September 21, 2009
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Makeup
I was driving in my car the other day with my wife and on the radio they were talking about the age a girl should begin to wear makeup.
This is a decision my wife and I will have to make with your youngest some day.
One of the people on the radio said that ten was a good age. A guy called in to the radio station and he said 15 was the best age.
What is the best age to allow a girl to begin to wear makeup?
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6 months
in the womb
I didn’t until I was 18, my younger sister started at 10. I tend to think 15 isn’t bad…depending on the girl.
14-15, i guess.
16.
The age when she gets pimples. You need to at least let her have some concealer, just so she doesn’t die of being teased <.<
My sister and I were 16 before we were allowed to wear any.
when she feels ready, really. if she asks to start wearing makeup, make sure your wife TEACHES her how to wear it, lol. or it looks quite bad.
17ish
About 14 or 15.
I started wearing it between 13 and 14.
My wonderful mother let me have my moment when I became a woman….when I got my period. That was the year I could shave my legs, wear make up and wear panty hose. LOL …those were the days!!!
fifteen is good.
It depends on what kind of makeup we’re talking about. I broke out like CRAZY before I was allowed to wear makeup. I was so embarassed every day to go to school when every other girl my age was wearing makeup. I know that I will allow my daughter to wear makeup when she’s 10 or 11 if she’s breaking out enough to wear foundation/concealer. That and a little lip gloss seems fine to me. More makeup can wait until age 15 or 16, in my opinion.
15 or 16.
I’ve never worn make up and never wanted to, so I can’t answer this from experience. Personally I’d let my daughter (if I had one) start buying and using her own make up when she’s responsible enough to get a job and pay for it on her own. That shit is expensive.
33 years, 3 months and 13 days
I don’t know, I don’t wear make up
you mispelled mak up
I agree with serenadante…when she starts getting pimples, whatever the age. But as far as eyeshadow, girls should be taught not to wear blues and purples dramatically but eyeshadows that compliment them and that should maybe start around 14-15.
My daughter started at 13, so I guess that is a good age.
at least 16. Anyone I’ve ever seen under that age looks goofy. Honestly, most girls under 18 who wear makeup look pretty goofy. They think it makes them look older, when us older people think they look ridiculous.
I started wearing light, light make up (mascara and chapstick) when I was 14. I looked really young and it helped add a couple of years. As I’ve gotten older, I wear more… It still helps to add a couple of years to my face and make people take me seriously.
never, makeup is dumb.
16. No kiddie porn here…
freshman year of HS. i wasnt allowed in junior high, and really i guess there’s no need.
tho i WAS allowed to PLAY makeup in elem school….
I wonder how many of the girls, women who answered 15 as a good age to start — really waited that long to start using make up themselves.
15 sounds good. But very unrealistic.
@Morningstarrising - that’s a good point! i’d allow foundation certainly, esp if breaking out! just no clownish mascara, eyeliner, etc….
I was allowed to wear makeup before I actually started, which was when I was 16. I just couldn’t be bothered. I’m pretty sure my parents wouldn’t have minded if I started around 10-12.
I think 15-17 is a good age. But Iwouldn’t know from experience. I never wore make up then nor now.
I didn’t until late 8th grade, and that was just experimenting, freshmen year is when I started really wearing any.
I think it depends on the maturity of the girl. And since normally girls are quite mature for their age, I guess 15 is about right, as long as her parents make sure she isn’t doing her makeup like she’s 20 or something.
I don’t see why it has to be permitted or not? It’s just makeup. I mean it washes right off. It’s not like it’s a tat or piercing or something life changing. If a daughter of mine should want to wear makeup then she can. Different ages require different types and styles of makeup so I would want to educate her on what is right for her but in the end it shouldn’t be an issue.
As soon as they start looking ugly and need some help
Why would you be having this talk with MY youngest some day? (You have a typo, saying “your youngest”)
13 – To mark becoming a teenager.
I’m almost 18 and don’t wear any . . . Come to think of it, my parents never told me whether or not I could wear it. But I don’t really need it anyway.
