The Teenage Beauty Addicts ; They Get Up at 5.30am to Put On Their Makeup, and Spend Hundreds On
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A DAB of spot cream and a bit of concealer used to be the only beauty routine they required. Now beauty conscious teens, as young as 13, are plucking and preening themselves to perfection - spending hundreds of euro and countless hours in their quest to look like cover girls. A bit of harmless fun or a worrying obsession? Read the candid confessions of six teenage beauty addicts and decide for yourself.
LINDA Fallon, 13, is from Rathfarnham. She lives with her father Noel, a quality analyst at Guinness, and her mother Karen, a housewife. She attends St Louis High School in Rathmines. She says: I would never leave the house without makeup - I have become dependent on it and I would definitely call myself a beauty addict.See the full content of this document
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The Teenage Beauty Addicts ; They Get Up at 5.30am to Put On Their Makeup, and Spend Hundreds On
I spend at least E100 on cosmetics every month and my mum and dad give me money for it. I'm a girlie girl and I like to make myself look pretty. Makeup makes me feel much more confident in myself; it gives me a real boost. I feel feminine when I wear pretty lip glosses and blush.
I started to wear makeup when I was 12 and, since then, my interest has grown and grown. All of my friends go to school with their makeup and their hair done properly - one of them is 12 and she goes mad if even one hair is out of place.I go to Dundrum Town C...See the full content of this document
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