To hate make up aimed at little girls.

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I have a 3 1/2 yr old who is very girly and has occassionally put on make up at friend's houses. It obviously end up in a mess and gets treated as just good fun. I can't help feeling this is just another way of oversexualising little girls and it really bothers me.

It's only a problem if it's aimed really well. A lipstick between the eyes can really hurt you know.

Oh bugger. I need to go home and open the wine....

maybe I'm not an adult female after all (checks) oh yes, I am...

YANBU I hate the way that is becoming the normal for girls to 'little women' at such a young age. The UK is obsessed with getting children to grow up fast and then complaining when they do.

i loved it as a little girl and i love it now!

my girly girls love to play with it and we also play dress up, including with my heels and the costume jewellry now handed down 3 generations and headed for a 4th.

they even have nail varnish for wee girls.

DD1 calls it her 'sparklies'.

we're going to play sparklies a lot tomorrow because the weather's going to be truly bad up here and we'll be indoors all day.

meh

Well madlentileater,there's no genderstereotyping chezmoi. My 3 yr old son loves to fiddle about with make up too.

My youngest DS does too. DD can't stand it.

ah - you see - I never wear make up.

surely the problem is in the role model of the mum, not in the make up per se

i have my mother's 45-year-old Samsonite vanity case full of my own makeup .

you can't take the Latina out of a girl, after all .

YABU I don't see the harm in playing with make up myself, I'm with expat.

I'm less concerned with the idea that play make up at home oversexualises children than I am with the idea that we should suck all the fun out of childhood so that it may conform with some sterile idea of what is proper and right according to an adult view of the world. Of course its creepy to fully make up a three year old and put her in a boob tube and gold hot pants, but thats a million miles away from some pink sparkly powder and pretending to be a princess.

I don't wear make up ever so she is not copying me at all - but having seen her friends do it thinks it's normal.

Would all of you who think it's fine have a problem with an older prepubescent child wearing it or is it going to be fine with you through out childhood?