WHEN I WAS A KID I WAS HAPPY GOING TO THE PLAYGROUND AND PLAYING BARBIES! NEW MEANING TO "HUMP DAY"
Meg here! Wacky, weird and true? Sugar Daddy Palm Beach Ken doll? Giant Boob art installment at kiddie park?
Barbies and the playground used to be pretty much a safe haven. I'm no prude and love Liberace as much as the next lady, I don't think Palm Beach Ken is going to make it as a "must buy" for little Sally Mae.
When I though it was just us Americans that had lost their minds I was pleasantly surprised to see China is right up there with us in driving their daughters to the therapy couch. ""The little girls were scared and cried loudly, asking me if they would grow those huge things, and boys laughed crazily."
The boys that were not laughing crazily were probably too busy attaching their pink leash to their very own poodle that Palm Beach Ken comes with.
I don't know what the heck we are all thinking. The best gift for any little girl has to be My First Stripper Pole. I mean, please, forget babysitting money. If I only had one of these I would have made a fortune!
How times have changed! I remember sneaking light lipstick as a kid because my mother did not think make-up was appropriate for a second grader. She also would not ever let me watch "Three's Company" because she thought the show portrayed women as idiots. However, this is the same women that raised me on "All My Children" so she really had no problem with Erica Kane being married like 9 times. Mixed messages? 
With all that's out there I thought this organic Girls Makeup Set
is a great idea for the glamour gal in your life. I mean wearing organic make-up for a little girl's playtime just seems downright tame when you look at all the other options.
What do you think? Little girls in make-up the gateway to "My First Escort Experience" or completely fine? Let me know moms! What do you think?
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boob things are very common in Japan too. There are boob pillows, boob chocolates, boob coffee mugs...but the strangest thing I saw was teenage boys wearing boob t-shirts. Now, I only saw maybe 5 or 6 of them, but that's enough to be a non-isolated incident. I don't have kids so I don't know about makeup for little girls. I would say no, since it fosters the idea that you HAVE to put makeup on to look cute. Kids have enough pressure on them as it is to start giving them hangups about their looks too.
you know.. my first reaction is this is a mockery of something that is supposed to be beautiful. the girls reactions are sad, and the boys, well I suppose it's normal, but boobs shouldn't only be objectified, and they should be taught such.
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I'm not a mom, but some of this stuff is just crazy! Makes me scared of what will be around by the time I actually am one! I don't think very young girls should be allowed to leave the house in much more than Chapstick, but that's just me.
Megken-doll here - I just love reading about giant boobs as an playground attraction and why not Meg? Haven't you ever been on a tunnel of love ride? As a kid, I personally played with GI JOE. What I don't get, is when people say the a doll effects a girl's self image.... I used to play with GI JOE and I never felt like I didn't match up to that soldier's physical attributes, however I do have one thing Hasbro didn't put on the GI JOE doll; a own little soldier of his own...
How would you feel if Hasbro made the "little soldier" half the length of the GI Joe? If Barbie were a real woman she would be knocked over by her double FF boobs!!
I agree Meg! GI Joe is nearly proportionate anatomically, while Barbie is just ridiculously proportioned.I think that makeup and young young girls has a place: at home, for like 5 minutes before mom makes them wash it off. I wouldn't just point the finger at Barbie either--And I'm no prude either, but it seems like when I was growing up, young girls on TV dressed like young girls (ie they didn't wear makeup!) Look at DJ and Stephanie Tanner on Full House. And then look at Miley Cyrus.
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lolwow interesting.I think the little girl makeup is fine. There is a certain point where they should be able to experiment and what not. And start them out early so they dont look like a fool later!There was this VERY religious family who came in all the time. The oldest of my 12 children was 15. When she turned 16 she got a job as a bagger at the store I worked at.I guess she wasnt allowed to wear makeup till she turned 18. STRICTLY... So she never did....But after she turned 18.... SHE LOOKED LIKE A CLOWN!!!!!! Im not joking she used so much makeuo and in all the wrong ways!!! it was disasterous. I felt bad, but I made fun of her with everyone else of corse! lolSo introduce them younge, let them play with it.But there is a limit! I don't think they should get foundation and mascara. but lipgloss, a little face powder, NEUTRAL eyecolors and mabey CLEAR mascara
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I can't really comment on a cultural level but wwhy oh why would anyone TAKE young children to see such an "art exhibit" knowing there would be laughter and obviously tears? Seems rather twisted but again,not knowing how another culture views such giant mounds? :)The Ken doll is a freakin' hoot and WAY overpriced,not seeing it as lil' Suzie's new BFF...rather for some hot young male to hang from his rear view in lieu of a pine-scented tree???I think "play" makeup is just fine and at @ 12 or so lipgloss and a bit of sparkle is cute.I think it's "best" to educate and properly supply young girls so they learn how to care for skin and enhance naturally at a certain point but here in Texas,boob-jobs for a sweet sixteen girl is WAY WRONG,sorry.There are,as with everything,fine-lines between what is good and what is just freakin' sad.Now onto the pole: I do not think marketing such a thing as a "toy" is right on any level but when used as an aerial-aparatus for KILLER workouts at a certain age,I think it's fine.Not everyone who uses a pole (damn....how can a 2" diameter piece of stainless strike SUCH fear in people,LOL!)wants to be on a stage,myself included.Peeps...it comes down to PARENTING: the kids are gonna' be exposed to a LOT and you simply can't keep blaming the "world at large" for their moral or personal choices,you have to provide them with the proper tools no matter what. :)Funny true story: a couple of years ago my grandaughter reeived a "trashy" Barbie for a gift..."trashy" in that she had on a belly-shirt,pierced navel,and had a tatoo on her back"...she had bright hair and makeup and was cute in her way. My grandaughter had her dancing around with her making all sorts of "suggestive" moves and I asked her if her Barbie was being "sleezy" in a funny sort of way (she wa s10 at the time and knew well what 'sleezy" was...) She answered:" No Mimi...she's just happy to be out of the darn box!"Lesson learned on MY part. Perhaps what we as adults perceive to be "wrong" is seem entirely differently in the eyes of an innocent and we are prone to interject our OWN issues into the mix? :)
O_O interesting.but after watching series of taiwanese soap i realised that boobs are common.. there's boob cakes.. i think it's for good luck or soemthing like that. but ahh... i don't know about putting a massive boob in the middle of no where for children to look at =\
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Lol. That's funny.
