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Personweegmack
22/8/2014 at 10:21am
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.....well I'd be dead! Youngest darling daughter, 12 and just started high school, asked me two days ago, "Mum, can I wear some mascara to school?". I said no. Her skin is breaking out quite a bit, so I let her wear a little powder to conceal the worst of the offending spots. I didn't let her big sister wear any mascara to school until just about the end of 2nd year.

So I'm sticking to my guns!! But whoa! The look on her face - I wish you all had seen it. She actually makes herself go pale & pinched.

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22/8/2014 at 11:05am
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They're getting younger!!!  I don't think I'd HEARD of mascara when I was 12!!


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Think the powder will make the spots worse in the long run.
A definite no to the mascara, though she will probably take it and use it at school anyway. Good luck with the teenage years. Thank heaven ours are well past those.


Personweegmack
22/8/2014 at 12:01pm
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The powder is actually helping as it's stopping her skin being so oily (same as mine!).

Her big sister is nearly 15, so this is not new to me. But I want to be fair - big sis wasn't allowed till the mid/end of 2nd year, so that's when youngest can do it. She won't take it school with her, because her big sister will tell me!

You should see some of the other girls - it's quite shocking. In my eldest's year, they look like dolls!!! Oh and the skirt lengths (or lack thereof)!!! I'm really not having as hard a time with mine - but I'm firm with them. I've explained to them that there are people out there, just looking for young girls to follow/groom/worse. So they are well aware of how I expect them to dress. Also, that they know I can turn up at school any time because I don't work!! You should have seen their faces when I told them that lol!

Pass the gin please

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PersonMrs. Bonce
22/8/2014 at 12:06pm
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How times have changed! Make up was banned at our school, and 2 boys were suspended for having Beatle hair cuts! (it was the 60s).

Anne


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22/8/2014 at 1:35pm
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Sooooo glad I have boys! Its just aftershave and deodorant here ... oh and hair products!!

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Personsue.too
22/8/2014 at 2:32pm
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My daughter attends a Catholic school ( not because we are Catholic!) and they are very strict about make up and skirt length.

They make the girls empty out their bags and confiscate the make up! They wear one pattern of kilt in year 7 & 8 and then another in year 9 to 11. If they grow so much in year 7 so that their skirt is above knee length then they have to have a new one in year 8.

They all still roll them over at the waist on the way home though.


Personweegmack
22/8/2014 at 3:41pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 22/8/2014
How times have changed! Make up was banned at our school, and 2 boys were suspended for having Beatle hair cuts! (it was the 60s).

Anne


Lol! I went to school in the 80's and we still had to kneel on the floor to make sure our skirts touched the gym hall floor! Basically, only knee-length allowed. Several boys got sent home for wearing white terry socks with their black trousers!!

The high school my girls go to is trying SO hard to get the kids to dress appropriately, but it's very hard. They hand out awards and incentives to pupils who dress correctly (pleased to say my two have had them).

My eldest is in 4th year (coming up for 15) and some of her friends have started coming to school with their blouses buttoned to their cleavage (sorry!), tie loose-slung and a "skirt" which looks more like a belt. Some of them wear the blouse as described with only 100 denier tights on the bottom!!!! AAAAHHHH!! I don't think their parents care how they look.   

Lol I can remember BEGGING my mum for heels to wear in my final year of school.......no was the answer. Thankfully Dr Martens made a revival and I started wearing them - much more comfy!!

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PersonCalinyx
22/8/2014 at 3:48pm
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I can remember when our daughter [Marnie ] was in the car with her pal and there was a conversation going on that went along the lines of:

E 'I'd die if I couldn't wear makeup'
M 'I'd die if i did as i'm allergic.....what a waste though if that's how you feel. There's more to life than face paint you know!!'

They were 10....yes 10....and E was dolled up to the nines.

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Personsteventhehamster
22/8/2014 at 4:48pm
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I agree, you have to be fair or you will have your eldest daughter having a strop with you as she had to wait.

Good on you for not caving in. My daughter started to wear foundation and mascara in year 9 I think, but she never put it on thick and used foundation her skin colour.

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PersonValk_scot
22/8/2014 at 6:36pm
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My son (almost 18)always has a bit of a moan when his sister (five years younger) gets to do things at a younger age than he did. I point out that he was my practice run and look, he survived, so I'm just more confident with his sister. Either that or lazier, lol.

Mind you he never asked me if he could wear mascara to school. I don't think DD would ask either, come to think of it, she'd just do it, she's very much the "easier to apologise than ask permission" type. . She's not much into make up generally though and makes snarky comments to me about the PanCake And Tango brigade at school.


PersonCapt Lightning
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I worked for a couple of years in a secondary school. The following is a true incident.

Year 8 boy bumps into year 10 boy in corridor...

Year 8 boy "Why are you wearing mascara?"
Year 10 boy looks with contempt and replies "It's not mascara - it's eye shadow".

Half the girls looked like explosions in a cosmetics shop and some of the boys weren't much better.

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23/8/2014 at 8:14pm
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Can't believe schools don't enforce a no makeup rule. If they can't even do that how can they enforce discipline in other matters.


Personjelboy53
23/8/2014 at 9:09pm
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There was a period a few years ago where from the age of 16-18 yrs old my youngest daughter was "Experimenting" with make up and styles of clothing which were Inspired by friends and peer pressure...Piercings would appear where piercings should never appear...All round the ears...In and up the nose..Through the tongue etc etc etc...The hair would be Gothic black one week with the make up and clothes to match...And shocking white/pink/or whatever the next....

Jelboy's tongue would be sore from all the holding/biting it at her mothers behest to let it be...But I did wonder sometimes if this multi persona stranger who shared my house and bore no resemblance to the curly haired tot I sired would ever return to some semblance of normality....

I needn't have worried....At 22 yrs old she seems to have found her style...Both in clothes and make up...And has turned into a rather stylish and attractive young lady(I am of course biased in this opinion)...

Crux of the matter came one day when she turned up one day with the jet black hair shaven into the wood on one side with a Leopard skin pattern adorning the shaved side and asked what I though!!!

Jelboy's tounge biting days were over and I told her...."Look's like someone has given you a frontal lobotomy"...A bit miffed at that...But it did the trick...She grew up fast and returned to the daughter I new and loved....

Jelboy.

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24/8/2014 at 8:56am
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There is a definite no make up rule at our local secondary school, very discreet make up is allowed in year 12/13 but that's all. Also strict about hair, jewellery, uniform, shoes which is as it should be in my opinion.

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26/8/2014 at 2:04pm
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Jellboy - I laughed out loud when I read that! I will prepare myself for the worst now lol!

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