On makeup and beauty pagents
Apr. 14th, 2005 07:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I have no opinion on beauty pagents for children. My gut feeling is that if the parents aren't forcing the kid into it, or sacrificing their education/friends/family for it, there's no problem. But I'm open to discussion.
However, if you're going to complain, please stop complaining about the makeup. Yes, I *know* that when you see a little girl with that much makeup on, you think it looks like they're forcing the kid to grow up. Yes, I know you associate that sort of makeup with prostitution and sex and what else. But you're seeing a kid with natural lighting, close up. You're not seeing that same kid when they're up on stage and you're in the audience. The sort of makeup that looks overdone in real life is barely visible when you get up on stage - and it's just enough to make you noticeable to the people in the back row. For real life, it's a lot of makeup. For stage? It's nothing. Once you're under those lights, it all fades away. No, really. Find something else to complain about.
However, if you're going to complain, please stop complaining about the makeup. Yes, I *know* that when you see a little girl with that much makeup on, you think it looks like they're forcing the kid to grow up. Yes, I know you associate that sort of makeup with prostitution and sex and what else. But you're seeing a kid with natural lighting, close up. You're not seeing that same kid when they're up on stage and you're in the audience. The sort of makeup that looks overdone in real life is barely visible when you get up on stage - and it's just enough to make you noticeable to the people in the back row. For real life, it's a lot of makeup. For stage? It's nothing. Once you're under those lights, it all fades away. No, really. Find something else to complain about.
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Amen, sister!
Date: 2005-04-15 07:04 am (UTC)That drives me nuts - I was a child model, of my own volition, and *had* to stop when the planes of my face 'broke' the wrong way in puberty. For some shoots, to look "natural" in front of the camera, under the lights, I swear I was wearing an inch-thick mask of cosmetics... but I looked on film just as I did without the make-up off film. The same thing applies to child pageants, child acting... anything where a child is going to be in front of a camera or on a stage professionally.
And gee... IT'S THE SAME THING FOR ADULTS.