Early Noughties teen mag ridiculousness

my auntie used to always pass her copies of more onto me from when i was about 13 - my mum would have gone bonkers if she’d have known! when i was 15 and just started having sex with my boyfriend i used to try and do the positions of the week to impress him some of them were much harder than the pictures would have you believe! i used to love bliss and sugar too. me and my sister used to make up embarrassing stories and send them in to win prizes. we actually won a few times, i think the stories included accidentally flashing a crush and farting in a crush’s face during a play fight 😂

I remember it was using egg white to make a face mask (which I also did for years...)

Now you've got me poking about the internet looking at vintage frint pages from the 70s (when I should be working! Such memories! Jinty was actually quite weird, it was quite sci-fi orientated...

Great story!!!

i used to collect bliss! aw those were the days!

Why didn't they tell you, when giving you the "egg white will make your hair shine" thing, to use cold water to rinse???

I remember, on the advce of either Tammy or Jinty, putting lemon juice on my nose every night for probably a couple of years, to try and get rid of my freckles (it didn't work).

What was the one that was written entirely in teen speak, and there was always a quiz to find out if you were a sassy and sussed chickstrel? Bliss or Sugar? Good times.

All the beauty tips were about Rimmel makeup, wearing two slip dresses at once, and mini hair clips in Johnny Depp’s favourite “freshly washed hair” and every now and then they’d give away a free shiny mini backpack.

The 90s were the best time to be alive for a teenager. I will fight anyone who pretends otherwise.

They would use "boyf" for "boyfriend" and "Crimbo" for Christmas, which I hated.

They got me drinking tons of water though.

I used to love More, Mizz and Just Seventeen. I can't remember which one this gem came from, but I remember an article about kissing, and they described French kissing as 'both open your mouths and swirl your tongues round and round each other like slugs mating' 🤣

I just remember there always being pictures of the Bay City Rollers in them...they really puzzled me for some reason...

Just 17, and in particular Melanie McFadyen's problem page, gave me the relationship and sex education sorely missing from my upbringing.

And for that, I say thank you to them!!

I go a bit further back, I was a teenager in the 1970s. In the country where I lived then we could only get Tammy and Jinty (shipped from the UK), my granny bought them for me every week. A lot of things in there were quite UK-centric and I didn't understand everything, but I LOVED them!

I went to the Clothes Show Live and had my photo taken with Dan Corsi - he featured in just about every teen magazine at the time

It's Cosmo's fault that I use tampons. They had no hesitation in writing that pads are disgusting and smelly and any 'real woman' would use Tampax. I went straight out to buy a box.

They also had a lot to answer for with my expectations of my first sexual experiences which sadly did not live up to Cosmo's promises. I remember trying to suggest we try coital alignment technique with my uni boyfriend which just resulted in puzzlement all round.

It really is how much influence these mags had. All my friends read them. It was your only source of j go on stuff you couldn't ask your mum about pre internet

a steady boyfriend called Steve or Greg

who would pick you up on his motorbike

Wasn't there also Cosmo Teen or something like that? That always seemed very grown up and full of sex although it probably wasn't the case really.

I loved Shout! the most, but also read Sugar, Bliss, Heat.

The worst was when they used to show photos of famous girls and women and criticise their size, clothes etc. They could be really brutal!

My friend and I used to dare each other to write weird and made up problems into Cathy, Shout's agony aunt. We never actually did though.

Oh god I lived for Mizz magazine!!

I remember one issue they gave these free daisy anklet things. I was obsessed with it just a few bits of metal and a few plastic daisies but I was convinced it was so cool.

They always used to use the word 'parp' for fart on the embarrassing reads bit. Why? I have never met anyone who has used that word in RL.

I definitely remember More and 'position of the month' like as though any of us were having sex in any position! I think I was about 14-16 when I read it.

I also remember it featuring workouts regularly 'to tone up' and an excruciating 'are you too fat?' test which involved jumping up and down to see what jiggles and pinching fat on your thighs and stomach.

I started to read Jackie in the early 80s, along with My Guy and Blue Jeans, mainly for the Adam and the Ants posters that seemed to be in at least one of them every week. I remember poring over the photo stories and being desperate for a boyfriend (or a 'fella' ), and the thought of having a steady boyfriend called Steve or Greg was just too thrilling for words. A free gift back then was a once in a blue moon thing, not with every issue so it was a real cause of excitement and anticipation.

I remember sending a pic of my ‘Boyf’ into more magazine. Alas, he was not ‘better than becks’ 😂
I’m sure I still have it someone, I’ll have to fish it out and show him 😂

Someone mentioned "Judy" for pre-teens, which was the first I ever read. I found a link to all those comics recently:
girlscomicsofyesterday.com

I still have my very first annual, that I didn't understand the half of
It had a selection of sewing patterns to try...!