Every mum who has grown daughters will remember the phase - the one where they are slapping makeup on n trying out new styles. My 2 were very different- kid 1 would ask mum does this look ok n I’d say no love - try this and all would be fine. Number 2 kid - would throw a makeup pallet on her face, always drenched in perfume and wanting the longest nails. Didn’t help that she was our “sensitive one” believe me there were some dramas in my house when her phase was rife
had to be cruel to be kind and it was a case of absolutely no way are you going out like that - 2 choices either tone it down or keep it on but you are not going anywhere - along with her sister constantly pulling her leg she eventually got it
somehow I think Wendy missed the chapter in her parenting manual about not letting your kids make total clowns of themselves in public !