don't even need that to act like this!
@@fractalMD Ha! You guys are adorkable. Keep up the good work. 😁
@@f15sim aye aye
I've never clicked on a video so fast in my life. PS, I can't help but notice you're getting close to another power of 2, I hope there's a good treat picked out.
We have... ideas. 😊
My mouth just went dry. Should we be worried? BTW I never said the box wasn't a glitter bomb, it just never came up @@fractalMD
@@BilHerd😂😂😂😂
T-1000, advanced prototype? None of that T-800 organic tissue over metal endoskeleton rubbish. Seen one on EEVBlog. Fun makeover time and beepity-boops! :)
Skynet!
@@fractalMD of course! :)
Jesus, this think seams to escape from a 60 Batgril comic book. Hahahaha
So very cool
10:11 why am I having 80s flashbacks right now.
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It’s truly amazing just how much BS marketers will throw at something to get people to buy a product. But I do like the upgrades you made.
You are so right.
Send it to David Plummer LOL...
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LMFAO this was hilarious! Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome!!
16:15 I feel like y’all should be hosting the late night horror flick.
Oooh, I'm in.
Lightning earrings rock
You know it!!
Subscribed! 😂
Thx!
17:56 Bil Hurd!
This man loves a wig!
@@fractalMD and a C128
and I TOTALLY have a scope!!@@fractalMD
@@BilHerd That's a thing I totally have!
Richmond's out of his room!
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I was unprepared for the 'avonification'. What this makes me wonder is... you had this jewelry and clothing *on hand?* The little 'beep, boop, bleep, bloop' had me rolling.
There might have been a side quest to Spirit Halloween store.
As an elder goth, I approve.
**bows**
Great work! Maybe further mod the sw to make the bleep bloops a minor key.
Or a straight up dirge
You now need software on that computer to print your Ultra Cool fake ID’s! 😂😂😃👍
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That is really neat did not know that Avon computer existed.very slick set up great video I Laughed so hard. Hey you can wear that cool make up for the 12 hour Halloween stream Oct 29 Hope you can join
Right? When we spotted it in Jim's basement we were like, what is THIS?
I wonder if Avon ever issued updated floppies with new products or to keep up with new fashions ? Or are Avon stuck in the late 1980s forever ?
Excellent question
Have to be honest - I don't hate the rad colors :D
I mean, they are RAD by definition. It's true.
So, do you actually know how this thing was used? I would assume that Avon reps would lug it door-to-door or take to the makeup & perfume counters that were a part of every major department store back in the day. Regardless, great stuff, as always!
That's the thought. It's so heavy to just carry around!