Is My Daughter Ready for Makeup?

Q: My 10 - year - old girl always liked dressing up with my shoes and cosmetics. However, she recently started to paint lipstick in the morning before school. We have accomplished this fight. I think she is too young to supplement her. What do you think? How old are the girls who are beginning makeup?

A: Two terrible two or teenagers are not necessarily important development milestones, but it is often called "turning over a year". This term means to be 10 years old - regardless of whether the parents prefer it - control over the child's life is controlled in half, but the parent controls the remaining 50% . As children continue to grow beyond 10 years of age from intellectual, physical, emotional and social point of view, they are increasingly taking responsibility for their actions and decisions.

However, this fact does not preclude parents from continuing to influence, giving advice and saying "no", especially if the problem involves children's health, safety, and family values.

Makeup, hair style, and clothing are gray areas for parenting - there is no strict rule. All parents and children need to rely on specific parameters without resorting to dedicated discussions.

However, there are things that elementary school students wear in cosmetics do not agree with most parents. Tell your daughter that you understand and appreciate her interests in your makeup and dressing When she is at home she is trying out all the wonderful clothes she wants and exotic cosmetics I can. But outside the home - school, social activities, extracurricular activities - you can not let her wear lipstick or cosmetics.

When she was in elementary school this was not appropriate, and otherwise, please tell her she was beautiful. She may use a colored lip balm to give her lips a little shine and color, but it does not give the appearance of a complete lipstick. When she is in junior high school or junior high school, please let her know that you will be interested in makeup outside her home. When that time comes, I take her to the department store, where people selling cosmetics tell me how to paint it in a way that makes her look better, but like a chobe doll with a picture drawn can not see.

Note that even if you have this rule about lipstick, she can steal the tube with her backpack and apply it once at school. If you grab her to do so, confiscate lipstick and explain how disappointing you are. But please do not punish her anymore. As dressing and makeup has always been influenced by your daughter's lifetime gains, plus the particular female artist trying to imitate the little girl, you might be fighting the defeat. Still, please try to use your power, control and influence as much as possible without losing love relationship between you and your daughter.

I happen to be qualified as a hair stylist and a makeup artist, so I am very fortunate to be able to give my daughter the confidence of makeup. I allowed mascara and lip gloss to be used only at the age of 13 and professional makeup class at the age of 14 and bought a suit for beginners from Bare Minerals. I remember using cosmetics secretly in junior high school, and I recommend not teaching her how to properly use it, rather than becoming despicable and not looking bad. We do not want to supplement our daughter before she is 12 years old. Therefore, some of our early birthday daughters are in the final year of elementary school (6th grade), and one of them is entering seventh grade. They sometimes go to a birthday party, not a face lift, but they can not make up for daily until they become 12 years old. It is a big event on our 12th birthday.

Uh ... my eldest daughter (I have a child of 10 months, she will not cure it soon) is 9 years old, she started making up after she graduated from elementary school with a fifth grader. I promised that she could compensate at junior high school from 3 years old, but suddenly she told me she could not make up for years, even if she finally went to junior high school and was cruel. In her old school, elementary school sixth graders are part of elementary school and I do not know that she skips elementary school. So I am planning to start from about 12 years old, but now we are 9 years old with our own cosmetic bags. Our agreement is as follows. She can try it all the year round. I look at her final result and then approve or reject it. If I agree, she can start school again in a few months. I hope this is useful :)