To wonder why creosote tans, blinding white teeth, false eyelashes and BIG hair....

[lazyhound444]

became the norm? I appreciate that not all young ladies adopt this look (my own DD being one of them) but I couldn't help feeling a bit skiffing through my DS's Instagram last night at the endless duck face pout selfies of young ladies he goes to school with who all look exactly the same because of this current "uniform". It just made me feel a bit depressed. I'm 48 but when I was young we had a bit more diversity and of course we were au naturel. AIBU?

[MrsBungle]

Just the fashion. I love looking back at my old photos. I was in the time of 90's ladette. There are many pics of me wearing very little at raves. Many pictures of me in cargo pants drinking cans of Stella. I look like a right nob in all of them.

[KatieScarlett2833]

Usual

[LolaDontCryOnDogTails]

It's fine to be individual, except they probably aren't that individual.
Just makes me laugh how many on here have these individual, confident and unique children on here.

I think because my mum will still tell you how I 'had my own style' but I just looked like the group I wanted to look like, still not though is it

My Favourite part of shopping is watching all of your kids trying so hard to be individual that they end up looking the same.
Mine are babies, but one day they will do it too.

Totally digging the 'tribes' description

[CaptainHindsight]

Stinking of patchouli.

Yeah, yeah.

Not weed at all.....

[LolaDontCryOnDogTails]

Poorly written post there ??
Boobing the baby, make out what you can because I will not re-write it.

[harriet247]

Ohhh this thread is about me preens
Well im a hairdresser so maybe makes a differebce but i like how i look, i know dd will probably howl when she sees how i dressed in photos when shes older but i just see it as looking how i like, i love pin up girl style so extensions for my hair and eyelashes are a bit of a necessity, same for kitten nails and a bit of a glow.
Just a shame that others turn their noses up because i would never do the same, i think the freedom to look how you want is one of the best things about being a woman and its fun to dress up and express yourself.
I was the same 10 years ago but sporting bright pink hair and goth clothes and shite loads of kohl. Just all part of the fun of being!

[squoosh]

KatieScarlett I wholeheartedly approve of such dedication to your look!

[Anonymai]

I didn't have a look too poor so automatically was jeans and t shirt girl. I coveted the girls with the punk and goth clothes though :')

[KatieScarlett2833]

Harriet, you go girl!!!

Fashion is fabulous, I'm all nostalgic -except for the New Romantic one
Sorting out your aspirational look was great fun when you could wear anything and still look fresh and young.
Now it's all "will this hide my muffin top?" and "will it go in the machine?"

[LadyBeagleEyes]

I was another of the loonpants and cheesecloth generation. I also had an afghan coat.

[fluffyraggies]

Skirt up round my arse, torn fish nets, tons of eye make up and, on special occasions, my similarly dressed best mate and i would get on the London Underground actually chained together at the hip.

However, despite all this i dont think our look was ever 'porny'. Titilating to some, definitely, but not porn inspired. Like the orange tan, tits out and false lash phenomenon feels.

[KatieScarlett2833]

Squoosh

The best part of going out to the dancing used to be the party we had getting ready.

6 teenage girls in various stages of readiness, discarding outfits, critiquing eyeshadow combo, spraying toxic levels of Impulse body spray (because we secretly hoped a handsome chap would give us flowers in the street), listening to U2 and drinking a cocktail from a soda stream bottle, filched from your Dads drink cabinet.

[Chottie]

BookofRuth - that is such a lovely memory of your grandad :) My dad used to polish all our shoes to a gleaming shine too.

[usualsuspect33]

I had an afghan coat. Was lovely until it got wet then even the patchouli couldn't disguise the smell.

[Chottie]

I was a flower child of the 70s all cheesecloth, Biba and Kensington Market. I wore Mary Quant and Biba make-up and a wanted to look like the girl in the Biba poster.....

[HazeltheMcWitch]

In a highly individual manner, my friends and I planned a trend of a dark/light lip - we did brown EYEliner blended into concealer (Hide the Blemish, natch) in the centre. Our teenage worlds were made when Our Trend swept our town and became The Thing, adopted by the vast majority of local female youths.

It may be relevant to point out that our town was tiny, so really this meant just a few other people copying us.

[TheBookofRuth]

Thank you Chottie, he was a lovely man. I miss him and my grandma every day.

KatieScarlett, I used to wear The Body Shop's Dewberry perfume in my early teens. To make sure I was wearing enough (!!), I would get a friend to stand in the next room, start spraying, and not stop till she could smell it in there!

[Lagoonablue]

I was kind of post punk indie kid and wore second hand stuff. Long overcoats and DMs, listening to the smiths. The I discovered rave and it was all trainers, t shirts, coloured jeans, skimpy dresses etc. my hair was a disaster all the time though. Too curly to be cool, no matter what era I was in.

There aren't enough tribes now imo. Kids are too label conscious too.

[MrsFlorrick]

In my day (gimmer), it was either bubble perm, blue mascara/eyeshadow and frosted pink rimmel lipstick dressed in Levi's jeans. And pref converse.

or the "Robert Smith from The Cure" look which was jean (pref ripped and black and slightly turned up), pointy black shoes, back combed dyed black hair, shirt (loose unbuttoned with a tank top under Neath) and the obligatory red lipstick.

I did perm/blue mascara thing from age 12 until 15 when I did the "Robert Smith from The Cure". Dyed my hair black (it went green and purple a couple of times) and adopted a suitably sullen attitude to go with the dark goth look and heavy makeup.

Disclaimer. I'm forrin likes and this was how it was "done" in continental Europe in the 80s.

[WallyBantersJunkBox]

I remember in 1983 a rule went into the School book - no tails.

Every single girl "on trend" and quite a few boys sporting short hair (long or curly on top) with a tail at the side, or the middle of the neck. Sometime dyed, sometimes plaited.

The headmistress started patrolling the corridors with her scissors.

It was the same time as people were taking in their school skirts so tightly they could barely walk, and wearing with oversized jumpers and cardigans, ankle socks and slip on shoes.

I look in it now as "the Rita and Sue" era.

[squoosh]

Did you ummm, do a lot of babysitting Wally?

[FrigginRexManningDay]

Theres 8 teenage girls in my kitchen at the moment.4 with the big hair, tanned, magic marker eyebrows. 2 with half shaved heads, lots of mascara (including dd) and two with ponytails, au natural.

Its just fashion a nd style. They will cringe in 10 years time. But I take big hair over pants around the knees on boys. Now that I don't understand.

[Burma]

I want an afghan coat hrumph. If I had been a child of the sixties I would have embraced it to the full! I did do all that wonderful nineties grunge thing and I was in my 20's then so no excuse that I was a teen !

[WallyBantersJunkBox]

Luckily no Squoosh!

The large brows are called "Scouse-brows" aren't they? After the tv program "Desperate Scousewives"

Yes the sideways peace sign is the Japanese trend.

Duck face won't last...it's filtered down to the "ordinary" folk now so will fizzle eventually.

The next photo pose to make it big will be the crouching over tiny waist grip.

[bottlenecker]

I think the sideways V is from the Japanese manga cute street fashion

web-japan.org/trends/09_culture/win_pop09082701.html