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You know your a 90,s teen if you remember................

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Nemo666 · 20/10/2005 13:24

You know you're a 90's girl if.....

  1. You once used Wella Plum mousse or Sun-in in your
    hair that you thought it was totally original and
    highly stylish.

  2. You owned a compilation tape with top tunes such as
    " Mr.Vain", "What is love" and "Rhythm is a dancer"

  3. You owned a pair of Nike Air Max.

  4. You wore plastic dummies around your neck, the
    bigger and more luminous the better

  5. You owned a Benneton/NafNaf jumper

  6. You went away on holidays and returned with a hair
    braid

  7. You owned scrunchies in array of colours

  8. You remember when Blur were better than Oasis.

  9. You went to or dreamed about going to a smash hits
    concert

  10. You remember when sweet valley high was a book

  11. 10p crisps! e.g. Meanies, Wheelies

  12. Levi 501's

  13. Captain planet, James Bond junior and Sharkie and
    George crime busters of the sea!

  14. Puffa jackets

  15. Impulse body spray

  16. You remember life before alco-pops

  17. Don't forget your toothbrush with Chris Evans

  18. You had at least one troll

  19. You know the dance to the Macarena and Saturday
    night

  20. You believed 2 unlimited died in a car crash

  21. You watched Baywatch and longed for the day that
    Eddie and Shauna got together.

  22. Swatch Pop watches, your friend could show you the
    time from at least 20 feet away

  23. You owned a Mood ring

  24. You went into the Body shop to put on vanilla or
    white musk perfume

  25. Black velvet hair bands with a puffy bit on top

  26. Shell Suits and Bum Bags

  27. Count Duckula and Trap door

  28. Black velvet chokers with a little pendant hanging
    from them

  29. You longed to live in Beverly Hills 90210

  30. Fruit shaped and scented soaps that usually came
    from a body shop basket you got for your birthday !

  31. Waistcoats on girls

  32. You couldn't listen to Salt 'n' Pepa around your
    parents

  33. Fruit salads and Black jacks

  34. Who framed Roger Rabbit?

  35. Ear cuffs/Muffs

  36. You wore leggings with 'slouch' socks pulled up
    (and slouched
    down) over your leggings.

  37. You wore ankle boots to complete the look.

  38. You had a 'bob' hairstyle.

  39. All you did on Saturday was watch 'Live and
    Kicking'. Then, 'Clarissa'.

  40. During the summer of '95 you had a farmer tan.

  41. You had those kellogs chicken reflector things on
    your bike spokes. One of your wheels may or may not
    also have been covered with a plastic 'hubcap' with
    illuminous prints on it.

42.You had an Addidas tracksuit.If u were really
cool,u had the one with the reversed colours for top
and bottoms

43.U owned a pair of rip-offs/tear-aways

44.The only jewellery u could wear was gold and from
Argos

45.You sported shag bracelets X 35 on BOTH arms

  1. remember sticking the tongues out of your LA gear
    runner-boots??!?!

  2. And wearing cycling shorts.....with the above
    mentioned runner-boots.

  3. AND remember playing elastics?

  4. Remember dying to get one of those check spaghetti
    strap dresses with a white body top inside.

  5. Line dancing" was in for about 2 seconds

  6. XWorks jeans

  7. L.A. Gear(the ones with lights)

  8. Thinking Shane and Angel were the coolest couple
    ever.

  9. Girls suddenly supporting Man Utd cos they fancied
    Ryan Giggs and Lee Sharpe

  10. Scchhhwiiiing!!

  11. Aaaaaanimal

  12. Spaceman,I always wanted u 2 go,into space
    maaaaaaan........

  13. Cruchos [American Hotdog flavour] crisps- now they
    were a treasure of the '90's

  14. Gameboys

  15. Nintendo in general.Who was ur fave??Mario or
    Luigi?!?!?!?

  16. POGS...million's upon billions of feckin'
    cardboard circles

  17. Snappers [for one's wrist]

  18. Stretch Armstrong[also had Fetch Armstrong,his
    trusty pet dog]

  19. Tamagotchi's [the bain of parents everywhere]

  20. Boom boom booooom,let me hear u say WAAY-OH

....that was some feckin' cringe-packed decade!!!!!

OP posts:
flamebat · 20/10/2005 13:26

How is it I was a 90s teen, but always seem to relate more to the 80s threads???

Nemo666 · 20/10/2005 13:28

lol FB i dont know..i remember 80s and 90s stuff...lol

OP posts:
Zephyrrywitchescat · 20/10/2005 13:28

cringe! God we were a sad lot!!

nutcackle · 20/10/2005 13:28

OMG that is quite freaky really.

Had loads of shag bands, different colours were meant to mean different things wern't they ?

spookylucy · 20/10/2005 13:31

God you've made me feel old, long live the 80's, hahahaha

madmummyof2 · 20/10/2005 13:31

OMG that is brilliant. you have just summed up my teenage years.

Captain planet!! he's a hero gonna take pollution down to Zero.

i sang that in front of my little brother and his mates the otehr day, poor lad was mortified (he's 10) and he had no idea what on earth i was on about

jambuttie · 20/10/2005 13:45

or should it be

I remember these and I am officially now a 90's girlie

weesaidie · 20/10/2005 13:48

God I remember nearly all of those things! Thankfully though my mum refused to get me a shell suit no matter how much I begged!

Did the list mention perms?? I so wanted one of those, again, thank you mum!

Nemo666 · 20/10/2005 13:49

lol i did get a perm

OP posts:
peckarollover · 20/10/2005 13:54

OOOMGGGGGGGGG that has just summed up my teenage years!

inkyminky · 20/10/2005 13:54

lol at "Sun In" or in my case "Flourecent Orange In"

weesaidie · 20/10/2005 13:54

lol nemo! Was it wet??

weesaidie · 20/10/2005 13:55

I dyed my hair plum with that wella stuff... lovely!

nutcackle · 20/10/2005 13:55

I had a perm too and also used sun in with horrible results.

nutcackle · 20/10/2005 13:55

Actually i don't think there is a colour that i didn't dye my hair at some point.

colditz · 20/10/2005 13:56

I remember all of those! All of them!

colditz · 20/10/2005 13:59

I remember hating my thick, naturally curly hair because it didn't look 'stringy' enough to be a spiral perm.

And enormous shirts with tiny jumpers wedged over the top....

Winter of 95/96? Tartan trousers, anyone?

mumfor1sttime · 20/10/2005 15:00

Great thread!
The 90s for me were Jason Donovan, The Prodigy, nd also meeting my DH, who showed me the delights of rave music!

flamebat · 20/10/2005 15:05

Awwww Jason.....

Never forget my excitement when I realised that the months on my calendar spelt out JASOND

spookylips · 20/10/2005 15:10

and also

The Smash Hits magazine

the leather short fitted jacket with 2 gold zips showing on the back

BIG gold rings - sovereign ones !!

and the stuck up perm fringe

jambuttie · 20/10/2005 15:12

grolsch bottle tops on the shoes too.

I ahd the perm and ablack and pink shell suit

thought i looked the business at the time

northerner · 20/10/2005 15:17

Yes this sums up my teenage years. I did the bottle top thing, had teh shell suit, no perm but a massive back combed fringe with loads of hairspray. Insette was popular I recall

mumfor1sttime · 20/10/2005 15:18

LOL flamebat! Me too!!! Ha Ha!

Madonna - true blue?

suzywong · 20/10/2005 15:20

god this is making me feel
ooooooooooooooold

spookylips · 20/10/2005 15:24

Micheal Jackson "BAD" album came out!

Pump up the Jam!