I’d say 15 or 16, but more than just light makeup usually looks bad.
Blah, blah, blah.
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thirteen.
16/17
I think anything under ten is entirely too young, aside from an occasional dress-up play session. After ten, I’d say it’s completely dependent on the girl herself. How mature is she and is she willing to learn to correct way to wear the makeup? I personally would wait till about twelve if I had a daughter, but even then if she was walking around looking like a hooker, it’d be in the trash.
i did when i was 16 my little sister did at 13 or 14. ten is pretty young…although at that age it’s more glittery play makeup anyway
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@Paul_Partisan - LOL
I started wearing make-up around the age of thirteen O.O
I would let them wear colored glosses at 8/9 but I think I would start teaching them how to put make up on appropriately around age 13. While I hate to see kids so young wearing make up; if they want to do it they will (kinda like sex, eh?). So I might as well teach my kids how do do it right, and not look trashy (kinda like sex again, eh?).
I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup until I was 16…though my sister who just turned 13 tries to get away with it and many young girls in middle school even 6th grade are wearing make up. My sister’s friends wear make up and some of them are so small! It just looks funny and unreal. I think it’s too ridiculous that little girls wear make up at such a young age they don’t need it. I think when a girl is about 15 it is a good age (starting high school) to start wearing makeup.
I started playing around with it when i was probably 12, then it became more serious when i started high school, age 14. I think 14 is a good age. Let your daughter know that even with no make up, she’s beautiful.
Also, when i was my last two years of high school, i became friends with a girl who lived with her grandparents who forbid her to wear even lipgloss.. she would put on make up before class and wash it off before she made it home. I thought it was silly, we were 16-18 yrs old and she was hiding the fact she wore make up. Most kids try and hide the fact that they are smoking or drinking or having sex… but make up? lol
15 or 16.
That’s when my mom let me wear just a tad concealer, a little brush and maybe eyeliner. As I got older, I was allowed other things. My mom taught me how to put on my makeup so that it doesn’t look like I’m wearing makeup.
I never did the black eyeliner under my lid and thick around the eye. That just looks bad all the time. I’m very happy for my makeup schooling and that I didn’t walk around like half these ding bat chicks do.
I would say when she is old enough to put it on without making herself look like a whore.
Or I would go with the answer of “when she starts puberty.” I remember that my mom, the week we got our first period, took us to a makeup counter and had the lady teach us how to put makeup on correctly and she let us pick out some foundation powder, eyeliner, eye shadow, and lip gloss.
@SerenaDante - Good answer. Kind of wish I could have had makeup. Course my life didn’t end there……
Beginning of high school or 8th grade. I started in 8th grade, but I was only allowed to wear foundation at first. By high school I could wear eyeshadow. I would suggest allowing things gradually so they don’t look like clowns (or hookers), and they can learn the ins and outs of it.
never. It just fucks up my pillow cases anyway when lazy whores forget to wash their faces.
10 is wayyy too young. I say at least 14-15 years old.
Meh, a girl can wear lip gloss as early as eight.
i say 13. that’s when i started wearing it. but not too much.
Middle school. Maybe.
I tried it in 6th grade, was bad at it, stopped doing it.
16.
15-16 is a decent age.
I didn’t really start wearing it with regularity until I was 17 though.
I’d wait until they show interest in it.
Never. Women are brainwashed through marketing, movies, and men to cover up their natural beauty. It is reinforced by their mothers who were also brainwashed into thinking that it is necessary to cover up. I myself do not wear make-up. The only make-up I’ve worn on a more constant basis is when I was in theatre and the make-up was used to enhance the features so that the stage lights didn’t wash out the faces. Then again, both men and women were wearing the stuff.
I will not buy my future daughter any make-up but if she asks, I will show her how to properly wear it after lecturing her on how I feel about make-up.
@Uek - Damn straight! Hahah!
when highschool starts?
Never? Soon as she moves out? I don’t know.
I’d say freshman year in highschool.
I never had a set age. My dad never cared if I wore make up…just as long as I didn’t look like a prostitot. :]
Coverup when they start getting acne, if that’s a big issue for them. 15 or 16 for other makeup.
