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Hot Tween and Teen Trend is Ruining Girls’ Lives According to This Mom

Author Lauren Beckham Falcone
Teenage girl holding mobile phone and listening to music

Teen Trend Ruining Lives

What Hot Tween and Teen Trend is Ruining Little Girls Lives According to This Mom?

The Stanley water bottle trend among teenage girls has hit a level of absurdity that even the most seasoned trend-watchers couldn’t have predicted.

Teen Trend Ruining Lives

Seriously, we’re talking about water bottles here – not the latest gadget or a groundbreaking fashion statement. Yet, here we are, witnessing the stainless steel revolution unfold in high school hallways.

These aren’t your ordinary water bottles; they’re practically fashion accessories, and these teenage girls flaunt them like they’ve discovered the holy grail of hydration.

Move over, designer purses – it’s time for a sleek metal flask to steal the spotlight.

Picture it: a group of girls huddled around the water fountain, each brandishing their Stanley water bottle like it’s a coveted trophy.

It’s not just about staying hydrated; it’s about making a statement, a proclamation of coolness that echoes with every sip – Mean Girl style.

Now, let’s take a trip down memory lane and revisit the outrageous trends that have graced the lives of tween girls over the past four decades.

Remember slap bracelets? Those neon-coated wonders that could instantly transform your wrist into a stylish masterpiece – until they inevitably became classroom contraband.

Ah, the ’90s.

Then came the era of the Tamagotchi, the virtual pet that demanded constant attention, turning bedrooms into virtual zoos.

And who could forget the Juicy Couture tracksuit craze of the 2000s? Tween girls strutting around like bedazzled fashionistas, making velour tracksuits the epitome of chic.

But now, in the 2020s, we find ourselves in the midst of the Stanley water bottle craze. These water bottles have become status symbols, with girls comparing sizes like they’re engaged in some sort of liquid arms race. “Mine’s a 32-ounce, what about yours?” – it’s the new water-cooler talk among the hydration elite.

The absurdity of it all is both amusing and bewildering.

Who would have thought that a simple vessel for water could become the latest teenage must-have? But then again, trends come and go, and teenagers will continue to find new and inventive ways to express their uniqueness.

Teen Trend Ruining Lives, Says One Mom.

But this mom has HAD IT.

After her daughter got bullied for having a generic version of the Stanley tumblers everyone’s going bonkers over, she took to TikTok.

(Watch the Target Stanley Stampede HERE)

Here’s what she has to say:

@dayna_motycka

I in fact did not keep it short and sweet 🤦🏼‍♀️ apparently needed to get this off my chest! 🤷‍♀️ #stanleycups #valentinestanley #targetstanley #parentsteachingkids #parentingtips101

♬ original sound - Dayna Motycka

She ended up buying her daughter a real one for $35, because she felt like she had to stop the teasing.

 

Lauren Beckham Falcone is the co-host of Bob & LBF in the Morning. Formerly an award-winning reporter and columnist for the Boston Herald, she credits her current success as a pop culture commentator to watching too much TV as a kid and scouring the internet too much as an adult. LBF is a regular contributor to NECN and is an honorary board member at the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. Lauren lives in Canton with her husband Dave and her daughter Lucy. Lauren writes about trending topics, New England destinations, and seasonal DIY.

14 Iconic 80s Perfumes We Loved as Teenagers and Wish Would Make a Comeback

14 Iconic 80s Perfumes We Loved as Teenagers and Wish Would Make a Comeback

In honor of Valentine’s Day and Bob’s very ’80s gifts to his wife, I went on a deep dive on iconic 80s perfumes that should make a comeback.

OK, Bob’s gift was an Estee Lauder gift pack. And to be really honest, it was makeup and skincare, not White Linen eau de parfum.

But still, I was like “Um, you went totally ’80s on that gift.”

Because all I could think of was spraying “Beautiful” all over my Champion sweatshirt before I went to go drink in the woods with whichever boy I had a crush that week.

Listen, the 80s were ICONIC for perfume for many reasons.

One, smelling like Love’s Baby Soft is a core memory I think we should all revisit.

Also, perfume was almost reaching its celebrity endorsement phase. Liz Taylor and Passion and Debbie Gibson and Electric Youth paved the way for J-Lo and Justin Beiber  and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Plus, the perfume you wore said a lot about who you were as a teenager.

