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At a certain age, it is no longer easy to buy kids a LEGO set or Barbie and call it a day. But the idea of that age being eight years old is a little much for some parents after one mom influencer on TikTok, Ferne, shared a video where she shows her makeup birthday haul for her eight-year-old daughter.
Some of the comments applauded Fern for leaning into her daughter’s interest in experimenting with makeup. But other parents weren’t so quick to give Ferne finger snaps. Instead, some users who are also parents had some more cutting words for Ferne’s parenting.
While some accused her of simply showing off her purchases for the sake of earning income as an influencer, others shamed her for buying an eight-year-old makeup.
Other parents insisted that she let her daughter be “little” for a little while longer.
In her TikTok, Ferne admits that she feels like “it’s too young” to be into makeup already. But, she explains, her daughter’s friends also love makeup, so her haul from the Home Bargains store is based primarily on makeup for her daughter.
And, when she shows beauty blenders she bought to add to the loot as a birthday gift, she admits that she isn’t even sure why her daughter wants some of the makeup tools she asked for.
“I’m like, ‘what are you even blending? You’re seven,'” Ferne jokes in the video. She later says, “She’s in year three. She’s not gonna be doing a whole glam.”
Other TikTok users were quick to share their own experiences with makeup for their kids in the comments, with some revealing how old they were when they began to use makeup.
I mean, Ferne’s kid’s interests aren’t really dependent on anyone else’s experiences, but YOLO, I guess.
“My daughter didn’t wear makeup ’til about 13,” one mom shared. “I’ve never worn makeup.”
Someone else wrote, “If you feel like it’s too young, don’t buy it. It is too young, she’s still a baby.”
Ferne also says in her video that her daughter “doesn’t know what she’s doing” with makeup. However, to Ferne, it’s about “imaginative play” more than anything. Unfortunately, it didn’t stop haters from coming for her and urging her to slow down a bit and make her daughter slow down on the whole growing up too fast of it all.
When someone else commented, “When did eight-year-olds need makeup anyways? I was still playing with toys till secondary school,” Ferne replied to them with, “She still loves her Barbies, LEGOs, and LOL dolls, don’t worry.”
But worry they did, along with other adults who made it their business to tell Ferne what her eight-year-old should and should not be into right now.
“She is eight years old, should she be wearing makeup?” Someone commented.
Another added, “Eight with beauty blenders. At eight, I had slime.”
Some parents commented to agree with Ferne that some little kids show interest in things like makeup far earlier than kids might have once upon a time.
But, per one mom’s comment when she chimed in, “it seems to be younger and younger they are more into makeup and skincare” and that, for some kids, it “feels like forgotten childhood.”
That’s a bit much, but I would definitely be pushing dolls on my eight-year-old as long as possible.
