Teenager in the 90's

Aaaah, I miss the 90s more the older I get. I was 10 in 1991, so it WAS my teens:

I remember:
White Musk and dewberry
Lip gloss in as many flavours as possible - I kept two for years that had the power to transport me back soooo vividly to particular places and times...
Glittery make up and nail varnish - esp glittery electric blue nail varnish!

I remember wearing flared cords and velvet jackets and DMs.
Later lots of crushed velvet and droopy ankle length grey skirts
Chokers
Mood rings!!
Record bags with things painted on them in nail varnish.
Shopping in Carnaby street and Kenny market
Kickers in winter, paladiums in summer - with your socks folded down inside so they wouldnt show!
clumpy platform boots and sandals
Wraparound skirts, crop tops, bunches,
Those horrible pull-on black pinstripe trousers!
Bay Trading, River Island, Shelleys, Faith
Wearing your hair up bit with a central parting and two stringy bits of hair hanging down at the front!!
Heather Shimmer!!
Superlash mascara
Check shirts over Tshirts
Strappy vests and dresses that looked like nighties

Smileys, cannabis leaves, yin and yang and sun moon and stars over everything.
Everyone having loads of studs in their ears.
Trolls (or were they earlier?)
Beanie babies
Athena posters
Those 'balls' in the Hammersmith Palais etc
'Getting off' with boys with curtains!
Magic eye!!

Had forgotten Point Horror!!!
Sweet Valley High (smuggling my best friend's copies in the house as my mum disapproved!)
Judy Bloom's Foreever
Mizz, Bliss, Just Seventeen

The Big Breakfast
Mel & Sue
Heartbreak High
SUNSET BEACH! (The turkey baster, anyone???)
Dawsons Creek....aaaaaah. Pacey
Brookside lesbian kiss
Rikki Lake, Ellen, Roseanne
Saved by the bell
Bewitched
Genie in a bottle
Fresh Prince
TFI Friday
90210 - the proper version!

Mix tapes
Placebo
Pulp
Oasis
James
Savage Garden
Lightening Seeds
The Verve
the Shine albums
Wet wet wet!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Backstreet boys, Five
Oh my god...Girl from Mars, yesss, and Size of a Cow!
Supergrass
Blur
Suede, Shed Seven, The Charlatans... too many to name!

Being on the phone to my mates pretty much all my waking hours, even if I'd just seen them, or was just about to see them

Having an obsessive intense crush on someone or other every single day from about 1995 onwards!

Ohhhh, I want to go back RIGHT NOW!

Oh this has reminded me of so many things!

Our price record shops, I used to read nme and melody maker every week and order the top recommendations, it was when you had to just do it in trust you would like them.

Being obsessed with vinyl.

Making mix tapes for friends.

Britpop, Madchester, grunge, riot grrrl, brilliant guitar music.

Cherry red docs, I wish so much I had kept them.

Pizza hut and Macdonalds opening round here.

What everyone wants (west of Scotland chain of cheap cheap shops)

Back combing and hairs praying your fringe as high as it would go.

Meeting DH and dd1 arriving with four days of the 90s to go. Getting married. Doesn't seem possible it was all in Thr same decade that I started out in second year at school.

And black cherry Rimmel lipstick, it was the closest you could get to black in those days, and for green blue etc nail varnish you had to mail order from cosmetics to go

Oh i loved drazic and anita! Wish you could get the DVD's of it, I'd still watch it now.

Heartbreak High!! LOVED it. My fave was Drazic.
I spent an hour watching YouTube clips of it the other night...found this gem.

Impulse in the orange can - Free Spirit?
Heartbreak High. Bloody loved Rivers.
Suede and Pulp, and Jarvis being arrested...a couple of days before I saw Pulp live. Apparently Bob Mortimer was his lawyer?!
The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.
Being madly in lust love with my drama teacher.

Oh yeah River Island carriers were PE bags for the cool kids. I had mine in a bag from Oxfam :D

Pidgy -apparently that was universal. Am from Yorkshire & it was essential here as well, had to bring PE kit in a bag from a good shop - New Look, Body Shop, Etam, Warehouse, River Island, Jane Norman. (in that order!)

Feel really nostalgic now. Remember reading the 'Point Horror' books, I had one with a monster with big scary eyes on front. made the 'eye' look out the crack of my bedroom door once & scared my mum half to death!

chebella thought that was only our school!! You're not from the south coast?!

The carrier bags from River Island were extremely coveted - to be kept for taking PE kits in only!

Pretty much all of these :o Did you get the Delia's catalog in the UK? I coveted each and every page.

Omg love this thread!

I als reme,ber troll dolls!

Shell suits and over the knee socks.

