Buy now L'Oréal Paris Les Chocolats Ultra Matte Liquid Lipstick, Superdrug, £7.99. From top to bottom: Candy Man, Sweet Tooth, Box of Chocolates, Bitter Sweet, 70% Yum, Oh My Choc!, Ginger Bomb ...

There were neon gel pens, scented ones, and even metallics. But the crème de la crème, IMO, were the milky gel pens that let us write using barely-visible, unicorn-like pastel hues.

The stuff of 00s dreams (Picture: Apple Corp./ Getty) 4. Scented gel pens. Forget black or blue pens to do actual writing with, because a pencil case wasn’t worthy of being in your school bag ...