Display navigation layered filters only on subcategory page, not on main category in Magento 1.9.3

Question

The quick question I have is how can I display the layered navigation filters only on the subcategory page, not on the main category? Because I have 3-4 attribute sets, one for each subcategory.

root
 -Make-Up
  -Skin
  -Eyes
  -Lips

Make-up is the main category, while Skin, Eyes and Lips are subcategories. And I have created attribute sets for Skin, Eyes and Lips products.

I don't want the navigation filters to be visible under Make-Up because there are too many and looks messy, also is confusing for the customers. Instead I want the filters to be visible only if the user is on the subcategory.

Answer 1

Each category has section called 'Custom Design'. From that section you can add custom layout update statements. On 'Make up' category you can add in Custom Layout Update field :

<remove name="catalog.leftnav"/>

This will remove Layered navigation for this category.

Update to keep child categories

Try this on in Custom Layout Update field :

<remove name="catalog.leftnav"/>
<reference name="left_first">
    <block type="catalog/navigation" name="catalog.leftnav.categ" after="currency" template="catalog/navigation/left.phtml">
         <block type="core/text_list" name="catalog.leftnav.state.renderers.categ" as="state_renderers" />
     </block>
</reference>

Answer 2

just set is_anchor field to NO from

Catalog (menu) -> Manage Categories -> Select your Category from tree -> Display Setting Tab -> is Anchor -> No

Then Save Category

Answer 3

If you want to display all sub-category products on Make-up category, it will be better if you add layered navigation section on the page. You can update the layered navigation with limited height for each attribute or can use accordion.
If you are not showing sub-category products on Make-up category then you can just select is anchor to No for make-up category as @gopal suggested.