What age should girls start wearing make-up?

Why do you want to wear makeup? If you have good skin, you probably don't need much makeup. Maybe a little powder blush will perk up your face, but be careful about overdoing it! Black eyeliner and mascara make you look old, and I don't mean older. I mean like an old person. If your skin isn't great and you have a lot of pimples, a coverup will make you feel better and more confident. I don't think it's about a specific age. A younger girl might use a good coverup if she needs to. Certainly, high school girls often wear makeup, but I'd caution you to be careful about how much you wear. I'll bet that your parents would let you wear makeup if you let them decide on how much looks good on you. A little lighter-colored eye shadow and some powder blush to highlight your cheekbones would probably be approved. Young ladies usually have dark enough eyelashes without adding mascara, but by age 16 or so, parents do need to allow their children to begin making some of these decisions themselves so they can become healthy and responsible adults. If parents continue to make these decisions for too long without input from their children, the children do not grow up able to make good choices for themselves. Making mistakes is a part of learning, so it's best to make some minor mistakes while still under the parents' eyes. My daughter was allowed light shades of makeup starting in high school, but she has flawless skin, so after a few weeks of playing around, she noticed that the makeup caused her skin to break out. She stopped wearing it. Now she's a senior and she uses some light blush, some creamy eyeshadow and some mascara for special occasions, but she doesn't use much makeup on a daily basis even though she is allowed to choose for herself. Of course, if she wore too much, I'd tell her that it didn't look good, but she'd be allowed to decide whether to take it off or not. After all, next year, she'll be away from me entirely while she's in college and I need to let her feel confident in her ability to make good decisions for herself.