When did you first start wearing Make-up?

[mysterygal]

For me, it was 6th grade. Bonnie Bell lip gloss was all I was allowed until I got into high school!
When was it for the rest of you?

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

I started getting zits when I was in about 7th grade so I was allowed to wear cover up. I didn't start actually wearing makeup regularly until junior year of high school, probably.

[Naama]

I started using eye shadow when I was 15, rather late I guess.... It was a strange feeling. For me it was a big thing, but I think most people didn't even notice

Naama

[jitterbugdoll]

I was allowed to wear lipgloss and clear mascara when I was about 13. In high school, my mother tried to get me to wear brighter lipsticks because I was so pale (but only very natural makeup other then the lipstick); I didn't get into red lipstick 'til I was about 19 (and from then on, I was a red lipstick junkie )

[decodoll]

I was allowed to start wearing make-up when I started Jr. High, so about 12/13. Back then it was all the rage to wear as many different eye shadow colours as you could manage at one time. My dad used to joke that we used a trowel to put it on.

[LizzieMaine]

I started with lipstick when I was about 13. That and a bit of powder was all my mother and grandmother ever wore, so that's all I used for quite a while. Then I got into the Drama Club when I was in high school, and figured I should learn how to do the rest of my face!

Funny thing I just now remembered -- in my 8th grade home-ec textbook there was a section on "Good Grooming," that suggested the only appropriate eye makeup for Junior High girls was a bit of Vaseline applied to the eyelids. Dutiful student that I was, I actually did this for a while!

[BettyValentine]

I was allowed to wear whatever I wanted pretty much as long as I can remember. When I was in 3rd grade I made my own by mixing stuff -- red food coloring with toothpaste was lipstick (for the record, that color won't come off for *days*).
I wasn't allowed to wear makeup to school when I was in 7th and 8th grade because of school rules, so I rebelled by wearing clear mascara and neutral lipsticks and concealer. I wore eyeliner and red lipstick through high school and typically didn't wear any makeup during college.

[Caledonia]

Mascara and concealer or foundation from about 14, if you don't count raiding mum's make up from age 4, along with clomping about in her 50s high heels, and generally ruining her entire wardrobe with sticky little fingers.

[Viola]

At 12 I was allowed to wear what I thought was a very exciting amount of makeup; lip gloss or very pale pink lipstick, clear nail polish, clear mascara, and pale pink eyeshadow. It would take twenty minutes to put all that on and then you couldn't see any of it, so my Mom and I were both happy.

I also was allowed to put on a touch of perfume. I had lilac and my sister had rose, and both were so incredibly strong that two drops made a girl smell like a lit Yankee Candle.

[Rosie]

I was allowed to wear tinted lip gloss (very lightly tinted) when I was about 14, at about 16 I was allowed lipstick in nice, subdued "good girl" colors. I wore a smidge of makeup for my prom and other special occasions but just powder, lipstick. When I was 18, my cousin got married and I was in the wedding, I wore foundation, mascara, etc. and so from then on, I wore whatever I liked.