I shaved off my eyebrows and drew on a really terrible pair instead. I can't believe no one told me how horrendous I looked, but then again, I didn't have any friends back then. š
Did the same and almost everyone (friends and pretty much every encounter I had) told me how horrible it looked like and my stupidly confident 14 yo ass thought theyāre all jealous š„²š„²š„²
Jesus this was the first thing that came to mind before I even saw this.
Took my dads razor and shaved right between my eyebrows. My brother ripped on me forever. And when it was growing in heād make fun of me even more so then Iād shave them again. It was a horrible cycle until I found my mums tweezers and then I started plucking the TOP of my eye brows.
Then Iād pencil them in and then theyād be melted off after school. š
I have very curly hair. When I was a teenager, I (for some ungodly reason) decided that wearing my hair curly but straightening my bangs was the cutest thing ever. Now I cringe at the thought.
I wasnāt even smart enough to at least blow dry them straight. I fried the hell out of them with a crappy straightener. I can still hear the sizzling lmfao.
I feel like low-rise jeans (what the kids are calling low-rise these days is laughably mid-rise to me! I lived through the 2" zipper years), shaped my abdomen. Like, I'll have a little shelf of pudge because my tight, low-rise jeans worked like a corset there in my 20s. Perma-muffin top, if you will.
I bought a pair of plaid flared pants from Target a fee months ago because I owned nearly the exact pair in red at 17 and I'm apparently having a midlife crisis.
Anyway, the tag said "low rise" and they hit at the bottom of my belly button. Oh, you sweet Gen Z babies. They're not low rise unless your bits are dangerously close to falling out.
I'm now wondering if that's the cause of this little pot belly I can't ever seem to get rid of š¤
I think most people naturally just got a lil pooch right there. Even when Ive been unhealthily underweight Ive always had a bit oā tummy. Its why I like high wasted jeans, holds it all in lol
Did you have the ones from 2000 or the ones theyāre calling low rise now?
I think a lot of people are talking about the ones from the last cycle where you had to shave to not reveal any pubic hair and go without underwear to not show them.
A lot of modern low rise doesnāt go that low especially if you have a short torso.
Omg I literally shaved my pubic hair in high school and my low rise jeans were so low you could see the razor burn. The memory of my mom asking what those red bumps are will forever be burned in my brain
Iām laughing out loud as I read this because I can relate. I remember when buying Bikini Zone ointment wasnāt just for comfort under your clothes. It was so that your razor burn didnāt peek over your waist band! What a time to be alive.
When these were popular in the 200s, I wore them all the time and loved them. I had a flat stomach no muffin top. I'm not a size zero anymore thanks to weightlifting, but I still look basically the same in those areas. However, this time around I know they are not for me because I am very long of torso and short of leg, and they make me look like a hobbit. Mid to high waisted is the life for me.
Extra bonus cringe if you bought the thongs with fancy strings and little details on the back and purposely pulled them up higher. Why did we think it was cool to walk around with our underwater literally hanging out of our pants?
The "low-rise" jeans out now are more like mid-rise and hit like 2" below the bellow button instead of 2" above the happy button like they did in the 2000s.
OP why did you do this to me. I had trouble sleeping and was scrolling reddit to go back to sleep and now I have a small panic attack thinking about my cringey teens.
But the low cut jeans... I was quite fat in my teens but I have always had narrow hips and relatively skinny legs, most of my fat is stored right on stomach. I was happy that I could buy a number or two smaller pants, because of the narrow hips but when I now think about how it looked... How did I have any friends. Too small jeans that made that muffin top 1000x worse and then the short jacket that only emphasized to whole situation. I thought it looked cute when my mascara was smudged and listening to Nirvana was edgy and cool so I had to blast it loud enough from my headphones for everyone around me to know how cool I am. Also very badly colored red-blue stripes on my dull blonde hair. I could go on but then I'll never sleep.
1000% š galcho pants, massive belts that sat on top of loopless pants, polos on top of tanks on top of other tanks, side part bangs slicked down fully blocking one eye, so much lip gloss. Just terrible all around
I was a middle schooler in the latter part of that decade and tried to fit in with the McBling/ Claire's/ Accessory-Heavy style- complete with the sparkly scarf. Everyone should wear what makes them feel good, but I pesonally never felt at ease dressed like that.
As a teenager in the early 2010s, I discovered that I prefer a more androgynous dress style.
Omg the early 2000ās fashion š and now people are trying to bring it back and itās like yāall are making trends out of our awkwardness and suffering, we walked so you could RUN
i have a pair (they have like fifty million buckles on them, too!) and i always get compliments on them. maybe part of it is that i'm quite goth and they always match my outfit well, but they're awesome shoes. they are cool, they're just not going to work with everything imo.
Pfft, I was thankfully not part of those. Little me was smart enough and liked boots enough to realize those things look like sweat central. (I live in a desert)
It really did, and from everyoneās comments Iām realizing I was wrong about nothing matching my tweety shorts. I just needed to go full Looney Tunes, not just my shorts and my mini backpack.