Jungle also an underage raver , then ayia napa late 90's stevie hyper d rip , xtc,

Carharrt jeans
Big Beat Boutique in Brighton
This Life
The Girly Show with Sara Cox
Britpop
Crushed velvet clothes
Chokers
Retro 70s tracksuit tops
Adidas Gazelle trainers
20/20, Hooch and Two Dogs
Minx and More magazines
Bay Trading
Pilot
The beauty of Damon Albarn
Young British Artists
Ladettes
Sky magazine
Select magazine
Melody Maker
NME being a newspaper in black and white and costing 60p
TFI Friday
Rimmel Coffee Shimmer lipstick
Baby doll slip dresses with t-shirts underneath
Junkies Baddy Powder t-shirts from Hysteric Glamour
Just 17
Hyper Hyper
Kensington Market
Justine Frischmann being the coolest girl in the world
Boys in Kickers and gigantic Ben Sherman shirts
Fishing hats
Eurotrash
CK One and Fusion (cheap copy)
Superstar DJs
Babylon Zoo
Songs in Levi's adverts always going to no 1
Shell suits
Pete Sampras
Men Behaving Badly
Jarvis Cocker mooning at Michael Jackson at the Brits

Oh and hair mouse that died your hair like a red/maroon colour

Giant glass dummies! And rumours there were drugs in them?!!

Crucial crew- the stranger danger things they did at school
Look in magazine
Hipsters (bright orange CRINGE)
Tartan skirts with a big safety pin in
Cork wedges
Impulse (in a green can can't remember the name)
Hubba bubba tropical flavour
What's the story morning glory
Friendship necklaces that broke in half and you had half a heart each
Anklets
Special red cider - blurghhhh!!!!
Small backpacks
Berghaus (sp?)
Spray way
Pod clothing
Kickers platforms
Nike air max
Shelley's shoe shop
Tammy girl (mum never let me shop there!!)
Fido dido clothes (7up character)
Judy Blume books (the rude one!)
Point horror- the life guard!!

This Life....loved Andrew Lincoln
The Word
Lycra
Judy Blume Books

Demon Headmaster
Boyz 2 Men
General Levy
SW1 club
Sanctuary Milton Keynes
Black market Records
Drinking Canei and K
Buying singles (cigs) for 20p
Collecting flyers
Shoulder length hair on boys
My Girl at the Odeon
Paula Yates
The Word
Chris Evans
Five (Jay was delicious)
D'angelo
Choice FM
Nicking black cherry lipstick from chemist
Giant glass dummies
School trips to Wales
2 day relationships
Losing your 'V'
Take That splitting
River Phoenix dying
Tupac dying
Pilling off our nuts
Squat parties
Bbc1 afterschool program - girl could stop time by putting fingers together
Saved by the bell
Brookie lesbian kiss
Blue peter news
Ricki Lake
Mark One
C&a
Stevie hyper d
Pirate stations
Kool FM
Underage raving
Tina Arena - chains
Everything but the girl
MTV
Cable
Weekly bus-passes
Phone boxes
Leggings
When a stranger calls on TV
Working Girl on video
Catalogue shopping and paying mom back
Period pain
John Major
Doctoring daily scratch bus passes
5 hour phone convos
Pagers
Nicks trainers
Happy shopper
World Wrestling Fed
Hulk Hogan
Shakespeare Sisters
Jungle
Lazerdrome
Paula Danzinger books
Adrian Mole
Avoiding PE

We're the same age Cunty, I started Uni in 1990. loved having my 20's in the 90's. Clubbing in adidas samba and a 70's biker jacket while drinking Metz (beware the judderman when the moon is fat) and hair in bunches. Met dh in 1999 while jumping up and down to Song2. He only recently laid his James t shirt to rest.

The Fall, The Pixies, The Cure, John Peel. Watching wren and Stimpy and Beavis and Butt Head with a spliff.

Neds Atomic Dustbin, Cud, Teenage Fanclub and Birdland. I loved the 90's although I was pushing it at bit; I was 18 in 1990. It was great to be an adult in the 90's after being a child in Liverpool in the 1980's.

A dolphin tattooed on your hip (wanted one but parents would never let me). Wonder how many people still have them and haven't covered them up with something else.

My late nineties clubbing attire consisted of Airwalk trainers when they were really expensive, really baggy cords 2 sizes too big so they hung off my hips showing my pants; short, tight Tshirt with a tamagotchi motif and the words 'play with me' on it, no bra so the world could see my nipples, arm bracelets, chunky beaded choker, 2 small pigtails at the front of my hair, a bindi, too much purple lipstick and eye shadow and a punked out Shaun the Sheep bag.

I looked amazing.

Kato I had chippie trainers too they were navy and white and the white part glowed up in the dark! They were fabby for raves but they stunk to high heaven cause I didn't wear socks in those days lol!

I was 13 in 1990 and I remember saving my pocket money up to buy a crappy 2nd hand b&w tv so I could stay up late and watch The Word, Eurotrash and Cell Block H, then the late night horror film on channel 4 every Friday night! I also used to tape songs off the radio and mum still remembers the wail of anguish every time the presenter started talking before the song finished

Loved Heartbreak High and Fresh Prince. I'd spend all my money in those second hand bookshop type places that also sold candles, joss sticks, clothes such as velvet jackets and long black skirts and army surplus bags.

I had a blast at uni - the music was awesome - The Charlatans, Oasis, Shed 7, Green Day, Nirvana, Garbage and Ocean Colour Scene .

Getting all nostalgic now!