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One of the most horrifying things you'll see on YouTube?

29 July, 2015 - 07:51pm by - First Lady | 22 Comments

Article by BR Tabatha

I found something on YouTube the other day that initially I felt was really cute. Super cute even. I had an ‘oh what a sweetie’ moment. But then I started to feel a bit sick in my stomach, kind of the same way I felt when I saw my sister stealing a grape from a supermarket when she was three and so I had to tell on her because stealing was wrong. So what was it that made me feel all icky on the inside? Little girls, and I mean little as in three and four, videoing their own makeup tutorials.

Technically they weren’t videoing it themselves, an adult was helping them, but after that initial ‘aren’t you so adorable I want to squish your gorgeous little chubby cheeks’ moment the cuteness wore off as foundation and concealer and powder and eyeshadow and eyeliner and mascara was applied under the guise of ‘play’ and ‘fun’. 

Maybe I’m a youngish stick in the mud, or maybe I’m just a bit old fashioned, but surely kids who are three or four, or even ten or eleven, should be having fun by playing in dirt with sticks or playing mummies with a baby doll or dragging out their mother’s pretty dresses and draping them about themselves like my sisters and I would do when we were kids? Or is makeup application for ‘fun’ an extension of that for modern children who seem to grow up a heck of a last faster than my friends and I did?

Or is allowing a child to not just play with makeup but actually experiment with adult makeup products up there with allowing little girls to walk around in heels? And I’m not talking the cute ‘look at me copying my mummy by tottering around in her oversized heels with her bra on my head for a hat’ look, but in actual child-sized high heeled or sort-of-heeled-but-sooooo-inappropriate-for-a-child heels. Is letting them loose on video with makeup just as wrong as putting them in kiddy size t-shirts with stanky slogans like ‘ready and willing’ or ‘bad girl’? 

As always I’m trying to look at it from the other perspective, yes makeup is fun (I love it!), yes it’s grown up and I get that little girls like to copy their mummy, yes a little clear lip gloss and a mummy/daughter at-home manicure with bubblegum pink glitter infused nail polish would be an adorable thing to do. But to let a little person play with the whole kit and caboodle, then to upload a video to YouTube for the world to see? I just don’t get it.

Maybe I’m super out of touch? Maybe it’s ok to allow preschool kids to take playing grownup to a whole new level I’ve never seen before? I asked around BRHQ, which has a mix of mummies and non-mummies in a range of ages and the responses I got were ‘my daughter is too beautiful to ruin with makeup, although she has stolen all of my eos lipbalms’ and ‘I hate it, what are we teaching girls?’ and ‘Milky has his own clear lip gloss so he can get ready with mama, that is all!’ So it would seem I’m not the only one who isn’t keen on letting little ones delve into their mama’s makeup collection, even if on the surface it’s cute and ‘fun’ and ‘for play.’

So what say you? Would you let a little (as in under five) girl (or boy) play with proper adult makeup? And if they wanted to film a makeup tutorial for YouTube would you be happy for them to do it? Has some of the world gone crazy or does Tab need to wake up to the fact that kids have changed and the world’s not what it used to be? Chat away! 

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3rd August, 2015

Nope don't like that at all! Can't even comment too much on it as I would probably write a novel! All I can say is let them be little girls and one word - pedophiles! The internet is just too dangerous.

I have a 2 & a half year old daughter and no, will never do this or let her do it

2nd August, 2015

Children should be able to be children for as long as they can. You live your life more as an adult than a child. It is the parents that pressure them to grow up to quickly.

31st July, 2015

I have a 3 and a half year old daughter and a 2 year old son and I dont like the idea of children around their age making their own make up videos, whats that meant to be teaching them? Children of their age need to be taught that they are beautiful as they are and they dont need all these cosmetics to make them "socialy acepted" .

In saying that when im doing my hair/ make up my children are always sitting on my bed watching and asking 1 million questions about what im doing, while they are playing with my make up brushes doing each others "make up" pretend invisable make up is all my kids will be getting.

Id much rather them be playing outside in the mud and having water fights instead of having "cute" make up videos.

31st July, 2015

I have to admit that while I would have loved to wear makeup as a kid I wasn't allowed to wear it unless I was performing until I was sixteen. That's when my trial and error started, thankfully I have been a fan of neutral tones and just recently started getting into the brighter colors though not bright orange red lipstick. I made that mistake in my teens. I think kids should be kids and they should be allowed to play but not give tutorials or encouraged into that sort of thing. My youngest sister is eleven and a half and I'm only just now letting her wear a bit of mascara and light pink lip gloss. Perhaps I'll teach her to shape her brows soon. I could be old fashioned too but it's my personal opinion that if you look like a child you shouldn't be wearing makeup unless you're going to some ball or special occasion or performing on stage and even then it should be applied minimally and tastefully by an adult.