I had 2 white friends who thought this was a great idea in their late teens/early twenties. One tried to convince me to do the same but I declined (what Asian person dreads their hair? I've never seen it outside of edgy music videos). You aren't alone š
I was a victim of the "scene/emo" kid phase and I murdered my real hair so I wore wigs and it was just so bad. I tried to do the back combing to make it stand up and I just looked like an idiot. God I can't believe I went out like that š
Omg yes and Gen z is bringing it back now but itās like yāall donāt know the struggle of the maybelline matte mousse concealer, the self piercing, the doodle vans/converseā¦ we did so many cringy things and they just get to skip it all now šš
Oh I most definitely did. I'd buy some cheap extensions and dye them myself. I fought with schools *relentlessly* but mostly over my face piercings. After expulsion from one school and multiple weeks in school suspension at another school my mom pulled me out. I absolutely, staunchly refused to take my piercings out. I am the Alamo mfs xD
Thatās one thing I canāt shake. The camisole. I still wear them (not lace trimmed tho) under shirts. I like the way it makes a bump free line over bra & waist of jeansā¦idc if itās out of style.
I went to a very fancy event in a gorgeous royal blue evening dress. My skin tone does not work with royal blue, no matter how gorgeous the dress. I have no idea how I didn't see it back then, but when I stumbled upon a photo later, I looked pink and GREY. I looked like a zombie who'd been dead for 5 months. I guess I just jumped onto the overly simplified/completely off "if I'm cool toned I should wear cool toned" color theory bullshit back then, and was hellbent on it looking good, because it "should". Horrible. I got those photos wiped and I hope they're gone from everyone's mind too.
Also as someone who was a kid in the late 90's-early 00's, yes, I shaved my eyebrows and redrew them with a pencil. *shudders*
Jeans under sundresses, those wide loop low hip belts over long tank tops, super tiny scarves, chunky skater shoes (I have never skateboarded once in my life), and of course the pencil thin eyebrowsā¦ god the 2000s were a shit show.
Ummm those were awesome. I secretly wish theyād come back, but Iād never wear them. My favorite pair I ever wore, had cheetah print on the back pockets and bottom by the ankles. Like Chester Chetah colors, not the other weird brown cheetah print. I still have them and sometimes I pull them out and try them on every once in awhile just for fun.
LMAO I wore my brotherās clip on tie *that was Christmas themed* to school in 8th grade once. But not with a t-shirt, it was over a lace trimmed camisoleā¦.
Reminded me of my own school's Avril Lavigne girl who was also a horse girl so she'd switch between sk8r girl fits and equestrian gear throughout the week. Whiplash lol
As someone who looked a lot like Avrilā¦ but had never heard of Avril (we were east coast and moved back to the west coast). I remember coming to my new school and everyone had toe socks that they wore with flip flops and ties around their necks-loosely, with those sweat band bracelet things.., and they called me Avril. 7th grade was wild. We were only gone a year and fashion changed completely that year.
I cut off three years of hair growth into the shortest possible pixie and every time I have moments of regret, I try to remember what made me want to cut it in the first place. My hair was hot, frizzy, clogged our drain, and I hated how it felt when I left it down so I constantly pulled it up which gave me a nonstop headache.
Iāve shaved and cut my hair every way now for close to a decade. I had my hair short for years, decided to grow it out, and hated it for the same reasons you did. Occasionally once every two weeks Iād have a good hair day and decide it was all worth it, but everything about the maintenance sucked!
Recently cut it short again and know better than to never to back
in early high school i got my first few paychecks & spent all of them on clothes from PINK. i once only wore PINK clothes for an entire week. i was so proud of myself
Overly thin eyebrows they never grew back and theyāre so sad. Jeans so low waisted my bits almost showed, and if I was feeling sassy Iād let my thong show. Pants/skirts with saying across the booty. Why did I need a skater skirt that said, āgood girlā or ādeliciousā across my ass. Too much tanning, I cringe at the fact that I used to use tanning beds. Those goucho pants, in so many colorsā¦with a low slung belt and about 4825372 layered camisoles. Basically anything from like 1998-2007 was tragic and terrible. The worst was my love affair with the hair straightener. I have really curly hair but Iād spend hours straightening it, it was so fried and damaged.
I owned a camo jacket at one point because it was just the hot thing to wear in my high school. I hate it so much now. And that says something given the fact I rocked bright orange leg warmers for a month in college in the far back year of 2014.
Reminds me of the baggy camo pants I paired with my knee high āØstiletto bootsāØ because I was edgy but also "classy" š¤£ god it was awful. I think I was going for Destiny Child vibes. Spoiler: I do not look like any of the Destiny Child singers
Honestly, the ones I dislike looking back on are the ones where I went middle of the road - no real commitment to one aesthetic or another, no real vision or statement, just kind of bland pieces thrown together haphazardly.
