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Getbig Female Info Boards => Open Talk for Girl Discussion => Topic started by: Princess L on February 25, 2011, 11:02:34 AM
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http://www.utne.com/Environment/Not-So-Pretty-in-Pink-Marketing-Toxic-Makeup-to-Young-Girls.aspx
Lipstick, eyeliner, mascara, perfume: Jessica Assaf applied them all, and more, before she hit 12. By her midteens, she estimates, she was using 15 to 20 beauty products a day. Like many girls, Assaf was indoctrinated into beauty culture at a young age, with makeover-themed birthday parties as early as kindergarten and trips to the nail salon starting in grade school.
“The coolest thing was Hard Candy nail polish with the ring on the bottle. I really wanted that ring,” says Assaf, now 18. “Companies do a really good job of trying to attract younger girls.”
Indeed. Consider the Hannah Montana Backstage Makeover Set for children 5 to 7 years, Barbie Makeup games, and spa services with names like “Twinkle Toes and Fancy Fingers” that offer manicures and facials to kids age 6 and up. Popular hair-straightening products called “Just For Me!” feature 7-year-old girls on the box. Getting your hair colored is now practically a rite of passage in middle school.
“Five years ago, the rule of thumb was 15- to 16-year-olds would come in for their first color. Now, that girl is 10,” Mark Goodman, a board member of the National Cosmetology Association (NCA), recently told the New York Times. The trend, according to NCA spokesman Gordon Miller, represents a “lucrative niche market” for the beauty industry.
This rush to cosmetic beauty also represents increased exposure to toxic chemicals. Scientists now suspect that chemicals found in many of the cosmetics for which young girls clamor contribute to a disturbing trend. Girls in the United States, especially African American girls, are entering puberty earlier than their grandmothers did. Half of all American girls now show signs of breast development by age 10—one to two years earlier than 40 years ago—and a significant number show signs as early as 8 or 9.
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I've noticed that men/fathers seem to be more strict on the issue than women. Just a personal observation.
I know a woman at the gym who takes her 5th grader for manis, pedis, highlights and brow waxing ::)
I don't think I started wearing makeup til the 8th grade and had to be very careful around my dad. He hated it.
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I wasn't taken to buy a bra till I was 14 and then I begged for high heels and mascara till I was 16.
Where's that pic of the 5 year old beauty queen child star in America? Total exploitation and abuse of children. Send them out to play.
I'm thankfully allergic to mascara.
And I still don't wear mascara unless it's NY. My eyelashes get in the way, they're big enough without black crap on them.
I don't want to go into the chemicals and toxins in hair colour and skin products...
They've got a reality TV Show here (do you have this?), it's called "Hotter Than My Daughter" and it's old hags with dyed blonde hair and good legs in leopard print something or other trying to teach their offspring how to dress to pull.
I abhor the sexualisation of children. In my top 5 of important issues, this is one of them. Allow children to be children. The world has gone mad.
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No wonder the womenfolk in black burkas want to bomb us. The Western world is sexmad and now they're selling children as young as 5 or 10 on TV? No wonder we're thought of as infidels and wastrels.
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whats funny is and Im going out on a limb here, I think most guys prefer women who wear less make up...
I certainly do
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All those make up products are designed to prey upon female insecurities in order to sell products (much like BB protein supplements). From earlier and earlier ages women are told that X is wrong with you and Y product will make it better. Here is a newsflash: there is nothing wrong with you. Stop wasting your money. And stop training your daughters to waste their money. Men do not like women dipped in make up. Less is more.
The only excuse for getting serious with make up is a very special occasion: wedding, photo shoots, appearing on film, winning an oscar, etc. :)
For the last 20 years cosmetic companies having been trying to peddle make up products for men. Sorry, it's not happening. ::)
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Not sure when I was allowed to wear make up but how old were you when you were allowed to shave your legs?
Migs? :)
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natalie portman is so beautiful there
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have you guys seen that show toddlers in tiares??? now that show exposes crazy young girls to makeup, thongs, high heels, it is sick.....
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have you guys seen that show toddlers in tiares??? now that show exposes crazy young girls to makeup, thongs, high heels, it is sick.....
