Nail varnish. What do you think about it on children?

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Is it okay to put it on small, preschool children? Assuming they have asked for it and is part of some well-thought out holiday play scheme/considered parenting approach to behavioural issue.

Or is it unsafe and cheap and frankly a wee bit suspect to paint the toe nails of a four year old?

Or is it just fun occasionally and ffs just polish after all?

its harmless and fun

FUN

remember that?

personally, i really think its just wrong and awful and sad and there is no way in hell my dd is wearing any kind of make up until she is a teenager.

what the fuck is this world coming too

Toe nail varnish really is harmless fun on little girls. My daughter loves it (with her pink and bejewelled Italian sandals).

farrowandball, isn't it just part of dressing up and role play?

The kind of stuff that kids really enjoy?

Didn't you play with make up when you were a child?

Wrong, awful and sad are a bit strong imo.

At DD's party I painted everyone's nails (and I didn't ask their parents permission) and they were 2 and 3yo

Go naily!

well, presumably the world has come to a point where people can have different opinions and if i choose not to let my dd wear make-up which i associate with sexuality then, happily, i can. i dont much care what anyone else does.

well, presumably the world has come to a point where people can have different opinions and if i choose not to let my dd wear make-up which i associate with sexuality then, happily, i can. i dont much care what anyone else does.

'wrong and awful and sad' Really????! Its not like I am shovelling make up on dd with a trowel. Its nail varnish ffs, mainly in stupid colours like orange. Its not exactly rouge noir...

friend painted dd3's toes and fingers on holiday

chanel pale pink

she was totally gripped and very proud (she is 2 - my dd3 not the mate)

nail varnish associated with sexuality

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

you can say the same for skirts

do you let your dd wears skirts? do you put pretty things in her hair? does she wear pretty socks?

you associate make up with sexuality

do you wear a wimple?

F&B your daughter will turn out just like me .... from mid teens to mid 20s I wore so much make up I looked like a shortsighted transvestite.

I'm still mildly obsessed with it now. all because my parents made a big song and dance about how disgusting it is on little girls, well of course I was determined to prove I wasn't a little girl asap.

Let them do their clown faces when they are young, I say, that way by the time they are 15 they'll have grown out of it!

yeah. i do think in my opinion - feel free not to share it - that its really awful to see perfect untouched kids nails with polish on.

farrowandball - do you cut your children's hair? Dress them?

Children are not "perfect" or "untouched".

I am on the fence with this one as I think it looks a bit hmmmm but both mine beg me when I do my nails

have resisted so far mainly with the excuse that the remover stinks to high heaven and is full of evil

My DD is 6 and paints her nails, badly, with her own polish from her make up tat box.
She must chew it off because at night there's never any left.

usually I only wear colour on my toes, dd is three and I don't mind doing it for her, toes only as well often a different colour each.

it is just play she will not be allowed make up until well into her teens anyway

i dont give my childre a manicure ffs - if im painting my nails i will ptu a teeny dab on their toes

My ds1 (5) got into my nail varnish a couple of weeks ago and painted his nails purple, and I must say, that child has a talent. He must have been acting very covertly yet he did a really neat job.

I asked him why he wanted to have purple nails, and he said he wanted to be beautiful. I nearly cried. I told him he was already beautiful.

"Yes, I know I am beautiful but I wanted to be beautiful like a mummy with purple nails, not like a boy!" Maybe I flatter him too much!

My dd1's nursery school teacher put nail varnish on all the girls' fingernails - children are aged 4 - I told her - that would never happen in England! It didn't bother me at all, although it was a rather vomit inducing shade of pink.

My ds used to paint his with a pen, before I started doing them, because he wanted to be like mummy, not because he was tring to attract a mate

Would you take his pens away too?

I also draw tattoos on his 'perfect untouched skin' with an eyeliner pen......

iirc you can get peel off nail polish for children

now I would try that I think, if it was v pale

I think it looks really trashy when I see it on little girls, I am hoping dd doesn't want to wear it when she gets older