Holy Glitter Zine
Holy Glitter Zine Issue #2 90S NOSTALGIA March 2015 Created and edited by Fleur Stiels www.holyglitterzine.blogspot.com All original artwork and text belong to Fleur Stiels and the other contributors, mentioned below
A big thank you to the lovely contributors! Jaclyn Lockhart - www.confettimonsterxoxox.tumblr.com Mayke Peeters - instagram @maykepeeters Gènea Bailey - www.geneabailey.wordpress.com Allison Tovey - instagram @ suzybish0p Kristen Sinclair - www.bowiebrokemyheart.blogspot.co.uk Madison Summerfield - instagram @motherwillows Loubna Kouibaa - instagram @kloubna Giselle Morgan - www.gisellenoelle.tumblr.com Lydia Suffield - www.thelittleenigma.blogspot.com Cait - www.chinakidrevival.tumblr.com Lorelei Childress / Lily Lips - www.loreleichildress.tumblr.com
Welcome glittery inhabitants of planet earth You’re looking at the second issue of Holy Glitter Zine already! Time flies! I remember having my 20th 90s themed birthday party last November; even though I hate not being a teen anymore and getting nearer to an age where I’m supposed to be grown-up, I absolutely looooved the party I threw. I already started collecting 90s toys and candy in September and on November the 28th, I decorated the room and invited some friends over. It was so wonderful! Many people were dressed up in 90s style clothing, one awesome friend made a one-hour long compilation of 90s clips, tv programs and commercials, we danced to the Macarena, played a game with a fortune teller, had cheesy tattoos from gums and ate A LOT of candy. It was my absolute favorite birthday party ever! I realized that day that I wanted the theme of the 2nd issue to be 90S NOSTALGIA. I was born in 1994, so you could call me a very young 90s kid. I do remember many, many things from back then though! The amazing toys, the wonderful tv cartoons and series, the fashion, the coolest music ever and ofcourse the cool games you played with your classmates. Growing up in the 90s was the best childhood I could ever wish for, and now I’d like to give everyone who reads this issue the chance to relive the total 90s experience! Well, I’m outie.
xxx Fleur
Content Article “Forever a 90’s kid” page 6 90s Shrine page 10 Photo series “90s birthday party” page 12 90s playlist part 1 page 17 How to: Seapunk page 18 Artwork “90s queens” page 20 Must re-watch page 22 Photo series “MACY” page 24 Article “Rugrats Tears and Everything Bright” page 28 My My Little Pony Collection page 30 DIY photo negatives pin page 42 Photo series “Cool Schmool” page 44 Article “Growing up 90’s” page 50 90s lookbook page 52 Quiz “Are you a true 90s girl?” page 56 Photo series “Sticker Magic” page 58 Poem “When you grow up, your heart dies” page 64 Queen Carrie page 66 Polaroid photo series page 68 Selfmade Pokémon outfit page 72 Photo series “Life is strange and now so am I” page 74 90s playlist part 2 page 79 90s fascination article page 80 Photo series “Sanctum Sanctorum” page 82 Troll drawing page 88
Welcome to the shimmering world of
90s Nostalgia!
article by Jaclyn Lockhart collage (right) by Fleur
90s shrine by Madison Summerfield
90S BIRTHDAY PARTY!
Fleur’s 20th birthday party on November 28th 2014. photos by Fleur (and lil’ sis Viola) thanks to Mayke for modelling with me haha!
