How/When Did Everyone Get Into Makeup?
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I always loved makeup. I have pics from when I'm 3 getting into my mom's make up and putting it on. She had a lip palette that just mesmerized me and I was hooked. I can even remember how all her lipsticks smelled. When I was in gr 3, I used to invite friends over and give the "make overs" and when one of my friends' moms came to pick her up, she "oohed and ahhed" over the "fab" job I'd done. I was hooked. it was a love affair that hasn't ended.
Written on: 03/13/2008 (09:36am) |
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My mom had lupus before I was born, and she was an artist at disguising her butterfly patch on her face. I don't think anybody that knew her knew she had the butterfly patch. I learned from a pro at a very young age.
Written on: 03/13/2008 (09:40am) |
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I remember experimenting from when I was about 11. I guess I just wanted to be more grownup - my mum has always been a real makeup lover and I think children do take cues from their parents. Basically involved slathering it on at the weekends and then going out in it in piss-poor attempts to horrify my parents. I was dead into pink back then, which meant pink eyeshadow, pink blush, pink lips AND pink nails...what must I have looked like?!
Written on: 03/13/2008 (10:47am) |
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My mom was always extremely strict when it came to makeup when I was growing up. Most kids get the little play sets, but my mom refused to buy it for me. When I was in dance and we HAD to wear make up, she pretty much put the bare minimum on me, some lipstick and a sweep of eyeshadow so that you could tell there was a face on stage. By the time I got to late elementary school, and ALL the girls were wearing makeup, my mom gave in a bit. I got to use some concealer over my zits, lip gloss, and eye shadow that perfectly matched my skin tone (in other words, just enough make up to know I was wearing make up). Even throughout middle and high school, she didn't let me have a full face, and usually any eyeshadow I got was her castaways. She did atleast let me wear Good make up like Clinique or Lancome. But I didn't get powder, blush, or mascara until I was in high school (late high school at that).
Written on: 03/13/2008 (11:18am) |
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I got into it around 4 ... I was in community theater, and my first show was King and I, where I had to look Siamese! (For a pasty white girl this was a BIG transition.) Watching all the steps to put it on totally intrigued me, so soon after I started playing with my mom's lipsticks and eyeshadows. I really started wearing my own makeup around 9! (Luckily, my mom was pretty cool about it -- even when I decided to do blue eyeshadow up to my eyebrows and bright red lips. Hey, it was the 80s!)
Written on: 03/13/2008 (11:22am) |
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ama1221 wrote: My mom was always extremely strict when it came to makeup when I was growing up. Most kids get the little play sets, but my mom refused to buy it for me. When I was in dance and we HAD to wear make up, she pretty much put the bare minimum on me, some lipstick and a sweep of eyeshadow so that you could tell there was a face on stage. By the time I got to late elementary school, and ALL the girls were wearing makeup, my mom gave in a bit. I got to use some concealer over my zits, lip gloss, and eye shadow that perfectly matched my skin tone (in other words, just enough make up to know I was wearing make up). Even throughout middle and high school, she didn't let me have a full face, and usually any eyeshadow I got was her castaways. She did atleast let me wear Good make up like Clinique or Lancome. But I didn't get powder, blush, or mascara until I was in high school (late high school at that). I totally rebelled when I went to college. Blue eyeshadow and liquid liner...During the day! I went through this crazy punk stage and I experimented a lot with my makeup. Over the past 3 years though, I've seriously calmed down...a lot! Are you glad your mom was strict with makeup or somewhat indifferent? I had a friend whose mother was the same way. In grade 1 she was allowed only too wear Clinique and only brown eyeshadow and no lipstick. It was to the point where she wasn't even allowed to wear nail polish so she painted her nails with polish she bought and hid and then put gloves o before it was fully dry so she could wear it to school without being caught. I always wondered what her mom's reasoning was. I understand not wanting your young daughter to look too mature or garish but I don't think any of us that were allowed to wear make up ever overdid it. Just curious. If you have daughters or if you already do, will you or are you also strict about make up?
Written on: 03/13/2008 (04:54pm) |
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I guess I've always been into it. Taking dance and theater when I was younger certainly helped, and my mom was a flight attendant back when it was still a glam career (I'm totally dating myself here), so I have lots of memories watching her get ready for work and "putting on her face."
Written on: 03/13/2008 (05:03pm) |
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I do wish my mom was a little more relaxed when I got into high school. It wasn't just my makeup she was weird about. Even shaving my legs. When she taught me, she only let me do the front half of my leg from the knee down (which makes no sense!).
Written on: 03/13/2008 (05:57pm) |
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ama1221 wrote: I do wish my mom was a little more relaxed when I got into high school. It wasn't just my makeup she was weird about. Even shaving my legs. When she taught me, she only let me do the front half of my leg from the knee down (which makes no sense!). I do believe in a happy medium. I hate seeing teenage girls (or younger) who look like they belong on a street corner. However, I will probably take her to a makeup counter when she's 11 or 12 and let her get some nice stuff to make her look age appropriate. I just want her to look age appropriate and pretty, not like a homeless girl looking for crack like I see at the mall sometimes. Totally. I agree with the happy medium. I've seen a few girls who look no older than 10 and have a full face of make up on- and it's not for a dance recital! As for being allowed to shave only one strip of your leg, I'm sorry but that gave me such a laugh! I'm picturing a very visibly hairless strip of hair amongst an otherwise unsmooth leg! Too funny!
Written on: 03/13/2008 (06:34pm) |
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It was pretty sad. I can remember getting picked on in 6th grade for it.
Written on: 03/14/2008 (10:34am) |
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