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.

 @MrsGrindah

We used to phone Radio One from the phone box and ask them to play made up songs like Suck My Plums by Mary Hinge!

@dartitus yes I remember helly Hanson coats!
I also remember the phase of boys wearing either a red or blue berghaus mera peak!
Although they were better than the coats with the goggles in the hood that everyone started wearing a few years later

Going clubbing in Cream and various other very cool places.

De rigeur was basically hot pants, bikini or halter neck very tight, very low top. Masses of glitter gel or body glitter from Barry M, with a streak on the cheekbones.

And yes, furry yeti boots. In a club. With the bikini wear and glitter....though they were a lot easier on the feet than the killer heels.

Looked the shizzle 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Got a lower back tattoo 🙄

I used concealer as foundation. All over my face.

I used to pretend to wear my cycle helmet to my mum but just it strapped to my bike and not my head

I used to curl my hair with a pencil

I used to wear buffalos as my school shoes. Hideous

I had a stupid tiny shoulder bag as my school bag with the rest of my crap in a Morgan carrier bag

I had a necklace that said sexy in pink diamanté. Thought I was so mature and sophisticated

I had playboy jewellery. Lovely.

I had all the FCUK t shirts. How risqué I thought to my 15 year old self.

I'd pretend to be thick as mince as it wasn't cool to admit you actually liked school, your teachers or reading. My friends were very surprised when I got fairly decent GCSEs

I stole the wine and biscuits from my grans church. I still feel terrible about that.

@AbbyNormal yep! My biggest regret is my 90's eyebrow over plucking. I wish they'd grow now

Voted Labour

Wore a Felix cat collar as a bracelet

Wore my brothers massively oversized shirts for school. They were a lovely grey shade (not envy)

White socks over black tights (why?!?)

Dyeing my lovely natural dark blonde hair pillar box red

Knock off Kickers, Kenwood puffa jacket and Nike t-shirt the fruit of the loom logo was on the label and underneath where they'd put the Nike logo on the front. My mum used to get them from down the market

Having no sense of clothing style or size. Wearing trousers far too small for me or t-shirts far too big because I didn't have a clue. Like squeezing into size 10 trousers and size 18 top when I was a size 12.

Having my ears pierced multiple times and having to remove them at school then having them done again when they closed up and then having to remove them again...

I had an ingrown toenail for years and just battled on with it. I was 22 when it was removed I remember one girl in our year always got out of PE with that as her excuse and I never thought to bloody use it! I was so thick!!!

Really believing I was going to meet Leo DiCaprio and marry him. I'm so glad I didn't. He's like a poor mans Jack Nicholson look alike now.

I started out in the popular group in school and hated it by the end of year 8. I was poor, from a council estate and definitely lowest in the pecking order. I couldn't, and didn't want to, keep up with the inane chatter about boys, the expensive (for me anyway) fashion, the parties where people got drunk that I wasn't allowed to go to. I ended up in a very geeky group and I remember one of the group was desperate to fit in with the popular crowd and it was so cringe worthy to watch. There was definitely a them and us divide and a lot of subtle bullying. I'm really glad to hear that kids mostly don't do the social clique thing.

Used yellow highlighters to 'colour my hair'.

Cut my own hair. Some v bad fringes.

I went to a convent school and had to wear a blazer and a straw boater in the summer. We also wore white knee-high socks. On the way home we would tug the waistband up so our skirts were really short . We were very identifiable and the school often got reports of Notre Dame girls looking like tarts with really short skirts. We must have been a dirty old man's dream

1970s teen telling my mom i was staying at my friends and she told her mom she was satying at mine, no mobile phones to check up and no landlines either, and just both of us staying out all night usually ended up at a party somewhere as there was always one, realise now how unsafe that was

My FCUK T-shirt. It was white with tiny black writing so that it was subtle which made it extra cool, nothing too out there and tasteless

Wore them ridiculously Ugly chunky bottom platform type school Shoes that I couldn't walk in:

Died the 2 front bits of my Hair blonde.
Having a Ponytail/bun with 3 scrunchies around it, 2 plain one patterned.

Not wearing a Jacket.

Not tying up laces but tucking them in.

No matter how heavy my backpack was I'd only wear it with one shoulder strap.

Burning my initials in my school ties

Does anyone else remember those Avril Lavigne type skater combats from the early 2000s that had all those clips and ribbons hanging from them? Can't find any pics of them online now so must've been a short lived trend (for everyone except me).

I once snuck out and walked the whole way into town from my very rural house with my best friend at 3am to buy cigarettes from the 24hr. It was pitch black and about a 6 mile each way walk 🙈

I remember school friends blowing the ink out of pens onto the end of their hair to colour it. And I gave one girl a tattoo using a proctracter pin and Indian ink

Used Sun-In daily
Used to set alarm for 5am so if my hair didn't go right I had the to wash and style it multiple times (when it did go right I would have hours to wait for school)
Wear ridiculous black leather necklaces with symbols I didn't understand
Travel 12 miles on a bus to buy a packet of cigarettes then have to scrape together the money to buy them (much easier if I hadn't just spent the cost of them on the bus fare

@sneakypinky -are you my DD? She did all of these things....

My dad would go nuts as all three of us would leave straighteners or curling irons on!

Jeans tucked into diamond socks.
Facial foundation worn on legs for PE day.

Tried those home waxing strips for the first time on my bikini line. I had to persuade my younger sister to come and peel them off me veeery carefully because I was too embarrassed to ask my Mum for help.

Used to skive off school on Thursday afternoons and go into town to buy joss sticks, tie dye stuff and candles.

There was a fashion at our school for tying the school tie wrong end up so the thin end hung down your front and the correct thick end was tucked away!

Yep same at our school. It was not OK to wear the thicker part of the tie properly unless you were a "dweeb" (I was one up from a dweeb, not popular but wore my tie the right way 😂)

I was not one of the cool crowd but my best friend was so I didn't get picked on thankfully by virtue of being her friend

We used to follow boys home we fancied. CRINGE.

I used to stick metallic stars on my face near my eyes with vaseline!

I've not RTFT but will, just wanted to contribute before I forget.

I was a try-hard, I wanted to be popular but also hard and a rebel.

I did everything to get into trouble but still got good grades at GCSE. I've no idea how. I think the phrase "needs to apply herself" was coined for me. I could have been a heart surgeon or rocket scientist if I had applied myself instead of being an utter twat.

I smoked, drank, snogged any boy that showed interest and was rude and sullen to all my teachers.

I signed up to do the DofE award in y11. Mum gave me money to spend on food and I spent half of it on alcohol (MD20/20 and Asdas own white paint stripper rum. Did the first walk, pitched a tent, got wankered and ran around Delamere absolutely wasted eventually coming to in a field... With a bull.

Fucking idiot. I cringe now.

Fashion wise, I had the Umbro football manager coat and I LOVED IT. As well as every Man Utd shirt I could buy with my babysitting money. Also had to have Ellesse trainers and Blue Ellesse jumper.

Had to make sure my hair was tight back in a high ponytail, with two perfectly straight pieces of fringe at either side of my face.

We used to follow boys home we fancied. CRINGE.

We used to follow/stalk our crushes inbetween lessons, around the corridor one way system! It was worth a detention for being late if they happened to turn around and look our way.