I think it depends on location too - the girls my girls hang out with don't use makeup yet (older dd is 13, going into 8th grade). Her friends will wear light eyeshadow and mascara/liner when they are dressing up for some special event, and they wear clear lip gloss mostly to keep their lips from chapping, but that's about it. They are much more into hair braids than makeup. They all have learned how to apply makeup though, because they dance/skate/etc and every type of activity that has a recital requires makeup caked on thick enough to see it from 100 miles away lol.
I volunteer at my ds' high school, and while some of the girls there wear makeup to school, there are also a lot who don't. So maybe it's a regional thing.... (or non-thing?)
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