I haven't taken time to watch a show .. but have seen a lot said about it .. after the Jon Benet Ramsay thing I was hoping all that would stop .. or at least be less outrageous and just let the children be children
BTW .. Welcome to the Girl's board Jaime :)
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My daughter is 14 and she goes with her mom once a month for leg waxing together
Sorta like a mother/daughter bonding thing
My daughter uses a touch of lip stick from the age of 12 already
I have no problem.
As far a bra goes when she started developing we bought her a bra......... no big deal
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My daughter is 14 and she goes with her mom once a month for leg waxing together
Sorta like a mother/daughter bonding thing
My daughter uses a touch of lip stick from the age of 12 already
I have no problem.
As far a bra goes when she started developing we bought her a bra......... no big deal
I don't see anything wrong with that either PP ... O only have issue with the little ones .. it would be nicer if it seemed more like a dress up game .. but this stuff is too fierce for a child to comprehend and seems like it's moreso the parents who want it than the child :-\
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have you guys seen that show toddlers in tiares??? now that show exposes crazy young girls to makeup, thongs, high heels, it is sick.....
Hi Jaime! :)
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Hi Jaime! :)
Who's Jaime ???
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Who's Jaime ???
one of Keith's beautiful daughters
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Who's Jaime ???
Back off! >:(
;D
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one of Keith's beautiful daughters
Oh,kewl :)
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hello everyone :) i hope that i can join in on some talks :)
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hello everyone :) i hope that i can join in on some talks :)
Yes please do ... you can also feel free to go through the threads and bump anything you want or make a new one anytime :D
It's nice to see you here :)
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Not sure when I was allowed to wear make up but how old were you when you were allowed to shave your legs?
Migs? :)
>:(
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My daughter is 14 and she goes with her mom once a month for leg waxing together
Sorta like a mother/daughter bonding thing
My daughter uses a touch of lip stick from the age of 12 already
I have no problem.
As far a bra goes when she started developing we bought her a bra......... no big deal
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Not sure when I was allowed to wear make up but how old were you when you were allowed to shave your legs?
Migs? :)
I shaved chest/legs when I was 15. I was on the swim team for a year until I decided I did not like swimming for hours every morning. Seriously kids have some fucked up lives.
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LOL
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I love Toddlers and Tiaras. And although some of the moms are sort of psycho....in general I find nothing wrong with the pageants!
Makeup on a young girl....that's the parents responsibility although with all the airbrushing/touch ups nowadays....I can see why females are so insecure. I know I am.
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I love Toddlers and Tiaras. And although some of the moms are sort of psycho....in general I find nothing wrong with the pageants!
Makeup on a young girl....that's the parents responsibility although with all the airbrushing/touch ups nowadays....I can see why females are so insecure. I know I am.
Oh! The humanity! :'(
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I can see why females are so insecure. I know I am.
o'Rly ?
I'm in my 30's and I'm a bitch in heat. Wanna hook up stud?
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whats funny is and Im going out on a limb here, I think most guys prefer women who wear less make up...
I certainly do
QFT.
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Yup, only people who should wear tons of makeup are showgirls who don't get within 6 feet of the audience. But I do think blondes/redheads need more makeup to live.
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I don't like it. I was just talking to one of my kids about the importance of engaging in age-appropriate activities. There is this rush to get old . . . followed by a rush to get young again. We should enjoy each stage of our lives. They all have so much to offer. Kids should be kids, not adults.
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....=your right hand.
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Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps
By LZ Granderson, CNN Contributor
April 19, 2011
Editor's note: LZ Granderson writes a weekly column for CNN.com. A senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, he has contributed to ESPN's "Sports Center," "Outside the Lines" and "First Take." He is a 2011 and 2010 nominee and the 2009 winner of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation award for online journalism and a 2010 and 2008 honoree of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for column writing.
Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) -- I saw someone at the airport the other day who really caught my eye.
Her beautiful, long blond hair was braided back a la Bo Derek in the movie "10" (or for the younger set, Christina Aguilera during her "Xtina" phase). Her lips were pink and shiny from the gloss, and her earrings dangled playfully from her lobes.
You can tell she had been vacationing somewhere warm, because you could see her deep tan around her midriff thanks to the halter top and the tight sweatpants that rested just a little low on her waist. The icing on the cake? The word "Juicy" was written on her backside.