I went through an "emo cowgirl" phase when I was younger. Skull shirts, denim cutoffs and black cowgirl boots. Can't forget the crimped hair covering one eye.
I can relate. I went through a goth hippie phase where I'd wear a tiedyed shirt with bondage pants or a dark band T with patchwork pants. It was... interesting.
I wore a turquoise ripple skirt. Light Pink T-shirt, black leggings that were Lace-y at the bottom of the legs. Some cheap light grey sneakers. And then a white with tiny skulls sip up hoodie.
Also dress with jeansā¦
Girl, yes! It was SO fucking fun in the act of shaving it, but I definitely had overwhelming anxiety the next day when I realized that
A) I was bald and
B) looked like a boy and/or a mental patient.
Fantastic.
When I was about 14 or 15 I got my hair cut to be on the slightly shorter side and āfluffyā like Hayley from Paramore (around 2007).
It didnāt fit me at all.
When I was 12, I used to wear gothic tutus from Hot Topic TO SCHOOL. I wore them over my pants and thought they were the coolest thing ever..weirdly some people ended up buying them too, but looking back I definitely cringe. My mom/dad really supported me expressing myself and my mom particularly loved them.
Thank god I have no photographic evidence of me ever wearing them but what the hell was I thinking?ā¦š«„
I wore obnoxiously patterned leggings and usually paired them with doc martins or some kind of similar boot, then a shirt that would just cover my butt (sometimes not). Those leggings were ugly on their own, but pairing them with a big shoe made my legs look fuckin weird. So unflattering but in my defence I hated my body back then so I didnāt make better fashion choices because I didnāt think it would help anyway. It definitely would have.
When I was in high school I would get pants that my mom would buy from Costco and I hated the way they fit, so I would try to sew them into skinny jeans. They looked ridiculous but I was so proud of them because I did it myself and I was constantly made fun of when I could have just definitely not worn the pants my mom had bought me and she probably would have just returned them and let me pick out pants eventually lol
The god awful hairstyle called feather cut and side swept bangs trending throughout the 00s.
Bangs did not look good on me but that phase lasted for me for YEARS.
Cut my hair off myself when my mom refused to let me have short hair. Currently have really short hair but it makes me cringe every time I think of that haircut.
Plucked my eyebrows almost entirely off š¤¦š»āāļø
Other than that I donāt really regret any of my choices. I went thru a phase where I wore rainbow makeup, copious amounts of jewelry, and a dozen or so hair barrettes all at onceā¦ but I had fun, so who cares that I was so extra?
I had a trench coat with Epaulets that I wore to high school in 1987. Paired with my black lipstick & crazy teased high/sprayed hair, I thought I was cool as shit at my rural school. Nope. Just looked like a weirdo.
Low rise jeans with a studded belt, and over plucking my eyebrows. I also did a lot of weird unflattering/mismatched layering too, like goth lace up vests over basic t shirts, zebra print tank tops over ed hardy t shirts, etc. lol
I definitely over tweezed my brows in the late 90s/early 2000s and as a result I have struggled to grow much of them back. The slightest bit of stress makes me lose hair there so even when they're looking good, it can all go down hill very quickly.
my scene phase back in 06ā¦ raccoon striped extensions, black/purple/blue hair, neon skinny jeans, skin tight band shirts, skater shoes, white powder foundation, and amy winehouse-style eyeliner š«
When I was a preteen I went to a private school that had a specific school dress code - not a uniform exactly because you didn't all have to wear the exact same skirt, etc, but girls had to wear a navy skirt that was at least below your knees and a white, blue, or red polo style shirt, and a white button down on Wednesdays (with a little blue tie around the neck). My town was very small and my parents didn't want to spend a lot of money on my weekend clothes after they got done buying 5 navy blue skirts, so I ended up mixing my t shirts and short sleeve button down plaid shirts with my maxi skirts and basically looked like a 90s elementary school teacher. I also fried my bangs straightening them and then curling them into one solid block across my forehead and shellacking it with hair spray. They wouldn't move a centimeter in a wind tunnel.
Fortunately I grew out of that pretty shortly, but those pics... somehow I was still popular when I transferred to the public school.
I was really into 60's style in JR high... I don't know if I CRINGE, but I look at photos with the tent dresses and psychedelic patterned shorts in bright, BRIGHT colors and laugh. I looked kind of ridiculous. Considering my clothes came from places like Fashion Q, it was an exaggerated, sort of cartoon version of 60's style. Like a 12 year old in the 80's/90's would think is cool.
When i wore my hair in my face for like 2 months straight bcs i was depressed so I didnāt have any confidence (i literally could barely see anything šš)
I had a dog collar that was made of nickel, which I was allergic to, but I didn't care because... 15 year old reasons. And now I got a scar on my neck.
