Little girls want to play grown up and dress up. All the pricess movies and whatnot, and the fact that their mothers wear makeup, makes them want to be "beautiful" like them too.
I used to play with my mom's lipsticks. I used to break them, and got my mom mad for it. I also kept wanting to touch the makeup when the Avon lady was in the house, and I broke an eyeshadow pallette once, that my mom had to buy even though she didn't like it. lol
It's just a thing that little girls want. They want to look pretty. What's important is that the parents tell them they don't NEED those products to look pretty, they're already beautiful the way they are.
But even then, once their friends play with makeup and talk about makeup, they will start to want to themselves.
It's a natural thing and I don't see anything bad in it, as long as the girls can still have a healthy body image. As long as the makeup is not seen as a way of hiding themselves, I think it's fine.
On the other hand, think about this:
When a girl is bullied and called "ugly" by her peers, this might cause her to have serious insecurities about her looks. She will then realise that once she puts on makeup, the "ugly" word will stop getting thrown at her, and she will get more glances from guys. That's what might cause her to want to hide behind her makeup. Like me.
My parents never taught me to wear it. It is something a girl sees on almost every women, and as most kids do I wanted to be like all those women. So I started using my mom's makeup myself and I would beg her to put some lipgloss on me for special occasions. I was never allowed to wear makeup or even nail polish to school up until I was 10 years old. But it wasn't really appreciated in my school to wear makeup so I just wore nail polish until I was about 12. Then I started wearing some mascara.
I think females wear makeup just to enhance their features, just like working out or doing your hair or getting dressed nicely. What's there not to get about it?
It wasn't so much that i was taught to wear makeup, but rather i was always expected to look presentable when i left the house or when guests were coming over. My mum and gran are very traditional as in very ladylike, and presenting yourself in a way which shows that you take good care of yourself and have put in effort was always considered important.
I don't know, for me it takes 5 minutes it's not a lot and it just makes me feel ready... But everyone is different. I think as long as you feel comfortable with what you do and don't judge others for their choices it's ok, not really a big deal.
Makeup is a status symbol. It's supposed to look like it was no work at all and subtly show people how pretty you are, how much time you have to spend on your appearance, and how much you can spend on products. But it has to look "tasteful" otherwise that's another set of indicators about your social and economic stations and background.
That's the trick to all of women's social indicators. It has to look nice and effortless. It's a carryover from the conspicuous consumption that was so popular with the Edwardians and Victorians.
Society expects it...
I personally don't think there is a need for it..
For example my wife grew up on a farm and was much happier playing in the dirt outside and riding motor bikes doing farm work, than playing with dolls and dress ups, she's only worn make up once in her life and that was our wedding day...
I grew up on a farm too, and I appreciate natural beauty, it comes from within not a surface cover up, or just skin deep...
High time society pressured fashion mags and media to show natural people not made up and photo shopped pictures that the majority of the world can't live up to... leading to so many having self doubts, depression and stressing unnecessarily over their own body shape or looks...
When people figure out that looks has nothing to do with love, they'll have gained some IQ points...
It's always tops down under...
Hope this helps
I will only answer to the 2nd question: because the companies want to make money from these products
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Human fashion is learned, always, and human trend following is also learned, always, so success in human society requires that one be educated on how to detect, manage, and capitalize on their appearances and physical assets.
Make-up helps do this whether it be for males or females as we know in major movie productions, on television interviews, and through various other forms of media. Teaching one's child to capitalize on their image and all things at their disposal is key to creating successful humans who are well integrated into society.
In some cultures, such as South Korea, male make-up is also taught and worn by the youthful.
No one told me to wear makeup, in fact my mom was allergic to most makeup and terrible at it. I started wearing it because I have acne and when you have acne no one cruelly looks at your face. They see acne, decide your ugly and stop looking at you.
Also I was tired of looking at myself and only seeing spots. Wearing makeup made me more confident and let me look people in the eye
i1127.photobucket.com/.../...om-add-text%201_1.gif I never understood it either... just here to read the answers/bump your question
my parents always tried to make sure that i dont wear make up aha i just got caught up into wearing it that its just something that i need to put on before i go out, but i only wear light natural looking make up , can hardly tell i have make up on aha
There are other ways to get rid of facial pimples/acnes whatever.
they manifest on the outside because something isn't right on the inside, unless ur a teen, but even there are herbal remedies/natural ways to fix it.
And too much makeup looks positively disgusting.
The vast majority of parents are doing the opposite, trying to slow down the rate at which their early teen daughters wear makeup.
They see it on older girls, adult women, and in the media.
None of my parents ever did. My dad doesn't like it, and my mom never wears it - the only time she actually did was on her wedding day. She emphasized instead on skin care and taught me that makeup was unnecessary.
Not a clue. I have no idea how to use makeup and Mum only taught me how to use eyeliner (She couples it as eye shadow, simply smudge it) yesterday. Simply because my eighteenth is coming up and she's taking me to a gentleman's club ^-^
I wasn't taught to wear make up at all. It was something I started doing on my own. My mom hardly wears make up as it is.
It's not a necessity. They just do it to cover their ugly faces, or to make them more beautiful, or to hide some gross stuff like moles, pimples, and weird birthmarks. :-/
While some just do it for fun. I think. :-)
That's funny because my mother taught me that "make up was for sluts"
Didn't start wearing it till about a year ago
My parents were the other way around, they tried to make me not use makeup for as long as possible.
I agree make up is a fucked up thing to make women feel like they constantly need to be improved. Just go to the gym.
actually my parents never told me to do so but i guess its natural that some parents or friends think that wearing makeup is going to give you confidence.. just an opinion of mine.
make-up = make up 4 sth
in that case looks basically
maybe tat's y...
Makeup is a thing of the past.
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