stupid fucking things you did as a teenager...

[Hairglitter]

Not as in sex/drugs/alcohol or whatever but just general ridiculousness. I used to:

• leave my straighteners ON every morning so they'd be on ALL DAY just so when I came in from school they would be hot enough to re-straighten my hair immediately. God forbid I go twenty seconds with unstraightened hair. When I think of the fire risk!!!!

• Refuse to wear my coat even in 3 degree weather because it wasn't cool to wear your coat

• Carry my PE kit to school in a JD sports bag because that was the done thing, despite having a perfectly good rucksack

• At one point, teeny tiny little Nike "just do it" backpacks were in but they weren't big enough to fit any of your stuff in. So I used to carry on e about (which just held my pencil case and my keys) and carry all my books seperately in my arms

I can't wait til my son is that age and starts doing equally daft things.

Anita I'll defo be in farm foods then haha
My younger self would have died

Oooh.... so many on here I can relate to! did any of you do the thick black tights with squirly neon patterns? (Hopes not just self 😳) grolsch bottle tops in shoes for laces made popular by BROS.... so much hair mousse that your hair felt like twigs & resembled a birds nest. Rimmel eyeshadow pallets to go with your Heather Shimmer lipstick & blue eyeliner? Perfumes like exclamation! Or impulse body sprays in loads of different scents. Bath pearls from the Body Shop & White Musk scent.
Hanging out with the boys in bands & being part of their ‘crew’ so heavily into whatever group(s) they liked at the time.... I was always very eclectic musically anyway (or so i thought 🤦🏽‍♀️) one minute Pearl Jam/Sound Garden or Nirvana.... the next All Saints, Eternal & Cathy Dennis....

Impulse O2 body spray.

Was the dogs. I'd have bathed in the stuff if I could have.

Snorting crushed caffeine tablets from hollowed out biros!
Would wear close to nothing on nights out in the winter and would walk around the streets and beach or Bournemouth after Slinkys (an over 18 club, I was 14!)

Oh lord, the going with dodgy older boys/men I barely knew to even dodgier clubs at the age of 14/15. We used to go to one particular shithole that regularly got raided for underage drinking, except they clearly had a friend on the force who tipped them off in advance and they'd quietly advise us to get out via the back. And I wasn't even particularly wild. In a strange way remembering all the shit I used to get up to reassures me that my kids will make it through teenagehood safely too.

I refused to wear shorts in the summer. Drove my parents crazy. I just had such a complex. My spine developed a curve and I got called horrid names at school so felt I needed to cover up. I would have loved to wear tight tops and shorts but knew I would look awful. My mum decided I just needed to stand up straight . I'm 37 and still have it.

@wheresmymojo me too and I have kids now it looks horrendous, stretched and thicker in places, also deformed haha

Slather face in sudo cream for the pale and interesting look.
Drink anything from holidays ( oozo, peach snapps, any old shite)in friends' parents, drinks cabinets.
Pick bags of magic mushrooms and eat then like sweets when we couldn't afford drink.
Drain whole tables of half finished drinks ( Pernod and black).

School bags had to be full of biro quotes by Satre or a Russian.
Had Gorkys My Childhood very visibly protruding from school coat pocket.

All clothes from the 90's were - in my opinion - hideous!
Double denim.
Extra wide trousers.
Jeans with sequin butterflies glued on.
Tiny boob shaped handbags.
Ballerina shoes that fell apart if they got even remotely wet.
Faux animal hide trousers.

The worst for me - looking back - was hair crimpers. I'd sit for hours in my room at night crimping my hair so I looked like Hermione Granger in 100% humidity all day at school the next day.

Also my mum got me these silver, plasticy feeling trousers from the market that had a kind of apron type skirt attached. I wore them with a white top and silver, puffer body warmer thing. I thought I looked like hot sh*t in it but actually what I looked like was a bloody space ranger of some sort 🤦‍♀️

Then some sod went and decided blonde streaks was a thing to do to your hair.

Now days I'm - hopefully 🤞🏻 - pulling off the yummy mummy look but who knows?! 🤷‍♀️😂

My 90s fashion memories were daisy print belly tops, lime green vest tops with combat trousers abs platform trainers a la All Saints Abd Spice Girls, bomber jackets and kickers for school.
Ah the joys!

I wore these ... but in black 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤮

I used to wear three pairs of tights on top of each other so they weren't see through.

Dream Matt mouse on the lips as well as my face

JD bag as a pe bag

No coat, even when raining.

Would never eat the packed lunch my mum
Made me- so not cool

I would also say I was staying at my friends house over night but we would end up walking the streets all night or end up at a friends of a friends of a friends house