1. Getting ready was very important: You had to make sure your hair was straight as a rod.
2. Inevitably you got a straightener burn.
3. If the straightening didn't work out because you were having a bad hair day, you clipped it back with butterfly clips.
4. You listened to Christina Milian to get you in the mood to go out.
5. If you were really swish, you wore Armani She.
6. But Impulse was the next best thing.
7. You "brought out your eyes" with frosted eyeshadow in silver, pale blue, or turquoise.
8. At least one of your group would wear a strappy vest, one would wear a top with one shoulder, and two would have their belly out.
9. One person would be more orange than the others.
10. And one person would have no discernible lips.
11. You'd get pissed before you left the house on WKD.
12. Or if you wanted a really big night out, you'd share a bottle of Glen's.
13. Even in winter, you never wore a coat.
14. At some point you definitely played a drinking game with shots of sambuca and Smirnoff ices.
15. And as long as everyone had ID, you would do Aftershocks in a Scream pub.
16. No one had a camera phone, so you relied on someone having a Sony Cybershot or a disposable.
17. Which means there aren't that many photos of you on a night out in the '00s.
18. Your dance moves involved a lot of bum circles while looking sexily over your shoulder.
19. Though in reality it probably looked a bit more like this.
20. Bum dancing was a good way to show off your thong.
21. You screamed if "Toxic" came on.
22. And went ballistic if they played "Survivor".
23. If it was a good night out, it ended like this.
24. But on more than a few occasions it ended like this.
