Is putting on makeup every day for school the norm?

Sorry, hadn't noticed.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/2735521-Is-putting-on-makeup-every-day-for-school-the-norm

That previous poster was me, talking about my DDS school.

Some schoolls allow it some don't some girls wear it some don't there are no rules I can't remember age of year 10 is it 15? When mine were that age 1 wore make up 1wasnt that fussed. Our school had a cotton wool drawer with witch hazel at the nurses office where you were told to get that muck off your face I'd have loved to have worn my blue eyeliner and heather shimmer lippy to school

In the school I work in most girls in the upper years wear make up every day, and the numbers go down as you go down through the years. There's not so much of the 'orange foundation and tidemarks' look though - I find that the girls tend to do their make up very well - much better than me!

And you'll note I said "it rather depends on the school" (not the "type of school") because the previous poster suggested it was up to the individual; I countered that it was up to the individual school rule...

Indeed.

Well I didn't. Just never seen make-up allowed at any school I have physical knowledge of, including challenging schools, but in other areas it obviously is, because I saw it on TV...

Absolutely stereotyping - 'on one of those tv programmes about 'challenging' schools full make up is allowed' indeed. I'm jolly glad to hear that you aren't drawing any conclusions about full make up being something of a feature of challenging schools though, because that would be very silly.

Was that a stereotype?? I don't think referring to one school on one programme can be using a stereotype? No conclusions were drawn.

And, yes, in the eighties most of us wore some make up if we could get away with it. You couldn't at my school, though: head of year with a drawer of cotton wool and make-up remover was standard.

Challenging

Challeging schools???! I can assure you that DDS school is not 'challenging', nor was the one I went to in 80s where blue eyeliner, heavy blusher and frosted pink lipstick was the order of the day. Funnily enough, it didn't seem to stop us gaining degree and pretty decent jobs. Do try not to stereotype.

dd's school have a complete ban (also no piercings at all allowed, including earrings). It is strictly applied in the lower years, they are a bit more relaxed in years 10 & 11. No eye makeup or lipstick but them seem okay with foundation & blusher as long as it is actually skin coloured! DD (y11) wears it probably 2-3 days a week, but didn't at all until last year.

I wore makeup to school every day in the 90's
I fondly remember a silver eyeliner than was a favourite.

3Eggses Me too, at 14 (in 1988 and 89) I had far too many piercings, electric blue eyeliner, frosted pink lipstick and we all smoked at school, the teachers did'nt care.

Every corridor that had a toilet block stank of smoke, we were never told off.

I wore orange foundation makeup daily from year 8 onwards. We didn't have any strict rules on this. We did have rules about piercings, hair dye and smoking which I often ignored

We were not allowed make up at school until year 12. Girls would be sent to wash it off and could end up in detetion if it was a regular thing. Our charming form tutor also used to stand the girls ag the front of the class and call them names e.g. slapper, strumpet. Left me with a bit of a complex about wearing make up tbh.

Looking at the lower school girls at the very well known public school in this town, when they're out and about in uniform, I think they are not allowed make-up, and if they do wear it it's so subtle it doesn't look like anything's there. The sixth form girls do seem to wear some, but I suspect they get told to go and wash if it's too garish.

The state school officially bans make up until year nine and will send you to wash your face if it's too OTT. However they all seem to use it from year 8 onwards in that sheep like way adolescents have.

Well, I think it rather depends on the school. Some ban it outright and stick to that rigidly, some turn a blind eye to subtle make-up. I don't know any schools that allow a full face of make-up below sixth form, but on one of those tv programmes set in a "challenging" school, full make-up did seem to be allowed. Ds goes to a day and boarding school and no girls below sixth form wear make-up.

As with everything in life it depends on the person - some girls in my DDS high school wear make up every day (and that varies from a bit of tinted lip gloss and mascara to the full on drag queen look, and everything in between) ), some girls don't. Just like some women wear make up every day and others don't.