Make-up tattoos for girl, 14, defended by mother Sophie Watson says she wants to have her freckles lasered off The mother of a 14-year-old County Durham girl who has had make-up tattooed on her face said they did not take the decision lightly.
Sophie Watson, from Spennymoor, had her eyebrows tattooed and lip and eye liner applied.
Her mother Joy said she gave permission for the treatment for her daughter, who competes in beauty pageants.
Child charity the NSPCC criticised the move and said girls should not be treated as "sex objects".
Ms Watson said she accepted what she had let her daughter do sounded shocking but said the changes were subtle.
It is illegal for an artist to tattoo anyone under the age of 18 - but the make-up procedure is not technically classed as a tattoo.
Although needles and an anaesthetic are used, it is classed as a cosmetic procedure and is not permanent because it fades after between two and five years.
However, Sophie does have two illegal tattoos - her name written on her wrist and flowers emblazoned on her stomach.
She had them done without telling her mother and no-one has been prosecuted because she will not reveal the tattooist's name.
Sophie said she was also hoping to have her freckles lasered off in the future and was glad to have the make-up tattoos.
She said: "I am happy. I just look a lot better.
"I like it now that it is always there and I don't need to bother with it every morning."
Her mother, who is a beauty therapist, said she gave permission for the make-up treatment.
She said: "I think she is old enough to be making these decisions with support from me.
"It wasn't something we looked into lightly."
She said she could understand it might seem shocking to people who did not understand the procedure.
"When you say she has had her make-up tattooed on it sounds really shocking. But actually it is done very subtly," she said.
"It's done to enhance her features, it's not done to change her, to make her look like somebody else. It's not done to change the way she looks."
But a spokeswoman for the NSPCC said: "The danger is that a growing climate of sexualisation encourages a view of girls as sex objects.
"All children should be valued for their abilities and talent. They should be free to grow up as children.
"Sadly, we have reached a point where many children get distressed because they think they don't look good.
"For some vulnerable children, this can even lead to mental health problems."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11096865
14 yr old tattoo'd
14 yr old tattoo'd
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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the only make up tattoo I ever saw made the woman look like a crack whore. Thou that was aided by the way she dressed and her physique.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Wait, the daughter of a beauty therapist is obsessed with her looks!?
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Her mother Joy said she gave permission for the treatment for her daughter, who competes in beauty pageants.....................
Says it all!!
Says it all!!
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I predict a great deal of disapointment in this young lady's life, courtesy of her "loving" mother.
"I'll probably go on to college and have trained in nail services so if my dreams don't happen I have a back-up."
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Next week's Headline:
14-year old on court-ordered intravenous feeding to counter severe anorexia.
"I'm willing to die to be beautiful!" says warped teen.
14-year old on court-ordered intravenous feeding to counter severe anorexia.
"I'm willing to die to be beautiful!" says warped teen.
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College, for "training" to be a manacurist..........."I'll probably go on to college and have trained in nail services so if my dreams don't happen I have a back-up."
I expect to go straight to hell...........at least I won't have to spend time making new friends.
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And at 14 yrs too..
Madness
Madness
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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So at 14 her life's ambition is to be a beauty queen or, failing that, a manicurist.
Nothing like aiming high
Nothing wrong with being a manicurist, of course, but surely there should be a parent in the picture encouraging her to explore her potential, before she settles for a "do you want fries with that" type of job for the rest of her life.
Nothing like aiming high
Nothing wrong with being a manicurist, of course, but surely there should be a parent in the picture encouraging her to explore her potential, before she settles for a "do you want fries with that" type of job for the rest of her life.
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
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'Beauty therapist' 
...that really gets me. Is beauty really therapeutic? Seems to be the other way round.
I see a different kind of therapist in her future.
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...that really gets me. Is beauty really therapeutic? Seems to be the other way round. I see a different kind of therapist in her future.
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