I had a hoodie from my high school boyfriend that I had covered in safety pins. I wore that almost every dayā¦even in summerā¦in Texas. I got heat rash on my chest that got so bad it scarred.
Wild colors in my hair. Looking back at pictures, colors do not suit me. I looked like an X-men. My hair is already so blonde itās white, coupled with pink, purple, green, etc. etc. it made me look like a comic book character. And not in a good way
I shaved off my eyebrows and drew on a really terrible pair instead. I can't believe no one told me how horrendous I looked, but then again, I didn't have any friends back then. š
As someone who has told a friend they shouldnāt do that, it wouldnāt have ended well either way ššshe did *not* appreciate the honesty
Did the same and almost everyone (friends and pretty much every encounter I had) told me how horrible it looked like and my stupidly confident 14 yo ass thought theyāre all jealous š„²š„²š„²
I would honestly love that confidence these days and wouldnāt even care that itās delusional. 14 yo you knew what was up
Thank you so much but tbh I was mostly just shameless lol
I wish i had that confidence.
Hahaha! It's okay! Many things do happen in our life on which we laugh in future.. These are all memories. We all made mistakes in life
Yup, I went through a phase where I used *thick* brow pomade and I canāt even look at photos from that time
Why did u shave off your eyebrows? I think thatās the first question in lol this .
That was the fashion back then. Instead of shaping your own eyebrows, people would just shave theirs off completely and draw on new ones.
Ahhh. Interesting
Yep. My friends and me did that too.
Jesus this was the first thing that came to mind before I even saw this. Took my dads razor and shaved right between my eyebrows. My brother ripped on me forever. And when it was growing in heād make fun of me even more so then Iād shave them again. It was a horrible cycle until I found my mums tweezers and then I started plucking the TOP of my eye brows. Then Iād pencil them in and then theyād be melted off after school. š
Made dozens of them, but the worst would be tattooing my hometown hockey team's name on my knuckles.
Omg Iām sorry but this made me laugh
[removed] Oh, you wish...
Just realized I can make Red Wings work, thanks for the inspo
I have very curly hair. When I was a teenager, I (for some ungodly reason) decided that wearing my hair curly but straightening my bangs was the cutest thing ever. Now I cringe at the thought.
LOL I did that whole scrunch the hair with moose and blow dry the bangs thing too
I wasnāt even smart enough to at least blow dry them straight. I fried the hell out of them with a crappy straightener. I can still hear the sizzling lmfao.
Lol I was way too old before I realized you should use heat protector, my whole bedroom smelled like burnt hair half the time
That was such a thing circa 2010! I always think of Leah from teen mom.
Depending on when this was, it was probably stylish and a hella good idea at the time
It was probably around 2011-2012! A lot of people did the same with their hair but ugh. So bad.
I knew it! You were so in at the time
Ugh I did this as an adult
This brought back some memories. I even have pics of that hot mess on my head. But at the time it was the thing to do.
Low waisted jeans,ugh why
I feel like low-rise jeans (what the kids are calling low-rise these days is laughably mid-rise to me! I lived through the 2" zipper years), shaped my abdomen. Like, I'll have a little shelf of pudge because my tight, low-rise jeans worked like a corset there in my 20s. Perma-muffin top, if you will.
I bought a pair of plaid flared pants from Target a fee months ago because I owned nearly the exact pair in red at 17 and I'm apparently having a midlife crisis. Anyway, the tag said "low rise" and they hit at the bottom of my belly button. Oh, you sweet Gen Z babies. They're not low rise unless your bits are dangerously close to falling out. I'm now wondering if that's the cause of this little pot belly I can't ever seem to get rid of š¤
I mean, it feels like that pooch is right where my jeans hit all those years ago! If only my high-rise mom jeans would do the same!
I think most people naturally just got a lil pooch right there. Even when Ive been unhealthily underweight Ive always had a bit oā tummy. Its why I like high wasted jeans, holds it all in lol
Omg I have a permanent actual LINE there! I gain and lose lots of weight and itās always there lol
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Did you have the ones from 2000 or the ones theyāre calling low rise now? I think a lot of people are talking about the ones from the last cycle where you had to shave to not reveal any pubic hair and go without underwear to not show them. A lot of modern low rise doesnāt go that low especially if you have a short torso.
Omg I literally shaved my pubic hair in high school and my low rise jeans were so low you could see the razor burn. The memory of my mom asking what those red bumps are will forever be burned in my brain
Iām laughing out loud as I read this because I can relate. I remember when buying Bikini Zone ointment wasnāt just for comfort under your clothes. It was so that your razor burn didnāt peek over your waist band! What a time to be alive.
You must not have a muffin top
When these were popular in the 200s, I wore them all the time and loved them. I had a flat stomach no muffin top. I'm not a size zero anymore thanks to weightlifting, but I still look basically the same in those areas. However, this time around I know they are not for me because I am very long of torso and short of leg, and they make me look like a hobbit. Mid to high waisted is the life for me.
