Age for beauty treatments?

[tinkerbell23]

Watching a "pushy and proud" programme on beauty treatments...

What do you thing is an appropriate age?

I began waxing my eyebrows at about 11?
Tanning by 12/13 occasionally and wearing makeup and if you know me will know i tan regularly!!

One 12y old on this prog costs £200 to maintain!!?

One salon owner refuses to spraytan kids under 10 however let her little 4y old have a spray as fun x

[daffy654]

My daughters were allowed to wear make-up from age 12-13, they weren't allowed to go on sunbeds or sun bathe outside until they were old enough to understand the risks (16 ish) and they used to get me to shape their eyebrows for them at about 14.

[boxtops]

The age of consent is still 16 in the UK. Under that age, parental consent has to be sought - and I wouldn't let my underage child do any of those.

[4getmenot]

personally i think 11 is very young to be waxing eyebrows, can ruin regrowth starting at such a young age, and i think sunbeds if people really have to use them should be 18, but if it was up to me they should be banned. I only wear make up if going out on a night out on the town, i never wore it at school. Young girls grow up far too quick nowadays.

[China Doll]

Personally I wouldn't let my kid wax her eyebrows or have any form of tanning at the ages you did. This is partly because I think it's inappropriate and gives weight to an idea that how you look is vastly more significant than I think it should be, and partly because, unless you're particularly dark skinned (in terms of body hair), I can't think of any reason why it might be necessary.

That said I think I was probably quite conservatively brought up as I didn't even get my ears pierced until the age of 12 (and it was a BIG deal, dad took me and mum was furious), and probably didn't really get that interested in make-up, boys or clothes until about 14/15, and that was more to do with the people around me...I was quite happy listening to music and reading my books but I was a massive geek as a child and definitely not a typical teenager! :c)

I just think that there are too many warped ideas on how women should look and to give in to it at too young an age doesn't encourage that sometimes you just have to be comfortable in the skin you're in as that's the start of real beauty to me... and the rest you can learn from clarins.

I also think fake tan looks absolutely awful on just about everyone I've ever seen it on... sorry tinks as I know you're a big fan but I really dislike it. And I'm as pale as a snowmans arse so it's not like I haven't been tempted! ;0)

[tinkerbell23]

Dont be sorry CD hehe!!! U are absolutley entitled to say so!!! It can look ghastly but obv i think i look good hahahahahahhaha

I had my ears done very young....

The prog featured a salon for kids only- the owner was SLATED but personally i dont see the problem with little princess parties etc....i was always running around with my mums red lippy on hehe

11 is young...was going on 12...but im
Glad cos they were a mess.....

I dont think im obsessed though havinh started young? I wear makeup mostdays but will jump to shop or a pals with none on and crappy clothes??

But yes i admit id never dream of going out-out tanless or makeupless....eek!! X

[China Doll]

I have no problems with kids stealing their mums make up, shoving it all on their face and attempting to walk in massively high heels... I would have a problem if my 'princess' wanted fake eyelashes, a spray tan, waxing and plucking as that is less like wanting to 'be like mummy' (or daddly in this enlightened age lol!) and much more about wanting to be like the ladies in the magazines; which is think is unhealthy and ultimately unachievable, (unless you can afford to walk round with your own stylist, make up artist, dresser and person to alter your photos beyond recognition).

[4getmenot]

you should try.

[China Doll]

And I am more than happy to go to work, meet my friends for a drink after work or even go for dinner without make-up on... I'm pretty sure the general public would rather I wasn't quite so lazy though!

I am happier if I have find time to put my eye brightener, mascara, eyeliner and blush on in the mornings though, I feel less scary :c)

[tinkerbell23]

4get...i havent this weekend..but i wast out...

Shallow as it sounds..i really just couldnt...if i dont do the longlasting tan id do instant on the night..... Im way to pale ...

I wouldnt stick fake lashes on kids....well :0/ i did do my cousin at 16 for a wedding??

