Friday, January 30, 2009

Teens & Mineral Makeup: A Natural Choice for Your Child

By Marilyn Etzel

It is a rite of passage for a daughter to play in her mother's makeup. If you have your own teenage daughter you may have already experienced this. When she is ready for her own makeup, help her find a natural product.

Many people develop skin problems in their teen years. That is usually when the dreaded acne shows up. For a teen girl, skin problems can really be devastating. I'm sure you know teens are extremely body conscious and that begins with their faces.

Some girls think that using makeup will cover up their facial problems. Traditional makeup can clog pores and cause more problems for your daughter. If her skin is extremely sensitive, just the filler and dyes can give healthy looking skin problems it didn't have before.

If you are approaching the makeup season in your home, help your daughter out. Together, examine the makeup on the market to find one that will keep her skin healthy and clear.

The Benefits

One thing to consider with mineral makeup is the health of your daughter's skin. Skin on the face is delicate anyway and when you are a teen, hormones put the skin through a number of tough phases. Adding traditional pore clogging makeup to the mix is not a wise choice.

Many teen girls use makeup to cover up facial imperfections such as acne or dark patches. Actually, most makeup doesn't help ,but actually hurts the skin. And for the most part, teens tend wear too much and their face begins to look artificial.

Mineral makeup has another purpose. It seeks to enhance what is naturally there. If there are skin imperfections, the minerals are designed to reduce their appearance. As a result, the makeup looks like you are wearing no makeup at all. Your daughter will like that.

The minerals are the key. Using natural minerals in a fine powder blend with your skin so you never know where skin ends and makeup begins. Very little makeup is applied because very little is needed to achieve total coverage. The Kabuki brush that comes with the makeup was designed for smooth, even application. Now, there won't be any more marathon bathroom makeup sessions for your daughter on school mornings.

With mineral makeup, your daughter can:

- Keep skin issues at bay

- Learn about natural beauty

- Spend less time in the bathroom applying makeup

Who would want to wear anything else on their face with benefits like that? - 15343

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