Should You Wait Until After Puberty To Wear Makeup

Katie Toll lets her kids wear makeup, and everyone has an opinion.

Price recently posted a photo of herself and her daughter Bunny on Instagram, showing the six-twelvemonth-old with carefully practical eyeliner.

"I know what'south coming up…" she wrote.

She wasn't wrong.

"I don't agree with eyeliner on the child," one fan told her. "Please let them be children."

"Get a grip," another fan hit back. "It washes off. It's not similar she'south taken her for microblading and fillers."

It got united states of america here at Mamamia thinking...what are the historic period limits that different parents set up for their kids wearing makeup, or getting their ears pierced, or watching MA movies?

So we asked the Mamamia community. Here'due south what yous had to say.

At what historic period do y'all let your child… wearable makeup?

"I permit my 4-year-old practice eyeshadow and lipstick for fun. Merely I wouldn't be letting her get a foundation or BB/CC cream until probably puberty."

"I don't see it as an issue for a immature child, five or six, to wear makeup if it'southward for 'show' purposes, such as dance, theatre or modelling. My daughters started showing interest in makeup from nigh viii. I have started letting them clothing pulverisation foundations regularly at 12. My youngest is more than into makeup than my eldest and she likes to go for a 'completed' look with foundation, eyeshadow, lip color and mascara every weekend."

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… pierce their ears?

"I pierced my daughter's ears before she was ane. Mine were also done as a babe, and from what I know, then were my female parent's. It felt like a rite of passage."

"My middle daughter asked me about getting her ears pierced from when she was almost four or five. I held off because I knew it would hurt and wanted to make sure it was something she really wanted to do. Anyhow, it was fourth dimension to get her immunisations when she was five and I said to her, 'After you go your needles, nosotros could go out and do something special.' She said excitedly, 'Can I go my ears pierced?' I decided that if she was wanting to follow up injections by getting earrings shot into her ears, she must really want to do it!"

"Ear piercing and makeup are made available to exist worn once she's menstruating. We see it equally a mark of becoming a woman, and as women, we oftentimes like to decorate ourselves. It's too a commemoration of condign a adult female."

… shave their legs?

"My mum was super-strict about this but I am mode more than lax about it and allowed my daughters to do it when asked – usually a self-conscious thing or kids teasing them. I had to wait until I was 14 and it was mortifying what I was called at schoolhouse. I wasn't going to let them go through that."

"[My girl] was feeling self-conscious. We talked about information technology, the pros and cons, and she was shown how to do information technology."

"To the knees (fine copious dark hairs). Now she'south xiii and does her whole leg when she feels like it."

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… dye their hair?

"My ix-year-old was getting teased at schoolhouse and called fat. She's a bit of a tomboy and prefers to hang out with boys than girls. She asked if she could dye her hair dark-green. The hairdresser gave her streaks to arrive easier to grow out. I think she looks beautiful. It's given her conviction to experience she is crawly, regardless of what anyone says!"

"Lockdown boredom and at present at 12 [my child] has pinkish hair."

"I would ask them to wait until 16 as they should exist able to pay for the upkeep."

… lookout man MA movies?

"[I let my son watch] Wonder Adult female. I was sick of him being and then focused on male superheroes and I just wanted to give him a dissimilar perspective. I decided the good gender roles would offset the G-rated textile. I didn't come across it myself first – just took a punt it would be okay. "

"Provided I've seen it starting time and deemed it okay, at ten, but but when I'm around to tell them when to cover their eyes."

"Usually the content is completely inappropriate, so I haven't yet. My fourteen-year-old has watched them at friends' houses, but I don't let them notwithstanding in my business firm."

… play contact sports?

"Our rule for this was that our kids had no after-school activities until they were in their second total-time year of school. Our son played league from under-sevens through to under-16s and had several serious injuries, including a spear tackle that resulted in a trip to hospital on a spinal board and a broken shoulder that required a bone graft and full shoulder reconstruction. He switched to AFL at under-17s and had his first serious concussion in the senior AFL competition."

"I let my son participate in rugby league and they started tackle around under-eight. I did pull him out and put him in soccer as information technology got as well scary and he wasn't built for under-10 league – the kids were getting too big for him."

"Never for tackle sports."

Do you have any 'age rules' for your kids? Let u.s. know in the comments below.

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