(quoted from newsweek.com)
"Girls today are salon vets before they enter elementary school. Forget having mom trim your bangs, fourth graders are in the market for lush $50 haircuts; by the time they hit high school, $150 highlights are standard. Five-year-olds have spa days and pedicure parties. And instead of shaving their legs the old-fashioned way—with a 99-cent drugstore razor—teens get laser hair removal,
yeaah, i know it. several days ago i was at a mall's restroom. then this tiny little girl, no older than 13, stood besides me. she took her (quite big) make up pouch from her bag and applied eyeliner and MAC eyeshadow expertly . ouch ouch. i must admit that she was much better than me in make up skills.
is the pressure for being mature so hard for these pre-teens that they're so eager to put on adult's stuffs such as leather handbag, make up, heels, etc etc? i kinda wonder because at that time i still found myself enjoying doraemon tv series on sunday morning hehe. but these girls now watch Gossip Girl with much sexual contents that are quite inappropriate for their age.
it's not a big truth anymore see pre-teens shopping at zara, mango, topshop, vnc, charles and keith, etc etc. weww, they even speak chanel, prada, LV, and other high-end brands fluently. auwww.
another odd fact is even my 25 years old cousin started to feel anxious about wrinkle!
and oh, please read the evolution of anti aging product advertisement from 1908 to 2009.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/188663
is it what psychologists called "the evolution of a beauty standard that's becoming harder to achieve"?
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