Kim Kardashian’s back in the makeup biz — but she’s not without her beauty regrets.
The mogul launched her Skkn by Kim makeup Friday, and marked the occasion by chatting with Bustle about her own routine and what she’s passed down to her daughters, including 10-year-old North West.
Asked about the “Sephora tweens” phenomenon and whether North and her sister Chicago, 6, have fallen prey to the frenzy, Kardashian replied, “My littlest one’s too little [to wear makeup] and I don’t let her.”
Added the star, “I look back and there’s times when I remember I let my daughter [North] wear a red lip once for Christmas. Would I do that now? Probably not.”
The Skims founder was referring to Christmas 2018, when a then-5-year-old North rocked bright red lipstick at her family’s annual Christmas Eve bash.
“She picked it though! It’s a special occasion!” Kardashian wrote on Twitter at the time following some backlash from fans who thought North was too young for lipstick.
The mom of four also shared in September 2018 that she used lipstick as “a bribe to get out of the door” for North, who was obsessed with beauty products from a very young age.
But North’s dad, Kanye West, shut down her makeup-artist aspirations in short order, with Kardashian telling E! News in 2019 that the rapper had banned his elder daughter from wearing color cosmetics.
“He changed all the rules,” she said at the time. “I’d let her wear, you know, she has a little red for Christmas, I’d let her wear a red lip, or I’d let her do one pop of something. I’d let her, if she’s wearing a black dress, a black lip. I kind of got in trouble for that, so it’s now no more makeup.”
While Kim and Kanye were kaput as a couple by 2021, it seems the former has gotten a bit more strict when it comes…
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