Honestly, I’m not a fan of makeup at all. I don’t wear any at all (including coverup, mascara, or other so called essentials), and I honestly think I look nice without it. I happen to think most girls look quite nice without it. It strikes me as a totally unnecessary waste of time and money.
I should really have been born a boy.
13/14ish
I think when they reach highschool, it should be fine. but they should be taught that less is more!
16
ten is way too young. I’m almost 30 and i still don’t wear it every day, only when i’m in the mood and that is rare.
10 is really young. I did the eyeliner and eye shadow but they were never bold. The whole entire make up thing started after prom. I’ve gotten so many compliments that I started getting into it. Its not so much hiding what I really look like, but just evening out the color and looking away. I look horrible on the days I have to wake up 5 am in the morning for classes.
My mom is a makeup junkie and growing up I watched her apply it in the mirror.I wanted to grow up to look just like her.I always ended up with lipstick on my cheeks though.Now that I’m older I don’t wear it much anymore.I don’t even straighten my hair anymore.I decided I liked it the curly mess that it is and no matter how much makeup I wear I will never be as beautiful with it on like my mother.That and my fiance hates it and says girls spend too much money on dust when they look beautiful without it.
18, when you leave my house and can wear that crap at college without me flipping my lid. =)
I started freshman year of high school.
middle school
and only like concealer and eyeliner
I didn’t do more than that in middle school
15 or 16 but only if she wants to…as in she shouldnt have to wear it…i never acquired a real taste for it
I feel that round 13 or 14 years old is a good age. However if the girl has bad acne at an earlier age I think it would be totally appropriate to allow her to wear some foundation and powder to cover up the acne.
It’s never too early to set our young on the road to sexual objectification.
16
comments from someone in the skin care/makeup biz: skin care training for both boys and girls should start before they are teens. if young ladies want to add a splash of color in middle school, perhaps some light foundation, lip gloss maybe a bit of eye color and a bit of bronzing powder for the cheeks if you want to take the trouble to teach application and allow them to practice a bit before they actually leave your home. mascara can make a mess and ruin clothing, so i would probably put that off for as long as possible…
I started when I got into high school. So about… 14.
It all depends on the person, though. I never had an interest in my appearance until then and I didn’t have any distinguishing facial features that I wanted to keep hidden.
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We weren’t allowed to until we hit 6th grade. I didn’t start wearing it until I was 14 or 15, which I think is a good age. And I disagree with the pimple thing. Wearing concealer over zits is the worst thing you can do.
makeup for playing dress up is always okay, but wanting to wear it to school?
that has to wait til high school, i think.
I started at 16 because my mom didn’t let me wear it before. But when i started my mom said she never wanted to see me without once i started. I think 15 is the ideal age though..It’s better than 12 or 13.
If she wants to wear makeup, I say go for it. I personally don’t wear much, but if my child is weirdly different from me, she can do what she wants with her body, as long as I get to supply guidelines for certain activities.
What is makeup compared to sex, really? -shrugs-
Any age over the age of five is a good age to start practicing. As for wearing out in public I think thirteen is when I would allow my daughter.
I think a tiny bit of make up is okay as young as like 13. Like a tiny bit of eye shadow or a tiny bit of liner.
But I’m all for kids remaining kids as long as possible.
15 or 16 is reasonable.
i didnt use make up until i was in 2nd year university.. which was when i was 19
It’s hard to say because it depends on the girl and her maturity level. And it depends on what is considered “makeup” – if just gloss or tinted gloss, it’s alright. But if we’re talking foundation, eyeshadow, mascara, lipstick, blush, setting powder, etc… then a lot older!!!!
High school was when I started wearing makeup – 10th grade, so 16 I guess?
I was like 12. Mostly just eye liner though. Its pretty much whatever. 8th grade, I guess.
Ten is INSANE! No way. My mom never actually SPECIFIED an age for me. I just kinda grew into it and believe it or not I only started wanting to experiment/put make-up on when I was 17 going on 18.
