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Dressing table teen girls

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rennite · 22/04/2026 17:01

AIBU to think that not all well not even most teenage girls have a designated table for their beauty stuff? Dd's room is small and she has to make do with a tall Ikea malm chest of drawers to store her beauty products keep her mirror etc.
Dd14 is in a huge huff and says all her friends have dressing tables and it's an absolute embarrassment not have one and no, a drawer unit does not count apparently.

So do your teen girls have one? If not how do they possibly cope?

YABU - get the girl a dressing table and get rid of the drawers
YANBU - Malm drawers are ok for this

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rennite · 22/04/2026 17:12

She has a desk that's 140cm so also plenty of space to store cosmetics stuff on one side (drawers on both sides of the table). It would be odd to add as second table and chair imo.

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golla346 · 22/04/2026 17:10

My 11 year old has one, her 24 year old sister or I do not have one. We are of the age of sitting on the floor in front of the mirror and doing our make up

rennite · 22/04/2026 17:06

NotAnotherScarf · 22/04/2026 17:05

I'm a 57 year old man and I have a dressing table for my fragrances, watches, deodorant, nose hair clippers, clothes brushes, cufflinks etc...so yeah it's normal

Great first post!

OP posts:
NotAnotherScarf · 22/04/2026 17:05

I'm a 57 year old man and I have a dressing table for my fragrances, watches, deodorant, nose hair clippers, clothes brushes, cufflinks etc...so yeah it's normal

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