90s playlist part 1
Just a Girl // No Doubt C’est La Vie // B*Witched Beetlebum // Blur Stupid Girl // Garbage Baby One More Time // Britney Spears U Sure Do // Strike Gangsta’s Paradise // Coolio feat. LV Under the Bridge // Red Hot Chili Peppers Bang and Blame // R.E.M. You’ve Been Flirting Again // Björk Another Night // Real McCoy Return of the Mack // Mark Morrison Killing Me Softly // Fugees Summertime // DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince Groove Is in the Heart // Deee-Lite
playlist by Kristen Sinclair artwork by Fleur
What ever
how to: seapunk Seapunk is a collective name for individuals who share a love for nostalgia 1990s internet culture. They are creative spirits who try to put their nostalgia love in today’s social media society. *love the 90s!* *use yinyang and smiley symbols* *dye your hair turquoise, blue or pastel green* *tie dye your shirts in pastel colours* *create digital imagery inspired by the World Wide Web style* *use ocean-related animals, such as dolphins* *love geometric shapes* *use the #seapunk on Tumblr* *wear gemstones on your face* *love pixel art* *don’t care about what other people think* *love the ancient Greek style* *find aliens interesting*
digital collage (left) by Mayke Peeters \\ text and artwork by Fleur
artwork by Lorelei Childress
artwork by Lorelei Childress
Must re-watch
90s movies and TV series which deserve a re-watch! Go watch them now! by Fleur
Clueless (1995) | movie Follow Cher and her friends in their glamorous yet ordinary high school life. With: Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Stacey Dash
Twin Peaks (1990-1991) | tv series The young Laura Palmer has been killed in a small town called Twin Peaks. A FBI agent has to investigate her murder With: Kyle MacLachlan
Pulp Fiction (1994) | movie What do the lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits have in common? With: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth
Romeo + Juliet (1996) | movie The romantic story of Romeo and Juliet, now told in modern times and with our 90s hunk Leo <3 With: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes
Saved by the bell (1989-1993) | tv series Follow the story of six high school students and friends at Bayside Higschool in Palisades, California. With: Mario Lopez, Tiffani Thiessen
Welcome to the dollhouse (1995) | movie Dawn Wiener is an insecure 7th grader who struggles with snobbish classmates and the relationship with her family. With: Heather Matarazzo
Friends (1993-2004) | tv series This genius comedy series follows the life of six friends, who are always there for each other. With: Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer
MACY photo series by Gènea Bailey model: Macy Chow
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Rugrats Tears and Everything Bright by Lydia Suffield
The first TV show to make me cry was Rugrats. I can even remember the episode. It was the one where Angelica runs away because her dad sends her to her bedroom after she breaks his fax machine and then she thinks everyone’s forgotten about her. Obviously, back then being sent to your bedroom seemed like THE WORST PUNISHMENT EVER. I was three and sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of our TV, and I started crying when Angelica did. (I identified way too much with Angelica because I too was a bratty three-year-old who wanted attention all the time.) I actually saw the same episode recently and spent most of it laughing (No, I do not sit and watch Rugrats by myself these days. My three-year-old cousin was watching it on her ipad.) But it just strikes me as so weird that I was once little enough that the worst thing that could seem to happen in life was being grounded for ten minutes. * Some people say that every generation’s fascinated with the one that came two decades before. The Seventies with the Fifties, the Nineties with the Seventies, etc. I think our generation pretty much proves that bigtime with our collective ‘90s obsession. It seems a big badge of honour to be able to say you’re a ‘90s kid. Technically speaking, I don’t know if I am actually a ‘90s kid-I was born ‘97, so I’m stretching it. (Don’t remind me about turning 18 this year.) But I’ve got quite a few memories of the 90s’ time, thanks to having a load of older cousins who often passed down movies/toys/TV shows to me. More than that, though, I remember Lindsey Ellis ( a.k.a, the Nostalgia Chick) commenting in a review of Independence Day, that the ‘90s were kind of an easier time in a lot of ways-this was pre-9/11 or Iraq and there were no huge wars going on. (There also wasn’t 24-hour mobile news coverage to constantly bombard you with doom.) She was making the point that in a lot of ways, the ‘90s were an easier time-a time that felt safer and easier and just generally lighter than now. Sure, there was the grunge era and stuff-and to be honest, that is one of the few eras I’ve actually come close to wishing I was a teenager in, just because I would have followed Nirvana around the country like a creeper. But mostly, the ‘90s does seem to have been just a happier time, generally-even with the Internet in its’ infant stages, something about the whole thing now just seems innocently cute. (There’s got to be a reason for all those photos of ‘90s web pages going around on Tumblr.) But that strikes me as kind of true-and maybe the reason so many of us are still so fond of the ‘90s overall. It was a time when things might have felt a lot easier in some ways-partly, because, you know, we were kids then. One of the things I do remember from the ‘90s are Furbies. I only ever got one, but I cannot accurately describe how proud I was of that Furby. (It wasn’t particularly valuable-I got it in a McDonald’s Happy Meal.) But back in the ‘90s, before all the techno-stuff came out-I sound exactly like when Jamie Lee Curtis takes over Lindsay Lohan’s body in Freaky Friday-the cool toys to own were Furbies and Tamagotchis. I have this vivid memory of my big cousin showing me her Tamagotchi the same way an eleven-
year-old today shows you an iphone-it made you the cool kid to have this tiny game with three buttons that required you to keep a constant eye on a little electronic animal which would start getting distressed if you looked away for five seconds. (My cousin ended up letting hers’ starve out of spite because there’s nothing like a small co-dependent bunch of pixels to take your rage out on.) But I loved my Furby passionately for about three months until I got bored of it and dropped it into a sink full of water. (It got dried but it was never the same after that. It certainly didn’t sound the same.) I still kept it on my shelf for a while, though, until the day came when I needed a bribe to keep my little cousin quiet about the sweets we’d nicked from the cupboard and that Furby came in handy. (Sorry, Furby.) But in all seriousness, sometimes the ‘90s feels like the last moment in time that there was still a bit of innocence. I’m not one of those people who’s always going on about “the youth of today are going to end the world and also have no respect”, etc. but the ‘90s was kind of the last moment before technology became the all-consuming force in our lives. Google launched in 1998 and after that, the Internet pretty much took over. The other day, I was in a restaurant that I hadn’t been in for years. When I was a kid, all I used to see at other kids’ tables were toys, with the occasional Nintendo. This time, every single kid had an ipad. I even saw a baby with one. (OK, that nit-picking is fuelled by jealousy since I still don’t own an ipad.) But it was still kind of weird to see a bunch of kids staring at the screens, typing away like middle-aged stockbrokers intent on breaking a huge deal. When I was seven, the most I knew how to type was when I’d type out laborious stories on my dad’s old computer or when I searched Google using the dial-up connection. (I just laughed out loud because the very idea that I once had to wait for everyone to get off the phone to use the Internet now just seems insane.) But the ‘90s were kind of the last few years before we fell into the digital age. And while I’m totally happy with the time I was born in-a case in point being that I cannot imagine life without my laptop-the whole idea of that era still seems kind of nostalgic to me. So, yeah, I watched the rest of that Rugrats episode over my little cousin’s shoulder. I watched it and watched a time when everything was bright, a Spongebob toy seemed the coolest thing you could own and you couldn’t even imagine that ever changing.
