Tweens. Oh god, tweens. The definition of a tween is exactly as the word sounds, they are creatures that are part-kid, part-teen. Yikes. If you’re like myself, you would know that being a tween is a time in our lives that we’ll always remember, yet so desperately want to forget. Our tween years were basically a several year awkward stage filled with multicolored braces, mean behavior, growth spurts, and crushes. To put it shortly, being a tween was pretty much a disaster. And what could possibly be even more disastrous than being a tween? Being a tween during the late 2000’s, a time period in which the most ridiculous, awful trends prevailed along with a huge increase in internet usage. If you were a tween in the late 2000’s, here are fifteen highly embarrassing things you probably don’t want to remember you did.
1. You wore an absurd amount of black eye makeup.
And the more smudged, the better!
2. You owned a sugar lip.
For whatever reason, these were the in-style tank tops for tweens of the late 2000's, despite how unflattering they were (FYI, you can vividly see the outline of my bra through the sugar lip I'm wearing in this photo).
3. You put "text" at the end of all of your AIM Away messages and Facebook statuses.
Because we really need someone to text us while we're crying, right?
4. You had an abundance of embarrassing Photo Booth pictures on one of your friends' mac laptops.
And you made the boy you had a crush on the backdrop.
5. You had a digital camera, so that automatically meant you and your friends would have professional photoshoots.
...And don't forget that these "professional photoshoots" consisted of awkward mirror pictures taken in your friends bathroom with the flash on!
6. You had or knew someone that had a scene phase.
While I never had a scene phase myself, there was an abundance of tweens in the late 2000's that did. For whatever reason, big, unevenly layered, multicolored hair was the style of choice for the time being. Rawr xD, am I right?
7. You wore gigantic hoop earrings.
And you thought the bigger the hoop, the better it looked. At least that's what late 2000's tween me thought. Oops.
8. You used Picnik to edit all of your photos.
What's an edited picture in the late 2000's without a corny quote, all of your best friend's initials, and a mediocre effect to top it all off?
9. You owned a Little Miss shirt.
Whether you were Little Miss Sunshine or Little Miss Trouble, Little Miss shirt's were a must-have for tweens in the late 2000's.
10. You owned a Juicy Couture sweatsuit.
You're probably wondering, why were these ever a thing? Who on earth would want to wear a bright pink sweatsuit? I couldn't even begin to tell you, but owning a Juicy Couture sweatsuit, especially a pink one, made you automatically cool as a tween in the late 2000's.
11. You had an enV or a sidekick as your first
texting phone.
Us tweens of the late 2000's grew up in a time period before smartphones, so we had what were called "texting phones," which is basically a smartphone without the internet. And you either had an enV or a sidekick.
12. You owned a pair of these babies. Gauchos.
Gauchos are a sad excuse for pants and they are a trend I still have PTSD looking back on. Never let these come back. Ever.
13. You used ooVoo to video chat with your friends.
And the goal was always to get the maximum number of people in the video chat, which was six.
14. You wore a denim skirt with uggs.
In the eyes of a late 2000's tween, it was trendy to be weather confused!
15. You had a Justin Bieber obsession.
While this may not apply to all late 2000's tweens, it definitely applied to a lot of us, including myself. I even went as far as to change my last name on Facebook to "Miriam Bieber."
And there you have it. If you partook in the following embarrassing trends or activities, I'm so sorry and I can personally identify with your guilt and embarrassment of your late 2000's actions and life decisions.
