Beauty Pageants

• A competition bases on mainly physical beauty of its contestants, although such contest of ten incorporate personalty, talent and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria. 
• Phrase refers to only women.
• Winners of beauty contests are often called "Beauty Queens". 
• Critics of beauty contests reinforce the idea that (usually young) women should be valued primarily for their physical appearance and that it puts tremendous pressure on women to "be beautiful" by spending time and money on fashion, cosmetics, hairstyling and cosmetic surgery.

Child Beauty Pageants:

•  A beauty pageant contest feauring contestants under the ages of 18 in most cases. Divisions include talent, interview, sportswear (children can be aged as young as 5), casual wear, western wear, theme wear.... 
• They wear makeup as well as elaborated hair styles. 
• The most cited reason parents give for putting their children into beauty pageants is to boost their childrens self as teem.
• In 2005 a small group of 11 women who had competed in beauty pageants were compared to 11 women who had not entered any pageants were generally happier with their appearance whereas those who did were dissatisfied with their appearance.

 

Sorry but would a child that young really be worry about how dirty her nails are or that shes lost her lippy or that hee curlers are broke? NO.