Would you allow your 12 year old to have acrylic nails?

My daughter is trained nail technician and she wouldn't do acrylics on anyone under 16 as it can ruin their young nails, although there is no legal age limit. She has said as an alternative then BIAB gel. I do think though with everything you've organised she is the one being unreasonable.

Nope. We allowed gel polish around 13/14 and first acrylics at 16

Age 12 - no chance (& even my Dd laughed when I asked her!)

Many of my Y8 and Y9 girls I teach get acrylics in the holidays so it is common.
I wouldn't let mine though, I think it looks really tacky. Luckily, she's not into make-up, tight clothing, tanning or anything like that.

I have BIAB myself a few times a year and my own nails are in great condition, no issues whatsoever. I prefer the look of short nails.

Please tell me there aren’t 12 year olds going around with acrylic nails.

Far too young IMO.

Jesus Christ. I don't know what happened, but that's not normal.

Oh nooo! Please don't. My 16yo dd has had a nail infection twice under acrylic nails about 12 months apart. Both times the nail fell off and took its time growing back. Her friend also caught an acrylic on clothing and ripped her thumb nail half off. Neither will ever have them again. Such an expensive risk.

Make sure that if you are taking your DD to have her nails done at some point, you are 100% sure there is no modern slavery taking place.

Given the strop I'd say no anyway. Start the shortly to be teenage years as you mean to go on. Worth investing in the pain now, will be to your benefit later.

My 12YO has had GEL TIP extensions twice. They are far more gentle to the natural nail than acrylics and were a little tip to give a natural length (same length as finger) because she bites them so short.
it did stop her biting because she liked them & I think we could have got to and maintained a natural nail with a neutral colour she’d stop biting entirely. Even bought a kit to gel them at home (same price as having done once professionally) but neither of us kept it up! & school wouldn’t have allowed a colour, however subtle.

acrylics wreck your natural nail.

You need to stick to your guns and say no not this year.

🤣 I agree!

For context and to clear up some comments, my daughters aren't high maintenance women, they have done go ape, all manner of centre parcs activities, wall climbing, swimming, horse riding, even bowling and the like with their nails done, mostly acrylic but now one daughter prefers her gels.
They are very normal young women who study hard at uni/ sixth form and hold down jobs! They don't have Botox nor body modifications and have just always loved having their nails done in school holidays.
Everyone has their own opinions and quite rightly so. My answer was a yes and not a battle I picked, and trust me some I did pick, never did them any harm (or their natural nails)

Not a chance!

@hahahahahahahahahah this is what I allow for my 13 year old. DD’s friend who gets acrylics is 2 years older and her mum has a nail salon. DD asked for a while and complained that her friend is allowed them but then I explained what damage could be done to her nails and that the school have said they’re not allowed for health and safety reasons and she accepted it. There was a time when she questioned why she wasn’t allowed them when her friend had them for school and didn’t get into trouble but the rule we have is that if the school says no, then we say no. I don’t care how many others are breaking/bending the rules, she is not.

I wouldn’t even let her for a holiday. She’s being a brat.

No. I let my DD 12 have a manicure last week...just a file and polish. But it's a definite no to acrylics

According to this thread they are 100% a gateway cosmetic. Nails at 12. BBL by 14. Crack whorehouse 14.5. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Vow. I have a 13 year old, and none of her friends has acrylic nails, has manicures or wears makeup.
They play football and waterpolo, read, write, cook, play music, play video games, dance... they don't have any interest in trying to look like adult women

Can you see where you're in a bit of a minority with this?

No!
I wouldn't have them myself, tried them once in my 20s and they destroyed my actual nails.

A manicure and polish of her own nails would be fine.

I don´t have acrylic nails myself, like hell my underage daughter is gointg to have them. YANBU.
When she is 18 and earning she can do what she likes.

Educate her that going to a nail bar or non standard salon means the quality of products used are not up to industry standard and can cause a-lot of problems in the future. Also they are near impossible to remove!

I agree. So many people do go to these fast-turnaround nail bars though. I've never had nail damage from the lady who does my acrylics but she's the only person who hasn't damaged my nails with acrylics.

Sorry, under 16, not under 14

No, too young. They’ll ruin her natural nails and kids are invariably awful at looking after them anyway.

The nail salon I go to won’t actually do acrylic nails, or any other kind of nail extensions, on anyone under 14.

Facefortheradio · Yesterday 22:30
If you can find a nail salon who will do acrylics on a kid then you'd probably be best to avoid the place like the plague.

But no. I wouldn't allow my 12/13/14/15 yr old to have them.”

This.

Also, I would like to add that I did say originally I supported OP saying no to her daughter but for me it would have been the financial implication on this occasion that made up my mind.
It was another posters comment about them being 'unwholesome' that annoyed me, even when they tried to backtrack and say it was about the germs.