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Too Young for Make-Up?
How young is too young to learn about make-up?
Here's the post I read on Birchbox's blog:
The question posed:
Is 14 too young to be learning about all things beauty? And, perhaps an even better question, should schools be teaching their students about makeup?
Discuss.
Re: Too Young for Make-Up?
My mom started teaching me a little about makeup when I was around 14 - when I was about to go to HS. It wasn't much, but I started wearing some eye makeup and lip gloss and such at least. I don't think that's too young at all. Now teaching it in school, that might be a stretch. But teaching outside of school I think is fine. I would have LOVED to actually LEARN how to use makeup when I was that young, I still feel like I don't know anything.
I don't think it should be framed as "you have to wear makeup to be pretty" kind of thing, but I don't see anything really wrong with it.
My mom never wore make-up therefore she never taught me how to wear it myself, and since I was a tomboy all through highschool, I never felt the need to learn how to use it. But these days, when I want/need to wear it, I feel like a clown because I just don't have the knowledge or practice that almost everyone my age has had with it, therefore I always feel like I'm doing something wrong, or someone's going to be looking at me like I'm rdiculous for how I did my eyeliner or something...
Honestly, I wish there were classes for adults about make-up, what to wear, and how to wear it (and no, walking into my local Sephora just doesn't cut it).
That being said, I agree with Nooner -- I don't think it should be seens as a "you must learn this to be pretty" thing, but rather a source for knowledge on the subject. Otherwise I see nothing wrong with it.
I also don't think it should be something kept at home, as if it was the sex talk - having a 3rd party teach girls about make-up and its uses might be beneficial so they have a better idea of what to wear, and when to wear it. Thinking back to high school, there were many who could have benefitted from this class... seriously, the amount of crap they wore definitely was not taught to them at home. .....Or maybe it was. *shrug* Judgemental MB is judgemental.
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I was around 13/14 when I started wearing make-up; not every day but for special occasions. I already had some experience with make up though from being in theatre and performing since I was 7.
I certainly don't think it should be taught as part of the curriculum but if it was a class that they offered after school or during lunch or whatever that girls wanted to participate in I don't see a problem. I would think of it like driver's ed but for make-up; someone older and more experienced teaching you how to do something you will *likely* do for the rest of your life.
When I started wearing make-up, all through high school and college and law school until I got a job at a firm I never came close to wearing make-up on a daily basis because I knew I looked fine without it. I think Neuner is right in that as long as it's not pushed as a you need this in order to be pretty it's really not that big of a deal.
Those moms who complained in England are probably really ugly #Isaidit!
Ditto all of this except my mom is not a girly girl at all so I never really learned anything about makeup until I was much older (like 20). It would have been nice to know it at a younger age, but in school absolutely not.
14 is not too young for makeup. Not even close. By the time I was 14 (9th grade) I was wearing makeup all the time. Full faces of it.
My mom never wore makeup and has no idea how to use it to this day. I started asking to wear makeup when I was 7. And I asked, every day. When I went to middle school (11) my mom let me wear lipgloss and clear mascara. The next year I could wear lipgloss, clear mascara and eye shadow (neutral colors approved by mom). For my 13th birthday my mom let me get a Clinique makeover and I could wear those products (concealer, powder, eye shadow, lip stick, lip gloss, lip liner, a nudeish brown liner and brown mascara).
By 14 I was obsessed with makeup and had gobs of drugstore stuff too. I did makeup really well for a 13/14 yr old though, I never went through the blue eyeshadow/ bubble gum lip color thing. I don't have the pictures here, but I don't look all that different than I do on an every day basis even now.
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Very interesting.
I think it's actually a good thing that the school is doing this. Most girls that age are going to try makeup anyway, and I think it's much better if they know what they are doing vs. experimenting on their own with no knowledge. I think if parents don't like the idea, they can obviously tell their daughters not to wear it. It's not like the classroom will be the first time and place they've heard of or seen makeup.
I might be biased though. My mom was a beauty consultant when I was young, so I was exposed to makeup at a very young age (probably around 6). Not that I wore makeup then...but she taught me the correct ways to wear it, and I even went to home beauty shows with her. I appreciate having that knowledge and exposure to makeup. When the time came for me to wear it, I actually knew what I was doing.
I would think lots of girls (and mothers) would appreciate a class like this. Not all mothers know how to properly use makeup in order to teach their daughters to do the same, so I don't see the harm in getting educated about it in school.
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I think 14 is a fine age to start learning about makeup. This is approximately the age where I started wearing it on a regular basis.
do I think it's something that should be taught in schools? Hell no. I would be livid if I found out that my tax dollars were going towards a class on makeup. Learning how to properly apply eyeliner is not going to help my daughter to get a good job later in life!
I started wearing makeup around 12 or 13. It started out very basic, some lipgloss and that clear mascara they use to sell in the 90s. I was up to a full face by the time i was 14 or 15, though.
I think it's fine for schools to cover this topic after school or in some type of cosmotology club. It doesn't merit a class (not even an elective in my opinion), but it's fine as an extra.
I started learning about and wearing makeup in Middle School (11-12ish), when I was 13 and went to high school I went to wearing it every day.
Like Rach, my best friend's mom was a Mary Kay Consultant and she would have parties for us and tell us how to properly apply different types of makeup, about matching colors to our skin tones, that minimal is sometimes better, etc. And I got makeup for my birthday almost every year from them.
MB- have you ever done an in-home Mary Kay party? Maybe they don't even do them anymore haha. But maybe you could host one of those and have some girlfriends over and they will teach you how to apply things properly. Then its just like any other party- if people buy stuff, you get free credits toward purchasing stuff as well. I have nothing but good things to say about Mary Kay make-up.
My aunt sells Mary Kay, but she's in NJ so although I agree with you regarding the quality of their products, I have never attended an actual party. =/
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Everyone can come to Cincy and hang out with me and do a party- the lady who did my makeup for my wedding and about every event I go to has a branch of her business called Facing. (her main business is Brideface so it works). She asks you to bring what you currently wear or like and they build on that including how to properly apply and wear your makeup. They take it from day to night as well. They have been doing tons of parties with moms and daughters. I just hope this service is around when Charlotte is older and I am totally in.
As for my teachings - I actually took an etiquette class as a middle schooler at church. I know it was a little more non-conventional but the book was really good. i actually found it the other day when I was digging in my hope chest. I am totally using it for Charlotte. It taught how to dress for body shape, face shape hair styles, how to care for all of those and how to present yourself in public. It also included table manners and such. It was a huge help and I wish they did more of it. I agree that its overlooked. I didnt wear any makeup really until college (I was too athletic to worry about makeup minus prom and such) but it would have been helpful for many of my friends.