To think buying a £52 eyeshadow pallet for 9 year old is just madness?

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I'm talking about the James Charles pallet. £52 for eyeshadow and blusher. My DD9 wants to spend her Christmas money on it but I have said a firm NO! A lot of her friends got it for Christmas (I know this is true as have seen their mothers show it off on Facebook). Each to their own and all that but £52! AIBU?

@Leeds2 and hasn't that taught you the value of money and you can't have everything everyone else has.

Seriously? I just can't believe this. Is this a thing now? Actually makes me sad.

There is no way my dd would be wearing make up at 9 let alone spending that much on it - crazy! Why do they want to grow up so fast!

Amazon do some brilliant Beyumi jumbo squishies. There are 10 inch watermelon, peach, strawberry and bananna squishies for sale. I bought my two the watermelon and peach and they are bigger than my head! My eldest sleeps on hers like a pillow!

That make up revolution palette a previous poster linked is a great idea!

I was playing with make up at 9 and i don’t think there’s anything wrong with that however the James Charles palette is very expensive and I feel it would maybe be wasted on a 9 year old? It certainly would have been on me and my friends at that age - we didn’t know how to use it properly.

A cheaper palette to play/practice with seems a good idea to me

The James Charles palette is also very pigmented and some of the pink shades may stain the skin without proper good quality eye primer/foundation which I would assume 9 year olds wouldn’t have?

Make up revolution is also a good brand grown up in its own right so you’re not fobbing her off with kids make up

@Ethel36 I didn't know you got them that big! Will be showing her them in the morning and hopefully she will choose this instead

The colours are terrible unless you are going on drag race no one should be buying that.

The DD is 9 or 29 ...because she wants it she should get it wow.
It’s her money she doesn’t know the value of money ..
If it’s so important to get it and she so wants it tell her to wait 3 months ..just because her friends have an item does not mean she has to have it ..peer pressure.
You know what the right thing to do is ..Do what you know is right.
Next week all her friends might have a designer coat let’s say it’s 500 pounds will you get it ...it’s not everything that we want that we get .

I just realised the palette posted is still £28 oops, many other make up revolution palettes are very affordable though

Ebay do sell genuine articles, they buy them wholesale and make a smaller profit. Ebay are very strict about such things I can assure you.
Anyway, if you bought it from there you could check when it arrives that it has the right packaging and usually some sort of note or a number.

Totally not RTFT but just as an aside. The James Charles palette is £39 on Morphe and code James gets you 10% off with free postage. So not as expensive as OP lists.

In answer to question I got DD age 12 one for Christmas but at 9 I would have said no as she’s only just starting to take care of her makeup now. Previously it was just to mess with.

There's nothing wrong with mucking around with colourful makeup like eyeshadow at 9. If it was to get "perfect" skin or brows or whatever I'd be stricter.
But £52 - no way! I'd be more worried about the influence of branding than about wanting to wear a bit of makeup for discos. 9 is too young to care about brands imo.

Regarding this palette in-particular I would have concerns for someone so young to be using it. The palette is made up of both 'Eyeshadows' (Eye-safe) and 'pressed pigments' (non-eyesafe). Pressed pigments are more likely to stain the eye area, so ideally should be used with a primer. Also depending on application technique could be potentially more damaging to the eye itself if accidentally applied. On the back of all palettes are little eye symbols indicating whether or not shades are eye safe or not. Just something else to take into consideration for your DD apart from potential cost.

I wouldn’t let a 9 year old wear eye shadow.

This. I don't think my 9yo even knows what eyeshadow is. None of her friends ever wear any make-up either and I've never noticed any of the children wearing it at school discos, even the Year 6s. So in my house, no way would she be spending any of her Christmas money on an eyeshadow palette, even a cheap one.

Ps if anyone thinks the £10 ones off eBay are real, think again. They are flawless copies, that look EXACTLY like the real thing but instead often contain toxic cheap chemicals and dyes and you’re risking your kids health to use them.

This is similar to the watermelon one I bought, and the reviews look good!

Lol, @NotUmbongoUnchained I have no problems with my DD going out painted like a tiger but at 9 years old, I think I'll hold on the stripper/kardashian look.

Ebay do sell genuine articles, they buy them wholesale and make a smaller profit. Ebay are very strict about such things I can assure you.

As if they are! 😂 Ebay is absolutely packed with fakes of high end palettes.

The palette is £39, not £52, OP. And there is a discount code for 10% off also (I believe it's 'JAMES').

12 years old? I'm 10 years older than her and I'm using MUA, maybeline and revolution. You cannot fault their make up, get her some real techniques brushes, I thinks purely how you apply the make-up not how expensive it is.. or if a influencer came out with the pallet

At 9 I don't think I would. Because where does it end? It doesn't end at £52 palettes it ends at £100s of pounds worth of make up for a child.

If she wants to play at make up then let her buy cheap stuff to practice with. My dd is 14, wants to spend every penny she has on make up but we compromise with a 50/50 split. 50% on make up and the other 50% to either be saved or spent on something else. Make up also has a shelf life so dd will only replace stuff she needs to replace now she has a bit of a collection.

I would do some research, buy a dupe and let her style it out. Dd uses dupes of her more expensive stuff for day to day and only uses her expensive stuff for special occasions until it is half way through its shelf life.

£52 on makeup at 9yrs old, absolutely not.

i understand its her money but i dont agree with the posters who say we should let then use it just how they like.

Ds2 wanted to spend his christmas money on xbox gift cards so he could buy crap on Fortnite and Roblox. We said No. Hes glad now because hes found something else he's really happy with.

Personally I wouldn't let a 9 year old buy it - but, my DD (just 15) asked for it for Christmas, we took a look and I pointed out that although it was the one she wanted (because of the name) THIS
one had more colours that she would actually use, - she agreed and liked that it was cheaper at £37...