@TheWittyFool - 5??? 6???? Any age under 10 is just… *shudder*
16+
I’d say around junior high. As soon as puberty sets in, it’s time for Cover Girl.
It is the parents option of course, but I think 16 is a good age.
I wore make up as a child, not like fake make up but real make up. my aunt would let me play in her’s. I didn’t start wearing make up till I was like 13 or 14. I always perfer light and nautral verse tons of it. Tons can be fun everyonce and awhile.
13 i guess
It depends on how much make up we’re talking. When I was ten or so, I started wearing those fun little Bonne Bell lip glosses and Wet & Wild glitter, but I didn’t start wearing actual eye shadow and face make up until I was about 15.
@tigerdauphin - Even for the purpose of practice and dress up?
Not until high school. The end of high school. Jr and Sr Prom are
givens for wearing makeup. Even then, it should look very, very
natural. If I had my way, I’d say leave it for Sr year, which is like
16 or 17. You really don’t need it when you’re young. I had makeup for
my jr and sr proms… but other than that, I never wore it until I was
about 19 or 20.
well… if you count stage makeup for plays, I
was like 11, I think. It was wretched because you wear cold cream over
it and it’s very thick. That turned me off from makeup for quite a
while.
@FireMapleSong - LOL!!!
btw – the girl on the right in the picture of this post would be scrubbed clean and grounded if she was my daughter!!!!!!!! wtF?!
Like 17……maybe even 18…….their skin will thank them for it later.
My mom and earlier neighbours put make up on me when I was under ten but I really started wearing make up in my late adolescence (19). I think children have such naturally beautiful complexions unless they are in pageants they should refrain til they are in their late 20s even 30s.
13 & they should be taught how to use it properly or else you’ll have a clown on your hands!!!
@TheWittyFool - IMO, YES, even if it’s for practice and dress up, it’s still too young. Because it all starts with the dressing up but it leads to the idea that wearing makeup at a young age is okay and accepted, or worse, expected!
One of my cousins let her 4 year old daughter wear makeup for dressing up and now she insists on wearing eyeshadow and colored lip gloss everyday!!!! I blame my cousin of course.
When she’s ready? Every girl is different.
13-15 depending on the girl.
My mother let me “play” with makeup when I was very small, starting around 6 or 7. I wasn’t allowed to wear it out of the house until I was 14ish.
NEVER!!
hahahahahha
just kidding folkings.
it should be whenever they start to feel they need it.. but of course older than 15
My parents let me start wearing makeup at age 14 and I remember I was the last girl in my class to start wearing it (they were already wearing it 12-13 years old. I guess I would allow my daughter if I have one to wear it once she hits jr. high, so I guess that would be around age 12 or 12 1/2. Only reason I would let her wear it before then is if she had really bad acne or something and could understand why she felt she needed it. But I think once in junior high is fair. You gotta pick your battles at that age, and makeup is the least of my worries once kids hit junior high. I think I’ll be more worried about them not drinking, trying drugs, or having sex, which are all very common nowadays for jr high kids.
@tigerdauphin - Hmm, I see you point and concern. For me, I think it is more about teaching the child to respect items and use them properly, but then again that links to the personality of the child and parenting. Thank you for sharing your insight with me. You have taught me something I hadn’t even considered.
whenever they want to, I guess.
But I do think 10 is way too young.
I think I started wearing it when I was 13 or 14.
13 or 14.
oh and let me add of course I would teach my jr high girl how to use it properly and not look like a whore. I wouldn’t let her wear bright lipstick or blush or any of that shit. Just the basics, foundation to cover blemishes, lip gloss and maybe some fun eyeshadow colors or mascara.
14-15… girls mature quicker then boys.. haha! if not, 16.
Err.. NOT 10. 16+
when they go into jr High or start to show interest at an appropriate age- that depends on your daughters maturity level
i started around 14-15 but only because i was on my school’s dance team. i’m 19 now but i still don’t wear makeup on a normal basis…becauseeee…it just isn’t necessary.
@ghostcomplex - i agree also.
I never wear make up.
