We’ve all known that feeling you get when you bring a new significant other over to meet your parents and before you can put a stop to it, Mom reaches for that photo album full of regrets.
Growing up is all about discovering who you are, and that can sometimes entail donning some interesting styles or developing weird quirks that make you look back now and shake your head. And because parents love to document your journey, there’s photographic evidence.
These 40 images will haunt their subjects forever.
1. Friday night at the mall always looked something like this.
2. That face says it all.
3. I don’t remember my Girl Scout friends getting those badges.
4. I just don’t even want to know what inspired this.
5. I bet you can’t guess his favorite color.
6. I don’t remember this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
7. Match game on point.
8. Remember when bangs were all the rage? Yeah, she doesn’t either.
9. Riff Raff…is that you?
10. I wonder what secrets she’s hiding in her hair.
11. I loved Pokemon too but come on…
12. They say you should dress for the job you want.
13. He was a into vampires long before “Twilight” became a thing.
14. Ugh. Headgear’s the worst.
15. This should be turned into a statue.
16. We all knew that kid who spent a little too much time in Hot Topic.
17. Business in the front, peacock in the back.
18. In his yearbook photo, this stud wanted to let all the ladies know he was single and on the prowl.
19. This caped crusader isn’t even old enough to be out after dark.
20. Helmet head is never a good look. Go to the next page for even more embarrassment.
21. Nothing says “thug life” quite like Spider-Man.
22. Xanadu? More like Xanadon’t.
23. Your head shots could NEVER.
24. This kid’s a straight-up baller. Just look a that pocket watch and Aeropostale jacket.
25. “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
26. All your wildest dreams REALLY can come true.
27. Looks like someone was auditioning for the town production of “Mary Poppins.”
28. How do you make your yearbook photo even cooler? Add a Furby.
29. Kids grow up so fast.
30. He was wayyy ahead of the 2016 killer clown trend.
31. Dude, you should have listened to your shirt.
32. Who can forget the joys of a bowl cut?
33. The eggplant emoji has nothing on this.
34. Well that’s one way to get all the ladies.
35. There was a four-for-one discount at their local Super Cuts.
36. He has always been an innovator.
37. P-I-M-P!
38. Lettuce pray he can somehow forget this ever happened.
39. Liar, liar pants on fire!
40. I think her formal date had to borrow a dress shirt from Dad again.
(via Bored Panda)