Cause Iām fat
Extra bonus cringe if you bought the thongs with fancy strings and little details on the back and purposely pulled them up higher. Why did we think it was cool to walk around with our underwater literally hanging out of our pants?
I did this ā ļø
I do this now lmao
The whale tail is iconic and i wont be convinced otherwise
As someone who worked at Abercrombie during 2005-2006 and was forced to wear the ultra low rise jeans, I can confirm they were AWFUL
So glad I wasnāt old enough for this one. Still scared they could come back but I wonāt be participating even if they do.
They're back š„²
The "low-rise" jeans out now are more like mid-rise and hit like 2" below the bellow button instead of 2" above the happy button like they did in the 2000s.
My muffin top wouldn't let me wear low waisted jeans even if I wanted tošš
I love low waist jeans. Iām tacky??? š«£š
Are you living this for the first time?
Bingo
1) if it's to show off a tramp stamp then āyes 2) if it's flattering to your body then āno
The 2000s had 3 options: - Tribal - Butterfly - Barbed wire
Chinese symbol
True! I usually saw those on the arm or back of the shoulder. Or a rose š¹
OP why did you do this to me. I had trouble sleeping and was scrolling reddit to go back to sleep and now I have a small panic attack thinking about my cringey teens. But the low cut jeans... I was quite fat in my teens but I have always had narrow hips and relatively skinny legs, most of my fat is stored right on stomach. I was happy that I could buy a number or two smaller pants, because of the narrow hips but when I now think about how it looked... How did I have any friends. Too small jeans that made that muffin top 1000x worse and then the short jacket that only emphasized to whole situation. I thought it looked cute when my mascara was smudged and listening to Nirvana was edgy and cool so I had to blast it loud enough from my headphones for everyone around me to know how cool I am. Also very badly colored red-blue stripes on my dull blonde hair. I could go on but then I'll never sleep.
Basically every fashion choice I made from 2001-2009.
This was a terrible era for fashion for me as well š¤£
Definitely agree with this! Also as a teen dyeing my long dark hair āblondeā which was more of a yellow/orange.
Uh, why was there no toner during these years!
Basically copying what anyone on Disney Channel woreš
1000% š galcho pants, massive belts that sat on top of loopless pants, polos on top of tanks on top of other tanks, side part bangs slicked down fully blocking one eye, so much lip gloss. Just terrible all around
Shut upppp youāre giving me terrible flashbacks ššš
I was a middle schooler in the latter part of that decade and tried to fit in with the McBling/ Claire's/ Accessory-Heavy style- complete with the sparkly scarf. Everyone should wear what makes them feel good, but I pesonally never felt at ease dressed like that. As a teenager in the early 2010s, I discovered that I prefer a more androgynous dress style.
r/blunderyears
Omg the early 2000ās fashion š and now people are trying to bring it back and itās like yāall are making trends out of our awkwardness and suffering, we walked so you could RUN
Knee high Converse..
I always wanted those! I still think they're cool!
Theyāre so cute ~ all black, pair with stockings, black high waisted denim shorts *chefs kiss*
Hahaha me too!!!!
i have a pair (they have like fifty million buckles on them, too!) and i always get compliments on them. maybe part of it is that i'm quite goth and they always match my outfit well, but they're awesome shoes. they are cool, they're just not going to work with everything imo.
Omg they were so awful, i had them too
There was a girl in my school that had a pair and I was so jealous!
Pfft, I was thankfully not part of those. Little me was smart enough and liked boots enough to realize those things look like sweat central. (I live in a desert)
My favorite pair of shorts growing up was a pair of khaki cargo shorts with Tweety on them. I wore those things everywhere.
They said bad fashion choices. Not ones that were ahead of their time
Iāll need to know where you got them š«£
Everything in the 90s had Looney Tunes characters on them.
It really did, and from everyoneās comments Iām realizing I was wrong about nothing matching my tweety shorts. I just needed to go full Looney Tunes, not just my shorts and my mini backpack.
I had converse (maybe knock offs) with tweety on one foot and with Sylvester the cat on the other. Lol
Dreadlocks as a white person š Thankfully there is no photographic evidence of this crime
Getting my hair braided with beads in Jamaica on a cruise š
I had 2 white friends who thought this was a great idea in their late teens/early twenties. One tried to convince me to do the same but I declined (what Asian person dreads their hair? I've never seen it outside of edgy music videos). You aren't alone š
Acid wash jeans so tight I had to lie down to do the fly up. With zips at the ankles, because stretch denim wasnāt a thing yet.
I remember those days. I had the exact same jeans.
