Today, I went to the store with my 4 1/2 year old daughter. When we got to the cosmetics aisle, she asked what make-up was for, I told her it was to make women prettier. My daughter then told me it was a good thing I wear make-up because I was ugly and that I might scare off my husband. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I took my daughter to a makeup store at the mall to get foundation to match her skin. The woman behind the counter scoffed, rolled her eyes, then called me a Karen when I asked for a manager. My daughter is 7 and I was getting makeup to match her elf ears for a costume we were making. FML
Today, my 6 year-old daughter saw me putting on makeup and asked, “Mommy, are you trying to look less tired or more alive?” FML
Today, I was taking the subway to school. I was applying some makeup when I noticed a little boy watching me. When I was finished I heard him whisper to his mom, "I thought make up was supposed to make you pretty." FML
Today, I told my 8 year-old daughter that she looks a lot like mommy. Now she won't come out of her room because she thinks she's ugly. FML
Today, I met some guys from my dad's workplace. They told him what a pretty daughter he had, to which he responded, "Nah, it's just shit-loads of makeup." FML
Today, my six-year-old son told me my makeup looks like his grandmother's did in the casket. FML
Today, I helped out with makeup at my daughter's high school play. As one girl walked past, I told her that she'd smudged pink lipstick all up the side of her face. Turns out it was a birthmark. She cried in the dressing room for half an hour. FML
Today, I was with my four year-old daughter when we met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman I know. My daughter looked at her for a while and then asked, "Why doesn’t your skin fit your face?" FML
Today, feeling very self-conscious about my looks, I told my mom I felt ugly and wished I could be as beautiful as her. She only said, "Yeah, I'm pretty, I wonder what happened to you." FML
Today, I took my very talkative toddler to a grocery store. As we passed a woman in an aisle, my kid pointed and said loudly, "Mummy, why does that lady have such a funny face?" I had to awkwardly apologize while my face went beet red. FML
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sallybobally 0
YDI for imposing patriarchical notions of beauty to a little girl
Megan36 3
**** you douche
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idkweird 0
Is no one else amazed by the fact that there is an isle of cosmetics!?!?!?! I can't be the only one! Where is this magical isle?
allyj 0
No, no one's amazed because most pharmacies have a isle for cosmetics. Where the hell do you shop?
idkweird 0
Oh man, this just isn't as fun if you have to explain it. Aisle = the rows you walk down in a grocery store. Isle = a small island. See, not as fun anymore. GOSH!
bombtastic 10
do they have those big poofy brushes as trees? oh goody.
iabty 0
HAHAHA i laughed so hard at this! I'm sorry but I think that the fact that you HAD to explain it made it so much more hilarious :L
lindsaylikeomg 0
tell her that she's gonna grow up to look like that one day. gotta love genetics.
grarox 0
ah the joys of children
blastvortex 4
Kids..... xD
angel1495 0
Wow, OP... You really want your daughter to grow up thinking she needs make up to be pretty? My mom never let me near any make up until I was in middle school. And of course then it was because the "pretty girls" were wearing it so of course I just had to have it [sarcasm]... ******* patriarchal society. They make us think we need these things to be desirable by the standards THEY set, which are standards no one can meet anyway. Do your daughter a favor: don't let her get into your make up, and don't take her near the make up isle EVER again. When she grows up and asks for it because her friends are all wearing it, tell her she doesn't need it because she's prettier without it.
idkweird 0
See, my mom always wore makeup and took forever to apply it. It had the opposite effect on me. She used to tell me that I looked like crap and needed to put some makeup on. I feel I look fine and don't need it. Do I look better with makeup applied nicely? Sure. I just prefer people to accept me looking as is....mostly because Im lazy and it means Id have to do it every day. Screw that! Also, I like my freckles and don't want to cover them!
MINDKONTROLLED 0
good job, you worded that much more respectfully and eloquently than my response
cass454 0
hahahhahahaahhagahgahhahahhaahhahahhahhah lmfaooo suucks to be your shorty self aa four year old told you that ahahahhahhahahahhahhahahhah lmfaooo
Chanika 0
I would be like "That's ok sweetie, everybody says you look like me." Show her..-.-
chadwick110480 0
kids are very good at telling the truth . . . even when it hurts. back in the day I had a friend who was talking about getting the gastro-band or whatever the fat people get. it had been about 6 months since we last seen her and the first thing my little brother said was " Megan your still fat!" I had to try and hold back the laugh, it was pretty freaking funny though.
DarkPrince_fml 0
ell emm eff ayy ohh
twist_of_fame93 0
it's sad that she's not going to get much smarter than she already is