My name is Fleur, I’m 20 years old and I’m a My Little Pony collector! Here’s my story about my ultimate love for those lovely ponies... text, photographs, polaroids and all other artwork by Fleur
I have to admit: I am, and always have been, a great My Little Pony fan. I played with them when I was a little child (the ponies of the 1st generation, that is), I watched all the animated movies and loved them with all my heart. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a 90â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kid, so I grew up with them and every Christmas, I knew a shiny, new pony would smile at me when I had unwrapped it.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great that My Little Pony still exists, though I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really like their latest generation of ponies. I liked the chubbiness and the dreamy eyes of the 1st generation more. Anyway, the last two years, my interest in My Little Pony has freshened again.
I started collecting them again (I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep ANY of my old ponies, such a shame....*crying silently*) by asking friends and luckily some of them still had a 1st generation pony for me. When going to a thrift shop my heart always pounds when going to the toy section, hoping there will be a little pony waiting for me...
Unfortunately, the greatest part of the world knows that these ponies are some kind of vintage now and rather expensive when you want to collect them. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been lucky a few times to find some ponies in a thrift shop, but I guess those were really blessed moments... One day though, I found someone who would sell me about 40 ponies for a relative cheap price. I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist and adopted all the little darlings.
When you look into those gentle eyes, try remembering your younger days filled with tattoo chokers and Spice Girls music...
Right now there are around 50 dreamy ponies living with me. Every once in a while I take a moment to look at them and indulge myself in childhood memories. Beautiful memories about my little sister and I playing with those ponies for hours, creating our own storyworld. I can truly say that My Little Pony gave me joy and happiness. It still doe.s
DIY: photo negatives pin Remeber those old school photo negatives? You can now use them for your own DIY and turn them into a very cute pin. How, you ask? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tell you here: What youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need: photo negatives, a brush, paint in a nice color, scissors, small wooden square, ModPodge glue, very strong glue (Bison), paint-brush, golden stars, pin-back brooch. 1. Paint the wooden square in a color you like. Let this dry for a while. 2. Cut the part of the photo negatives you like to put on your pin. 3. Put ModPodge on your (dried!) wooden square. 4. Put the cut photo negative on the wood and press it softly. 5. Put an extra layer of ModPodge on top of the photo negative, so it will stay in place and will have a nice coating. 6. Place little stars into the ModPodge. 7. Use the Bison glue to glue the pin-back brooch to the back of the wood. 8. Ta-daah! Wear your pin proudly! DIY by Fleur
cool schmool cool schmool cool schmool photo series by Allison Tovey
growing up 90’s I was going to grow up to be a Power Ranger – saving the world one Godzilla-sized monster at a time. I was going to grow up to croon music through your Walkman headphones like Hanson or B*Witched – I’d fill BOP magazine with my pouty photos and my butterfly-clipped hair. I was going to grow up to be a counselor at Camp Anawanna – cheesy shenanigans and saluting to underwear instead of flags. I was going to grow up to be a ninja grandma running turtle escape missions – football-headed grandsons as accomplices preferred. I was going to grow up to fight evil by moonlight and win love by daylight – Tuxedo Mask would assault me with his kisses despite my reign as a klutz princess. I was going to grow up to be a Nano Pet farmer – I raised enough digital dogs & cats and Tamagotchi aliens to know I’d be quite the matriarch. I was going to grow up to host a kids’ game show – the likes of Alex Trebek and his “answers” couldn’t compete with pool-sized pies and a piece of the Aggro Crag. I was going to grow up to be Mr. Feeny – always the object of students’ ridicule and yet, in the end, the object of their affection, too. I was going to grow up to blow the biggest bubblegum bubble – I figured if I filled my cheeks with enough Bubble Tape and Bubble Yum and Fruit Stripes I’d eventually be able to break the Guinness World Record before Y2K obliterated us all. I was going to grow up and move to Bel Air – where conflict would strike daily but be resolved thirty minutes later. I was going to grow up to drive not a car but the Spice Bus – I was going to also live in the Spice Bus, where I could swing and bean bag to my posh heart’s content. I was going to grow up to be Mary-Kate and Ashley – yes, both of them, because they are both perfect in their ever charming and always fashionable ways. I was going to grow up to find Jurassic Park – critics refer to the dinosaurs as “computer animated”, but with special effects like that I’m convinced they’re real life. I was going to grow up to be everything my ‘90s self ever adored – but I think I’ll stay a ‘90s kid at heart forever instead.
