DD and make up, what the best way to introduce how to do it right

[lexcat]

DD now 9 for the first time ever did a make over on herself. She has lip gloss and has put on lipstick before but this time it was blusher eye shadow lip liner, lipstick and lastly lots of glitter. Bless her she looked awful.

You wait until she is old enough to buy wear it, for a start ... it's not going to look 'right' on her because she's a little girl, not a young women. Make up is designed to make women look more sexually alluring. Do you want your 9 year old to look sexually alluring?

I'm guessing not. So let her play with her make up toys. She's a child.

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At 9 it's meant to look awful.

She's far too young.

lol at 'bless her she looked awful'

I don't think there's anything wrong with 9 year olds playing with make up at home.

The best way to introduce her how to do it right is wait until she's hit puberty, watch what her skin is like and advice her on cleansing etc based on that, and then for her 16th birthday book her a make up lesson so she doesn't go out looking like Jordan with a tide mark.

At nine, in other words, you leave her be for about 5 years.

Sorry forgot to say not wanting her to start with the whole make-up thing more thinking a head. But it hard as she's in a class which most are Y6 and she's a young Y5. Plus any of her friends at secondary school do wear make-up.

Jiggery you say 'wait until she's hit puberty' she has already and she get's spots so she's already cleansing. Funny she's not bothered by the spots she just doesn't like the bigger one's because it makes her 'skin feel strange'.

Fair enough, if she's got spots I'd suggest a concealer from the Maybeline range, and teach her how to put it on (take her with you to buy it)