What do you think is too much i am watching the Jenny Jones show right now and was wondering what everyones' opinion on Makeup and all..I personally think it is crazy to put makeup on a child or doing there hair to the extreme...There was a two year old on there where they added hair omgosh.. and an 8 year old with fake eyelashes and they wore makeup too..

By Mommyathome on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 11:13 pm:

Both of my DD's do 2 different pageants. I personally don't have a problem with them doing the 2 that they do. (obviously lol)

We don't participate in any pageant where the hair is teased to the extreme or where any makeup more than light blush and mascara is used. In fact, one of the pageants is a no makeup, no hairspray pageant. You get points docked if there is any sign of either of those.

The other one, that we enjoy more, is no makeup for backstage interviews, and only light makeup (we use blush and mascara) for onstage parts.

I would definitely say that fake hair and excessive makeup and dressup is inappropriate for kids of any age.

By Oliviasmom on Monday, April 7, 2003 - 08:09 pm:

I totally disagree with it. Let them be children! Make up on any child is just sad, but to it to strut them in front of a panel of judges is unbeleivable. Who is the pagent for? Can't possibly be for the 2 yr old!

By Mommyathome on Monday, April 7, 2003 - 10:57 pm:

Oliviasmom....I'm hoping that your comments are directed towards the post that Brandy posted, and not to mine

By Oliviasmom on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 - 10:24 am:

I'm sorry, they are not directed at anyone personally. She asked for opinions, and I gave mine.

By Susan10 on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 - 02:57 pm:

Strictly speaking about little girls and makeup (not pageants) I think it's a good thing to put off as much as possible. Most of my daughters friends are gobbing on the makeup now (she's 13) and I don't think it's a good thing. I have a relative whose daughter is in her 20's now and is messed up with various kids (some put up for adoption) ex-husbands and boyfriends, and the mother once said to me, "Maybe I shouldn't have let her wear makeup so early." Those words really stuck in my head. I don't think it's the makeup so much as the whole do-everything-too-early problem.

On the other hand, I have a niece who is 5 who loves to dress up and put on lip gloss, but her father won't let her, because it's makeup. It's a toughy. Is lip gloss on a 5 year old going to lead to problems? I don't know. The older I get, and the older my kids get, the more I realize nothing is as simple as it seems.

I guess I'm lucky my daughter is kind of a tomboy. She has a friend whose mother is really strict, and yet the girl is always getting caught with a boy somewhere. I don't think the mother could be any stricter. What can you do?

By Beth on Tuesday, April 8, 2003 - 03:36 pm:

I saw this particular Jenny Jones and would have to say these mothers IMO were taking it to the extreme. I don't think that what Mommyathome described is outragoues. What is outragoues is spending $500 dollars on a dress for a 2 year old! Which is what these women did. I also personally think none of these pagents for little girls should include swimsuit competitions.

If I was to enter my daughter in one. We would go in Sunday clothes. Light makeup as mommyathome described and nothing more. It would certainly not be an every weekend or even month occasion. I want my dk's to be well rounded in many areas.