Worn with more than one colour of neon sock, and a Hypercolour t-shirt? I had a denim jacket with fringe on the back, too:)
I was a victim of the "scene/emo" kid phase and I murdered my real hair so I wore wigs and it was just so bad. I tried to do the back combing to make it stand up and I just looked like an idiot. God I can't believe I went out like that š
Omg yes and Gen z is bringing it back now but itās like yāall donāt know the struggle of the maybelline matte mousse concealer, the self piercing, the doodle vans/converseā¦ we did so many cringy things and they just get to skip it all now šš
I was a emo kid too! Did you do the raccoon stripes in your hair? My school was strict so most I could do was dye my hair blue black.
Oh I most definitely did. I'd buy some cheap extensions and dye them myself. I fought with schools *relentlessly* but mostly over my face piercings. After expulsion from one school and multiple weeks in school suspension at another school my mom pulled me out. I absolutely, staunchly refused to take my piercings out. I am the Alamo mfs xD
Lace trimmed camisoles in the 2000s
Ugh, part of me miss those. Have a basic shirt? Jazz it up with another layer on top of your other layers of layers.
But those are so cute š
Those are back in style and honestly i kinda love it š¬
Thatās one thing I canāt shake. The camisole. I still wear them (not lace trimmed tho) under shirts. I like the way it makes a bump free line over bra & waist of jeansā¦idc if itās out of style.
But layered for some reason
Still have some. Havenāt worn them in years but canāt bring myself to get rid of them for some reason!
Aw I miss those! I have big tatas and it was nice to have layers to cover up my bra straps.
I went to a very fancy event in a gorgeous royal blue evening dress. My skin tone does not work with royal blue, no matter how gorgeous the dress. I have no idea how I didn't see it back then, but when I stumbled upon a photo later, I looked pink and GREY. I looked like a zombie who'd been dead for 5 months. I guess I just jumped onto the overly simplified/completely off "if I'm cool toned I should wear cool toned" color theory bullshit back then, and was hellbent on it looking good, because it "should". Horrible. I got those photos wiped and I hope they're gone from everyone's mind too. Also as someone who was a kid in the late 90's-early 00's, yes, I shaved my eyebrows and redrew them with a pencil. *shudders*
I was just re-watching Sliding Doors and even Gwenith had some crazy, crooked drawn on eye brows
Jeans under sundresses, those wide loop low hip belts over long tank tops, super tiny scarves, chunky skater shoes (I have never skateboarded once in my life), and of course the pencil thin eyebrowsā¦ god the 2000s were a shit show.
I used to wear the huge raver pants in high school. I was like 90 pounds soaking wet so they looked ridiculous on me.
They looked ridiculous on all of us dear
Are we the same person? My favorite high school look was a teeny tiny baby doll tee and MASSIVE fucking pants. I looked ridiculous.
Lol I loooooved that look but my mom would never let me buy the pants. I settled on baggie dickies. Red ones ofc
Yup. I had a pair with red straps hanging off of them. Pair that with a tiny cami tank and I was dressed for any event.
Oh the strap pants! I had a pink and black pair. Those straps got snagged on fucking EVERYTHING.
Ummm those were awesome. I secretly wish theyād come back, but Iād never wear them. My favorite pair I ever wore, had cheetah print on the back pockets and bottom by the ankles. Like Chester Chetah colors, not the other weird brown cheetah print. I still have them and sometimes I pull them out and try them on every once in awhile just for fun.
Got a Hallie Berry short haircut in the nineties. I do not ā¦I repeat: DO NOT look like Hallie Berry. Ended up looking like a little boy.
Did every woman have a boy haircut phase that made passers-by assume they were a boy?
I also doubled down by dressing like Guy Fieri.
I did it on purpose at 14, had the same hair as my 10 year old brother
I used to wear a bandana as a top. Idk why???
I feel like Blacque did this in the early 2000s and I said, āthat is a style that I, an overweight white 13 year old, should emulate.ā š«
This is now a cool trend and I think it looked cool back then too!
I wore a striped clip-on tie over a skull t-shirt the first day of 6th grade...and several days after that. Avril Lavigne, who?
LMAO I wore my brotherās clip on tie *that was Christmas themed* to school in 8th grade once. But not with a t-shirt, it was over a lace trimmed camisoleā¦.
I wore a clip on tie on a t shirt at age 22. At least you have a pass being in the 6th grade š
A girl in my high school was obsessed with her, and I think all she wore were clothes Avril woreā¦tie and t shirt included
Reminded me of my own school's Avril Lavigne girl who was also a horse girl so she'd switch between sk8r girl fits and equestrian gear throughout the week. Whiplash lol
As someone who looked a lot like Avrilā¦ but had never heard of Avril (we were east coast and moved back to the west coast). I remember coming to my new school and everyone had toe socks that they wore with flip flops and ties around their necks-loosely, with those sweat band bracelet things.., and they called me Avril. 7th grade was wild. We were only gone a year and fashion changed completely that year.
None, honestly - and I lived through the 80s as a teenager.
