I am the youngest in my family so my mother was pretty non-chalant about alot of things after my two sisters and my brother.

I was dying to shave my legs but was too afraid (??) to ask for permission (I was called Hairy Sary.) One day a friend of my mother was visiting. She asked my mother at what age I would be allowed to shave my legs. My mother replied that she assumed I already did. As of later that day...I did! (I was about 12.)

As for makeup....one day she was driving me somewhere. I was maybe 13. She looked at me and said..."If you are going to wear all that makeup at least blend it in along your jaw." I wore very little makeup after that.

Except for mascara. I never leave the house without mascara!