how old to start wearing make-up?
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Anonymous
| All the kids that wear mascara in middle school look like raccoons by the end of the day. |
Anonymous
Yes, for pimples. |
Anonymous
Yep, I went to high school in the late 80's and fashion-wise, it was awful. I remember I wouldn't go to school without full makeup, big hair, shoulder pads... all decked out. It was ridiculous. Now I see how casual the girls are (sloppy top-knot, no makeup, slippers) and wish I could have been so comfortable back in the day! Though they do look kind of unkempt... |
Anonymous
+1 My DD is a rising 6th grader who started becoming obsessed with makeup last year. She's not allowed to wear any outside the house (lip gloss is ok), but at home, she loves experimenting. I'm torn, because I was also fascinated w/makeup at her age and still think it's fun to play with occasionally, but I also wish she didn't care. I think your husband is right to give lessons now so at least it's applied and worn appropriately. I think I'll use that argument with my husband. 
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Anonymous
| I tried eye shadow in early high school. Wore a little in college. Maybe will wear some for special occasions, but I'm not really into makeup at all. My more athletic DD, will wear some but the girly girl loves lip gloss for now. Both are in middle school. |
Anonymous
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This brings back awesome memories of when I was in 8th grade and got a subscription to seventeen magazine for my birthday and it came with a tube of maybelline great lash (the pink tube!) and a small turquouise shade of eyeliner. My mom let me wear that. I felt pretty cool. Haha.
I became very, very into makeup by college and would just wear mascara and liner and gloss during the day but a a little more crazy at night. And I would do all my roommate's makeup before going out, it was usually more fun than actually going out! I was never very girlie though and I knew I could just as easily leave the house without it. I think that's the best lesson to impart to young girls. Not that they need it, just like them being into it does not necessarily mean they are subservient to the patriarchal machine and doing humanity a disservice. |
Anonymous
Because covering your face with makeup to hide acne, with the end result of making her skin even worse is a winning strategy. |
Anonymous
Putting a dot of concealer on a pimple is not "covering your face with makeup". Get a grip. |
Anonymous
+100 Completely agree. There are some people who take things like makeup waaaay too seriously. Everything's offensive and anything vaguely feminine means you're a "sell-out". Must be exhausting to live with that mentality. |
Anonymous
How sad for your daughter that you can't even empathize. There is medication for acne that can be used in conjunction with concealer, you know. |
Anonymous
You don't cover your face in concealer!!!!! (Who does that?!) You strategically apply it to the pimple to take the red out, AND it works to dry the pimple faster as well. A good concealer for this, by the way, is the Nars stick form in color Pear, which is a weird yellow that is perfect for cancelling out a red pimple, by the way. I have found that other concealers, which may match your skin exactly, do NOT match your skin anymore when they are applied over a red pimple. Nars Pear can be worked with to cover the pimple in a way that it is not noticeable at all. If I had a teen/tween daughter, I'd by her the Nars Pear and, some mascara, and lip gloss. And a ton of skin care products because great skin is gorgeous. |
Anonymous
Someone with acne bad enough that it needs to be concealed is going to need a whole lot of "dots", and if she doesn't want to look crazy she will have to blend it and extend it outside of the "dot"...get real |
Anonymous
I think what's really sad is the society makes 6th graders think they have to wear makeup to conceal their acne, which is a natural part of puberty. Severe acne should be medicated anyways. |
Anonymous
Yeah, no. You can have a single pimple that you want to conceal, especially at that age. I'm not sure why this is such a difficult concept for you to understand. |
Anonymous
I guess I just don't buy into the idea that they will use makeup to cover that one pimple and not apply is elsewhere. Maybe I have read "if you give a mouse a cookie" too often, hehe... we will just have to agree to disagree 
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