All the things you’ll understand if you grew up as a tomboy

Growing us a tomboy meant you never really understood how to be a girl until you got a lot older and struggled with tasks like applying make-up correctly and doing your hair. It also meant that every single childhood photo taken of you doesn’t look anything like you, but instead some little boy.

So let’s go back in time and remember all the things you’ll remember if you grew up as a tomboy.

We hated wearing dresses

The thought of wearing a dress was the worst thing imaginable. If we were forced to wear a dress for a special occasion we hated every minute of it and couldn’t wait to get home and change into our tracksuits.

We didn’t want to play with dolls

Our toy collection would not have a single doll or tea party set in sight instead it would be filled with cars and action figures. As soon as the new Argos catalogue came out we’d turn straight to the boy’s section looking at the new remote controlled cars and toy guns.

Our entire wardrobe was made up of tracksuits and football strips

Dresses, pink or anything remotely suggesting the contents of the wardrobe belonged to a girl were non-existent. Instead it was filled with sports clothing and trainers all purchased from the boy’s section of JJB .

We didn’t care for princesses

Whilst the other girls wanted to be Belle or Cinderella, we had our heart set on being like Lara Croft.

Our life consisted around football

We would spend our days playing football, watching football, thinking about football or wearing football strips.

Hanging out with the boys was better than hanging out with the girls 

Mud and climbing trees over dressing up and playing dolls any day.

We played every single sport

Sports was our life and we’d play any sport on offer. Our after school schedule was generally packed with football, rugby, athletics and swimming practice.

Shopping was a form of punishment

Our idea of the day from hell was spending it being dragged around shops by our mother looking for shoes, make up and clothes when we could have being out playing football.

However we loved shopping for trainers

We might of hated shopping but when it came to trainers we had an obsession. Stand us in front of shelves of trainers and we were in heaven, the more trainers we owned the better. Total 90s were our trademark.

The basic ponytail was life 

Appearance didn’t matter to us so our hair was always scraped back into a very low and messy ponytail.

People mistook you for a boy

Because of our tomboyish ways people genuinely thought we were a boy and strangers would often refer to us as ‘son’ or ‘lad’.

But without growing up as a tomboy we wouldn’t be who we are today

You’re probs a mega girly-girl now.