8 Parents on Letting Niggling Kids Wear Makeup

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Petite 'north Pretty is a new makeup brand designed to provide "young creatives with the best first beauty experience." In other words, it's makeup for iv-year-olds (and their older siblings). The products may have made for stellar stocking stuffers this holiday season, only they've also caused a not-and so-pretty stir. The kickoff-up has sparked both takedowns and superfans, and has clearly opened up the dialogue on the human relationship between kids and dazzler.

Kim Kardashian has probably been having that conversation all week later on N Due west, 5, wore bright red lipstick to a Christmas party — allegedly to promote an upcoming shade from KKW Dazzler. So in the spirit of shade, we asked 8 parents for their own takes — positive, negative, conflicted, clashing — on kids and makeup.

I joke that my daughter is 6 going on xvi. I was initially very opposed to makeup because I thought she didn't need it to feel pretty and I didn't want her to feel like she did. I wanted her to feel beautiful in her own skin. Merely my daughter is a total girly girl. She naturally gravitates toward doing pilus, makeup, and nails — the full opposite of me. So now I permit her have her ain makeup and boom polish. She has a vanity and false hair-dryer, and she loves it.

I'grand a believer in not suppressing what they naturally gravitate to. She too gets very proud and confident when she does her nails or has lip gloss. She goes out in fluorescent pink lipstick or blueish or regal and thinks she looks, "Amazing!" But I don't let her wearable it to school, and I am careful nigh merely letting her use good stuff because the inexpensive crap scares me on her young skin.

Makeup on kids is the worst! I hate the pretend makeup kits they sell, likewise. Why would nosotros desire them to abound upward so chop-chop? It speeds upwardly how fast they grow up. They desire to change their appearance? Not okay. I don't want my little girl playing in my makeup drawer, and I don't permit her. Information technology only encourages information technology. Let them be kids! Mothers who permit their kids play with makeup are ridiculous and pathetic.

I couldn't care less if she wears makeup or not — and I'yard a doctor who specializes in women's health. It'due south a fun, artistic activeness and it's a million times healthier than watching Telly or eating buckets of processed. I wait at makeup like I do with most things parenting-related: If I have neurosis around information technology, so will the kid. So if I get serious and overly analytical about her relationship to makeup — or her human relationship to the meaning of beauty — and then I'm creating a conflict within of her; I'thou creating a tension.

It's makeup. Who cares? The important question is: Practice I human activity in a fashion that gives the message that a adult female needs to be beautiful or glamorous to exist valued? Never. My actions as a woman and a mother and a human are so much more disquisitional than if my little ane has fun dipping her fingers into bluish glittery center-shadow. The whole debate is cool, if you ask me — and you lot did!

I identify as nonbinary just I'm okay with any pronoun. My married woman is a performer and spends a lot of fourth dimension dressing for shows. Our daughter loves to play dress-upwards in princess costumes and clothing makeup and then run around pretending to be a "rock-star princess." I'thousand all about following her atomic number 82. I mean, if my mom dealt with me being a "little boy," wearing all boys' clothes and playing with boys' toys and excavation for worms and and then bringing them home, my kid can do what she wants. Our girl tin can explain what a transgender person is super well. She just says that people can exist whatsoever they want — but she is and ever will be a girl princess!

I permit my son and daughter play with makeup. It's all nigh freedom of expression, as far every bit I'm concerned. I come across it every bit a way of enjoying and embracing our dark, beautiful pare. I saw that Petite 'n Pretty brand and I thought the production was very squeamish, but the name seems problematic to me. It seems not so progressive. That existence said, makeup is art, and I say bring it.

I am a mother of four and have two daughters. My older daughter loved to play in makeup at a young age, like v or 6. At that indicate I was working equally a makeup artist for Estée Lauder, then I fully understand her obsession. She wanted to "play makeup" like Mommy did. She could wear the makeup inside the business firm and it was fine with me. In public, it was a no-go! My younger daughter doesn't care for makeup and doesn't even want to play with it. I recall messing effectually at home — and but at domicile — is an expression of creativity and fun. Simply the whole Dance Mom matter, with young girls going full-on JonBenet, is weird to me.

At young ages, kids simply want to exist like anyone they honey who's wearing makeup. I feel the same well-nigh little boys. It's not about gender for me. None of that matters when kids are little. They don't empathise whatsoever of it. They just desire to play and take fun and practice it with their friends. They are together and exploring, and that's what childhood is about.

I was raised strict by immigrant parents. We were non allowed to touch makeup until we were 17. And you know what? Now that I have girls, I completely understand why. I was a very innocent young person. I still accept an innocence in my heart and I'thousand forty and married and clearly not a virgin. I respect my parents from keeping that stuff away from u.s. and I won't let my girls mess effectually with it either. As far as I'g concerned, it'south highly inappropriate.

eight Parents on Letting Piffling Kids Habiliment Makeup