8 Parents on Letting Little Kids Wear Makeup

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Petite 'n Pretty is a new makeup brand designed to provide "immature creatives with the best outset dazzler experience." In other words, it's makeup for four-year-olds (and their older siblings). The products may have made for stellar stocking stuffers this vacation season, but they've also acquired a not-and then-pretty stir. The beginning-up has sparked both takedowns and superfans, and has clearly opened up the dialogue on the human relationship between kids and beauty.

Kim Kardashian has probably been having that chat all week after North West, 5, wore brilliant carmine lipstick to a Christmas party — allegedly to promote an upcoming shade from KKW Beauty. So in the spirit of shade, we asked 8 parents for their own takes — positive, negative, conflicted, ambivalent — on kids and makeup.

I joke that my girl is vi going on 16. I was initially very opposed to makeup considering I thought she didn't need it to feel pretty and I didn't desire her to feel like she did. I wanted her to feel cute in her own pare. But my daughter is a total girly girl. She naturally gravitates toward doing pilus, makeup, and nails — the total reverse of me. And so at present I allow her have her own makeup and nail polish. She has a vanity and imitation hair-dryer, and she loves it.

I'm a believer in not suppressing what they naturally gravitate to. She besides gets very proud and confident when she does her nails or has lip gloss. She goes out in fluorescent pinkish lipstick or blue or purple and thinks she looks, "Astonishing!" Simply I don't let her vesture it to school, and I am conscientious about but letting her use proficient stuff considering the inexpensive crap scares me on her young skin.

Makeup on kids is the worst! I hate the pretend makeup kits they sell, besides. Why would we want them to grow upwardly then quickly? It speeds upward how fast they grow upwards. They want to change their appearance? Non okay. I don't want my lilliputian girl playing in my makeup drawer, and I don't let her. It only encourages it. Let them be kids! Mothers who permit their kids play with makeup are ridiculous and pathetic.

I couldn't care less if she wears makeup or not — and I'm a doctor who specializes in women's health. It's a fun, creative action and it's a million times healthier than watching Boob tube or eating buckets of candy. I look at makeup like I exercise with nigh things parenting-related: If I have neurosis around information technology, and then will the kid. So if I get serious and overly belittling about her relationship to makeup — or her human relationship to the meaning of beauty — then I'm creating a disharmonize inside of her; I'm creating a tension.

Information technology's makeup. Who cares? The important question is: Do I act in a way that gives the message that a woman needs to exist cute or glamorous to be valued? Never. My actions as a woman and a mother and a human are and so much more critical than if my little one has fun dipping her fingers into blue glittery eye-shadow. The whole debate is absurd, if you lot inquire me — and you lot did!

I identify as nonbinary merely I'thou okay with any pronoun. My married woman is a performer and spends a lot of fourth dimension dressing for shows. Our daughter loves to play dress-upward in princess costumes and wear makeup and then run effectually pretending to be a "rock-star princess." I'm all about post-obit her lead. I mean, if my mom dealt with me beingness a "little boy," wearing all boys' dress and playing with boys' toys and digging for worms and then bringing them home, my kid can practice what she wants. Our daughter can explain what a transgender person is super well. She just says that people tin can be whatsoever they want — just she is and always volition be a girl princess!

I let my son and girl play with makeup. Information technology's all about freedom of expression, as far every bit I'm concerned. I meet it as a way of enjoying and embracing our nighttime, beautiful skin. I saw that Petite 'north Pretty brand and I thought the production was very nice, only the proper name seems problematic to me. It seems not so progressive. That being said, makeup is art, and I say bring information technology.

I am a mother of iv and take 2 daughters. My older daughter loved to play in makeup at a young age, like v or six. At that point I was working equally a makeup artist for Estée Lauder, so I fully sympathize her obsession. She wanted to "play makeup" like Mommy did. She could wear the makeup within the house and information technology was fine with me. In public, it was a no-get! My younger girl doesn't care for makeup and doesn't even want to play with it. I think messing around at home — 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 young ages, kids just want to exist like anyone they dear who'south wearing makeup. I experience the same nigh little boys. It's not about gender for me. None of that matters when kids are little. They don't empathize any of it. They just want to play and have fun and do it with their friends. They are together and exploring, and that's what childhood is about.

I was raised strict past immigrant parents. Nosotros were not allowed to touch makeup until we were 17. And you know what? Now that I have girls, I completely empathise why. I was a very innocent young person. I still accept an innocence in my center and I'm forty and married and conspicuously not a virgin. I respect my parents from keeping that stuff away from u.s. and I won't allow my girls mess around with information technology either. Equally far as I'm concerned, it's highly inappropriate.

8 Parents on Letting Little Kids Wear Makeup