The Age When British Girls Showtime Wearing Makeup Will Surprise You

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    • A new study reveals the (very young) age when girls first commencement using mascara, blusher and lippy. Is something wrong with this picture?

    We fully admit to leaving the house fresh-faced and then secretly swiping on blusher and lippy in the toilet before school. But we were at least teenagers by then.

    It seems girls these days are wearing makeup at a much younger historic period.

    A new study conducted past Escentual.com found that more girls than ever are starting to wear makeup at historic period eleven, which is three years younger than it was ten years ago. And they're non talking about just playing dress-up with their mum'due south mascara. They're talking nigh 11-year-olds actually wearing makeup.

    According to the survery, 38 percent of women call up young girls are using cosmetics because they want to feel more grown up. And 89 percent of women would prefer young girls to wait until they're 14 to use foundation, 13-and-a-half to utilize eye makeup and 12-and-a-half to use lipgloss.

    'Women are more often than not concerned that these pre-teen girls might develop an unhealthy obsession with their appearance,' said Emma Leslie from Escentual. 'Over 62.6 percent thought this was the biggest take chances from younger girls starting to use makeup.'

    So how young is also immature? The issue is certainly controversial – and information technology'southward i that always gets people talking. Take, for example, 13-twelvemonth-old model Thylane Loubry Blondeau, who appears on the April embrace of French magazine Jalouse.

    Sure, she looks much more historic period-appropriate than she did when Paris Vogue featured her two years agone. (She was just 11 years old in the picture on the correct!) But critics are still saying 13 is just as well young to be on the cover of a fashion magazine.

    What practice you retrieve? Is it harmless to let immature girls vesture makeup? Or should kids focus on existence kids – and leave the glamorous stuff for afterward?

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