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October 9, 2025 11 mins

The Question of the Day asked: Is twelve too young to wear makeup? This comes from a mom who punished her twelve-year-old daughter for wearing makeup. Listeners chimed in passionately, weighing parental guidance against growing social media pressure and over-sexualization in youth culture. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the deal. He can show your twenty twenty
five this shit. If you're going to be in Richmond, Virginia,
will be there this Friday and Saturday at the excuse me,
Richmond Funny Bone. In where short, Yes, indeed so, a
young girl is punished her father mother punished her for
wearing makeup? Do you think twelve is too young? And

(00:20):
if so, what do you think the appropriate age would be?
Lena speaking to the microphone. We're gonna give you another
chance because you never seem to get it right, so
I'm gonna give it a shot. What do you think
it's twelve too young to wear makeup? And if twelve
is too young, what is the appropriate age?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I mean, I do think twelve is a little too
young to wear makeup, But you know.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
That's just my preference somebody else. That's why I asked
you for your preference. I asked you to explain what
somebody else might have. Just tell me what you think. Yeah,
I think twelve is sweet.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think the appropriate age is probably like sixteen. Okay,
there you go. See Yeah, okay, all right, there you go.
See see there you go. A kinsingetta right when you
can wear that. When you can wear a prom dress
and socer shoes, then it's time for exactly exactly. Man,
if I see one work so Jasmine, what do you

(01:19):
think twelve? Is that too young? And if so, what
would be the appropriate I don't mind.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
A little something at twelve if you want to, like
I take my knees to get her nails done. A
little lip gloss is fine by me. But if you're
going to do the whole contour of the face and
you know, you know, eyeshadow and all of that, that's
when they what you don't like the heavy makeup where
it's dark here and it's.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
The whole thing now not to see if you're going
back to an event, well twelve, Yeah, But I'm saying
when we're speaking about it, I just think that that
you're right. I think there is a lot of I
think that a lot of that came from social media,
but a lot of that came from the way that
these reality show stars look to people, for sure, without question,
because they they all think that that's.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
But they influence that, they're called influencers, and so other
people want to look like that. And so you watched
you talk and Instagram and all these things and you think, okay,
well this I could make this better. That's the whole
purpose of makeup. Not always to look older, because people
who are older wear makeup, but you do it to
look better.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
You do it for various reasons.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
If you want to hide a pimple, or if you
want to carve out your cheekbones, you conjure your face,
you want your lips to stand down.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
You should stay. I shouldn't do. You should stay at
the Captain D's. Then people should stay. You want to
call it on your face, want to keep it out
of house. You know everybody it's not.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Blessed with beautiful skin, so you know, or features, so
they want to, you know, juse it up a little bit.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, but you don't want to put spackle on
your face. You don't want Sometimes you got to man,
you need a head transplant.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Wasn't not available yet.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
So the question we're asking ladies and gentlemen, let me
let you hit this audio. But I feel like I'm
mature enough to wear make you're not mature enough. One
no make up. You're twelve twelve.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
When you're fifteen sixteen, you can make up, but you're
not going to be.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Doing it at no.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
Twelve years old, and I'm opposed to stop trying to follow.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Behind the depleet skip. You have a beautiful daughter, yes,
two beautiful daughters. Yes, yes, I should say when do
you say it's twelve too young? And well, it's definitely
too young and what would be inappropriate age? And you
know what, sixteen? Fifteen, sixteen?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And think about it. It's not just uh, social media
that influences them. It's a natural thing. Kids look at
their parents, their mothers, and if they see their mom
putting on lipstick, then you know, that's why they put
on their mama shoes and walk around the house. They
want to be like that. But you, as a parent
have to keep a major appropriate to keep them predators
up all.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Don't wait too long though.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I got to push back a little bit because I
know a lot of people don't wear like my mama
never wore makeup for everybody.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
But right, that's what I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I think most of the time you do what your
friends do because you don't want to be like your mama,
so you do.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
What your friends do.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
If your friends are wearing short skirts, you want to
wear a short short skirt.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
If they're wearing makeup. You want friends get pregnant. You
know you want to bridge exactly, that's one correct.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
They used to have a pregnancy packed in school. I'm
telling you it's true. You want to do what your
friends do. That's why your mama when she would reprimand you,
she say, so, if your friends gonna jump off a.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Bridge, you are to friends jump off the bridge.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
You want to follow behind your friends. You want to
do it.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now they try to be your friend on Facebook. You
ain't want my little friend right exactly. I just think
to your point, it has always existed, but it just
didn't have this level of mechanism where it did. You know,
it's so and I think that, but everything twelve is
too young. But don't wait too long. Because I waited
too long and then one of my daughters just lets

(04:52):
me so. I think, wow, that's so stupid.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
I said it.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Let her put on some bluffs before she started digging chicks.
That's what I said to done. I mean, I'm just
saying maybe, yeah, I'm saying, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
But the times have changed now even now you have
people like companies like Sophora that have twelve year old
makeup influences, right, Like, so it's a lot to do
with social media. You see other people who were doing it.
I just googled it on AI to ask is twelve
too young? They said, no, twelve is not inherently too
old for makeup, as many children started experimenting in middle
school between the ages of twelve and fifteen. But the

(05:29):
decision depends on family values and the child's ready.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Actually, absolutely so. Even Laana said between twelve to young
and fifteen, right, okay, even in the dominic kind of yeah, yeah,
got it.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
You gotta know how to talk to the kids. Like
I remember when Taylor she was playing coming off with
soccer field. She was little and she saw a cheerleader
go by, and you know, to kids, or a little
girl cheerleader kind of look like a princess. The girl
was all made up, had a little pompom and she
looked at me and said, Dad, I want to be
a cheerleader. I said, okay, baby, you can be a
cheerleader and cheer for other people. You can peep, keep
playing soccer and nilt you're for you. She looked at