The only time I do is when I go to a concert, and that’s only eyeliner.
Fourteen and fifteen seems about right. Then again that’s just me.
I think 13 or 14 is a good age. They obviously can’t go all out and glob-ify their faces, but just a little powder used as cover-up is good, and lip gloss. that’s what i used to wear at that age.
@relaxolgy - you misspelled misspelled.
Didn’t start until I was 18yrs old.
never
Ten? That’s way to young, IMHO. Maybe 14, 15. Girls look so pretty without it.
I was always told that wearing make up ages your face. It also doesn’t let your pores breath, and will cause break outs. I didn’t need it until I was nineteen. (That’s when I started drinking and getting hang overs.) I can go with out make up, but I have to, have to have my eye liner if nothing else. I will also make my daughter wait to wear make up, I don’t think it is a big deal, children need to enjoy being children.
I think wearing make up may pressure our young ones to grow up to fast, I wouldn’t want my daughter to wear rouge at a young age, now what does that say about me as a parent.
13. Once you get the “teen.”
full make-up (base/blush/eyeshowdow/eyeline/lip stick [or stain] ect) freshman year of high school. (14-15)
simi make-up (soft eyeshadow/mascara/lip gloss) 7-8 grade school (12-14)
little make up (lip gloss) 7-8
now, lip gloss, little girls like to play in it. well, most little girls like to play with all make-up. but to actually wear it out in public and be accepted i would have to say around those ages. however, that is subjected to change if I or her future father believes it would cause more harm than good (not emotionally ready/looks too mature for her age) but all-in-all i think those are acepted ages.
[[[all this may change once i actually have a child]]]
15 or 16, although if my daughter has bad acne, I’ll let her wear concealer earlier than that.
@LifeNeedsProtection - haha this made me laugh
I started wearing makeup when I was 13…for me that was a good age. I wore it terribly then so it gave me enough time to figure out how to do it right by the time it actually mattered.
My mom slathered makeup on me for piano recitals starting around age 6 and I’ve grown up to hate it and denounce it. She did the same for my sister, who has grown up to love it and use it every day. For someone like me, I don’t think you need to set an age. For my sister though, I’d say high school would be a good time.. maybe?
Psht, I started when I graduated 8th grade at 14-years-old. Despite the age you allow her, she’ll cake it on at first, but she’ll grow out of it as she progresses through her teen years. Happened to me and everyone else (I’m now 18).
i say 12
I started wearing eyeliner when I was 12 or 13. I don’t know about mascara, foundation, eyeshadow, blush, etc.
@Pinky_Piglet - *high fives self*
at her own funeral
as long as she was in a teenage stage..but its good to wear make-up for the age of 18 and up..
My mum wouldn’t like me wearing it even at this age: 18. The thing is, she believes make-up is worn to make you look younger and prettier. Young girls already have their own beauty: they have nothing to hide, usually.
I am fine with that because I hate make-up, anyway. Even at parties or something, the most I will do is eye-liner. I wear lip-balm on my lips: no lipstick and not even lip-gloss. As for foundation and all of that… I only learnt what that was recently. Haha.
15 is ridiculous. Let the girl enjoy her childhood (I know she’s a teen but she’s a kid in my eyes, so young) rather than worrying about the gunk on her face.
I think it’s okay to let them play with make-up when they are little. That way they are experienced with it when they are older. When they are young, a little bit of gloss and maybe some pink or light blue shadow is fine. But you don’t want to whore out your 10 year old. When puberty strikes, and acne begins, girls need their make-up.
I would have to say 14 or 15.
I like Serena Dante’s answer. That’s usually 14-15.
Hell no I’d wear that crap! Never!
PS: Still, I think it’s only appropriate that one would wear it by college.
I don’t know… haha.. thankfully I had a boy. I’m gonna say 15. I started then and I don’t wear more than mascara and lip gloss to this day. Heavy stuff (foundation, concealer, cover-up, eyeshadow, eye liner, lipstick…) all that stuff always caused me to break out with pimples instead of covering them and they all looked really fake. Mascara enhances your eyes a bit, lip gloss gives you a little shine. I get by on that.
