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AIBU to still resist play makeup?

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whatmess · 16/02/2015 22:06

Just gone upstairs to find 6yr old dd dolled up like something out of a pantomime, my eyeliners and shadow all over the towels, my favorite and very expensive bubble bath full of tooth paste, a recently full bottle of hair oil now empty, two lots of handwash watered down and both bathrooms looking like a soap hurricane hit.

In true comic style, each bit of dds ingenuity was discovered after I had finished telling her off for the previous, leaving me flabbergast and slightly concerned about what I haven't discovered yet.

An hour of me tidying bathrooms and washing oil out of a sobbing dds hair, not to talk of the expense of it all has left me wondering if I shouldn't just buy her some play makeup, but she's 6 fgs.

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RiojaHaze · 16/02/2015 22:08

IME it doesn't matter if they have their own, they still feel the need to slather themselves and their friends in your Mac foundation and Benefit bronzer and highlighter rather than their own Minnie Mouse stuff.

WorraLiberty · 16/02/2015 22:10

Well any older than 6 and she's unlikely to want play make up for long Confused

What's your problem with it?

GoogleyEyes · 16/02/2015 22:10

I don't wear make-up. Dd1 resorted to usingthe chalk from blackboard bit of the easel.

It was at that point that I gave in and bought her play make-up - it was safer and less messy.

WorraLiberty · 16/02/2015 22:11

But I certainly wouldn't buy it for her just yet, after she's been so naughty.

whatmess · 16/02/2015 22:20

Just never wanted to encourage it. So DH and I have always taken the line that makeup is for adults. I guess to some extent I am trying to stave off the wearing makeup to school battles my sister has with her 11yr old.

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crazykat · 17/02/2015 22:32

There not much you can do to stop pre teens wanting to wear make up to school ime. My niece wasn't allowed play make up as a child and she's almost 12 and puts it on with a trowel every chance she gets.

I don't see the harm in play make up, I bought my dd some of the superdrug own brand stuff for her 4th birthday and you'd have thought it was gold from her reaction. She's only allowed eyeshadow, lip gloss/stick, blush and nail varnish but it keeps her out of mine and she loves it. At first she wanted it on all the time but now the novelty has worn off its only once in a while.

As long as it's taken off properly before bed I can't see the harm.

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