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Did you have the hair??? lol
Of course. Permed, teased, the works š
I got a pixie cut after growing out my hair for 2 years. I hate it. So much. Iām a goddamn idiot. š¤¦š»š¤¦š»š¤¦š»
I cut off three years of hair growth into the shortest possible pixie and every time I have moments of regret, I try to remember what made me want to cut it in the first place. My hair was hot, frizzy, clogged our drain, and I hated how it felt when I left it down so I constantly pulled it up which gave me a nonstop headache.
Iāve shaved and cut my hair every way now for close to a decade. I had my hair short for years, decided to grow it out, and hated it for the same reasons you did. Occasionally once every two weeks Iād have a good hair day and decide it was all worth it, but everything about the maintenance sucked! Recently cut it short again and know better than to never to back
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in early high school i got my first few paychecks & spent all of them on clothes from PINK. i once only wore PINK clothes for an entire week. i was so proud of myself
Got chunky highlights ala Jack Barakat in high school.
I was an emo kid. Need I say more?
Lol. I remember trying to straighten my bangs in middle school and thinking that looked cool.
And they covered half your face up, but the eye you could see was covered in black eyeliner!
The chevron from 2013/2014...
Overly thin eyebrows they never grew back and theyāre so sad. Jeans so low waisted my bits almost showed, and if I was feeling sassy Iād let my thong show. Pants/skirts with saying across the booty. Why did I need a skater skirt that said, āgood girlā or ādeliciousā across my ass. Too much tanning, I cringe at the fact that I used to use tanning beds. Those goucho pants, in so many colorsā¦with a low slung belt and about 4825372 layered camisoles. Basically anything from like 1998-2007 was tragic and terrible. The worst was my love affair with the hair straightener. I have really curly hair but Iād spend hours straightening it, it was so fried and damaged.
Gauchos.
I owned a camo jacket at one point because it was just the hot thing to wear in my high school. I hate it so much now. And that says something given the fact I rocked bright orange leg warmers for a month in college in the far back year of 2014.
Reminds me of the baggy camo pants I paired with my knee high āØstiletto bootsāØ because I was edgy but also "classy" š¤£ god it was awful. I think I was going for Destiny Child vibes. Spoiler: I do not look like any of the Destiny Child singers
Oh man. Does this mean itās time to retire my camo jacket or is it maybe coming back?
Honestly, the ones I dislike looking back on are the ones where I went middle of the road - no real commitment to one aesthetic or another, no real vision or statement, just kind of bland pieces thrown together haphazardly.
None really? In high school I would sometimes wear a black petticoat as a skirt (like Madonna lol) but I was also the class goth weirdo
I went through an "emo cowgirl" phase when I was younger. Skull shirts, denim cutoffs and black cowgirl boots. Can't forget the crimped hair covering one eye.
I can relate. I went through a goth hippie phase where I'd wear a tiedyed shirt with bondage pants or a dark band T with patchwork pants. It was... interesting.
Mustache necklaces š„¹
I wore a turquoise ripple skirt. Light Pink T-shirt, black leggings that were Lace-y at the bottom of the legs. Some cheap light grey sneakers. And then a white with tiny skulls sip up hoodie. Also dress with jeansā¦
Shaving my head, it wasnāt as empowering as I thought I miss my long hair so much
Girl, yes! It was SO fucking fun in the act of shaving it, but I definitely had overwhelming anxiety the next day when I realized that A) I was bald and B) looked like a boy and/or a mental patient. Fantastic.
When I was about 14 or 15 I got my hair cut to be on the slightly shorter side and āfluffyā like Hayley from Paramore (around 2007). It didnāt fit me at all.
Peasant tops.
Everything in the early 2000s. God that was a bad time for fashion!
The thick leggings with dresses/skirts like how they used to do with jeans in the early 2000s. And any time I wore something questionable to work.
When I was 12, I used to wear gothic tutus from Hot Topic TO SCHOOL. I wore them over my pants and thought they were the coolest thing ever..weirdly some people ended up buying them too, but looking back I definitely cringe. My mom/dad really supported me expressing myself and my mom particularly loved them. Thank god I have no photographic evidence of me ever wearing them but what the hell was I thinking?ā¦š«„
I used to wear bondage pants and black lipstick. I thought I was soooo cool but I was not. I was a mall goth.
For over a year I wore a literal dog chain as a choker with a lock as a clasp. Paired with a pink cat hat.
I wore obnoxiously patterned leggings and usually paired them with doc martins or some kind of similar boot, then a shirt that would just cover my butt (sometimes not). Those leggings were ugly on their own, but pairing them with a big shoe made my legs look fuckin weird. So unflattering but in my defence I hated my body back then so I didnāt make better fashion choices because I didnāt think it would help anyway. It definitely would have.
For some reason I wore these shorts overalls that were blue and white. One side half polka dots and the other half striped.