Me and my daughter play “dress up” and i want to continue that for as long as possible. But wearing make up in public? Eh, around 14 or 15, i suppose.
I think you should listen to the shild and see what other children in the area are doing.
I started to wear makeup when I was about 13/14, everyone else in my year was so it felt okay to do so.
Also I think you just have to realise that it is just make-up its not a personality changer, a kid wont become a slut if they slick on a bit of mascara. I think alot of people fear that.
sometime in middle school.
that’s when i did at least.so around 14
freshman year of high school. or hopefully never.
14-15… children can be cruel when you have a non-perfect face.
13. A lot of girls in middle school, if not earlier, are already wearing makeup by that point.
But make sure your wife teaches her that it’s about enhancing natural beauty, etc. My mom bought me my first makeup and it was all natural colors. Anything else I had to buy.
If she’s taught to apply it nicely the age won’t matter. ♥
I started wearing makeup when I was 8. Wish I hadn’t, now or in otherwords wish I hadn’t wore as much as I did back then, I looked stupid. But now I wear make up a lot, but not all the time. I’m comfortable with or without it.
At least 16.
If I have a daughter, I’ll let her start wearing makeup when she finishes elementary school. But after that, she can wait as long as she wants. I was 14 when I started.
15 for any color like eye shadow or lipstick. Some girls have acne and a foundation can help conceal all the blotchiness. If that is the case, I think 13 is fine.
I think it depends on their individual maturity and the kind of makeup she’d be permitted to use.
I wasn’t allowed to wear makeup until I was 16, which felt ridiculously old. I think I would let my (hypothetical) daughters start once they reached highschool.
I think it just depends on the girl…. I started wearing makeup around the age of 12 – 13 but most people thought I was much older before I started wearing makeup anyway. Each girl is different but I think when a little girl starts having a desire to wear makeup and look pretty, then as long as her parents/mother guide her and help her with how to wear it and not wearing TOO MUCH, I think she should be allowed to start learning how to wear it whenever she starts wanting to wear it…. But obviously at that age there would be certian places she would not be allowed to go while wearing makeup or occasions when it would not be appropriate for a little girl that age to show up all made up. So I think it just has to be decided as it happens.
In the morgue. Makeup sucks.
@maniacsicko - ditto!
She can work her way up to it… I started wearing concealer and mascara in 7th grade (12 or 13 yrs old), then added the rest – eyeshadow, liner, blush, etc. – when I was 15 or 16. It was never a point of contention between me and my parents, but I’m sure it is for a lot of families.
Every girls is different. I have been wearing make up since I was 11.
When I was about 8, my mom would let me put on a little bit of make up each time we had a special occasion and my older cousins use to give me little make overs for fun since I was 6.
It depends on the influence’s they have growing up.
I think 10 years old is WAY too young!! I don’t think girls should start wearing any kind of makeup until 15 or 16, at youngest. I used to wear makeup when I was young (mostly because my almost-stepsisters did, and I did everything that they did). I stopped wearing it, though, because it broke my skin out so much. Makeup is actually bad for your skin (even the expensive kinds) and can actually cause wrinkles and make you look a lot older. Makeup is supposed to be sort of invisible, just sort of defining what you already have. Unfortunately, I’m starting to see more and more women and girls wearing makeup so thick (especially on the eyelids) that they resemble a doll.
I don’t think anybody should wear makeup, but… Also, I heard one time that the main psycological reason that most females wear makeup, and at the same time are not aware of, is to look more feminine/hormone-filled to get a better mate…
14.
I think it’s okay to play around with make-up when a girl is any age, as long as it’s minimal. For wearing full-blown makeup everyday… I would say 14. 10 is too young for that!
15 or older. Ten is WAY too young.
Never! I don’t see the point. If your ugly your ugly don’t try to cover it up. I have never worn makeup and I save a ton of time and money! (=
NEVER. No girl should ever wear make-up it’s the inner beauty that counts, right? :p
In fourth grade, my friends and I started bringing makeup to school and putting it on there. So we were nine or ten, and were wearing it whether we were supposed to or not. Now, though, I only use concealer and every now and then I wear some eyeshadow and/or mascara. So it’s not like wearing makeup at a younger age made me feel like I needed it.
