Teen and child beauty pageants have long been a source of consternation for feminists and those who write about the sexualisation of children and the erosion of childhood as younger women are painted and decorated in mimicry of adult women in ways that cause many of us who have far left childhood behind to react with a combination of disgust, pity for the child, and awe that anyone could be bothered with the maintenance.
Here’s one of the latest from the UK tabloid The Daily Mail.
Picture by Jeff Morris, featured in this article. This pic reminded me of that publicity shot for American Beauty where Mena Suvari is lying in a bath of roses. That disturbs me.
The article titled “Mummy’s little Lolita: The 11 year old girl whose beauty treatments cost 300 pounds a month to make her look like Barbie” features 11 year old Sasha Bennington who enjoys a $650 a month beauty regime which includes hair extentions, fake nails, fake tan, make up and a pierced belly button.