I also tanned a 15y old for a wedding actually.....aaaaactuly ive tanned a 70y old LOL xx

[NOX]

My daughter shapes her eyebrows and wears make up, clothes that she chooses herself etc, but she likes the 'pale and interesting look' so she avoids the spray tans, but I would have no real objection if she wished to, I don't think there is harm in that as such.

[jno]

what's "too pale" all about? Too pale for what,t inks? Different people come in different shades, why not live with it? I'm brown in summer, paler in winter, that's the way the planet turns. I am a living monument to the changing seasons.

[4getmenot]

i feel it often depends where you live aswell and if you wish to 'follow the crowd'

[tinkerbell23]

I just look at myself and i prefer to have a tan LOL!

My makeup sits better and i just look and feel better tanned!!

NOX you sound like my dad- he cant understand why guys go mad at their "lassies" wearing short skirts or havin spray tans etc

Just lets me get on with it and says the usual "be carefull take a key dont drink too much dont talk to strangers" hahaha im nearly 25!! Ok dad!!!!!!

Came down as a playboy bunny for halloween last yr and he just rolls his eyes lol! No harm xx

[tinkerbell23]

It does forget...but i would say i wouldnt say i was a crowd follower....admittedly all my friends are tanned as you will see...too tanned actually!!! As are most of the folk my age locally.....

Ive said before i actually think girls who are pale and interesting or english rose look are very pretty.....but not for me ...look like death warmed up!

Xxx

[4getmenot]

yes if you are who i think you are on fb if you put a pic of you and your mates next to me and my mates there is a big difference and we look like albinos lol

[ummmm]

jno - my daughter is so pale she has a hint of blue to her skin. Her Dads ginger...she got the ginger skin with blonde hair.

She's in Oz now....she still hasn't caught the sun....bless

[tinkerbell23]

LOL 4get you are looking at the correct facebook LOL. There are a few whonwe advised to lay off the sunbeds ....

Aww ummm...its a lovely look though xx

[Brinjal]

I started wearing makeup and high heel shoes at 13, waxing at 16. 45 years later I still put on my makeup and high heel shoes every day wax the remaining few hairs every few weeks. But have added in the regular tints to my hair and the occasional botox.

[Eve]

I could pretty much echo most of what China said though I think 13 for having my ears pierced and that was a big deal - also quite a "confession" after having my nose then belly button pierced, aged about 18 and 25/26 respectively (having already left home for both).

My mum, albeit the issues she has with my weight, doesn't do beauty stuff, doesn't wear make up or like having her hair done or fashion, doesn't have her ears pierced or anything like that so it's not something I was ever around at home.

I dyed my hair a lot from uni days (my parents paid for me to go to a hairdresser to have it dyed back a normal colour for graduation!) but didn't have my eyebrows done until a friend I met when about 24 did them for me, similarly on a sunbed though rarely since). Never had a spray or other fake tan. I'm natually pale and happy enough to stay that way.

Have worn less make up as I've got older. Through being on a very tight budget and not being that well a lot of the time over the past couple of years I have gone back to glasses (can't afford contacts save a stash for special occasions) and minimal makeup. Getting up and sorted is enough of an effort for me a lot of the time.

My ex was very much about appearance - made me feel abnormal. I had to promise to do something about my weight before we got together (yes, I know!!!!), for someone with an eating disorder history it was never going to end well (yes, he knew). He would compare photos of me done up and not and make remarks if my eyebrows needed doing etc... then wondered why I wasn't keen on the more physical side of the relationship (though as above I haven't been that well for a while which also contributed) so pressured me into going to Relate to sort out "my" issues. I still have a complex now about that and other things - he did a lot of damage.

I would never want any child of mine to feel they had to do anything they didn't want to do to "conform" to anything like that by someone else's standards, that they are not good or beautiful enough just as they are.

[tinkerbell23]

Oh i got my bellybutton done at 12!!!

You are beautiful as u r jenna im glad its an "ex"!!!

Xx