I mean, all I can say is if you had a best friend who wore Poison on the regs, you were DEFINITELY having a good time on the weekends.

My first perfume was the 1st runner up of teen fragrances – Heaven Sent. And WHY they didn’t call it Heaven SCENT is beyond me.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY MADISON AVE.

The Miss America of Teen Perfume title went to Love’s Baby Soft, which, combined with Aqua-Net, Bonnie Bell lip gloss and Sun-In caused more chemical damage to the environment than the Exxon-Valdez disaster.

And if you were wearing Opium, you were a confident, one-percenter who scared me a little.

Sure, half this crap probably caused cancer in test-monkeys, but boy did we love them.

A tribute to the 14 Iconic 80s Perfumes We Loved as Teenagers and Wish Would Make a Comeback:

  • 1. Love's Baby Soft

    Love’s Baby Soft was the first perfume you usually got as a gift. A stocking stuffer or a present from grandma. It smelled like powder and, apparently, perverts. Because WHAT IN THE NAME OF CHRIS HANSEN is GOING ON in this commercial?

  • 2. Heaven Sent

    While all my friends were wearing Love’s Baby Soft, the elixer of, apparently, Level 3 sex offenders, I was stuck with Heaven Sent. It was the lesser-know entry-level perfume. I think my mother wore it, so of course, she bought it for me. Here’s the very 1968 jingle. I couldn’t wait to get older, get a tube top and get me some better perfume.

  • 3. Electric Youth

    This fragrance hit CVS and the frenzy over getting it (at least as an 8th grader) may not have rivaled the craziness of, oh, Taylor Swift tickets, but it was a HOT item. No commercial, but enjoy Debbie’s rendition of “Electric Youth” for your listening pleasure!

  • 4. Exclamation!

    I’ll make a statement: this stuff was the probably the most lifted perfume in all of drugstore history. You know those plastic cases at Walgreen’s keeping all the baby formula, razors and Sudafed away from the masses? Blame teenagers and their unrelenting need for Exclamation!

     

  • 5. Liz Claiborne

    Liz Claiborne smelled like your cool, well-dressed, slightly preppy friend who looked like she was on her way to be deposed by her ex-husband. But damn, the bottle was cool as hell. And this commercial hit ALL the right notes!

  • 6. Obsession by Calvin Klein

    Hey honey, this smells like a stalker! Obsession was one of those perfumes you were sort of afraid of. It smelled like sin, possible pregnancy and definitely the whiff of restraining order.

  • 7. Benetton Colors

    People who wore this were from Wellesley. That is all.

  • 8. Designer Imposters

    At $3 bucks each, what could go wrong? I’ll tell you what could go wrong. Everything. Desperate Imposters is a better name. Also, pretty pervy commercial. The 80s were so weird.

  • 9. Giorgio! by Giorgio Armani

    No teenager had this perfume. Not one. But we all wanted to visit the landmark store in Beverly Hills a la Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman.”

  • 10. Lauren

    I wore it. Of course I did. And if your name was Lauren, you got it every Christmas, every birthday, every holiday until you turned 30. If was almost enough to change your name to Ralph Lifshitz.

     

  • 11. Anais Anais

    Anais Anais by Cacharel was huge among the Laura Ashley set. If you liked lace and buttoned-up collars, prairie skirts and soft, filtered lighting, the costuming in “Out of Africa and the movie “Pretty Baby” (ew), then this was for you. Also, this commercial wins for “Most Vague”.

  • 12. Charlie

    “Kind of young kind of now, kind of free kind of now, CHARLIE!” More like kind of fruity and apricot-y, kind of smells like pot-pourri-y, CHARLIE! Thanks to CHARLIE, I can’t stand the smell of dried fruit. Thanks a lot CHARLIE!

  • 13. Opium

    I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: any teenager who wore this was a one-percenter with a BMW and a Bloomingdales card who probably scared me a little. Also, is it a good idea to name a scent after a highly addictive substance responsible for the deaths of millions? I’m no marketer but that seems like it might need a rethink.

  • 14. Enjolie

    Ok, this perfume overpromised and underperformed. Sure, teens didn’t wear it because we had NO intention of getting all of that done in a day. But our moms may have worn it – and we saw they were burned out. And speaking of burned, this commercial is burned in my memory.

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