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Ur dogs are so cute!!

@caitbird mine are in a cosmetic bag. I have been using them up so I have only about 20 left

Great selection, @jaaayp ! I think The Lost Bookshop is on my library wishlist. I read Woman in Cabin 10 sometime back. I'm not sure about Zero Days. Ruth Ware is kind of hit or miss with me. 📚

The tea sounds tasty and in a pretty mug too, @caitbird ! A win all around! ☕

@caitbird I should check out what they have now, too.

GET THIS NOW ITS AMAZING!

Agreed. I’m not mad at the kids. I’m mad at the parents who are letting the kids make wrong choices that will actually impact them negatively. I stopped going into Sephora and Ulta. I like to shop in peace. It seems a small percentage of parents decided the best way for them to shop is to use stores as daycares. When I was a teen, I had fun picking out makeup with my mom. She taught me what was age appropriate. These kids are going to end up with all kinds of skin issues and potentially infections from the samples. I feel the parents are also robbing themselves of a bonding and teaching experience.

I was kind of a weird case because I was wearing a full face in elementary school semi-regularly. I was in dance and cheer at a young age and bright stage lights + extremely pale skin = a need for relatively heavy, dramatic makeup. Because I had sensory issues, my mom and I would practice with it every so often just to keep me used to it. I didn't start having my own actual makeup outside those kid makeup sets until I was in high school, I think, and I've never worn all that much anyway outside of when I'm putting on a costume or something like it, sort of like putting on a mask to make taking on the character even easier, but she'd do my makeup for me for dance recitals or even just because I asked on a weekend, a birthday, during school breaks, etc. all the way up through middle school. She's even helped me dye my hair almost every time I've done it since I started toward the end of middle school.I think makeup and stuff not being banned for me but just there if I wanted to use it let me decide that it wasn't really ever my thing most of the time. I like what I can create with it and that I can turn myself into a whole new person with it if I want to, but it's not really something I want to put effort into doing everyday and the feeling of mascara is gross, anyway, so why would I want to?Peer pressure could always be a factor for any kid at any age, but if they experiment with it and realize they don't like it before they're totally pulled into the idea that they absolutely need it by their friends and by ads and everything, I would think it would be harder to pressure them. Kids want to fit in, sure, but they're also stubborn as rocks.

Thank you so much @caitbird! 😊