31st July, 2015

Oh hell no! My makeup is mine and when my preschooler touches it it's, "Be careful with that that's mummies special thing." He does have his own few lipbalms which were mine and he goobed on so they are now his. He likes putting on his "lippy" when he sees me getting ready and even puts all of them on one after the other. There's no way that anything other than a bit of lipgloss and nailpolish is accpetable for kids. They don't need it our babies are beautiful and who would want to mess with their perfect skin.

31st July, 2015

I actually can't say I would let my kids play with makeup, regardless of their gender. Maybe the $2 shop play stuff, but never in 100million years would I give them the stuff I put on my face. After the age of 15, maybe. I actually find it sad that parents are dolling their kids up - regardless of how cute they may look. They're kids for crying out loud, let them be kids!

31st July, 2015

After watching these videos I felt saddened, I feel that these cute kids are having their innocence taken away far too young. Why can't the adults just let them be kids. By using these adult products on their young skin they may even develop skin problems later on, in the form of allergies or acne. Childhood is short, they should be allowed to enjoy being a kid as long as possible.

30th July, 2015

I've seen these my daughter watches them she's 6 ( my daughter ) what made me aware of them was wheny daughter recognized my brands of makeup, then she told me about the tutorials she watches on YouTube. Omgosh these little girls have more highend makeup & drugstore make up then me..... My daughter even wants a NYX jumbo eye pencil, I don't have one myself. She'll be getting my matte lip cremes before a jumbo pencil. I dont mind thst my duaghter loces make up. I mean she has to wear it for her baller recitals. I do think its OTT that these littlw girls have tutorials. It sets my daughter & other little girls a false pretense of some kind. I mean little girls need to stick to their plastic heart shaped makeup palettes. I do give my daughter my lip balm glosses and now cremes. My balms and glosses are new & I've given her my loreal shadow trios

30th July, 2015

I reckon as soon as it's more than 'just having fun and messing around' it's bad. It's not cute anymore when a little kid starts layering on the whole deal rather than just a bright pink lip stick and maybe a mani.

30th July, 2015

Beauty pagents for little girls makes me feel physically nauseous to be completely frank and this verges on that. It's not fair on the little girls to dress them up like that and force them to grow up too quickly. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I don't think so. I just remember what it was like to be a little girl and I think preserving that innocence for as long as possible is important.

30th July, 2015

Hmm I think I sit just slightly more on the other side of the fence than most...

My 7 year old daughter and I often play 'makeup/hairdressing salon'. I find it a really special time where we can be girly together without the boys. I will put makeup on my daughter (I'm not talking a full makeup here.. its play, so really it appears more like a girly face paint might) I will do sparkly eyeshadows and lips etc. there is no mascara or foundation for example. At this level I don't feel it teaches her not to be comfortable in her own skin. I don't let her use any makeup on herself but what I do let her do is put it on me - I usually wind up looking like a deranged mad woman who has had a very bad night BUT she doesn't know that and she adores that time we spend together.

I certainly don't disagree with a lot of what is said here, above is simply how we have things at our house. I 100% agree with the sadness of little children growing up too fast and worrying about their appearance.

30th July, 2015

I agree. Little kidlets shouldn't be getting into the whole kit. I think the same as Mareebros, it's a right of passage. I wasn't allowed anything more than a lip gloss and a pale pink nail polish until I was 13, then I was allowed to progress onto tinted moisturiser and mascara. I seen on Facebook a few weeks ago a friend of mine had done a photo shoot with her daughter who is 6 and she had full glamour make up on! I thought that looked horrendous! A small amount of make up, purely for a photo shoot would be fine as long as it looked natural and was really just to accentuate the child's naturally beautiful features... but full bright pink lipstick and a smokey eye!? noooooo! Don't even get me started on heels! I saw a girl in my local shops the other night who was maybe 8 or 9 wearing knee high boots with about a 6cm heel... I was horrified!!! It's not cute!

30th July, 2015

I think it is a shame that little girls are manipulated to be mini me's.Let kids be kids and it is starting to show what self absorbed people we are becoming with selfies so important in our lives. Kids putting on mummy's shoes and clothes and being cute is one thing this is another.

29th July, 2015

Oh this is an article that's an eye opener. My daughter seven years old really wants a make up space like mine. She asks to use my make up all the time. I haven't purchased any make up for her yet. She has asked to have a beauty station. I'm going to allow to have one when she gets a little bit older, but not with a full adult kit with all the make up. Just lip glosses and a couple of eye shadows, hair ties, and brushes.

29th July, 2015

I tend to believe kids should be kids and that today kids are growing up too fast.

MareeB
2nd August, 2015

Too true!

alyshajayne
30th July, 2015

Just to add - my daughter also does not wear any makeup outside of the house and does not own her own real makeup. She also spends most of her time climbing trees, riding bikes and scraping her knees with her brothers :)

alyshajayne
30th July, 2015

Ok one more thing ;) I just watched the second link (didn't notice it at first) - this is much more disturbing than the first in my opinion and has left the 'playing' station.

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