Parents are struggling to make up their minds about letting their kids wear makeup. Lips were flapping after Tori Spelling posted an Instagram shot of her 7-year-old daughter puckering up in ruby-r… ...

If you do let younger kids wear makeup, you might want to have some rules about when it’s acceptable and when it’s not. The ability to wear makeup could be a treat your child earns for showing ...

Imagining a makeup-wearing future gives children the ability to feel a tiny bit of control and wish fulfillment, just as imagining having a beard or a mustache could. “A lot of kids will pretend ...

Other parents, meanwhile, say the age of when kids should be allowed to wear makeup to school depends on several factors, and getting to the root of why they want to wear it is important.

Seeing this as a mum was quite confronting for a host of reasons but mostly it just saddened me that these young kids thought that they needed to wear makeup to school to fit in, going so far as ...

Context is key in these scenarios, Rodrigues said. A 6-year-old wanting to play with makeup at home is one thing, but a 10-year-old asking to wear red lipstick to school is another.

Out of all the children involved in the study, some 54% used makeup on at least a monthly basis. A further 12% used it every day and 20% wore makeup for eight or more hours every time.

But, although wearing make-up during a dance performance is not uncommon, ... From celebrity offspring to Irish dance competitions, it’s not uncommon to see children trying on make-up.