Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 20:02     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:Get her an Ulta gift card for the holidays (price point per item can be cheaper than Sephora) and let her go experiment.


This is the answer.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 20:00     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thank you all for the suggestions!

To the PP who asked, her skin is clear but she has dark marks and feels conscious about it. She said she likes the light makeup look which gives a natural look and gives a sheen. I guess that's where the tint comes in?

What products does she need to get for that natural look that also hides these marks. She is dark skinned.

She watched a lot of tik toks and is trying out all kinds of home made stuff and can I say the bathroom is a mess - fresh aloe vera paste, ground rice with water, papaya paste and the like.

I guess she is really conscious of those marks (not birth marks, acne scars - acne gone but scars remain) and just wants them gone or hidden.







Take her to a dermatologist - there are prescriptions that can help fade the scars.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 19:58     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


Teens today don’t wear drugstore makeup. I personally have never used that crap.


It’s all the same crap. Don’t fool yourself


Then how are the makeup counters in department stores and places like Sephora still in business? Obviously no one believes they are the same. Keep fooling yourself.



You answered your own question.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 19:58     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


Teens today don’t wear drugstore makeup. I personally have never used that crap.


If Elf is not a drugstore brand I don't know what is, and girls at DD's mid-price private are obsessed with it...


The girls at our public like Saie, Charlotte Tillbury, Rare Beauty, and Rhode. Elf is really only for lipgloss.


How exactly do you know what makeup every single girl in your child's huge public school are wearing? What a joke!
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 19:57     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


Teens today don’t wear drugstore makeup. I personally have never used that crap.


If Elf is not a drugstore brand I don't know what is, and girls at DD's mid-price private are obsessed with it...


I was going to say...teens (even many adults) all over ELF, NYX, MCo Beauty - all of which can be bought at Target, Walmart, CVS, etc.

Haven't rich moms here ever heard of dupe culture?
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 19:55     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


Teens today don’t wear drugstore makeup. I personally have never used that crap.


Oh sweetie, they're all owned by the same companies and many of them use the exact same formulations. You've been missing out!
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 19:53     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Oh gosh, don't buy MAC for a teenager. It's more of a 30+ brand.



My first lipstick at 16 was MAC
Why bc they offered extended shades for humans who aren’t White.


Yes because you're over 30. There are dozens of brands out therein 2025 that are less heavy and pigmented and more appropriate for a teenager that come in a variety of shades - even drugstore brands now have a much broader spectrum of shades than they did when we were teens.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 16:01     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
OP here. Thank you all for the suggestions!

To the PP who asked, her skin is clear but she has dark marks and feels conscious about it. She said she likes the light makeup look which gives a natural look and gives a sheen. I guess that's where the tint comes in?

What products does she need to get for that natural look that also hides these marks. She is dark skinned.

She watched a lot of tik toks and is trying out all kinds of home made stuff and can I say the bathroom is a mess - fresh aloe vera paste, ground rice with water, papaya paste and the like.

I guess she is really conscious of those marks (not birth marks, acne scars - acne gone but scars remain) and just wants them gone or hidden.





Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:48     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


Teens today don’t wear drugstore makeup. I personally have never used that crap.


It’s all the same crap. Don’t fool yourself


+1
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:45     Subject: Re:Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Why does she want skin make up (foundation,etc)?

Does she have acne marks?

There are nice youtube videos which show how to cover up

Is she really pale and want a glow? There are videos for that

Is she oily and want a dryer complexion? Look into that

But in general, young skin doesn't really need foundation
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:44     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


This! Why start a young girl who isn't making an income on this expensive habit?
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:41     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


Teens today don’t wear drugstore makeup. I personally have never used that crap.


If Elf is not a drugstore brand I don't know what is, and girls at DD's mid-price private are obsessed with it...


The girls at our public like Saie, Charlotte Tillbury, Rare Beauty, and Rhode. Elf is really only for lipgloss.


I cannot believe you all let your kids spend that kind of money on makeup.


This just in! Teens value different things than adults and have different spending habits/use their disposable income differently than their parents!!!!!!!
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:25     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did no one where drug store makeup at a teen? That is literally all anyone I knew wore. Aside from maple the Clinique gift with purchase my mother or grandmother would pass on it me. It’s fine, really it is. Take her to Walgreens or Ulta and let her pick some stuff


Teens today don’t wear drugstore makeup. I personally have never used that crap.


If Elf is not a drugstore brand I don't know what is, and girls at DD's mid-price private are obsessed with it...


The girls at our public like Saie, Charlotte Tillbury, Rare Beauty, and Rhode. Elf is really only for lipgloss.


I cannot believe you all let your kids spend that kind of money on makeup.
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 14:16     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
Anonymous wrote:When I was a teen my friends and i bought and experimented with makeup together. I did not need or want my mother's opinion. It seems like teens these days really want their moms deeply involved with this stuff. Is that because all their socializing is online or what?


The only extent they want their mothers involved is to fund their high end makeup purchases from Sephora.

When we were teens we bought our own makeup from drugstore
Anonymous
Post 12/22/2025 12:58     Subject: Teen wants makeup. Please help!
When I was a teen my friends and i bought and experimented with makeup together. I did not need or want my mother's opinion. It seems like teens these days really want their moms deeply involved with this stuff. Is that because all their socializing is online or what?