Early Noughties teen mag ridiculousness

I was a shout, sugar and bliss girl and then later NewWoman- love, LOVED them! For anyone interested, there's an insta page with all the 90s teen mags that were out at the time:

www.instagram.com/90steenmagazinearchiveuk/?hl=en

I read in one magazine that the etiquette for hair salons if you were getting your hair cut by the owner was to give the hairwashing girl a fiver and don't give anything to the owner, they don't expect tips.

Maybe that works in London, who knows, but it made my hairdresser into an enemy when I did it in my small town in the sticks. She deliberately gave me the worlds shittest hair cut when I went back.

And yes I am another one who remembers that infamous pink comb! And the model holding it on the front page-short blonde hair, I thought she was so cute and was thrilled when they did an article on her! Can't remember her name now though.

I am ressurecting an old thread but, I was a teen in the 90s and I was OBSESSED with some of the female models (yes realised I was gay much later on but at the time I found myself a bit weird and never told anyone about my fixations).

I remembered some of their names, and on the back of this thread googled one called 'Delline' and the names of some of the magazines she was in including 'Shout' and J17.
I learned she was a crack/heroin? Addict and had recently almost burnt down her house. Made me really quite sad!
Did anyone notice 'Shout' get much 'cheaper' in its content as the years went on?
I loved the makeovers. And just used to wistfully wish I was as attractive as the people in it!

One article that always stuck with me was “How did you know it was true love?” where a load of 15 year olds had apparently written in about their very serious relationships (which I as a lonely 12 year old took as gospel). But one of the answers was about the day she’d had really bad period pain and her “Boyf” had brought her paracetamol and lain on the sofa with his hand on her tummy which helped. So nice! I think some adults could do with such healthy relationship models.

In Shout magazine, scary spice had done an interview and was talking about how she keeps her skin so clear. She said if she gets a spot, she puts toothpaste on it to dry it up.
Being around 8/9 at the time, I had no spots but proceeded to put toothpaste all over my face and my eczema flared up soooo bad. My mum was gutted!

Omg @ddl1 how the hell did you remember all those stories!!!

I was in the Bunty! A picture of me as a little girl with pigtails, circa 1969!

I love Jackie and it was there a Blue Jeans? All the models in the photo stories in Jackie were from Dundee and Fife and a lot were my friends. I was DESPERATE to be in one!

Here's an example of one. My god I can just imagine my teenage daughter's face if she had to read a Jackie!! How innocent we were back in the 80s!! Hahaha

I loved Mizz, Sugar, Shout, J17 I distinctly remember getting free 'belly button jewels' from Mizz that you poked in your tummy button, the thought now makes me nauseous!

I also have a comb that I got free with Shout magazine. It saw me through upper primary, high school, University, post graduate study, teacher training, 2 house moves, a marriage and 2 children. It's still in my drawer, the best comb ever!

My mum was still buying me Bunty and Mandy (which I secretly looked forward to) in my early teens. The woman next door had 6 daughters and a few were a bit older than me. Every month or so they'd pass me a big box full of my guy, oh boy and Jackie. The one picture story that sticks in my mind was a girl seeing her boyfriend and her best mate looking very cosy staring into the jewellers window and she was devastated. Turned out her friend was helping him pick out an engagement ring as she knew her size and what she'd like. How she swooned into his big strong arms, whilst he told her what a silly girl she was 😂

I used to write for these mags. It was so fun. We'd borrow clothes from the fashion department to wear out, we'd get our make up done on shoots, we'd get tickets to openings and gigs... one long party

[quote Namechangerextraordinaire1]@OneMorePieceofCheese that made me giggle. Did you enlighten her?![/quote]
No! If we had told her that Position of the Fortnight was a sex manual for teenagers, I would have lost my reading material for the school trip!

I just hope she never wrote in offering work experience for the "position"...

@HebeMumsnet Fabulous!

@OneMorePieceofCheese that made me giggle. Did you enlighten her?!

I learned how to do blow jobs reading More. At 17 I had an older boyfriend twat who couldn't believe I had never done it before and had only read about it (when we then moved in together he banned mags from the house because he didn't want me looking at famous men with no tops on ). When I met DH, he couldn't believe his luck! (Had never had a bj by 42, can you imagine!?)

I loved those Zoey books. I remember they had faux handwritten pages and I changed the way I wrote my ‘s’ and ‘r’ to match Zoey’s as she was my favourite.

This thread has made me so nostalgic for the late 90s.

I had the entire series of those books about Zoey and her friends.

Zoey and Ben (the blind one) were brother and sister.
Claire and Nina were sisters.
Then there was Jake and Lucas (not related).
Zoey was going out with Jake.
Lucas was going out with Claire.
There was a car accident where Jake’s brother died and the books start with Lucas being sent away as he was driving. Zoey says goodbye and they have a “moment”.
Then Lucas comes back and him and Zoey get it on behind Jake’s back. It transpires that it was actually Claire that was driving the car but Lucas took the blame. There was a whole lot of drama!

I remember Mizz. I'm fairly sure I still have a free alice band from it in the dressing up box in my parents' loft. The type with all the plastic teeth. I still remember the feeling of it scraping my forehead as I put it on!

I also remember DM being very cross when I drew round my face in the mirror with lipstick to see what shape it was (things like oval, heart, circle, triangle etc.), which would tell me where the best places were to put blusher. It took a lot of Windolene to get it off.

When I was younger, I often used to get an animal-themed one. I remember a photo story about somebody who was looking after a friend's hamster and it escaped. She set a trap for it with a little ladder leading up to a bucket with food and bedding in the bottom. We were on holiday the following week, so I never found out whether she re-captured it!

We were on a school trip in 1996, reading More magazine and giggling over Position of the Fortnight, after GCSEs, playing Alannis Morisette on our Walkmans (just to ramp up the nostalgia)...

... our very straight-laced French teacher overheard us giggling about Position of the Fortnight and said she thought it was a wonderful feature. We stared at her agog.

She thought that Position of the Fortnight was about Work Experience for teenagers.

I started off with girl talk, moved to shout then miss. Then sugar before buying more.

These magazines taught me the facts of life but also added to my insecurities that I wasn't cool enough. I felt every other girl in country was kitted out in Tammy Girl and doused in body shop spray. I was wearing stuff from charity shops and saved up my money for spice girl impulse.

I remember the smashed up make up. My sister decided she was going to write a fashion article, she smashed up make up, of course it was mine 🙄