This boob thing is hylarious i'm sorry lol.And yeah i am not much of a fan of little children leaving the house alldone up.
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HOLY B-JEEZUS! Those are some big ta-tas, what a 68Z? Ugh, I'm all with being comfortable with our bodies but that is a little outrageous!
I'm totally fine with "little girl" makeup to a point. My nieces, 5 & 3, are forever wanting to play with Auntie Wisa Wate's (lol) makeup. This kit is actually cute and subtle things. I usually let them play with shimmer and balm and they love it. They always are such "glamour girls". Gigi (aka Genevieve, but what little kid can say that?) carries a little pink purse with Lip Smackers in it everywhere. I think its cute, but there's no way I would let her wear mascara like those Toddlers & Tiaras show, eek!!
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I'm definitely not the most conservative person in the world, but there's really no point to just place a huge set of concrete boobs in the middle of an amusement park. I guess you can argue that it's art, but I'm definitely not seeing it. That's totally objectifying women. As for sugar daddy ken and my first stripper pole? Forget about it. Whenever I have kids, I want them to actually have childhoods and not wonder/worry about finding a man to pay for all their bills and I don't want to explain what a stripper pole is to a 7 year old so, um, no. It's sad.
all so interesting and funny.
OMG, in my opinion that's totally inappropriate. I don't understand why they'd put that in a children's playground?
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Outrageous and highly irresponsible! and that goes for parents who like to put makeup on their children.
I have to say first that I am a collector of Barbie and I want that Ken doll. LOL. That being said, mjsred has it right. Some kids don't think like we do and they might not even get the whole sugar daddy thing. It's a parents choice if they want to get their kid the doll or not. I don't have kids so I don't plan on speaking up on that area so much. I do feel that kids and makeup mix to a certain point. It's OK to play dress up at home with some things. But after play makeup should be washed off and I do believe that kids should be natural when they are outside of the home. I have major issues with the whole beauty queen thing on a 4 year old. Some of these toddlers are more diva than any grown women I know. What are you really teaching them when you treat them that way? Let them be kids.
Yikes! That picture was pretty close to work-inappropriate, and I work with all adults! Kids?? No way should they be seeing that! As for the makeup set for little girls, I think a lot of people have hit the nail on the head, it's about how you parent. I am a Mom so things definitely have a different perspective now. Even though I have a son, there's a lot more 'is this age-appropriate' going on in my head now. And if my son brings home a play date when he's 10 and she's wearing makeup, I'm not going to be thrilled about that. I wouldn't want him thinking that girls should always be 'made up' for him. He needs to learn to appreciate beauty in it's natural form first! But...if I have a little girl, I am totally OK with that fun little make up set. I had a birthday party in second grade and all the girls were allowed to put on nail polish! Was I taught that I needed to be 'done up' all the time? Not at all! Just that I was the coolest girl at that party....haha.But seriously my mom taught me to use makeup to enhance, and that it shouldn't be noticable. I was allowed to experiment and she would tell me if it was ok to wear. She said that maekup should be natural looking, and if I didn't wear it, I was still sooo pretty ;)It's not about the actual toys you give your kids, it's about how you teach them to use them!
Up until the age of 12, other than lip balm and painted toes, I don't like to see any makeup on girls. They have the rest of their lives to grow up, they're only a child once. That said, one of my nieces always got into my purse and played with my makeup, starting at around age 4, and of course, she looked like a clown, she would put lipstick on her lids, blush on her forehead, etc. But I think it's fine to play with it as a kid, just don't leave the house with it on.
