She added that certain products, such as concealers, could help self-conscious teenagers suffering from spots to feel more confident."Make-up is more accessible for girls now and I don't think it is anything to worry about. It forms the basis for many girls' nights in and it's a fun activity for some who are a bit too young to go out on a Saturday night."Chantelle Hellier, a 12-year-old from Cornwall, said she wore mascara and blusher regularly and that her peer group wears cosmetics to school."Most of my friends wear make-up I have got lots of nail varnish and perfume. Manufacturers of make-up and fragrance should therefore be wary in over-promoting celebrities in the belief that all young teenagers aspire to a notion of perfection which many do not realise is unobtainable."But Leanne Warrick, beauty editor at Sugar magazine, aimed at 13- to 17-year-olds, defended make-up for young girls, saying it was applied for fun and experimentation. affect children's psyches - there does not seem to be one honest picture in the images we see in our doctored beauty culture.

Girls as young as seven are using make-up regularly in an attempt to match up to the female perfection shown on television and in teen magazines, according to a survey yesterday. And it's easier to get realistic facial expressions in plasticine than computer graphics."Working with the scientists has brought Aardman some early benefits, showing that in producing animations for TV, less detail was required than for the cinema - allowing the company to halve the number of frames it produced. "But it turns out that the brain can't see the difference: you can get by with 12 frames per second on a TV." However, in the cinema, which runs at 25 frames per second, every frame must be produced individually to avoid jerkiness.. "We've got 30 minutes of it in the can so far," said Arthur English, a spokesman for Aardman, explaining why the company is talking to the scientists."We believe realism in the face comes from the top of the eyebrows down to the chin. If you can be convincing there, then you will draw the audience into believing the character is real."Mr English said that Aardman was not trying to compete with purely computer-generated films such as Shrek: "Our feeling is that we prefer our more earthy look; but with that, we're striving for more realism.

Below that age, children can tell bare-faced lies - such as being covered in chocolate while denying they've been eating it."The fruits of the partnership might come in time to shape the studio's next big film in October next year, starring Wallace and Gromit So far it has been four years in the making. "We can also learn about childhood development, because children under five don't seem to understand that when older people lie, they find it hard to look someone in the eye. Yet marriage is probably unnecessary, and isn't as compulsory as it used to be."Married couples who have been together longer are far more likely to share their money - more than half pool their incomes, and only 2 per cent keep their money totally separately. But, Dr Burgoyne said, with newlyweds, "we found at least half of our sample were keeping their money totally separately or pooling just a part of it. There was a very strong sense of ownership associated with that money."While deciding to get married was all about long-term goals, money involved a much more short-term horizon.".