Dressing table teen girls

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AIBU to think that not all well not even most teenage girls have a designated table for their beauty stuff? Dd's room is small and she has to make do with a tall Ikea malm chest of drawers to store her beauty products keep her mirror etc.
Dd14 is in a huge huff and says all her friends have dressing tables and it's an absolute embarrassment not have one and no, a drawer unit does not count apparently.

So do your teen girls have one? If not how do they possibly cope?

YABU - get the girl a dressing table and get rid of the drawers
YANBU - Malm drawers are ok for this

I'm a 57 year old man and I have a dressing table for my fragrances, watches, deodorant, nose hair clippers, clothes brushes, cufflinks etc...so yeah it's normal

Great first post!

My 11 year old has one, her 24 year old sister or I do not have one. We are of the age of sitting on the floor in front of the mirror and doing our make up

She has a desk that's 140cm so also plenty of space to store cosmetics stuff on one side (drawers on both sides of the table). It would be odd to add as second table and chair imo.

First DD sat on an exercise ball in front of a wardrobe mirror that had drawers on one side.
Second DD sits on floor in front of same wardrobe.

Not only did they not have a dressing table but one DD had the indignity and shame of not having a new wardrobe 😱

I love the challenge of doing make up on an exercise ball.

Not only did they not have a dressing table but one DD had the indignity and shame of not having a new wardrobe 😱
😂

My Dd has a dressing table but inadequate clothes storage. Sometimes I think a chest of drawers would have been a better buy than the dressing table, as her clothes are all crammed into her tiny wardrobe and she keeps half on the floor 🫣

I always had one as a teen but don't as an adult but it's not relevant really. In reality she's not upset that every teen on the planet has one, the issue is that she feels left out because her friends obviously do, coupled with the fact that's obviously something she'd really like to have. If it weren't there wouldn't be a fuss at all.

I'd probably just give in on this one, it could be facilitated pretty cheaply and be a nice bonding thing to set up.

One of my kids did, but turned it into a desk and relegated all make up etc to a big drawer when she hit 15. The other wasn't interested when younger but at 16 took over the family bath with all her stuff.

I think it's fairly common for girls of that sort of age to have a dedicated space, but not necessarily a dressing table. I suspect if you actually went to every one of her friends bedrooms, a minority would actually have a dressing table solely dedicated to that task. "all my friends..." is the go to teen reasoning and rarely actually true.

I think most of her friends do have them. I see your point @Krevlornswath, I'll wait a bit and see where we are at in the summer holidays, if she is still keen, we can consider it. I just think having your products and mirror high up like on a malm makes more sense.

My teen has a small bookcase which has her makeup on the top shelf and she just stands in front of her wardrobe mirror to put it on.
she does has a desk though which never gets used because everything is done on iPad/laptop. I’m going to replace the desk with a dressing table eventually.