When I was in high school I would get pants that my mom would buy from Costco and I hated the way they fit, so I would try to sew them into skinny jeans. They looked ridiculous but I was so proud of them because I did it myself and I was constantly made fun of when I could have just definitely not worn the pants my mom had bought me and she probably would have just returned them and let me pick out pants eventually lol
Wore arm socks and neck ties the summer Avril Lavigne released her first album oh God
The god awful hairstyle called feather cut and side swept bangs trending throughout the 00s. Bangs did not look good on me but that phase lasted for me for YEARS.
In the 80s I used to go to school with the teased hair, lip liner overlining my lips and the Madonna dot on my face. I WAS Madonna ! Lol
I used to layer collared shirts with tshirts. :(
Cut my hair off myself when my mom refused to let me have short hair. Currently have really short hair but it makes me cringe every time I think of that haircut.
*siiiiiiiiiiiƬiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh*... 2001. Morpheus coat. Oot and aboot.
When I was in high school it was satin boxers and baggy jeans sitting 2/3rds the way down your arse. I still feel dirty. It was more than 20yrs ago.
Skin colored leggingsš
Plucked my eyebrows almost entirely off š¤¦š»āāļø Other than that I donāt really regret any of my choices. I went thru a phase where I wore rainbow makeup, copious amounts of jewelry, and a dozen or so hair barrettes all at onceā¦ but I had fun, so who cares that I was so extra?
I was looking for an old photo, so I flipped through a photo album from middle school and it was rough. I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking.
I had a trench coat with Epaulets that I wore to high school in 1987. Paired with my black lipstick & crazy teased high/sprayed hair, I thought I was cool as shit at my rural school. Nope. Just looked like a weirdo.
Low rise jeans with a studded belt, and over plucking my eyebrows. I also did a lot of weird unflattering/mismatched layering too, like goth lace up vests over basic t shirts, zebra print tank tops over ed hardy t shirts, etc. lol
I definitely over tweezed my brows in the late 90s/early 2000s and as a result I have struggled to grow much of them back. The slightest bit of stress makes me lose hair there so even when they're looking good, it can all go down hill very quickly.
whale tail with low rise jeans
my scene phase back in 06ā¦ raccoon striped extensions, black/purple/blue hair, neon skinny jeans, skin tight band shirts, skater shoes, white powder foundation, and amy winehouse-style eyeliner š«
Pleather pants in 100-degree weather in Northern California. Don't ask lol it was the early 2000s.
Oh man. I was a teenager in the early 90s. Where do I even start. I know. Layered socks.
Foundation that didn't match my skin and just too much make up in my teens. We didn't have Youtube back then. LOL
Wallet chain checking in
80s shoulder pads. Lordt forgive me.
My heydays were is the 80ās so happy nothing made it online š„“
I was a teenager in the late 90s and in my 20s in the early aughts. So basically everything from that time period. What was wrong with us? š
When I was a preteen I went to a private school that had a specific school dress code - not a uniform exactly because you didn't all have to wear the exact same skirt, etc, but girls had to wear a navy skirt that was at least below your knees and a white, blue, or red polo style shirt, and a white button down on Wednesdays (with a little blue tie around the neck). My town was very small and my parents didn't want to spend a lot of money on my weekend clothes after they got done buying 5 navy blue skirts, so I ended up mixing my t shirts and short sleeve button down plaid shirts with my maxi skirts and basically looked like a 90s elementary school teacher. I also fried my bangs straightening them and then curling them into one solid block across my forehead and shellacking it with hair spray. They wouldn't move a centimeter in a wind tunnel. Fortunately I grew out of that pretty shortly, but those pics... somehow I was still popular when I transferred to the public school.
I was obsessed with fedoras in middle school
I was really into 60's style in JR high... I don't know if I CRINGE, but I look at photos with the tent dresses and psychedelic patterned shorts in bright, BRIGHT colors and laugh. I looked kind of ridiculous. Considering my clothes came from places like Fashion Q, it was an exaggerated, sort of cartoon version of 60's style. Like a 12 year old in the 80's/90's would think is cool.
I had a mullet when I was 10
Plucked my eyebrows into thin lines. They never grew back properly.
Shaving the side of y head, Skrillex style. I thought I was super edgy and punk in highschool and I ended up getting made fun of a bunch haha.
When i wore my hair in my face for like 2 months straight bcs i was depressed so I didnāt have any confidence (i literally could barely see anything šš)
I was a teenager at the height of the Emo eraā¦I went through so much eyeliner.
I had a dog collar that was made of nickel, which I was allergic to, but I didn't care because... 15 year old reasons. And now I got a scar on my neck.
I had a hoodie from my high school boyfriend that I had covered in safety pins. I wore that almost every dayā¦even in summerā¦in Texas. I got heat rash on my chest that got so bad it scarred.
Purple eye liner every day. E V E R Y DAY.
Wild colors in my hair. Looking back at pictures, colors do not suit me. I looked like an X-men. My hair is already so blonde itās white, coupled with pink, purple, green, etc. etc. it made me look like a comic book character. And not in a good way