to think this is the worst school photo ever!!

[hilbil21]

Just going through old photos.... What a mess I was!! .... I'm a girl just to clarify lol

I had a big smear of green paint across my forehead. We must have just had a painting class. My mother was so cross. I remember her saying 'You'd think the teacher would have wiped her face.'

Both those photos are adorable!

I look like a slim, post hair transplant, Elton John in one of my primary school photos.

The only time my darling mum marched up to the school to give a teacher a piece of her mind was in 1972. The night before I had arrived home with the school photos. Mine was awful. I wore glasses you see, but the teacher had forced me to take them off (it will make you look prettier she said) resulting in a very unhappy 8 year old who looked on the verge of tears and who eyes basically looked in two different directions. For several decades after I always hated taking my glasses off in front of people (am over it now and can laugh about it but have never forgotten how upset my mum was for me). I also recall one of my sister, who had cut her own fringe right to the very top a few days earlier.

I was always covered in cold sores in my school photos.

My daughter asked who the two little boys are on a joint school photo of me and my sister! The 70's weren't kind to us kids.

The ice cream man for years said "thanks son" when I paid him the money! Is it too late to use parents for damage inflicted?!

Stealth

Your description had me curious enough to click through and whilst the Bounty picture is, erm, probably not the best they've ever taken what I'm more about is the picture of an oven (TELL ME that is indeed a new oven and not a result of some supersonic cleaning avoids looking at own ovens as things are growing in there ) and the cellar?

WTF is with the cellar pics??! It genuinely put me in mind of hose horrific stories where people are held captive for years!!!

But congrats on having THE best ever most random variety photo stream I've ever seen on MN (and on having VERY beautiful DC in the non-bounty pics!)

sue not use!

I don't have any photos of me thank goodness but my mother used to cut my hair using the pudding basin as a guide. Oh the shame!

I can see your baby stealth and I'm ever so curious!

I had a birthmark on my forehead as a kid so got called awful names. That's why no sharing of photos

Thank you je...I am grinning like an idiot at the compliment
yes I do have a very clean oven (and I suppose at th one about the kids :))
Oven was following application of oven pride
the cellar was off a website where you're meant to be able to see something spooky, I can't

Someone posted a pic last week of a group of us from my boarding house when I was 12. I actually had to ask if I was in the photo. I was that bad I didn't recognise myself. In my defence it was 1982 I was 12 and I had a leftover Lady Di hairstyle.

I'm so glad to learn I wasn't the only girl who looked like a boy in the 70s. I haven't got my school photos but I had very practical hair, not quite a short back & sides but near enough.

All mine and my brothers were always like that. Hair looked hacked and a total mess!

You must have been 80's suchan??

Have had a godawful day - am loving these.

Aww you'd make a cute boy op

I have one from when I was about 11/12 and I have a really dodgy perm and Deirdre Barlow specs. It hideous. When I was 15/16 and considerably cooler (arf) my mum tried to show it to my then boyfriend. I actually rugby tackled her to the ground in an attempt to stop her, injuring her and resulting in my grounding for a fair while!

I have some very dodgy ones too! Unfortunately, none scanned into my laptop so I can't share them with you! What a shame .

My school pics were pretty similar to the OP's. My dad used to make me get my hair cut at the barbers as it was cheaper

I remember a class photo of when I was about 9.

Other members of the class came up to me and said their mums had decided not to buy the photo because of my expression!

My mum bought it regardless

Mine were all awful. my Mother seemed to buy them whatever they looked like.
I presume they are all in her loft but don't really know.

Dad dictated our hair styles (styles?) and dad said that fringes were 'common' so my sister and I had our fine (thin?) hair scraped back from a centre parting made with a steel comb and our hair was plaited into pigtails. Old chinamen had nothing on us. At 12 we went away to school and got busy with the craft scissors....

Even now if I don't use a hairdryer my hair will fall into a centre parting. I think our scalps must have ridges down them.

Strangely, no pics remain of us from those days except out of focus ones taken on holidays.it was my job to clear the house after dad died and mum eventually went into a nursing home. I was ruthless.

I was a reasonably cute child but I always had a bloody wonky fringe!

You were all adorable little things, dodgy haircuts and all!