Blast from the past! My old "Skins" inspired look + podcast recommendation

This is going to be a bit of a different post. It's kind of a recommendation and... a story time/style post. I'll try to make it work, haha.

Not many people know this but, (many) years ago I was a Skins fan, and recently I discovered that April Pearson, who played Michelle (who was also one of my fav characters) has a podcast in process along with an IGTV called "Are you Michelle from Skins?" where she basically interviews actors (not only from Skins) in a very casual way, sharing how life has been for them after being known for the characters that made them famous, their struggles and success. She also shares memories with them and personal experiences. Idk, I find it very entertaining so, I wanted to share it with y'all.

You can go to ther IG to check the videos and follow areyoumichellefromskins for info on the future podcast.

But what does Skins and the podcast have to do with my old style?? Let's move to the blast from the past with a BIG CRINGEY PHOTOS WARNING! 🤣

I think most of us know or watched Skins because it was big on MTV years ago (let's not count the years, shall we? It makes me feel old!!) And if you don't know the show, I defo recommend it, even if you're not a teenager anymore. This show introduced me to hottie Nicholas Hoult, who was my big crush back then.

Michelle Richardson, everyone

I'm not gonna go into the plot and stuff cuz the thing I want to share here is how this show "inspired" my look during that time. Michelle Richardson was my style icon at the time. I still think April is beautiful and hasn't aged a bit!

Pink bra straps out... Something I really hate today. I wore this strapless black dress with hot pink leggings and heels.

I wonder what others thought because, I live in a pretty old fashioned city where people stare at you if your style doesn't match with the rest, and her style was... pretty unique and colorful. Somehow she pulled it off and looked great.

Where to begin? Michelle has curly hair and I don't. My hair is not curly, nor straight so I remember spending a long time curling it to achieve her look. I would take very thin strings of hair to make it look more "natural", Idk how long it took me to do my whole hair! I also changed my hair color to look a "little more" like her.

Back then I really thought my hair looked naturally curly. Looking at these pics now, I clearly see how much I failed at it.

OMG and those eyebrows! My eyebrows are naturally thin and there is not much to work with, but I thought it was a good idea to pluck them and make them thinner and shorter so they could look more like hers. Big mistake, now I know.

LOL all my pics seem to have the same angle... I'm so glad my eyebrows grew back.

I remember matching very bright colors together, mixing hot pink leggings with an aqua short jumpsuit and a lilac tanktop underneath... ah! and leopard flats (which I still have, haha). I can't see myself wearing something like that again. Ever!!

Add to that bright, plastic accessories and wing earrings. I thought I was living my best life, lolol.

LOLOL

Makeup wise, I don't remember much. Only that I wore green eyeshadows for a long time. And I don't even like green eyeshadow! Back then my makeup skills were not very good and the shadows I used were very old ones I kept from my grandma.

I think I'm being brave showing you these pics that I thought would be hidden forever and ever. So, enjoy, maybe laugh and... don't judge. Haha.

After watching April's IGTV shows, I've been having strong Skins feels and just remembering how fun life was back then. Even if my friend choices were not exactly the best and most of those people are not even in my life anymore.

Ahh, the nostalgia~

Let me know if you ever watched Skins. If so, who was your favorite character? Favorite season or generation? I can only rememeber the first generation, the 2nd never really caught my attention or love and I don't know the characters from the 3rd one... Oops!