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Originally Posted by lilybelle
My DD and I have had the hair-dyeing conversation and I have told her absolutely not. She has beautiful , thick brown hair and I know it is a decision that she would regret.
I went through the same thing. I have auburn/chesnut colored hair. I wanted to color it something else. My mother had a coniption saying, "Your hair is gorgeous! Why would you want another color?!"
"Because I hate my hair."
And I did.
Eventually my mother let me do what I wanted to do. I bleached it blonde. At first I wanted to kill myself, but I eventually got used to it and when my own color started to show through a little bit, it actually looked very nice. I enjoyed being a 'blonde' for about 2 years. Then I decided to let my orginal color grow back, which is where it's been ever since.
Sometimes you need to let them 'live and learn.' My mother may have thought my hair was gorgeous (and frankly so did everyone else - to this day I get compliments everywhere I go) but *I* didn't.
Of course it also depends on how old your daughter is. If I had a daughter that was maybe only 12 or 13 and wanted to dye her hair, I'd probably say no. But if she would be 16 or something like that, then yeah, I'd let her do what she wants to do and let her see for herself how beautiful her hair is once she no longer has it.
All my life I hated my hair. But now that it's been a different color and I eventually grew tired of having to touch it up constantly and do my roots and all that other stuff that gets boring, I now LIKE my hair and consider it to be my best feature. Years and years of hating my hair... until I bleached it. Now I appreciate it more
As for the original question of letting an 11-year-old wear make-up, I really don't know. It would depend on how 'mature' she is and whether or not you trust her judgement and also how MUCH make-up she wants to wear. But in my personal opinion, no, I don't think a child that young should be wearing it.