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Article: Should you let your teen wear make-up?(Features)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Byline: by Alice Hart-Davis
ONE morning last year, my daughter Molly came downstairs to breakfast wearing so much eye make-up that my jaw dropped.
'Er, that's quite a lot of eye shadow for a school day ...' I ventured weakly.
'Oh I know,' she said sweetly. 'It's from the 'how to do smoky eyes' chapter we were working on at the weekend. I thought I'd give it another whirl.' Touche. I asked for that. No sane parent is ever going to encourage their little girl to wear make-up, but as Molly and I have written a book on skincare and make-up for teenagers, I'm hardly in a position to tell her not to.
I'm a beauty journalist, so my in-tray is ...