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Would you let your daughter wear makeup?
Lately I have noticed a growing phenominom of young girls and teens striving to look like twenty year olds. So I can’t help but ask….
Before thinking the worst of me. I want to say that I have no qualms with young girls playing dress up or attending sleepovers that that revolve around playing beauty parlor. I believe it is an aspect of life that is beneficial for them to experience through play. In such a way that can boost their esteem while providing an introduction to becoming a woman. Not to mention it can create priceless memories shared between a mother and daughter. This is not much different than a father and son shaving side by side (the child is using a play razor of course) in front of a bathroom mirror. It seems these timeless pieces of childhood have become distorted. These days you are more likely to see young girls wearing a full makeup mask and acrylic nails believing it to be the norm.
I have seen it time and time again and I wonder what has happened?
These are the thoughts that tend to haunt my mind when I think about my daughter wanting to wear makeup.
What would you consider to be an acceptable circumstance for your daughter to wear make up?
I will probably catch some flak for saying this, but I say BullCrap!
Society tries to put some expectation out there via the media that beautiful means you look like some anorexic (sp?), skin about to fall off the skeleton, overpainted barbie doll.
BULL!!!
Now I won’t discount the value of playing dress up as a valuable bonding experience between parent and child (who says it just has to be mom), but having a little girl in 1st or 2nd grade already run around wearing makeup is a load of BULL!
I don’t care what the pharma and cosmetic industries say about how safe their stuff is, it’s not that good! A lot of it has been even proven to cause more damage, visible premature aging and even cancer.
Why would a parent risk their child’s health like that?
my mom let me slowly go into it. There was no way at 12 or 13 that I was going to be in full makeup, or wear overly long and darkly colored nails. Up until I was 15 or 16 I was allowed to wear tinted moisturizer, a little brown mascara since i’m so pale and lip gloss. Occasionally if I was dressing up i could put on blush if i was really dressing up. My nails were to be kept an appropriate length and i was allowed to wear clear, pastel or glitter if my mom approved of the color. Even as I got into high school most of the heaver makeup i wore was stage makeup used exclusively for dance recitals and theater performances. I will say back then I envied the girls who got to look older when I felt that I looked 12 in comparison so I can relate to wanted to look that way, but I am very glad that my mom put these restrictions on me so that way one, I wasn’t doing more damage to my skin and two because it frees you to see that you can look amazing without having to look like you belong as MIMI’s extra on the Drew Carrey Show.
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