(06:02):
me and said, I'll keep playing soccer. You never had
that conversation again.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yeah, everybody's different.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah, all right, so we're gonna ask you that we're
gonna finally get into you because he is the most
important in this thing. I don't care what these people say.
Who are there? What you guys think? Yeah, so who
do you think is twelve too younger? Here is the idea.
You need to stop being a farther, but be a legal.
I was never like that.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
When I was in school. I followed myself. I ain't
following nobody else. Now'm simple. You thinking you're grown, you
want to one a little salts. You're gonna do everything
to tease somebody else. Do be a legal, not a
full because you're gonna follow the road, follow them the
road direction, and be head down a roll road because
you want to be like everybody else.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
You do not have to well play use you're beautiful
with dowd. If twelve is to you, when do you
think they are probably agents? We're gonna write to the phones.

Speaker 7 (06:52):
I'm gonna be honest. At twelve or thirteen, I would
sneak and rare with stick and maybe eyeliner, but when
I got home it was off. To this day, I
still don't wear a lot of makeup, and I'm grown
and have children, and I think now things these kids
are wearing makeup because of the social media and maybe

(07:15):
because their friends are doing it. But and then the
parents I think are as trick now as they were
when I was coming up. But however, twelve years old
is I think too young to be wearing makeup?

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Right?

Speaker 8 (07:29):
I think to answer his question, I think twelve is
too young if that's what the parents are said. This
is about parenting, and no child is gonna do exactly.
They gonna challenge you. But just by this dialogue and
that exert the daughter knew it was wrong because she's nothing.

(07:50):
Did it after the parent had told her. But you know,
it varies from situation. Can you imagine Blue, Ivy Carter
or north Way being under the twelve year old makeup
rule in the family that they're in. So it varies.
But when you want to instill something in your child morally,
you're going to teach them and you're going to stand

(08:10):
firm on it. The young girl said, but my friends,
we've all said that, but we already know what our
parents have said, so it's a teaching thing. Jamaica Kincaid
is an Arthur. She wrote an essay, a short read
called Girl, an Islander Woman and her Daughter, and she
gave her a series of directions to ward her off

(08:32):
against the science of norms of today. Please read that
Jamaica dankge girl just to keep her daughter straight. But
I enjoy your show and I definitely think the answer
yes is too young. Basically, if the parents said it,
whatever the parents said.

Speaker 5 (08:49):
Well, twelve year Olfice is definitely too young. They should
just be wearing lip off. Little girls need to say
little girls as long as they can. I think the
age appropriate age for that daughter to start wearing make
up at the age of eighteen. Need to teach the
young ladies that you have a pretty fast and you're
pretty built. Theyself for seam of makeup. It's not the answer.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
So here's the audios and when you get older you
can wait.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
But from now you better I wasn't gonna make up
or you're gonna get to the high tour. Do you
understand what's the same. I can't hear you. Yes, Now
you need to write that brother's already told me, and
I'm glad they told about something. Wait for you to
get home from school because you don't do that.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
This ain't how we rolled.

Speaker 8 (09:33):
In this house.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Do you think twelve is too young? And and so
we'll see problege you're going to write to the phones,
all right?

Speaker 9 (09:40):
I honestly, I think they're too young to be wearing
makeup at twelve. I'm a middle school science teacher in
the morning, and I've never seen the massive amount of
sixth graders that's wearing makeup stones, I mean everything under
the sun. These little girls come to school dressed like
they're going out to a club. And I got the comment.
I heard the comment that some of these kids are

(10:00):
doing it. Some of these young ladies or girls are
doing it because they see their mom doing or they're
simple as their sisters. But when the sisters are thirteen,
fourteen years old, how much are they looking up to?

Speaker 5 (10:09):
Like?

Speaker 9 (10:09):
Who are they looking up to?

Speaker 10 (10:10):
Because they shouldn't be wearing it either.

Speaker 9 (10:11):
So I think it's twelve is young to be wearing
makeup as a little girl.

Speaker 8 (10:17):
The key word is a little girl.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
Stay little as old as your canyon.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (10:21):
Yeah. As a single father who raised my daughter pretty
much from birth, we gotta dollar these young ladies back
in twelve is definitely too young to make up. My
family told me the eighteen is too old, so I'm
gonna say maybe sixteen seventeen mild me, But I mean,
you know, let's keep our young women little girls and

(10:41):
tell everybody to blossoming and young women. You know, we
shouldn't over sexualize them and things like that. So yeah,
I think definitely twelve is way too young.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
Brothers, I think that twelve years old is too young
to wear makeup in the African American community.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
But in the Caucasian community, they do.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Wear eyeshadow liner at twelve years old.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
But for the African Americans, we kind of want our
kids to wait until they at least sixteen seventeen.

Speaker 7 (11:06):
It's fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old.

Speaker 6 (11:08):
No, hell, no, twelve year old shouldn't be wearing no makeup.
They should be at least and I figured that I'll
give them at least twenty twenty one, twenty two years
old older, because even these young ladies, they don't even
know they self yet at that age at twelve years old,
and a lot of the parents they just let these
kids do what they want. But not at my house.
I'm a grandpa and I'll be on I'd be riding

(11:31):
my granddaughters about certain things they should do and things
they shouldn't wear. And I like when they was getting
the graduation pictures, I say, why y'all putting all that
makeup on your felps? Y'all, y'all look like man against
You can't see the beauty of their faces. You know
you're coming. They're just covering up all their beauty. You
know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
So no
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