I love your daughter for this! I stopped wearing my retainer about a year after my braces came off, and as a result I have a gap between two of my top teeth, off to the side. It’s really noticeable in photos and makes me self conscious, but I’m going to try to take her lead and see it as my “cool gap.” :)

True story: Our daughter has one overlapping tooth near the front of her mouth. She actually refused to wear her retainer, because it annoyed her that the braces had straightened her “cool tooth.”

During a discussion about Harry Potter “You just don’t seem like the kind of girl who...reads.”

That’s adorable! My favorite college professor kept a picture of her son on her desk in an attempt to do the same thing. He was cute and actually SHIRTLESS (swimming) in the picture but it didn’t work. It was totally distracting during office hours, too. (The son is now a Jesuit priest. I guess God sees all, so maybe…

I like how I look now way more.

I just look so very young.

I haz such an old the pic is yellow. Hippie.

After seeing this post / thread, I went skipping off to find my senior yearbook.

I couldn’t find it. It’s at my mother’s house, I’m sure.

But I found my sophomore year yearbook, and while I was flipping through it, my children found me, and I just spent the last hour going through it with them, having to endure their…

I had a GRAND vision for my senior portraits. I was really into Judy Garland and attempted to recreate her ‘Get Happy’ look from Summer Stock. I just KNEW that this photo was going to be pure artistic expression...

Oh hello 1996.

Broke and resourceful as I am, a friend took my senior photos on her Nokia and we edited them all on Paint. It was an uphill battle to get the yearbook staff to actually allow this (“WE NEED A CLEAR PHOTO OF YOUR FACE”, “NO PICTURES TAKEN WITH CAMERA PHONES/EDITED WITH PAINT”), but I eventually made it.

But can you imagine the early 2000s? Like, frosted tips and belly shirts, Delilah sweaters and cargo pants?!

So for some reason I can’t get this shit any smaller. Whatever. The hair is awful. Not sure why hairdressers were doing french roll up-dos for teenagers but yeah...this is some crap we all rocked back in the late 90’s. SMH

Not sure if it counts, because it wasn’t my actual senior portrait. But it was the picture in my senior yearbook that accompanied my little bio/achievements/senior quote blurb. I had been sitting in the senior lounge and one of the yearbook crew came by and snapped a picture before I realized what she was holding.…

I don’t have access to mine right now, but I do have a story!!!

i thought it was a beauty mark on a beautiful girl. or a stray bite of the brownie batter oreo. nah, beauty on beauty.

I actually looked pretty cute in my senior pics, with magenta-brown lipstick and frosty eye makeup (it was the ‘90s, dude!) The only thing that could have been REALLY embarrassing was that I was wearing a homemade beaded bracelet with “I love [boyfriend’s name]” on it. In one shot, the photog had me put my hands by my…

I was in my volleyball sweatsuit but the back drop my mother chose was of a fucking beach.

Well, I was on the yearbook staff my senior year of high school, and I got assigned to write up my own graduation for the supplement that was published over the summer. In lieu of embarrassing pictures, here’s a sample of the thousand words (give or take about half), which I haven’t laid eyes on in a good 10 years or…

So its not embarrassing really, but I didn’t realize how goddamn SEXUAL my photo was until much later on...