Early Noughties teen mag ridiculousness

I've still got the not-so-lurid-anymore turquoise detangling comb that was free with MIZZ when I was 14. I seem to remember that all the mags were obsessed with holiday romances every summer...

That if you suck a lollipop it will subconsciously make the guy you fancy think about you sucking something else. I think this was in mizz.

Late 80s, I remember being advised by one of these magazines to not blow in a blow job.

There is a great Instagram account called 90steenmagazinearchiveuk that I really recommend for those that are nostalgic

I love this thread! I remember in the ‘agony aunt’ section of a teen girls mag, someone had supposedly written in to say that they’d stuck a pen ip their vagina to see what it would feel like and the lid had come off inside them and alas, they couldn’t fish it out 😬

I was in a photo love story in Jackie, how embarassing. The ribbing I got at school for it. I played 2 different people in the story, basically had to wear a hat to look different. Luckily the internet didn't exist in those days.

Oh god this is bringing back memories
I remember carrying out the logical advice of buying yourself a valentines card and signing it from the boy who never notices you and you have a crush on.... the plan
was that you would find the card in your school bag and word would get back to the boy in question and he would approach you, you would both have a giggle about it and he would fall helplessly in love with you
It didn't work 😶

I got £50 for sending in an embarrassing story.

I had gone into town shopping with a friend, ah the days of Tammy, and Woolworths and Semi-Chem!
We both needed the toilet, I went in the stall and did a big poo but it wouldn't flush, I was mortified but figured my friend would be in another stall so I came out, but she went in right at the back of me. Poor 13 year old me nearly cried!

Years later I bumped into her on a night out and mentioned it, she laughed her head off and admitted the reason she pushed past me to get into the stall was she needed a poo! 😅

“Be a smartie! Use an empty smarties tube to hide your tampons in! Just don’t forget and offer a sweet to your crush - cringe!”

80s teen My Guy and I loved Blue Jeans once I was 17 I was buying the first issue of Just Seventeen loved it, told me stuff I never got from the woman who brought me up.

I never read the teen ones but I did read my mams ones like 'More' (I think it was called that).

Considering I was a virgin I knew way too many wierd and wonderful sex tips (some of which as an adult I'm now sure are pretty impossible unless you're an extreme contortionist lol).

Most of this passed me by - I went straight from Horse and Pony magazine to Metal Hammer and Kerrang!

The best freebies were the lip glosses and the hair springs that cost more than my pocket money in Claire's Accessories.

80s teen here.
I was a goth and should have been sitting reading MNE for light reading after an afternoon studying Marxism. (like my gothy mates)

However - alongside my Sisters of Mercy, Cult and Bauhaus i loved a bit of Kylie Minogue and a copy of Jackie every now and again. All on the quiet of course

For some reason i vividly remember reading about Kissing A Boy And How to Handle It When It Happens.

How to look into his eyes and tilt your head - yeah ok .... gently let you lips touch his, then when it's over lay your head on his shoulder and close your eyes ...

really? Even if you're in the middle of West Ken high st?

And - pay close attention - wear a fluffy jumper. Boys like to touch and stroke soft things ....

Sigh. Once again, a clash with my goth vibe

Diary of a Crush! Wasn't there one where they all went to a music festival and she ended up in a fancy hotel at the end - I think she'd made the rich boyfriend pay for it.

I was a teenager in the 80s. I just used to read Smash Hits, then NME. I wasn't in the slightest bit interested in silly articles about make-up and boys.

However: Just 17 etc might have been a pile of poo, but I'd still rather have that than the pressure on teenage girls now. My youngest DC is 16, and I don't envy her growing up with social media, 'small waist/pretty face/big ass' messages, etc, etc, etc.

Compared to that, tips for how to apply your pink and brown eyeshadow seem pretty harmless.

Mammy- that story about the locked room scared me for years! I would carry my baby sister upstairs with me if I thought no one was up there so I wouldn’t be on my own!

One ‘true’ story I remember (I think it was in shout) was about a girl who was mean to her sister and then her sister had a car accident and died and the girl felt guilty about the last things she had said to her. I remember feeling devastated for the girl. to this day, I hope it was made up!

I’ve just thought of something else! I remember in Cathy’s problem page once a teenage girl and her boyfriend had been caught by her little sister, he was taking her bra off. The problem was the boyfriend was due to go on holiday with the girlfriend’s family and didn’t want to tell his parents why he was no longer allowed to go. Cathy’s sage advice? Lie and say he was just tightening the straps for you!

I remember the agony aunts from Jackie mag they were called Cathy and Claire. In the early seventies my friend chucked her bag at me from the loo in a disco to hold it for her. A letter from Cathy and Claire fell out and I read it. The reply said something like “Well, she is obviously not your best friend if she is chatting up your boyfriend”. OMG I had just chatted up her boyfriend and realised she had written about me!!!

Slightly off topic but all this 90s nostalgia made me think of this... heaven for me at about 14 would have been a copy of sugar magazine, a bag full of sweets from the corner shop and watching this... good times... (not sure if this link will work, apologies if not!)

Loving this thread! Loved shout, mizz was a bit shit! Loved more and sugar!

Still read company, bliss, Cosmo until I was about 23 I think

I remember getting a book of scary true stories from shout and one was about a girl who's friend ended up locked in a room and she screaming but the door wouldn't open and her friend refused to even talk about what happened in the room! And other about a girl who's Walkman (remember them?) started playing a demonic sounding voice randomly whilst she was listening to her tapes. I didn't wear headphones for years after that!

Author Mike Gayle used to be an agony uncle for Bliss magazine.