8 Parents on Letting Little Kids Wearable Makeup

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Petite 'north Pretty is a new makeup brand designed to provide "immature creatives with the all-time outset dazzler experience." In other words, information technology's makeup for 4-year-olds (and their older siblings). The products may have made for stellar stocking stuffers this vacation flavor, but they've as well acquired a not-and so-pretty stir. The start-up has sparked both takedowns and superfans, and has clearly opened up the dialogue on the human relationship betwixt kids and beauty.

Kim Kardashian has probably been having that conversation all week later on North West, five, wore bright scarlet lipstick to a Christmas party — allegedly to promote an upcoming shade from KKW Dazzler. So in the spirit of shade, we asked eight parents for their own takes — positive, negative, conflicted, ambivalent — on kids and makeup.

I joke that my daughter is 6 going on 16. 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 similar she did. I wanted her to feel beautiful in her own skin. But my girl is a full girly girl. She naturally gravitates toward doing hair, makeup, and nails — the total opposite of me. And then at present I let her have her own makeup and nail polish. She has a vanity and fake hair-dryer, and she loves it.

I'm a believer in non suppressing what they naturally gravitate to. She also gets very proud and confident when she does her nails or has lip gloss. She goes out in fluorescent pink lipstick or blue or purple and thinks she looks, "Astonishing!" Only I don't let her wear information technology to schoolhouse, and I am careful about but letting her apply practiced stuff because the cheap crap scares me on her young skin.

Makeup on kids is the worst! I hate the pretend makeup kits they sell, too. Why would we want them to grow up so quickly? It speeds upwards how fast they abound upwardly. They want to change their appearance? Not okay. I don't want my picayune daughter playing in my makeup drawer, and I don't let her. It just encourages it. Allow them be kids! Mothers who let their kids play with makeup are ridiculous and pathetic.

I couldn't care less if she wears makeup or not — and I'thousand a md who specializes in women's health. It's a fun, artistic action and information technology's a million times healthier than watching TV or eating buckets of candy. I look at makeup like I do with well-nigh 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 relationship to the meaning of beauty — and so I'chiliad creating a conflict inside of her; I'one thousand creating a tension.

It'due south makeup. Who cares? The important question is: Exercise I act in a way that gives the message that a woman needs to exist beautiful or glamorous to exist valued? Never. My deportment as a woman and a mother and a human are so much more disquisitional than if my trivial one has fun dipping her fingers into blue glittery eye-shadow. The whole debate is cool, if you ask me — and you did!

I identify equally nonbinary but I'm okay with any pronoun. My married woman is a performer and spends a lot of time dressing for shows. Our daughter loves to play dress-up in princess costumes and clothing makeup and then run effectually pretending to exist a "stone-star princess." I'm all nigh following her pb. I mean, if my mom dealt with me existence a "niggling boy," wearing all boys' dress and playing with boys' toys and excavation for worms and then bringing them dwelling, my kid can do what she wants. Our girl can explicate what a transgender person is super well. She simply says that people can be whatsoever they want — but she is and always will be a girl princess!

I let my son and daughter play with makeup. It's all about liberty of expression, as far as I'k concerned. I see it as a style of enjoying and embracing our dark, beautiful skin. I saw that Petite 'n Pretty brand and I idea the product was very nice, but the name seems problematic to me. It seems not so progressive. That beingness said, makeup is art, and I say bring information technology.

I am a mother of four and have two daughters. My older daughter loved to play in makeup at a young historic period, similar 5 or 6. At that bespeak I was working as a makeup artist for Estée Lauder, so I fully sympathise her obsession. She wanted to "play makeup" similar Mommy did. She could wear the makeup inside the house and information technology was fine with me. In public, it was a no-get! My younger daughter doesn't intendance for makeup and doesn't even want to play with it. I think messing around at abode — and only at home — is an expression of creativity and fun. Just the whole Dance Mom thing, with young girls going total-on JonBenet, is weird to me.

At immature ages, kids only want to be like anyone they love who'southward wearing makeup. I feel the same almost lilliputian boys. Information technology's not about gender for me. None of that matters when kids are fiddling. They don't understand any of it. They just want to play and have fun and do it with their friends. They are together and exploring, and that'due south what childhood is near.

I was raised strict by immigrant parents. We were not allowed to touch makeup until nosotros were 17. And you lot know what? At present that I have girls, I completely understand why. I was a very innocent immature person. I still have an innocence in my heart and I'm 40 and married and clearly not a virgin. I respect my parents from keeping that stuff abroad from united states and I won't let my girls mess effectually with it either. As far equally I'm concerned, it's highly inappropriate.

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