Early Noughties teen mag ridiculousness

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Does anyone remember the little nuggets if totally ridiculous advice they’d give you in teen magazines?

I used to be an avid reader of Shout! magazine. The main goal of these magazines seemed to be being popular and having boys notice you obviously, and were filled with totally mad tips on how to achieve these things and not be a ‘geek’ who wasn’t interested. Which is totally inappropriate advice these days, happily.

I remember one was ‘if you are invited to a party, arrive late and leave early! You are a social butterfly who has had to squeeze the party in between other engagements’

Happily I HAD been invited to a party in my local pub function room that very weekend! I spent a long time applying glitter hair mascara to my fringe to make it clump together attractively (why) and I think I even had on one of those fetching skirt with trousers combos with a vest top from Tammy girl. I got my dad to drive round the block a bit so I could try to be late, but it didn’t take very long and I think I turned up at ten minutes after the start time. I had a few dances to All Saints and Steps and drank a couple of cans of Coke and an hour before it was due to finish, I did a big show of having to rush off.

Now, we lived in a very small town. There was NO WAY any other parties were happening on the same night. But desperately trying to stick to my social butterfly narrative I said goodbye and off I went.

I sat round the corner in the bus shelter until it was time to get picked up. While everyone else was having a nice time at the party

What a knob! When I got to school on the Monday everyone was saying it was rude to leave the party early and I felt like such an idiot.

Can anyone remember any more of the ridiculous things they used to spout in these magazines? I’d love to get my hands one now as I think it would be hilarious

@HebeMumsnet Fabulous!

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[quote Namechangerextraordinaire1]@OneMorePieceofCheese that made me giggle. Did you enlighten her?![/quote]
No! If we had told her that Position of the Fortnight was a sex manual for teenagers, I would have lost my reading material for the school trip!

I just hope she never wrote in offering work experience for the "position"...

I used to write for these mags. It was so fun. We'd borrow clothes from the fashion department to wear out, we'd get our make up done on shoots, we'd get tickets to openings and gigs... one long party

My mum was still buying me Bunty and Mandy (which I secretly looked forward to) in my early teens. The woman next door had 6 daughters and a few were a bit older than me. Every month or so they'd pass me a big box full of my guy, oh boy and Jackie. The one picture story that sticks in my mind was a girl seeing her boyfriend and her best mate looking very cosy staring into the jewellers window and she was devastated. Turned out her friend was helping him pick out an engagement ring as she knew her size and what she'd like. How she swooned into his big strong arms, whilst he told her what a silly girl she was 😂

I loved Mizz, Sugar, Shout, J17 I distinctly remember getting free 'belly button jewels' from Mizz that you poked in your tummy button, the thought now makes me nauseous!

I also have a comb that I got free with Shout magazine. It saw me through upper primary, high school, University, post graduate study, teacher training, 2 house moves, a marriage and 2 children. It's still in my drawer, the best comb ever!

@Keeping2ChevronsApart

My mum was still buying me Bunty and Mandy (which I secretly looked forward to) in my early teens. The woman next door had 6 daughters and a few were a bit older than me. Every month or so they'd pass me a big box full of my guy, oh boy and Jackie. The one picture story that sticks in my mind was a girl seeing her boyfriend and her best mate looking very cosy staring into the jewellers window and she was devastated. Turned out her friend was helping him pick out an engagement ring as she knew her size and what she'd like. How she swooned into his big strong arms, whilst he told her what a silly girl she was 😂

I remember that story! Or at least a very similar one. Mine might have been a bracelet and a charm to go with it.

@Crimeismymiddlename

I read them ALL. I even, and this is a bit embarrassing had a subscription for Bunty, and Mandy & Judy right until the bitter end. Through my my mum liked those as well. I think I was pretty thick as a teenager as I believed everything in the true life stories. The only thing I truly remember was that all the models had lovely none blotchy skin and shiny straight hair which I coveted. That and the free rubbish that I loved.

I was in the Bunty! A picture of me as a little girl with pigtails, circa 1969!

I love Jackie and it was there a Blue Jeans? All the models in the photo stories in Jackie were from Dundee and Fife and a lot were my friends. I was DESPERATE to be in one!

Here's an example of one. My god I can just imagine my teenage daughter's face if she had to read a Jackie!! How innocent we were back in the 80s!! Hahaha

Omg @ddl1 how the hell did you remember all those stories!!!

In Shout magazine, scary spice had done an interview and was talking about how she keeps her skin so clear. She said if she gets a spot, she puts toothpaste on it to dry it up.
Being around 8/9 at the time, I had no spots but proceeded to put toothpaste all over my face and my eczema flared up soooo bad. My mum was gutted!

One article that always stuck with me was “How did you know it was true love?” where a load of 15 year olds had apparently written in about their very serious relationships (which I as a lonely 12 year old took as gospel). But one of the answers was about the day she’d had really bad period pain and her “Boyf” had brought her paracetamol and lain on the sofa with his hand on her tummy which helped. So nice! I think some adults could do with such healthy relationship models.

I am ressurecting an old thread but, I was a teen in the 90s and I was OBSESSED with some of the female models (yes realised I was gay much later on but at the time I found myself a bit weird and never told anyone about my fixations).

I remembered some of their names, and on the back of this thread googled one called 'Delline' and the names of some of the magazines she was in including 'Shout' and J17.
I learned she was a crack/heroin? Addict and had recently almost burnt down her house. Made me really quite sad!
Did anyone notice 'Shout' get much 'cheaper' in its content as the years went on?
I loved the makeovers. And just used to wistfully wish I was as attractive as the people in it!

And yes I am another one who remembers that infamous pink comb! And the model holding it on the front page-short blonde hair, I thought she was so cute and was thrilled when they did an article on her! Can't remember her name now though.

I read in one magazine that the etiquette for hair salons if you were getting your hair cut by the owner was to give the hairwashing girl a fiver and don't give anything to the owner, they don't expect tips.

Maybe that works in London, who knows, but it made my hairdresser into an enemy when I did it in my small town in the sticks. She deliberately gave me the worlds shittest hair cut when I went back.

I was a shout, sugar and bliss girl and then later NewWoman- love, LOVED them! For anyone interested, there's an insta page with all the 90s teen mags that were out at the time:

www.instagram.com/90steenmagazinearchiveuk/?hl=en