to Ask your terrible advice from the 1990’s - early 2000s

[MyKingdomForACaramel]

Aibu to ask you to cast your mind back and give the advice you would have in the late 90’s

Here’s mine...

Want to lose weight? Eat what you want during the week and take recreational drugs at the weekend, it’s like the 5:2

Have frizzy hair! Not to worry, some John Frieda, and iron, and a brown paper bag will sort it.

Worried your dp has been faffing you around and cheating? If he says @you were on a break” all is ok

Not sure if this has been mentioned but 'tooth jewels' basically plastic diamantes that were glued to your teeth - just why?!

Blue mascara

Platform shows - I still have a bloody callous on my foot from those!

@Namechanger001

Jane Norman?

@BiBiBirdie immediately made me think of B*witched with the double denim!

This thread is amazing, I was a teen in the 2000s and so much of this is resonating 😂I assumed Jane Norman bags for PE we're just a local thing! 😂

Lava lamp in my bedroom
Lip gloss til your hair sticks to it.
Crushed velvet spaghetti strap dress with a t shirt under it. Pair with doc marten 8 hole boots.
Spritz self liberally with Red Jeans.

Was anyone else a fan of a shrug...you know those sort of cardigan things which stopped at armpit level

@formerbabe yes! That's it Jane Norman- oh you were well posh round our way if you shopped at Jane Norman. Oh and shrugs were the best. I'd still wear one now I'm older and upper arms aren't as nice.

Impulse vanilla set of three to change the smell ever so slightly but also just as sickly sweet. Loved them. 😂

Pint of DIamond White cider and Castaway was called Blastaway and was £1.30 in Leeds Uni bar circa 1992.

White musk, combats and school shoes. The dream.

'All men hit their wives'

He's bullying you and making your life hell at school because he obviously fancies you.... Yeah i think he's just a prick really

Early 80's
Wear a Choose Life t shirt and George Michael will be sure to spot you at the gig and fall in love.
Wear a gold prom dress and stilettos and Phil Oakey will be sure to spot you at the gig and fall in love.
#sadtimes

So...! Body spray is the best to wear and it's cheap in super drug. We bought tons of that stuff when we would go shopping after school on a friday

@nickEcave Pint of DIamond White cider and Castaway was called Blastaway and was £1.30 in Leeds Uni bar circa 1992.

And you only needed one 😂

Oh and chokers and hair glitter
And those hair bands that were like fake hair but bright colours and spike with glitter

A bit earlier than dates - stick plastic bags on the wall to be cool

Benetton
Sports Girl

Trouser skirt

Was anyone else a fan of a shrug...you know those sort of cardigan things which stopped at armpit level

Bloody love a shrug - the perfect thing for 40+ bingo wings!

Ooh Salon Selectives was such a cool and novel idea, I was sure using the correct combination for my hair would probably make it look amazing. That and henna

Enough lipgloss to stick my hair to it when it was windy (all the time in Aberdeen), a choker and a bodysuit with dubious jeans, good to go

Impulse vanilla set of three to change the smell ever so slightly but also just as sickly sweet. Loved them.

You got ripped off - it was only a quid in my union bar!

Damn it, I copied the wrong comment - my reply above was meant to be to “Pint of DIamond White cider and Castaway was called Blastaway and was £1.30 in Leeds Uni bar circa 1992.”

Wells hair mouse in the brightest red. Looked like head had been bled on and god help you when it rained.

Twists in your hair secured with tatty plastic butterfly clips.

Shag bands. The more you snapped the more people you had shagged.

Nail piercings. Loved a good nail piercing.

Buffalo trainers or knock off ones.

Heeled plimsolls or heeled jelly shoes. God I must have been an icon!

The skirt over trousers look...urgh
Carrier Bags for school - Jane Norman/Miss Selfridge/Oasis/Warehouse
At my school it was all about the Burberry scarf, Louis Vuitton brightly coloured bags and pashminas.

Bloody hell, this takes me back. It was the watermelon breezers that got me reminiscing.... What a luxury to make those idiotic choices in relative privacy. There’s no way my boys would get up to half the shit I did without it being captured for posterity. The 90’s were something else..