Daughter Again !!!

[hammerman]

Just need some impartial advice again about my 15 year old daughter.

She's a lovely kid, well behaved, got a good part time job, looks smart, good at school etc etc.

But she insists on absolutely plastering her face in make up. Yeah yeah, that's what teenagers do, i have no problems with that but my god, it looks hideous. I don't know what the brown stuff you put on your face is called but it's so thick on her that it makes her look orange. It's all blotchy and then her neck is white. Her eyes are caked in eyeliner and mascara to the point that it's started clumping on her eye lashes.

We've tried telling her until we're blue in the face. She sent my dad (her grandad) a "selfie" this week and even he said she looked gross. She has 2 older sisters who have both told her to stop wearing it.

What on earth do we do ? She's a pretty girl and doesn't need it ? Could it be a confidence thing.....my wife would put the dustbin out unless she has makeup on ?

Any suggestions before she starts getting the micky taken by her friends ?

Thanks...again

[Leahbee5]

Well I am 14 years old and about to be 15 in a few months. She sounds like she feels that she needs it and most likely doesn't. What my parents did before I started using make up is they would show me the difference in the Victoria secrets models faces. Most girls if they take off their make up look very different and mostly ugly. She needs to understand that no boy likes that. I have three brothers and they all tell me how they despise how girls cake their faces. caking her face like that will not make her prettier and sure will get her attention but not the kind she wants so what you probably should do though it may seem cruel is take away her make up. And then slowly give it back. Tell her that if she starts caking her face again that you will take away the make up again. though I am very young I believe that that should work....if you aren't that kind of parent then you will have to sit down with her take a picture of her and point out things that she needs to improve on and then come to a compromise

[seekeerz]

From my own experience with my daughter quite a few years ago now, ( the fashion then was white face and purple lips...not a pretty look) we gave up trying to suggest she change and eventually she did....she looks back on it now with horror and my suggestion would be just to let it run its course,but...

It's very interesting to read the above post from leahbee5 s she is close to your daughters age group

Am I right in thinking your girl has a prom coming up this year...that might be the time for a professional to do her makeup and hair etc for the big night ...just a thought

[askyourgran]

Any chance of taking her to a large department store ie Debenhams and browsing one of the beauty counters where she may get a makeup lesson?

[DTCwordfan]

Buy her a present of having a professional make-over, one where they can give tips on what's best for her ré skin colouring and all the rest of it - and the application techniques. Birthday coming up, perhaps?

[Tilly2]

I said that ages ago, DTC!

[gness]

Oh how I loved being fifteen and experimenting with make up...looking at magazines and copying Twiggy and the Shrimp.....all those painted on lashes and the layers of pancake!!!

Wouldn't have wanted a make over at that age.....I knew it all..;-).....and it was fun. I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

I have eventually grown out of it.....we all do but let her have fun while she's young and finding her way.....she'll be fine....xx

[DTCwordfan]

great minds think alike, tilly!