Beauty Pageants: Are They Growing Up Too Fast?

Beauty pageants can decrease the amount of family time, school time, and not enjoying their childhood. Beauty pageants are not free to enter it requires a lot of financial stability. According to Lucia Grosaru, “Moms are the ones who fill out the application, pay the participation fee.” Application fee, hair and make-up, outfits will cost between $2,000 to $3,000. Each time you enter you need to pay the fee again and have new outfits which cost money. According to the article, “Toddlers & Tiaras controversy: Are They Growing up Too Fast?” Charlotte Triggs stated, “The extremes parents go to in order to prepare their children for competition – using padding, fake hair, flippers (faux teeth) and spray tans.” Parents will pay thousands of dollars for their child to win. However, there not thinking of their children’s health. Spray tans can cause skin cancer …show more content…
Winning involves a lot of work. according to Lucia Grosaru, you need to know what type of performance your going to do, need to know the different hairstyles and make-up, need a reheressal schedule, and hiring a trainer. It takes time to prepare for a pageant. Some parents go to the extreme and work their kid night and day for them to win. Parents have to fill up the gas tank and drive hundreds of miles with their children to where the beauty pageant takes place. Kids at the age of five should go outside and play and not be worrying about hair and make-up. In the article, “Making up Is Hard to Do” Mary Peggy states that, “Middle school girls start wearing lipstick to school which is not acceptable; however, a toddler can have full on make-up and that is normal.” Students are not allowed to wear make-up to school when a toddler has the right to have fake eyelashes, fake hair, and fake teeth. It’s not normal for an eight year old to look like a twenty year old. Children should act and look their own