Articles about: teenage kicks
Back braces, bras and…Ralph. Were You A Judy Blume Fan?
If you ever convinced yourself, with no real evidence, that you had scoliosis, chances are you were a Judy Blume fan. I know I wasn’t the only kid who read Deenie, the story of a beautiful...
Dear Diary: Oh God the unbearable agony!
Nothing makes me feel more glad to be grown up than reading my teenage diary. Seriously, if you read my diary from 1992, you’d think I led the sort of life that ends up in a misery memoir,...
Daring eyeshadow combo sported at teen disco: the joy of first wearing makeup in public
I remember distinctly the first time I wore makeup in public. I was twelve and going to a school disco. The makeup consisted of an old cast off Cover Girl eyeshadow duo of Beaut.ie Mammy’s...
Getting off with someone in the Gaeltacht: the first romantic encounter you ever had
You’d fancied him all summer. You were thirteen – he was fourteen. He was in Second Year and every girl at the Ceilis was crazy for him. You were in love. You’d never spoken but had...