The Historic period When British Girls First Wearing Makeup Will Surprise You lot

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    • A new report reveals the (very immature) historic period when girls beginning kickoff using mascara, blusher and lippy. Is something wrong with this flick?

    We fully acknowledge to leaving the house fresh-faced and then secretly swiping on blusher and lippy in the toilet earlier school. Only we were at to the lowest degree teenagers past then.

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

    A new study conducted by Escentual.com found that more girls than ever are starting to article of clothing makeup at age eleven, which is three years younger than information technology was x years ago. And they're not talking virtually just playing dress-upwardly with their mum's mascara. They're talking well-nigh xi-year-olds actually wearing makeup.

    According to the survery, 38 percent of women think young girls are using cosmetics because they want to feel more grown upwards. And 89 percent of women would prefer immature girls to expect until they're 14 to employ foundation, 13-and-a-half to apply eye makeup and 12-and-a-half to apply lipgloss.

    'Women are generally concerned that these pre-teen girls might develop an unhealthy obsession with their appearance,' said Emma Leslie from Escentual. 'Over 62.half dozen pct thought this was the biggest take a chance from younger girls starting to apply makeup.'

    And so how young is besides young? The effect is certainly controversial – and it's one that ever gets people talking. Take, for example, 13-year-old model Thylane Loubry Blondeau, who appears on the April cover of French mag Jalouse.

    Certain, she looks much more age-advisable than she did when Paris Vogue featured her two years ago. (She was just 11 years old in the picture on the right!) But critics are still proverb 13 is just too young to be on the comprehend of a fashion mag.

    What do you think? Is information technology harmless to let young girls article of clothing makeup? Or should kids focus on beingness kids – and exit the glamorous stuff for subsequently?

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