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Beginner make up vids for preteen

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ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 27/12/2021 22:53

Hello, can anyone suggest the best how to make up guides for a preteen please? Not tilktok as she's not allowed on there.

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ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 28/12/2021 13:18

Hopeful Bump

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MrsSkylerWhite · 28/12/2021 13:19

Why does a pre teen need make up? (Unless just dressing up, etc.)

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 28/12/2021 14:29

It's just dressing up! Playing with it, not wearing it out of the house.

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Oblomov21 · 28/12/2021 14:47

Of course pre teens need make up. Videos of they want. If they choose to / want to. I only have ds's but in year 6 girls at Ds1's birthday party had watched kim kardashian videos for eyeliner flicks at the end!

psuedocream3 · 28/12/2021 15:03

Not online tutorials but I bought my 12 year old the bobbi brown makeup manual to learn from, has great reviews.

leccybill · 29/12/2021 00:17

@psuedocream3 Just ordered this too, thanks. Both 41 year old me and pre-teen daughter could do with some tips!

RosesAndHellebores · 29/12/2021 00:24

Pre-teen seems a little early to me.

Spreadingtheword · 29/12/2021 00:31

Revolution (make up brand) or MUA (Superdrug) would be a good place to start, affordable and good quality. Decent makeup brushes are always handy too, maybe a face and eye real techniques set to get her started.

At that age I learnt from YouTube, but I found a lot of videos are 1. American, so products are different. 2. Overly professional with expensive branded products and tools. So I would search things like “UK high street foundation tutorial” and the likes, so it’s relatable for her.

Also, figuring out her skin type, and using products that are made for that skin type is a must. I had really oily skin as a teen and would use Dewey foundations made for drier skin types, which just made me into an awful sweaty, shiny mess that smudged off and I always wondered where I was going wrong.

If she dry skinned, use cream products - oily skinned use setting powders with power products.

A little goes a long way, it’s a cliche but a true one. Foundation and eyeshadow especially, start with the tiniest amount, stand back from the mirror.. assess and add more if she thinks she needs it. But when your close up infringing a mirror concentrating on each part of your face when you stand back you realise you could have definitely used less and looked better doing it.

Let her experiment, have fun with it. You can’t learn if you don’t make mistakes.

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 29/12/2021 11:40

Thanks everyone. Think I'll look at the Bobbi brown book. She does tutorials on Masterclass too and I'd been toying with getting that.

@MrsSkylerWhite and@RosesAndHellebores I was very against it myself, she's only 9! I remember my first make up kit around 12 so was feeling very despairing about her list childhood for a while. It's her best friend who got mostly make up for Christmas is causing the make up interest. But actually she's playing with it, a bit like a more sophisticated face painting and it's part of let's pretend play and a play she's writing and putting on with her friends. The make up is part of the costume and sets. So I don't think it's such a bad thing and maybe she'll know how to do make up and avoid the teenage tangoed stage....

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Iamkmackered1979 · 29/12/2021 14:42

I played with my mums make up as a child I wasn’t allowed to wear it out or at school - I didn’t wear any until I was late late teens it was fun to play with, my 12 year old niece got some for Christmas but only allowed lip balm out of the house. Harmless imo

StatisticallyChallenged · 29/12/2021 17:28

@MrsSkylerWhite

Why does a pre teen need make up? (Unless just dressing up, etc.)
Mine is getting to the stage where she wants to cover up a bit - she's hit puberty earlier than her peers and so has the spots and blemishes of a typical teen and is extremely self conscious about it. So she got some (very light) foundation and concealer and I'm teaching her how to apply it.

She has some eyeshadows etc too which are strictly not for school (they're theoretically no makeup but very light concealer etc gets by) and still very much a play thing, but puberty is tough and I'm not going to refuse to help her with spot disguising just because she's not hit an arbitrary age yet - cos nobody told her body that and as a result she looks about 14/15. It shouldn't matter and she shouldn't have to cover spots but nobody wants to be the odd one out.

I appreciate OP's daughter is a bit younger and looking for play reasons.

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