I didn't know boob images are plastered over Japan and other Asian countries. Although I'm Asian, I'm from a country that's predominantly Catholic and such images would definitely be a no-no.I just have to say that this stripper pole thingy is totally disgusting! What a horrible idea.
OMG !!!! That's ridiculous !!!!
all of the reviews have good points,they're interesting,some are funny,some make me think "I'm getting old", but I am a mom and and my daughter when she was little was'nt into make-up but she did love high heel shoes...That sculpture was kinda weird...not approate for little school age kids.
I don't find that sculpture appropriate at all. As for the issue of girls wearing makeup, I agree that they shouldn't be wearing it too young, but at wearing it home as fun is alright. I remember loving lip glosses when I was a child...
This little make-up set looks beautiful. I remember the days of Little Blossom perfume and lip-gloss that didn't even stain the lips, despite appearing a very gaudy pink in the packaging. :]I like that this kit looks almost home-made with the beautiful tartan purse and very tame beauty items. I don't see a problem with a little girl trying to emulate her Mummy in a harmless way with vaseline based lip moisturisers and little hand-bags and shoes. Wearing clothes that are far too revealing , heels and wearing lots of obvious make-up however, is definitely a bit wrong in my book.
That is really bizarre. I just don't even know what they were thinking, putting that up in a public place!!With regards to kids wearing makeup, when I was little, my mom would take a blush brush and run it over my cheeks and I felt so pretty, but there was never any powder even on the brush. haha! I also loved that nail polish you could just peel off. Things like that are okay, but I would never want any kids I might have to be super focused on superficial things and think that's what really matters in life. Seeing little girls in skanky clothes and high heels is just wrong IMHO.
kids are growing up faster these days. i think that it's okay for little girls to experiment with makeup. heck, i experiment with my little nieces. its just for fun but i don't expect them to actually wear it until they're in high school! i didn't start until my senior year.
hmmm... I don't know what to say. The boobs scuplture is plain wrong. Make-up for little girls? how little? I guess if the makeup is truly organic and without questionable ingredients, it is fine for the little girls to experiment once in a while, but I don't think they should be wearing makeup on a daily basis. Double standards maybe...
Wow, at first I thought that picture was photoshopped.I think children are growing up faster and faster. At my old high school, it was said that each class of incoming freshmen was sluttier and sluttier, and honestly, it was probably true. With the scandalous lives of celebrities as their role models, many younger people are being influenced at a young age, and not in a good way :(
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Wow, just wow, I am at a lost for words. There is something strikingly disturbing about a giant sculpture of boobs and a group of children standing in front of it. but enough of that... I think some organic make-up for a little girl is fine, I remember how I loved to play dress up :D it's just knowing when too much is too much
I think that sculpture is totally inappropriate; not in subject matter (there's no accounting for taste or why the artist felt it necessary to make a huge boob sculpture), but in placement. Why would anyone think that a children's amusement park was a suitable place for such an obviously adult sculpture? That Ken is just ridiculous. I miss the good old Ken. Speaking of Ken, I'm going to jump to Barbie. Though I have my issues with Barbie's proportions, she is still waaaay better than those horrid Bratz dolls. Those things are skanks personified. They have huge heads and these pencil necks and skinny bodies. They just look cheap, in all senses of the word. Unlike Barbie who always seemed to be the epitome of glamor. I am frankly disgusted by the idea of a stripper pole being marketed as a toy. What ever happened to a jungle gym? The monkey bars? A swing set? Innocent fun? Stripper poles are for strippers and pole dancers and wannabes and brave aerial stunt-women like mjsred. :) Not kiddies. I don't see makeup for kids as a big deal. Just some little cheapo, barely there lipgloss and maybe eyeshadow just for play and dress up. That's it. Not for daily wear or anything. Why would we want to send the message to our little girls that they need this stuff to be beautiful? It's fun, sure, but little ones don't need it - that luminous skin, those big gorgeous eyes, super pigmented lips, who wouldn't be envious of that?
I can't believe the things that are marketed towards little kids these days. Crazy!I do want to give my niece a little m/u kit to use just for play time. I didn't have anything like that and it would have been nice to have someone there to show me the ropes.
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Thats the freakiest art exhibit ever(must have been a male artist for sure).The my first stripper pole is warped(what next my first met lab kit).Must admit to being raised on barbie though -i used to act out soap operas with barbies husband stealing and face slapping -Ithink I might have watched too much dallas and dynasty reruns as a kid-it may have shaped my drama queen tendencies.
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Lol. Those things are just too funny. I can't believe what people think up now. I however do think that makeup can be fine for little girls. It can also be bad. Depends on the context. If you gift a little girl with some makeup along with my first stripper pole, and my first skanky stripper outfit.....Then that little girl may very well get mixed messages and become something bad at a young age. But if you gift a little girl with makeup along with a tinkerbell cologne set, and a little fluffy dress...Then this girl will probably be little miss wholesome. Also it depends on what that girl may be exposed to in the media and the everday people around her.