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

Fallen asleep with an auburn tint on your permed hair (meant to be on for 20 mins but its been 2 hours!) so that's its turned jaffa orange and you're going clubbing?? No bother! Chuck a black 'Glints' on top of it! The tips of your hair will be khaki but its dark, no one will see - until you have to visit your hairdresser the next day.

Shaving your legs with with Revlon Flex conditioner makes them really soft!

You can smoke dried banana skin!

Eyebrow pencil makes a great lip liner!

Shaving your legs with with Revlon Flex conditioner makes them really soft

I still shave my legs with hair conditioner!

Lads, no need to work out to get buff, if you want to impress the ladies in a nightclub just wear a sweater under your shirt.

I am loving these!

Heather shimmer!
Dewberry perfume!
Puffa jackets that belonged to your Boyf (the higher the pockets, the cooler you were)
Just seventeen
Six bottles of Hooch up the playing field on a Friday night
Smoking buckets (WTF?!)
Carefully blow drying your hair so that it made a large 'm' shape over your forehead.
Casual Kleptomania being the norm
Going to Bagleys night club and not worrying if you'd come out alive.

Not advice as such but goodness me, thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Dark plum eyeshadow doesn’t look as cool in real life as it does in the pages of Just 17. I makes you look like you’ve got two black eyes. (True story I did it for a school disco, another event trying to look cool and messing it up completely!)
Going out in tartan mini skirts so short that your coat covers the whole thing. Wearing chunky heel shoes with tartan skirt that make your legs look clumpy and ridiculous. Great days!

Electric Blue satin shirt!! I had one of those! I called it my pulling shirt as I always seemed to “get off” with someone whenever I wore it 😂😂

We called them Townies up in East Yorkshire as well.

@Donotpaintitgrey banana skins! Ha! I remember convincing my sister and her mates that you could totally do that when I didn't want them ponsing my weed.

marciagetscreamed I know one of the guys who was a DJ at Bagley's in the nineties.

I'm blue da ba Dee da ba daa

@itssquidstella I'm from the East Midlands and we had greebos and townies too I preferred greebos

Pangalactic - Castaway and Diamond White was known as a Blastaway. For good reason.

Early 90s student here. Taboo and lemonade is a perfectly acceptable drink. As is K cider. If you drink enough at lunchtime you will save your grant money by falling asleep and not going out on Saturday night.

Newcastle Brown can be drunk from the bottle

A long black cardigan is suitable for wearing to lectures, to the pub, to go clubbing and to sleep in

Never pay £2 for a pint. It's extortion

Diamond Blush was a classier drink than Diamond White.

And Dewberry for day wear, Anais Anais for posh. Or Sun Moon Stars.

To take out lots of debt. Loads of people (me included) treated our credit card limit as part of our income

All the girls at school wore foundation ar least 3 shades darker than their natural skin tone and for some reason only put it up to their jawline/chin, which resulted in an orange oompah-loompah face and a definite tide-mark where the neck began.

Hair was either pulled up really tight into a ponytail then slicked back with a full can of hairspray, or parted dead in the centre and tied up in a low ponytail again with a can of hairspray keeping it in place. Bonus points for two strands of hair down the front and preferably bleached blonde.

Bootleg trousers were all the rage as were corset type tops.

There were some legging-type jean things which finished halfway up your calf. Think they were called pedal-pushers of something.

Adidas popper trackies were a good look apparently, especially is teamed with an Adidas three-stripe jacket.

If you didn't wear kickers, were you even alive? My mum couldn't afford to buy me them, so no I wasn't cool.

Ellesse, Fila, Reebok, Adidas, Nike were the brands of clothes along with Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger.

Wearing baggy denim trousers with chains cos I was a 'mother's and thinking it was a good look. Along with those sweat bands on the wrist. Aaaahhh I long for Leeds fest 2002.

Mosher* stupid autocorrect

Ahh, love these..!

Oversized denim shirts
Check shirts (tied around waist mainly)
Bomber jackets
Chokers
Kickers
Crop tops-fluffy at times
Tartan pants
White musk
Shoplifting
Whizz, E’s, weed etc etc
Embassy no.1
Clubs until 6 am
House music
Brit pop
Lip gloss
Lip liner
Grunge
Wearing your boyfriends fake Ralph Lauren jacket
Ted Baker
Vodka
Strong bow super
Drinking down passages/in parks

Pretend black rimmed glasses with yellow coloured lenses

'Spliffy' bomber jacket - I was in primary school

Teeny tiny silver backpacks

I had an electric blue satin miniskirt. And lime green and bright orange tops. Platform school shoes!

Caribbean Breeze alcopops!

Oh yes Spliffy jeans or Gravity jeans

Helly Hansen puffer jacket!

I had a pen pal I found via the Kerrang pen pal pages and she would send me cassette mix tapes of riot girl music taped from her CDs. Of course gel pens were involved to make the scrap book type front covers.

Would also send me hand made jewellery made out of children's plastic beads and elastic

@TheInebriati hahahaha

Anyone else remember Shout magazine? I couldn't wait for Thursdays to roll around so I could get my hands on its classic problem pages ("I blew on my boyfs penis when he asked for a blow job- where did I go wrong?") and bits of tat on the front (collection 2000 makeup usually).

Also someone else mentioned foam platforms.. those were red or deads. Also pods were a thing post kickers.

Trying to get in to see the full monty by wearing my mum's shoes and stuffing my bra with tissue which visibly worked its way out. Still being let in. 😂

Townies and moshers here in Blackburn

Drinking 20/20 in the park

Couldn't ever afford Morgan. But trustee Topshop denim shirt with a new top from bay trading very so often served me well.

Always wanted rockports to wear to school, only ever got kickers

White eyeshadow, shaven brows and of course heather shimmer was my look 💗