Makeup as gifts

[BadFeminist]

DD is 4.
This year the majority of her Xmas gifts are makeup.

Since starting school DD loves makeup, (and shit American accents and hair flipping) and this is what she has asked for.

She will watch YouTube tutorials on makeup (which I support because it's either that or that god awful Ava Isla and whatever the third one is and I cannot handle their mothers voice without breaking something) and really just wants to play and be "made up" with glittery shit and pink lipstick.

I don't do makeup, I use the same Superdrug eyeliner I've been using for ten years and my one bottle of foundation lasts about two years, so I'm a complete failure as a mother clearly.

Today discussing what the kids are getting in Work one of the wives of a colleague made hell of a face and said "oh god" but when I asked what she meant she just shrugged it off and said "oh nothing, I just think that's not really the done thing" but wouldn't elucidate any further.

Is is THAT big of a deal?

Erm no OP you stated that your 4yo was getting mainly makeup as Christmas gifts. That's fucking insane. My 17yo DD isn't getting 'mainly' make up and my 9yo DD isn't getting any! (She got some unicorn brushes for her birthday)

Im assuming because a 17 yo will have their own, I mean, I had my own flat at that age.
And the 9yo obviously does because brushes.

There will not be a repeat makeup buying until there is none left of this, which I'd like to assume will last a good while, 🙄

Ah right. I did wonder. I don't stick religiously to use by dates on makeup but 10 years s would have been a push for me even.

Amazed your DD has time for you tube tutorials what with all the museums reading music and Physics for fun

Also, why are you all so emotionally stressed about this?

I'm being portrayed as the worst human in the world and even I can't muster up a fuck. My bath water has gone tepid I'm that entertained by it all.

"The internet is insane"

You're the one who came on saying your 4yo is getting "mainly" makeup

Amazed your DD has time for you tube tutorials what with all the museums reading music and Physics for fun

I'm a social services case but you can't comprehend visiting museums, singing, reading and playing with science in a child's week.

Mmmmmmkay. Maybe get off here and parent, like.

OP, I've never heard such a lot of defensive, back-pedalling,shiny-shit claptrap.
I'm out!

Also, why are you all so emotionally stressed about this?

We're what now? So on top of everything else, you can read minds online?
You should be, like, Queen of something.

Ah right. I did wonder. I don't stick religiously to use by dates on makeup but 10 years s would have been a push for me even.

(I have a maybelline mascara in a big fat yellow tube that I bought the first time I went to boots when I was sixteen that's STILL in my vanity... I don't use it, mascara is scary, but it's there)

I wouldn't give a 4-year-old makeup. Well, possibly a play set to go in the dressing-up box (and only if she had her heart set on it). But it is not something I would encourage at all. I would certainly nix the YouTube videos.

We're what now? So on top of everything else, you can read minds online?
You should be, like, Queen of something.

Nah, you'd usurp me for making you hang out with your kids instead of cling to your phones/laptops.

I assumed you'd all kind of know what to expect with a 4 year old, the scene being a smear of glitter somewhere in the facial region and then a "look mummy, it's so glittery and pretty" and then the adult says "looks lovely my love" and then she'll say "mummy let me do yours" and then I'll spend an hour with makeup brushes being poked into my eyes, nose and mouth. We will both acknowledge how glittery we are and then it gets washed off, microfibre cloth, no chemicals

We might, it you hadn't been rabbiting on about the exact opposite of that.

Do you even listen to yourself?

Hang on- You didn't go into a branch of Boots until you were 16?

As an aside that mascara will be a tube of crumbs by now.

*We might, it you hadn't been rabbiting on about the exact opposite of that.

Do you even listen to yourself?*

Well, I'm typing and my phone is on silent so no, there is no sound...

Oh, now I remember why the OP's username is familiar. I shouldn't have bothered to reply.

Yes yabu

I have a 4year old she’s had a cheap set of make up and nail vanishes but I think it’s over kill that the majority of her presents are make up. Dd is only allowed abit of makeup on occasion.

Are the Daily Fail using this as fodder for an "article" yet?

Well, I'm typing and my phone is on silent so no, there is no sound

Christ you're obtuse.

You know no-one believes a word out of you, yeah?

This is quite literally the saddest post I've seen today. Whether it's a fake post or not I can well imagine it's real.

A 4 year old watching how to do make up on YouTube? FFS! Can we all just let our kids go back to being kids? Let's not start them obsessing about their looks just yet eh?

Makes me so sad seeing all these young kids pouting away in photos copying the older generation. Social media gone mad

Whoah everybody chill out. It's almost Christmas. It's only a child and some makeup for fun, why all the hostility? I bet your dd is great OP and by sounds of things an extremely bright child who alittle bit of glitter isn't found to affect!

going rather

*Hang on- You didn't go into a branch of Boots until you were 16?

As an aside that mascara will be a tube of crumbs by now.*

No. And that was for pink hair dye. It still smells ok...

I didn't actually start wearing makeup until I was 18 and that was only on weekends!
I worked with a girl the same age as me when I was a groom and she would come in with full makeup and I was in awe because A. We had to be on the yard by 6am, B. It NEVER moved and C. She was always so cool with it. I would be smearing and itching all day.
I saw her once without makeup and didn't recognise her. Not because she was ugly, I don't think anyone "needs" makeup, but she just looked so different and so freaking young.

This is why DD being such a girly girl is so terrifying. 😂

*Today 19:49 BadFeminist

Amazed your DD has time for you tube tutorials what with all the museums reading music and Physics for fun

I'm a social services case but you can't comprehend visiting museums, singing, reading and playing with science in a child's week.

Mmmmmmkay. Maybe get off here and parent, like.*

Are you drunk?

Oh dear.