To think my niece should be allowed to wear makeup to school.

[PiperIsOrange]

DN came home rather upset today after being told makeup is banned in school. She doesn't wear a lot just some foundation and clear lipgloss.

The reason she likes to wear it is because it covers all her spots, in the summer holiday she didn't wear any. My sister has taken her to the doctors and tried every OTC lotions and potions but nothing works.

It really boost her confidence and now she is dreading school because of these spots.

I have been to her school to collect school reports as dsis due to work commitments and have seen many teachers wearing makeup, so I assume it's a policy for pupils only.

Cherry do you do the primer after the foundation powder then? Or the primer then the foundation powder then the mineral powder?

Have to laugh at the inner beauty bollocks spouted here.

Also why assume makeup is a mask? Makeup is errrr fun and looks nice.

I would far far rather look at a nicely made up face than a pimply one or a tired dry haggered one.

What does primer do? Is it good? I have some uneven skin where I'm scarred...would it help?

Mrs

It can smooth skin and works as a base for foundation etc so it stays put all day.

The Smaxbox one are meant to be very good, bit pricey for full size but they do half sizes too

MrsWinnibago

Primer comes in green and white. Basically the green covers red - it looks like a tube of green toothpaste but you apply and run in to the red and it evens it out, put foundation over the top - even skin tone.

thosegraces.com/how-to-use-green-corrector/

MrsWinnibago

As above, you put the primer on first, then the powder once the primer is dry. There is no actual foundation with what I use, it's a mineral powder so it's heavier than a normal powder and gives coverage like a liquid foundation. You blend it with a kabuki brush and it gives a matt, even coverage. It's just a two-step process but I couldn't be without it now, it makes such a difference!

I have the Bare Minerals primer but I don't think much of it. The Smashbox primer that was mentioned above is far too greasy for my skin, it doesn't rub in properly. I love Benefit's "POREfessional" primer.

As a 13 year old girl called pizza face or puke face and spat on, I didn't like myself much and had zero confidence.

As late teens girl with hair shaved at the sides, make up and contacts lenses I had tons of confidence and quite frankly, I kicked arse.

I'm assuming the wash more/don't eat chocolate brigade also have a good line in telling people how to reattach amputated limbs? Teenage acne isn't that easily cured, if it were I'm sure kids would choose more soap and less sugar over the awful misery that is teenage acne. It's often only treatable (not curable) with the help of long-term antibiotics which have unpleasant side effects.

I have grim memories of the kids with the nicest skin never washing their faces on field trips, cramming sweets in and still waking up with dewy complexions. Please stop promulgating this diet and hygiene crap, it's hormonal and hereditary. Certain soaps with antibiotic properties can help, but kids with good skin neither use nor need these.

There can't be once rule for a "little bit" of make up and another for "a lot". How can they ban kids from coming in with drawn on eyebrows and orange foundation if your niece is allowed to wear make up?

Also, agree with the fact that foundation won't be helping her spots.

I feel her pain abut the spots, but this is a common teen problem, she won't be the only one in school suffering.

"She can't be the only one"
When you spend more time sobbing in your bedroom than anywhere else the feeling of isolation is immense and there is no comfort in knowing that another child is in their bedroom sobbing as well. Some people not being bothered about acne/spots does not take away any pain.

Can recommend the Smashbox primer. It is pricey, but lasts for ages.

What does primer DO exactly though? Sorry to derail...just wondering.

She may not be the only one suffering, same as when I had PND I wasn't the only mum to have it.

It doesn't minimise her feelings.

Doctors appointment is now booked for her, it's in school time so this is already affecting her education by missing the last lesson of the day.

Primer makes your face like a blank canvas, so make up looks flawless when applied.

I have heard that diatomaceous earth is good for bad skin (food grade). A couple of tea spoons in juice in the morning. Have a google. Anything is worth a go if she feels like she may be picked on. Bless her.

I have just ordered myself some because I still get dreadful skin monthly and I'm nearly 40.

I wonder whether people would be as comfortable refusing to allow someone disguise a nasty scar with make up? Where would they draw the line? People with acne can be terribly self conscious, acne can be very noticeable. I wore makeup over teenage spots. Controversially I felt it speeded their recovery, probably because I was less stressed when they were covered. I feel minimal make up should be allowed.

I just feel that how can an adult tell a teen off for wearing makeup while she also has makeup on.
Because she is the adult, and the pupil is the pupil, and subject to school rules. The school rules are there for all students to abide by, not for them to pick and choose.

I agree - face makeup is likely to aggravate the skin condition. (And also wonder why lip-gloss features in the discussion - that will neither help nor disguise acne).

I feel for your niece, but she needs to learn that she does not have the right for preferential treatment, and your sister needs to take her back to the GP for the medical condition to receive further assessment, and a request for a referral to a skin specialist.

So YABU.

capsicum

Glad you brought up the scar issue.

My 15 year old dd covers her facial scars with foundation and that makes her feel good.

The scars were caused on a school trip so there's not much the school could say even if they wished to. They don't as our schools are bloody sensible.

Please please can posters stop spouting bollocks on diet and inner beauty solving teenage skin problems

How bloody ignorant to bang on about this as if those with acne are chocolAte scoffing unwashed idiots.

Educate yourselves.

Mrs W
Primer evens out skin tone and acts as a base for your make-up.
It makes your foundation look fresh for ages.

Sorry for going off-thread, OP.

These schools sound awful by the way. All of our senior schools allow makeup.
All have outstanding results.

If people can tell she's wearing makeup, she's doing it wrong. I wore it all through school despite strict bans, because ultimately it was just a little concealer where it was needed. The orange-faced girls with thick tidemarks on their necks were the ones having to wash it off.

The lipgloss will be making it glaringly obvious she's wearing it. So will poor application of powder or foundation laid on top of the acne. A good quality BB cream would be undetectable.

Maybe get her a make-up session somewhere, they can teach her how to apply it so it looks so natural she never gets pulled up on it.

MrsWinnibago

If you cover red with green it becomes a neutral colour, the same as the rest of the skin. It basically disguises the red part of spots/acne.

Have a look at this - it's a single zit being covered but it shows how it works.

never-finished.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/disappearing-act-how-to-cover-blemishes.html

The whole idea with primer is to get an even skin colour before applying makeup, bu some can be used without make up.

I know that about the green....I have some mentioned up thread I just didn't know what primer did.

I wear make up about 6 times a year. I don't see the need for it. It is bad that young girls think they can't be seen without it.

It's not the same Lorn if you have facial scars or spots. You don't I assume?