Yeah, that 8-year-old girl was something to see alright. ... I hope her parents are proud. Their daughter was the sexiest girl in the terminal, and she's not even in middle school yet.
Abercrombie & Fitch came under fire this spring for introducing the "Ashley," a push-up bra for girls who normally are too young to have anything to push up. Originally it was marketed for girls as young as 7, but after public outcry, it raised its intended audience to the wise old age of 12. I wonder how do people initiate a conversation in the office about the undeveloped chest of elementary school girls without someone nearby thinking they're pedophiles?
What kind of PowerPoint presentation was shown to the Abercrombie executives that persuaded them to green light such a product?
That there was a demand to make little girls hot?
I mean, that is the purpose of a push-up bra, right? To enhance sex appeal by lifting up, pushing together and basically showcasing the wearer's breasts. Now, thanks to AF Kids, girls don't have to wait until high school to feel self-conscious about their, uhm, girls. They can start almost as soon as they're potty trained. Maybe this fall the retailer should consider keeping a plastic surgeon on site for free consultations.
We've been here with Abercrombie before -- if you recall, about 10 years ago they sold thongs for 10-year-olds -- but they're hardly alone in pitching inappropriate clothing to young girls. Four years ago the popular "Bratz" franchise introduced padded bras called "bralettes" for girls as young as six. That was also around the time the good folks at Wal-Mart rolled out a pair of pink panties in its junior department with the phrase "Who Needs Credit Cards" printed on the front.
I guess I've been out-of-the-loop and didn't realize there's been an ongoing stampede of 10-year-old girls driving to the mall with their tiny fists full of cash demanding sexier apparel.
What's that you say? Ten-year-olds can't drive? They don't have money, either? Well, how else are they getting ahold of these push-up bras and whore-friendly panties?
Their parents?
Noooo, couldn't be.
What adult who wants a daughter to grow up with high self-esteem would even consider purchasing such items? What parent is looking at their sweet, little girl thinking, "She would be perfect if she just had a little bit more up top."
And then I remember the little girl at the airport. And the girls we've all seen at the mall. And the kiddie beauty pageants.
And then I realize as creepy as it is to think a store like Abercrombie is offering something like the "Ashley", the fact remains that sex only sells because people are buying it. No successful retailer would consider introducing an item like a padded bikini top for kindergarteners if they didn't think people would buy it.
If they didn't think parents would buy it, which begs the question: What in the hell is wrong with us?
It's easy to blast companies for introducing the sexy wear, but our ire really should be directed at the parents who think low rise jeans for a second grader is cute. They are the ones who are spending the money to fuel this budding trend. They are the ones who are suppose to decide what's appropriate for their young children to wear, not executives looking to brew up controversy or turn a profit.
I get it, Rihanna's really popular. But that's a pretty weak reason for someone to dress their little girl like her.
I don't care how popular Lil' Wayne is, my son knows I would break both of his legs long before I would allow him to walk out of the house with his pants falling off his butt. Such a stance doesn't always makes me popular -- and the house does get tense from time to time -- but I'm his father, not his friend.
Friends bow to peer pressure. Parents say, "No, and that's the end of it."
The way I see it, my son can go to therapy later if my strict rules have scarred him. But I have peace knowing he'll be able to afford therapy as an adult because I didn't allow him to wear or do whatever he wanted as a kid.
Maybe I'm a Tiger Dad.
Maybe I should mind my own business.
Or maybe I'm just a concerned parent worried about little girls like the one I saw at the airport.
In 2007, the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls issued a report linking early sexualization with three of the most common mental-health problems of girls and women: eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression. There's nothing inherently wrong with parents wanting to appease their daughters by buying them the latest fashions. But is getting cool points today worth the harm dressing little girls like prostitutes could cause tomorrow?
A line needs to be drawn, but not by Abercrombie. Not by Britney Spears. And not by these little girls who don't know better and desperately need their parents to be parents and not 40-year-old BFFs.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of LZ Granderson.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/19/granderson.children.dress/index.html?iref=NS1
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You + w8m8 + bikinislut + in your dreams.
....=your right hand.
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