For most people the time in their lives when they’re at their tackiest is during their Teen/Young Adult years. You’re still trying to find your personal style, while also wearing what you want and ignoring everybody else’s opinion on it. Emo/Scene style is a pop culture aesthetic that embraces things like colorfully dramatic hairstyles, heavy makeup, and punkish clothing. While it wasn’t a tacky look in its heyday, plenty of people can look back at themselves from that era and cringe at how tacky they were in retrospect.