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

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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

Want a nose piercing but can’t afford it?
Do your own at home with a pin you found in mums junk drawer. Run it under the tap first to sterilise it first of course.

Got a infection in your nose piercing?
Don’t go to the doctors now wait another couple days until it’s Monday morning so you don’t miss the weekend. The pain and swelling won’t get much worse, you won’t need 5 days antibiotics and have a scar there forever

I loved Shout magazine!!

I also remember wearing sleeveless tops made out of a fishnet type material, a la sugababes (or maybe all saints? Or both) in the early 00s. And combat type trousers that had odd bits of material hanging off them

Super low cut bootcut jeans with your diamante thing on show, really classy. And I had the wonderbra with the strings you pulled, but I had no boobs so it didn't do that much sadly 😂

Drinking reefs and aftershock, plus i think they were called sidekicks, little plastic shotglass type things with a foil cover over.

I would love to go back for one weekend

Don't pay for drinks on a night out, men will buy them for you
Wonderbras and crop tops, with denim shorts, everything out
platforms and hot pants, with bikini tops to go clubbing and get in for free
E's and speed and no food, >>> flat stomach.
How did I live beyond that, if my daughter did this, I'd be horrified

Secret raves, word of mouth only. HA! so embarrassing.

That Sun In ad with the woman at passport control!
All the teenagers had pagers in 1998 (I got a mobile in 2000 and I still have the same number, my second one had WAP. Entire web pages in 10 lines!)

Shag bands! Those silly plastic bands in every colour imaginable! But ya mum had know idea what they stood for 😆 honestly it has cracked me up reading this thread absolute flash backs of the good old days 😂😂

I've jiatw rtwt. That was a trip down memory lane. 👍

*just.... 🙄 no one has mentioned the great look of knee high boots, crop top, shorts with long cardigan thing over the top. Finished off with ciggys and phone wedged down the front of the shorts.....drawing attention to your dolphin tattoo and belly piercing 😁 (not me personally btw)

The cheap version of Smirnoff I’ve was called VK.

Ice!!

@SaskiaRembrandt gosh is it possible that people lived different lives to you?!

@who had phones in the 90s????

I had a mobile in the 90’s.
I have no regrets about the dolphin tattoo I got in 2000. But I was 39 years old 😂

I remember a good number of these things we did in the 70’s and early 80’s just the details and brand names are different.

Reading this I feel old, nostalgic and immature all at the same time.

Oh and tbf- The speed diet resulted in a very clean house
..... I miss speed..... esp as my house is a pig hole and I am decorating the living room badly atm and can't see the light.... I remember redecorating a whole house (badly but who cares) one weekend courtesy of speed.....
Very outing as well but the story still gets brought up by my sister esp when reminiscing about her dearly deceased dog...
Had been on the stuff then done a deep clean of my then large house for one person (very run down listed building with no heating but as cheap as a flat to rent)
Put on crisp fresh white bedding , bathed ready to climb in to come down to whilst watching crap and my sister and her bloody great staffy rocked up.. . He jumped on the bed and proceeded to wipe his fricking itchy arse on my bed leaving the mother of all skid marks.... I went batcrap my sister found it hysterical-still does.... the dog had form for stuff like that we were once sat on a beach at sunset procrastinating about life and the little shit cocked his leg up Nd pissed down her back...

I remember the rimmel Heather shimmer in the 80s I had one thinking I would wear that colour forever.....
My flatmate killed body shop white musk for me she used to wear so much of it.... bloody body shop patchouli oil used to be a thing along with body shop rose musk I couldn't stand either thing....
So many wonderful memories on this thread......

Oh god, Revlon Flex conditioner! I thought it was the last word in luxury and would give me Cindy Crawford's hair. Spoiler - it didn't

Rarfy OMG I remember the hair mousse and wearing a green velvet baggy hat thing in a club- my hair sweated a red band on to my forehead and it would not shift for bloody ages!!
I love this thread ...

Broken up with someone??

Skunk Anasie, Alanis Morrisette and Elastica on repeat will sort you out
I'm going to see Skunk Anasie next week. Skin looks exactly the same as she did in the 1990's . Unfortunately I don't!!

@OJZJ haha soo funny! It was the stuff of nightmares really.

Hair mascara was the same.

going to a foam party and drinking loads of aftershock before writing an essay at 2am is an brilliant way of getting a high mark. Honest.

Purple eyeshadow is the high of fashion and doesn’t at all make you look like you’ve been punched.

Drinks of choice were snake bite and black, Smirnoff ice (shortened to Smice for some reason) and blue wkd. And aftershock (Jesus that stuff was horrible!).

Coats were unnecessary on a night out, despite going to uni in Durham where it’s always freezing.

Sleeping on Newcastle train station after missing the last train home after dancing in the dodgy boat nightclub is perfectly fine (anyone else going out in Newcastle c 1998 remember that place? Was it the tuxedo princess or something?!?)

I actually miss the late 90s / early 2000s. I was at uni and it was awesome.

@ifeelgreat, did you hang round Church Street and the Cathedral?
We bought our skater clothes from Remix. It's still there and DS1 buys his brother gift vouchers from there for birthdays, Christmas etc.

until mid 90s you just had to climb over the shit fence at Glastonbury

Yup, but why would you bother, because - at least until the late 80s - Glastonbury (no one called it Glasto) was a muddy field full of new age travellers, with dogs on string and some clapped out VW campers?

Scrape you hair into the highest tightest ponytail ever. Brown lipliner n beige lippy. Versarce red jeans perfume so sophisticated as well as V low rise hipster bootcut trousers AND Morgan clothing the ultimate go to gear for clubbing!! Digbeth Rag market for smrlly 70s leather jackets to wesr with worn in 2nd hand levi 501s.
Avoid parent disaproval by returning home 10am from clubbing hide till they go out, then clean house top to bottom. Bonus adult/child points.
Stop guarding house phone he will call if hes worth it.
20/20 just DONT!!

Frenchfancie yes the boat was called the Tuxedo Royale or the Tuxedo Princess, they had 2 and swapped them over at some point. A converted car ferry moored underneath the Tyne Bridge with a revolving dance floor in the top bar.

Until recently the Tuxedo Princess was half sunk on the Tees near the Transporter bridge but someone finally got around to scrapping it last year so it is no more

Ah, the Boat! With the revolving dance floor. I once threw up all the way down the gangplank...

OMG @drspouse I had totally forgotten about pagers 📟 and I did actually own one!

Using Sun-In was a very big mistake, my dirty blonde hair ended up an Orange colour!!!
Flares that used to suck the rain water off the pavements and platforms.
Coffee Shimmer complete with brown lip liner.
Anything from Bay trading, Morgan, Jane Norman and Topshop etc.
A two tone suit (we used to think we were the height of sophistication in those).
RaRa skirts, glow sticks, whistles!