Text by Jaclyn Lockhart. Artwork by Fleur.
“CHER” CHIC
90s lookbook by Fleur
I DON’T CARE
I’M FABULOUS
GIRLY GAL
These past few years, many 90s productions, toys and cartoons have been renewed or revitalised. Would you prefer the 90s version or the recent one? Find out now with this quiz! Choose which version youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d prefer.
Sticker magic!
photo series by Fleur
When you grow up, your heart dies poem and photographs by Cait i. when you grow up, they say your heart dies that eventually; the tides of time will swallow you and the sweet nectar of youth expires ii. yet a memory of a magical age never fades, in a realm where spice girls ruled and pokemon trades were made; where queens stood in platform with king justin timberlake, as the ultimate babe iii. oh the reveloution of lisa frank! who wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget marathons of disney movies; except maybe for those poor tamagotchi babies iv. friendster might not have lasted forever; but a colorful childhood will always remain and stay golden
Carrie candle by Madison Summerfield
Carrie artwork by Lorelei Childress
polaroids photo series by Giselle Morgan edited by Fleur
selfmade PokĂŠmon outfit, photos and DIY by Fleur
life is strange and now so am I
photo series by Jaclyn Lockhart
“Secondly, don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.” -Ten Things I Hate About You
“I like you, I just don’t like you like you.” -Hey Arnold
“You got it, dude!.” -Fullhouse
90s playlist part 2
Waterfalls // TLC Around the World // Daft Punk What is Love? // Haddaway California Love // 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre & Roger Troutman We Like to Party! (The Vengabus) // Vengaboys All That She Wants // Ace of Base All I Wanna Do // Sheryl Crow Wannabe // Spice Girls Disco 2000 // Pulp Freak Like Me // Adina Howard Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Up? // 4 Non Blondes Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix) //Cornershop Two Princes // Spin Doctors Loser // Beck Gigantic // Pixies playlist by Kristen Sinclair
It will never fail to freak me out when things 90s-related are referred to as ‘vintage’. Wasn’t 1999 only a few years ago? As a seventeen-year-old today, I was a 90s toddler at best. However, like a large part of my generation, my heart and mind have been captured by a certain nostalgia for a simpler time, when Britpop ruled the charts and the worst thing that could happen was the death of your Tamagotchi. Nowadays, people’s fascination with the decade has taken the form of revived fashion trends; dungarees, jelly sandals and crop tops, once thought of as a bit kitschy, have made a huge comeback thanks to the likes of Urban Outfitters. The 90s also provided the world with some of the most iconic TV shows to ever grace our screens: everyone saw a bit of themselves in Daria, wanted to be as cool as Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, totally swooned over Bobby from Twin Peaks or laughed along with the Friends cast in all their braless glory. And who didn’t know all the words to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song or want to be a Powerpuff Girl? On the other hand, the mixtape is becoming something of a lost art but from MC Hammer to Nirvana, the 90s left us a sizeable legacy of music to fill our iPods with and plenty of scope for argument about your favourite Spice Girl. The wonderfully trashy techno and the cheesy yet quintessential pop of Britney’s ‘…Baby One More Time’ were all born out of an era synonymous with Polly Pocket, My Little Pony, Sassy magazine and Kate Moss & co. Of course, films like Toy Story and Home Alone have shaped childhoods, and quoting Pulp Fiction, Titanic or Clueless never gets old. So, is our wistful nostalgia for the 90s nothing more than a fleeting trend or seeing the past through rose-tinted Ray Bans? Ugh, as if. By Kristen Sinclair
photos by Madison Summerfield
objects that may seem ordinary to one, could be sacred to one other
photography & editing by Fleur
one day, someone beloved will value them
drawing by Loubna Kouibaa doily by Fleur
Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve reached the end of the 90s Nostalgia World
I wish to thank you warmly for reading the second issue of Holy Glitter Zine!
A big th my ne ank you, fil le w only c friend Jacl d with love, y ontrib t uted t n, who has o o this not also to i s s ue, bu my he t art :)
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