Young Girls wearing make up

This seems very sexist to me, that it is considered necessary/appropriate for girls to wear make-up! Why would they need to try and make themselves appear more attractive than they already are. They are being brainwashed in a way that is shocking in this century.

Girls today are wearing make up much earlier than we were allowed to.

Some years ago there was a great to-do because underwear was being sold for little girls that looked much the same as ladies' underwear of the kind we buy when we want to spice things up.

I find it sad that little girls of ten are allowed to use make up and dress like teenagers, but I have no objection to them playing with make-up at home, or using it for plays at school.

No-one is likely to mistake a ten year old for a girl over the age of consent, but fourteen year olds dressed to kill is a slightly different thing. By letting little girls use make up, it is perhaps harder to prevent fourteen year old girls looking as if they are at least eighteen

I don’t like the idea of it.... however, I remember my father going berserk when i put a bit of eyeshadow on when I was 14 (50 years ago).... Now it’s our turn to be shocked by the behaviour of youngsters ?‍♀️????

Everyone is different though.
Some people enjoy putting on a face.
My mum saw not having a bit of lippy on as 'letting yourself go".

I hate seeing young girls with makeup, why are we telling them that they need this to look beautiful. I have two beautiful daughters who hardly ever wear makeup and I personally have never used it.

I feel that make up for a lot of young girls is to try to make them look older. What benefit would a 10 year old derive from applying makeup other than to feel older/grown up. I don't even like to see nail polish on primary school children. Let them have something to look forward to when they are grown up. Same with the mini adult clothing.

Children mature so much earlier these days. I was still playing with dolls at fourteen. Didn’t wear make up until seventeen when the girls at work encouraged me to do so. My father was furious.

Definitely too young. When my daughter used to do ballet, come exam time any child with makeup on was told, by the teacher, to take it off.

Times have changed. I don’t like to see young children wearing makeup, but using a little is considered acceptable now.
I remember whenI left school at 16, and was about to start my first job. My mum told me that I had better start wearing some makeup, and took me shopping. I had never used any before, and probably looked a complete mess!

judy54 I also dislike seeing make up on children. I think they should stay children for as long as possible and not grow up too soon as there is no going back!
However I wonder if they just see it as playing, like face paint or dressing up?

I don't like it, but DD allows 10 year old DGD to wear lipstick, sparkly eyeshadow and mascara if she is going out, to theatre or family do. It is the parent's decision, so I am not going to say anything.

Wrong on every count.

Judy54 I'd say it depends how much make-up she had on.
A little is fine for a special occasion, if she likes it.

I say that as someone who has never worn make-up since teenage years, and then only a little.
I tend to agree with sandelf.

wearing and experimenting with

No it doesn't - it says I like wearing a bit of makeup, I like the colours, I enjoy experimenting with it, just as I enjoy wearing different and experiementing with clothes and hair styles.

I/me is at the centre of my thought process - not you.

I can't stand make up on children under about 15, especially when they put it on so thick and stop just at the neck so have a "tide line". A bit of mascara and lip gloss maybe, but bit the full works. I've never worn make up and none of my daughters were into it either, though they might be now! Thank God I don't have to see it

Wearing make up says - I don't look good enough for you to see unless I hide the real me. Bad enough adults accept this for the most part. A TOTAL no no for children.

At 10 years old she is an adolescent though. The average age of puberty in females is 10 years old & the World Health Organization defines an adolescent as any person between ages 10 and 19.

I don't have as much of an issue with nail varnish. Little girls often like to wear sparkly nail varnish and I don't put that in the same category as makeup. I feel the same way about clear lip gloss.

Thank you everyone for your interesting views. I can understand teenage girls experimenting with make up but a 10 year old is a Child not an Adolescent nor an Adult. Like Sodapop I am probably considered old fashioned in my view on this but as Tangerine says I realise we are all individuals with different ideas. That's what makes life so interesting!

I think it depends how much make up. If it was just a little bit, I don't see that there is any harm in it. A wedding is not the same as school.

Even on adults, I don't like to see make up caked on but I realise we're all individuals with different ideas.

My granddaughter has occasionally worn a bit of pale nail varnish since she was 6. She’s 7 now. I hate to see it, but I say nothing to my DIL I think make-up will soon follow. It just seems sad to me to teach a young child that this is what being a girl involves.

I wore a bit of make-up for ballet displays when I was about 12, but not in ‘real life’. It was just lipstick and a bit of powder and blusher, never mascara.

We weren't allowed to wear makeup (except for dance recitals and Halloween) until we were 12. DSD is 14 and only really got into makeup in the last year.

My 2 DGDs are 8 and almost 5. They both have painted toenails (not fingernails, because of school), and they like to put on some lipgloss when we go anywhere. Nothing else, and I don't see anything wrong with that.

Their 11-year-old sister wore lipgloss and a tiny bit of mascara for the school disco last week.

Which of us never ransacked her mum's make-up bag? Children always want to ape the ways of their elders. I had my mum, my auntie and two older cousins, providing plenty of temptation. It does no harm to allow a ten-year-old a dab of lip gloss, for a special occasion like a wedding.