8th grade.
You should let them play with makeup when they’re younger, but they don’t really need it till high school I guess.
none… they don’t need it.
Natural Beauty is the way to go.
I got my first eyeshadow when I was 12, never wore it, barely wore makeup through all of high school, started sort of almost wearing make up when I was in college. Just not a big fan, I guess. Except mascara, mascara is a MUST!!!
Never. The beauty and cosmetics industry perpetuates an impossible standard of beauty to bait younger and mature women alike to buy their products and buy into the beauty myth so that they can amass their wealth. Your “beauty” is feeding corporate claws.
Also, if you’re a vegan/vegetarian, you should research what really goes into your make-up because chances are, if you wear make-up, you’re contradicting your convictions.
Give me the woman with the natural beauty.
I was allowed to wear nailpolish and coloredchap/lipstick when I was little but I was not allowed to wear concealer, blush or eye makeup until I was in 7th grade (Evebn then I looked no where near the way the girls in the pictures do. That is outrageous!). I see no need for a girl to wear makeup of that kind until then.
I wasn’t all that interested in make up when I was younger, mostly because the girls I was in school with tended to look grotesquely clownish, IMO. My sister, however, was the clown parade’s ring leader. She was going through more make up in her seventh grade year than I had gone through in my whole life.
Many young girls are being raised with this idea that “make up makes you pretty”. I disagree. I think make up should be treated as a tool to accentuate the natural beauty that’s already there.
I do not have a daughter as of now, but am hoping for one in the future. I’d like to say that my daughter won’t wear make up until she’s confident enough in herself to know she doesn’t need it… but… reality must be accepted. I would probably say first year of high school, with a crash course on how to apply, different styles, different effects, etc. and so forth.
I think the best age is 11 years old.
That’s when you start middle school and you
start getting your boyfriends party and all that crap. :O
As soon as they can put it on properly without looking like a clown.
do different things in different stages.
middle school can be mascara and/or lipgloss, and if it’s lipgloss nothing too extreme…. and then into high school she can start wearing other things…
but then again, some middle schools might not allow it. mine didnt :/
whenever she wants, it wont hurt her to experiment a little when shes young. she might resent you if you wont let her wear makeup. i loved playing dress up with makeup when i was young and i started wearing makeup around sixth grade, i was about twelve
Depends. If you’re ugly white trash, all the time whenever you think society will accept you for it.
If you’re naturally beautiful, never.
Makeup is not very good for the skin. I never wear makeup unless this a special occasion like a formal dinner/dance and such.
so, you and your wife are going to decide for our daughters? or is that your typo?
at least you’ve got millions of photos to consult, i’m sure.
I just fine without makeup.
25yrs old is the most suitable year.
it depends on how she wears it. if she just wants to have fun and feel pretty and put some lipgloss and blush on or something, six is fine. but like, a girl shouldn’t make applying lots of makeup to look good a priority that young
I’m not entirely sure- I was allowed to start experimenting with clear mascara and some colored lipgloss/lipstick when I was 13, but I wasn’t allowed black mascara or eyeliner until I was 16. I think 16 is probably a good age.
The idea of allowing a ten year old child to use cosmetics is more than ridiculous. It’s downright chilling. These are little girls, not call girls. The purpose of cosmetics is to make a female more attractive to the opposite sex. Until a girl starts dating unsupervised, this should not even be an issue. Sixteen should be the earliest age… and even then only to a limited degree. Nor should their use be encouraged. Girls, as future women, should be guided into relying on their natural attractiveness; based on their own worth as decent and endearing companions. Not as sexualized images given life. While girls and still girls… let them be so. Once childhood is gone, it’s gone forever. We shouldn’t force them into adulthood prematurely.
6th grade..so i guess 11
i would say a little at the age of 12 or thirteen.. but no heavy foundation or blush or anything.