What magazines do teenage girls read now?

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There seems to be no modern equivalent of things like Jackie. I was looking for something for DD earlier when I got DS the Beano but it just seems to leap from childish to adult without the middle ground.

DD is 14.

Can we have a(nother ) thread about 90s/00s teen and women's mags??

I started with Shout at 11 or 12, then moved on to Sugar and Bliss when I was 13/14. More felt a bit grown up but by the time I was old enough for it, I'd outgrown teen magazines! Sugar and Bliss had the best free gifts - so many shimmery pink lipsticks!

For me it was blue jeans, my guy. J17 for a couple of years.

They don’t. My DD will read my Vogue occasionally, and she nabbed a couple of Grazias earlier, but I think just to cut up for a collage.

I loved magazines as a teen, still do in fact. All I wanted to do was write for them.

I was talking about Just 17 the other day.
Looking back it took a really responsible view to sex and teen pregnancy.

Instagram ! 😝

Aww, I remember giggling over position of the fortnight with my friends.
More was certainly an eye opener for us.

Cosmo, grazia, heat, etc

Oh my god, More magazine and position of the fortnight!! I ripped them all out and basically made my own karma sutra with all the pages. I still have it in fact hahaha!

I loved Sugar!

Reading The problem pages as an adult is hilarious. 'My best friend kissed the boy I fancy' was completely the end of the world at 13!

Loved sugar and bliss. They had such awesome tips and we’re the highlight of my Saturday as a teen!

Ha ha Fuck, hope it’s ok to call you Fuck .
I wish I’d kept them.
I remember More having really saucy stories too, it all seemed so grown up and risqué at the time.

I'm very old and in my day it was Jackie, Blue Jeans, Oh Boy and My Guy.

Not only J17, Bliss etc where I got all my sex and period info lol... but I LOVED Top of the Pops, Big, Smash Hits. All the music mags were life!!! It's a shame really, they bought so much joy!

God I remember buying shout and more magazine when I was a teenager.

My mum questioned me reading Just Seventeen because she thought it was for 17 year olds and I was 15 . I loved it and many other magazines. Those were the days!

I remember the glorious relaunch of Nova but it didn't last long. Does anyone remember a stylish prob 18-25 mag called Etc (etcetera). I wish I'd kept them. I still have some old issues of Cosmo, Honey and 19. I love the ads too. Aaah memory lane...

I loved Just 17. I remember one week getting a stack of blue & purple plastic bangles (the really thin ones) as a freebie and thinking I looked the bees knees (late 80s)! I also clearly remember my mum questioning if I wasn't actually too young to be reading it (c.14) as it was called Just 17 wasn't it for 17 year olds? I was terrified she was going to ban me from getting it like she banned ITV and Grange Hill

I used to love More magazine!

Early teens it was sugar/bliss then when I was about 15 more magazine...it always felt a bit more grown up.

It was the 'what's in your shopping bag' pages I used to love the most where they would pick 6 people out shopping and get them to try on what they had purchased and you could see all the different styles.

I actually had about 100 copies of more magazine saved until 2017 and I sold them all for £80. I wish I kept them now!

Not really anything like that any more.

Does anyone else remember Minx?? Launched in about 97 and only lasted about 5 years but it was really brilliant

Yes! I loved Minx.

I used to read Bliss and Sugar. I think Teen Vogue still exists.

Don’t let your teen touch Teen Vogue with a barge pole. It’s all ‘50 ways to become supercool about anal sex even if it hurts’

I loved J17 as a teenager. Teen Vogue is nothing like that .