The Sunday Post (Newcastle)

Em@il jury

With girls as young as six now asking to wear make-up, are children being placed under too much pressure to grow up?

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Youngsters are being “force matured” by whatever means, and aren’t being given the chance to be kids.

Davie Kerr, Lochaber

Dipping into mum’s make-up bag is a bit of fun.

Andrew Clubb, Ellon

Children are not being allowed to have a childhood nowadays.

Liz Kelly, Glasgow

It’s normal for small children to want to try their mum’s make-up, but horrifying that a child aged six should think they are ugly or are being bullied.

Margaret Gibb, Fife

There is no problem with young girls playing with their mum’s make-up as long as it’s at home.

Jean-Claude Huntzinger, Lochgelly

Nowadays, parents are obsessed with looking good and that applies to offspring as well. Reality and talent shows don’t help.

Paul Strathdee, Glasgow

Girls have always tried their mum’s make-up. This has been going on forever and there is no harm in it.

Joan Fordyce, Forfar

Pressure on young girls is robbing them of their childhood. You can’t turn the clock back – you only have one childhood.

Allison Scotland, Roxburghsh­ire

Making young girls up to look older than they are is not good.

Anne Fletcher, Darlington

Young girls have always used make-up as a plaything. It’s nothing to do with pressure from social media or anything else considered sinister.

Graham D’Arcy, Glasgow

It’s a rite of passage.

Ronald James, Angus

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A make-up artist at work in Aberdeen

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