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It's the Summer of 1996: so you know what that means: we're still listening to TLC. Waterfalls may of been played out from the previous Summer, but we still had Diggin On You.

Oh this is hands down one of my favorite scents.

Girl, no dermatologist office is going to be open the morning of prom (I assume they mean that morning since I see a "2pm" in the photo) to get a cortisone shot in your pimple. Sometimes these teen magazines would be so delusional with their advice.

Ohh this was when everybody started copying The Body Shop! Did you know we don't even have Body Shop anymore here in the United States? Can't even get it from Ulta, all they have left is one sad coconut body scrub. Back when my skin could handle lotion, I always used their body butters.

Here's those colorful pages I loved so much as a kid. I wanted those lucite rings so bad, but being a ~fat kid~ they never fit me. Where I lived, girls would get them from the hair store.

I had no clue that Tocca began as a clothing line. I only know them for their perfumes.

I had so many teddy bear/bunny backpacks. I never had the Big Boy though!

This is shot for shot of a (kinda artsy and dramatic) Diet Coke commercial. Also, I'm drinking a Diet Coke while compiling this. Because I always am.

I studied this ad a million times growing up, I thought it was kinda corny. Like, "dude, you need to study and stop taking stupid pictures of your shoe", but now as an adult I'm looking at this and thinking "...is that Steve Burns from Blue's Clues?" I also can't help but think that ads like this lured me away from even thinking about college when I was in high school. I thought I was too dumb to handle an all nighter. Turns out, I was right. When I was 26 years old, I barely graduated from college .

Those videos kids took 29 years ago are now uploaded by their kids to TikTok.

While most of these survived, I don't think drooler did. :-). .

This toothbrush bracelet lives in my brain rent free nearly 30 years later. I still want to make it. I'm an adult now, I can do it. I would probably have to buy a deadstock toothbrush off of eBay to get the sparkily effect.

Man, did that interview keep comparing David to Ross. Am I rite? Also, Reese never graduated from Stamford.

This just confirms it for me that Sketchers have always been ugly.

Oh these were so good. I'm actually thinking about writing a zine soon about the low fat craze of the mid 90s. I'm still in the toying around part.

This is actually just maybe the one Mickey Unlimited outfit I've ever liked from these ads. Most of them just look like you're wearing elementary school clothes in high school.

Spoiler alert: these no longer smelled. I remember one of these Salon Selectives fragrances not smelling good though. Maybe it was the kiwi jasmine.

I thought Amy had a real tattoo...

...and I thought this is what I was going to look like at my first real job.

Same girl, same. I would sit in the dark with my lava lamp on and cry about the upcoming last day of school.

I'll never forget you, leotard period pain lady.

ooo this hairstyle was a little ahead of its time.

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