6th graders wearing make up?

[Anonymous]

Meh.
I grew up in the south in the 80s and this doesn’t faze me. We just mimicked our moms starting with Bonnie bell lip gloss and blush in elementary school. By 6th I was wearing foundation and powder and by high school I wouldnt even go to the pool in summertime without “putting my face on”

I agree that in DMV it’s a bit young because it isn’t the norm around here, but I think Instagram and TikTok are making it the norm to glam up sooner everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me the rationale for allowing a 6th grader (an elementary student in FCPS) to wear full on makeup to school? Eyeshadow, mascara, blush and lipstick? It’s creeping me out. It doesn’t look good and it doesn’t seem appropriate at this age.

Because they are applying it themselves after being dropped off at school. It if looks terrible and amateurish, then you can be sure the parents are not allowing it! Parents who allow makeup also show their kids how to apply it correctly so it doesn't look like clown makeup, so it wouldn't be creeping you out. You seem a little dense.

Oh I dunno. My parents didn’t mind much at all about makeup but I definitely looked like a clown because it was the era of dark black or electric blue eyeliner and purple mascara! My clothes were conservative and I went to church every Sunday and wasn’t allowed to date until 16, but I had a full face of makeup on from 13 in Georgia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw most girls this morning had super short shorts on, a large portion of them wearing the same ones, their hair done flawlessly with makeup. Then you see the boys with their ratty oversized gym shorts, t-shirts jumping all each other laughing still acting like silly kids.

Such a difference

This contradicts all the people in this thread saying the kids look like clowns.

It's also different than the 6th graders I know at 2 different ES-es, who definitely still look like kids. Some of them have visible eye shadow (not honestly a great look), but they still look like kids. Maybe it's because the Lulu 2.5" hotty hots aren't big where my kids go to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every year I have a few girls in kindergarten in a lot of makeup. It’s a cultural thing.

Whose culture puts five year olds in full makeup.

[Anonymous]

We did this in the 80s and it still continues. It is not a problem. Girlfriends are getting together and doing hair and makeup. They are learning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every year I have a few girls in kindergarten in a lot of makeup. It’s a cultural thing.

Whose culture puts five year olds in full makeup.

Hispanics. Their moms have had butt and boob implants and drop them off (they carry them) with their little purses and accessories all made up. They sometimes call them their dolls in Spanish. Many girls are already asking you (or any adult) to compliment what they are wearing at that age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me the rationale for allowing a 6th grader (an elementary student in FCPS) to wear full on makeup to school? Eyeshadow, mascara, blush and lipstick? It’s creeping me out. It doesn’t look good and it doesn’t seem appropriate at this age.

No one really needs to explain their rationale to you because it’s their child. If you don’t allow it in your home then fine.

I’ll bite. Mom of 2DDs, now 19+25.

Allowing DD to wear makeup (much more beyond lip gloss) this young is an example of permissive parenting. This decision is driven, encouraged and allowed by mom with dad not in the picture or who is totally clueless and disengaged and kowtows to wife.

Mom is carefully socially engineering behind the scenes and wants more than anything for her DD to be “popular” (at any cost). Mom has been jockeying for DD to be known for her appearance almost since infancy - and it starts with huge bows and dresses and photos. As DD matures, mom can intercede and use
Sun-In, do highlights, ear piercing on young elementary age daughter.

Next up: dance or cheer or “elite” travel sport. Around 5th grade, the boy craziness will begin and so looking cool/pretty/mature will attract more attention. Mom’s always encouraged DD to be a mini teen since forever so by the time DD hits 7th grade, she’ll be into typical teenage activities and all that entails so much so that her teen life will be compressed and sped up. Her freshman year of high school is pretty close to a college freshman’s 35 years ago.

Wow. You win the most insane post of the day (week?) award. My kid has always liked hair bows, jewelry and dance. It’s who she is - I have a PhD in the hard sciences and while I try to look nice I am the opposite of the mom you describe here. My daughter has been asking for makeup since 3rd grade because she had a friend who was allowed to wear it. I have said no so far but eventually I will let her, maybe in middle school who knows, and worry in the slightest that it’s ruining her future. You seriously need to calm down.

[Anonymous]

Moms who allow their little girls to wear heavy makeup in 6th grade will be the type to host high school co-ed sleepovers under the auspices of “being safe.”

[Anonymous]

Just tell your kids to be nice to the ones with full faces of make-up. Their moms think they are ugly. Not an easy way to grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moms who allow their little girls to wear heavy makeup in 6th grade will be the type to host high school co-ed sleepovers under the auspices of “being safe.”

lol I went to coed sleepovers in high school. And nobody was having sex at these sleepovers, or anything close. You all are ridiculous and should stop sexualizing kids.

[Anonymous]

Hasn’t 6th grade always been a pretty normal age to start wearing makeup?! It was when I was that age, and I am in my 40s. I don’t wear much makeup on a day to day basis now, but definitely experimented a bit in middle school.

My own DD started around 6th grade also. Now in 9th and wears the same modest amount (mascara concealer and lipgloss) that she always has.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s really jarring to see a young girl in clown makeup - I just can’t believe a parent allows that to school.

Some kids sneak makeup in their back pack and then apply it at school! Imagine that. So please don't assume. And no my girls never wore makeup!

My DD is younger buy my sister's kid started wearing makeup in 6th or 7th grade. She is actually really good at applying it in a minimalistic way and it doesn't look clown-ish. I would rather my kid wear decent looking, basic makeup than hide it from me and look like a clown because she never learned to apply it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hasn’t 6th grade always been a pretty normal age to start wearing makeup?! It was when I was that age, and I am in my 40s. I don’t wear much makeup on a day to day basis now, but definitely experimented a bit in middle school.

My own DD started around 6th grade also. Now in 9th and wears the same modest amount (mascara concealer and lipgloss) that she always has.

Yes, 6-8th grade was the common window 30+ years ago, too. But now we attach morality to everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw most girls this morning had super short shorts on, a large portion of them wearing the same ones, their hair done flawlessly with makeup. Then you see the boys with their ratty oversized gym shorts, t-shirts jumping all each other laughing still acting like silly kids.

Such a difference

What's the point of this post? Is there something wrong with 6th graders not wanting to look ratty and frumpy? Should their hair be disheveled?

Anyways, I agree with the later 40-something PP that 6th grade has always been a pretty typical age to start experimenting with makeup.

If the issue is that the kids are over-doing it or bad at it and look like clowns . . . I mean, yeah, that's not good. (Adults are not immune to that either.) But doing your hair and wearing a bit of makeup in 6th grade is fine, and definitely nothing new. It doesn't mean you stop caring about school work or sports ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hasn’t 6th grade always been a pretty normal age to start wearing makeup?! It was when I was that age, and I am in my 40s. I don’t wear much makeup on a day to day basis now, but definitely experimented a bit in middle school.

My own DD started around 6th grade also. Now in 9th and wears the same modest amount (mascara concealer and lipgloss) that she always has.

Yes, 6-8th grade was the common window 30+ years ago, too. But now we attach morality to everything.

I don't think it's a morality thing, at least not with me. It's a kids not growing up too fast thing. Yes, kids wearing makeup in 6-8th has been a thing, but that doesn't mean it's a good thing.