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.

I also used to have a very fetching t shirt that said "von bitch" instead of "von dutch"

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My son goes to the same school I did and it is still non uniform but strangely it isn’t a thing these days. Kids wear what they want with no problem

Do they? Most teens I know still look like wee clones of each other.

Decided to trim my own fringe before work experience... it was one inch long before I got it straight and stuck up like a hedgehog!

Wore these horrific wedge sandal things all winter. They fell apart so I sellotaped them back together (!). My feet were always so cold.

Hitchhiked in to town, getting in to cars with strange men!
Swam in rivers
Walked home alone in the middle of the night in some very dubious parts of Birmingham.

I actually can't remember what shoes I wore as a teenager. Probably ballet flats, they were in then.

Tried to skateboard to impress a guy and I ended up going arse over tit. Mind you he did marry me 13yrs later so maybe that wasn’t so stupid 😂

Omg I totally forgot - my best friend and I agreed to meet up with some random weirdo we met in an Internet chatroom.

Luckily we bottled it and didn't go but can you imagine!!!

delatron I regularly walked home after nights out on Broad street 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Hair scraped back with tons of green cheap gel from the chemist.

Dream matte mouse the wrong shade

Foundation on lips covered in gloss

Adidas poppers

Mizz magazine

MD 20/20 and Lambrini -not envy

I remember there being a fashion to wear your tracksuit bottoms tucked into your socks. What the actual. We must have looked ridiculous.

Wearing make up such as very dark eyeshadow and purple lipstick thinking I was a total trendsetter.

Using sun-in on my very dark hair hoping to go a gorgeous blonde, only turning a terrible dirty yellow colour and having to let it grow out.

@Hairglitter not to the extent it was in our day. What I mean is in the 80’s you got teased if you wore low range stuff. You should be wearing high end stuff like Benetton or Ocean Pacific. Now they wear anything and don’t get teased. The thing that you don’t see nowadays is the different ‘tribes’. In my day there were the run of the mill kids, a few mods, goths, psychobillies. All kids look the same now which is a shame.

Wore a choose life t shirt aka wham!

Plucked my eyebrows to oblivion and even now in my 30s they refuse to grow properly.

Wore a vest with "Psycho Bitch" on it when I was 14 because I thought I was deep and angsty. My DM actually bought it for me which surprises me even more in hindsight.

Wore ballet flats that were so worn out my toe stuck out. Wouldn't wear a coat in winter because I hated my coat. Wouldn't take my jumper or scarf off (to hide the collar) in summer because I only had a blue school shirt and the cool colour was white.

I used to sit on the floor in the bus station. Minging!

@Chuffingchuff oh my god, Sun-in! I still have PTSD from using that 😂

I cut my own hair, used a carrier bag for school, wore a striped grey nightdress as a long top over jeans, and for a while wore a fetching fawn brown granny hat.

I used to cut the shoulders off all my t shirts as well

Had playboy clothing and bedroom age 11 didn't have a clue what it meant , don't know why my parents allowed it I'd be mortified if one of mine asked for that

Several girls I went to school with got playboy bunny tattoos

@Chuffingchuff

Sun-in! Christ, that stuff stripped the goodness out of your hair, didn’t it?

The trackie bottoms tucked into socks was called ‘pin tucking’ and was an absolute must in the early 90s

@Hairglitter i was never allowed tattoos or piercings thank god ! Although a lot of the girls in my year had those hideous piercings above the lip on one side - not envy

In my emo phase I was DESPERATE for a lip piercing.

Platform shoes for school. Hideous chunky things!!

Carried my folders in a River Island carrier bag.

Wore bodysuits with jeans, and pulled them down to emphasise my tits. Particularly when at the fair to try to impress the lads who worked the waltzers 🙈

Wore bodysuits with jeans, and pulled them down to emphasise my tits. Particularly when at the fair to try to impress the lads who worked the waltzers 🙈

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