Mummy's Little Lolita

[Ciara]

Please do not jump all over me"
I snipped your post just for length, I hope I did it right but I just wanted to say I wont be jumping all over you. Thanks for joining in

 

[Ciara]

Egads... the 2nd shot of her in the article: it's one thing to bare your tummy, but in that shot she is wearing a miniskirt in a provocative manner that puts it barely on her pelvis, with the front dipped down to barely hide her pubic bone.

As a photographer, you would have to kill me to do pageant shots and digital makeovers like the ones that are gaining in popularity amongst pageant parents in the US. While most do not touch on the alluring side, there is just something creepy (my opinion) about wanting your child's image spruced up to look like overly made up little adult dolls. Beware... some of these are scary (to see more samples, just click the "more samples" link on the pages:
http://pageantphotoretouching.homestead.com/retouch4a.html

http://pageantphotoretouching.homestead.com/retouch4a.html

I found them shots creepy......they look more like Dolls than children.....thats bizarre

 

[Elphaba]

I found them shots creepy......they look more like Dolls than children.....thats bizarre

It's bizarre and quite sad because most overly retouched images like that end up looking far too fake to be accepted as real... yet some parents love those types of images of their child, and some pageants really do use the over-done over-photopshopped pics to judge the child.

 

[bamabeauty]

You are right Elph about the pageant photos. My hubby says they look like aliens. He does not mind our daughter doing pageants even with all the hair and make up but he drew the line at the digitized pics. These examples that you posted are not even very bad. They are not actually pageant pics but regular pics that some one retouched. there are several big name pageant photographers . You go and pay anywhere from $300-$700 for two seperate looks with hair and make up and then about $200 for each retouched 8 1/2 by 11 print.The pics are one big reason we stick to more natural pageants because why would you want a picture that does not even resemble your child plus most really do look provocative. I saw one the other day with the wet look that looked like it belonged on the cover of Maxim and she was only 5.I will not put up a link for actual pageant pics because the glitz pageant communituy is small and close knit and we know most of the girls but if you are intrested go to

www.voy.com/171872/

and you will see what I mean

 

[deanws]

You are right Elph about the pageant photos. My hubby says they look like aliens. He does not mind our daughter doing pageants even with all the hair and make up but he drew the line at the digitized pics. These examples that you posted are not even very bad. They are not actually pageant pics but regular pics that some one retouched. there are several big name pageant photographers . You go and pay anywhere from $300-$700 for two seperate looks with hair and make up and then about $200 for each retouched 8 1/2 by 11 print.The pics are one big reason we stick to more natural pageants because why would you want a picture that does not even resemble your child plus most really do look provocative. I saw one the other day with the wet look that looked like it belonged on the cover of Maxim and she was only 5.I will not put up a link for actual pageant pics because the glitz pageant communituy is small and close knit and we know most of the girls but if you are intrested go to

www.voy.com/171872/

and you will see what I mean

Those pictures are a joke. They don't look like real people. They are fake looking and have plastic cartoon features. Why would you even want one...much less PAY for the horrible looking things!!?!? :bang:

 

[dingo]

The kids looked much nicer and cuter in the untouched photos.

 

[Ciara]

The kids looked much nicer and cuter in the untouched photos.

They sure did Dingo and they even looked like real kids in them too......Go Figure
Why they want to turn them into those peculiar looking wax dummies in the other pics I just dont know:waitasec:

 

[dingo]

That is their parents view on beauty I guess...very very distorted.

 

[becklynn]

If these parents would stop making their daughters into streetwalkers then women would advance in life greatly. I think tonight I am just sick and tired of being sick and tired. Why make your little girl look anything other than the beautiful child she is?

 

[Ciara]

If these parents would stop making their daughters into streetwalkers then women would advance in life greatly. I think tonight I am just sick and tired of being sick and tired. Why make your little girl look anything other than the beautiful child she is?

I like that phrase becklynn "sick and tired of being sick and tired"

 

[believe09]

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And what Sasha wants, Sasha clearly gets. Last Christmas, Jayne and her husband, Martin, a builder who works all over the UK and is barely at home, spent £26,000 on Sasha's presents, which included a swimming pool.

Martin seems to exert no influence at all - 'I leave all that to Jayne,' he says.
Has Jayne ever stopped Sasha doing anything? 'She wanted to get her belly button pierced and I said no,' she says.

This is puzzling. Sasha clearly has her belly button pierced, and is happy to display the evidence in her photo shoots. What happened? She sniggers. 'Maybe I gave in. Yeah. I'm not always that strict with her.
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This child is going to be pregnant by some dude posing as an agent by the time she is 16, and all of this torture will be over for her. For any of you who saw the Johnny Depp version of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, tell me that Violet's mother was not patterned on the Jayne mentioned in the article above? Why isn't this considered psychological abuse I wonder??? And the mother is such a wanna-be-what is with her kittenish poses with her daughter and her, umm, aging beauty....

 

[hipmamajen]

Let's just say for the sake of argument, that this girl IS famous. She certainly has achieved a certain level of notoriety at least. Why does her mom believe that will last?

She's only in the paper now because she's 11 and looks like a grown up. Before too long, she will BE a grownup and nothing special. She'll be in with the other girls trying to be models, who are a dime a dozen.

What is this little girl going to do with the attention dries up? Oh wait, she'll have a daughter and live through her...I guess I answered my own question.

 

[Ciara]

Let's just say for the sake of argument, that this girl IS famous. She certainly has achieved a certain level of notoriety at least. Why does her mom believe that will last?

She's only in the paper now because she's 11 and looks like a grown up. Before too long, she will BE a grownup and nothing special. She'll be in with the other girls trying to be models, who are a dime a dozen.

What is this little girl going to do with the attention dries up? Oh wait, she'll have a daughter and live through her...I guess I answered my own question.

:clap::clap::clap::clap:

 

[Kiki]

Although I doubt there is legal cause I wish the government could remove Sasha from that sick home. I can see a Britney in the making.

 

[JMO8778]

..if she wants her to be famous,she'd be better off doing acting,music,dance,voice,etc. lessons.just something of *real talent.
But I suspect it's not just that she wants to live thru her...she probably wants to make money off her,too.

 

[Filly]

Why make your little girl look anything other than the beautiful child she is?

Because that pageant scene calls for it. BTW, that mom should save the 300 Euros and get her face a make over.:crazy:

May I say it was brave of Bamabeauty to share her thoughts and experinces with us. There's whopping money in that pageant business, and it's those organizers are the ones making it. A pair of "Flippers" alone is a ton of money. You certainly don't want your kid missing a tooth or anything.

ON an aside and I may get jumped on as well in my heart I think some of the parents and particularly the mom's of these kids and it's not only girls have a great interest in their child to succeed. Face it that it takes an awful lot of time, money and emotion to share in that pageant experience.

Once. I'm telling you once through dance school I did it with my child. Heck, twelve other mom's signed on up. You know how stupid I felt? You pay them to put your child into a contest that judges things like hair color, and best sportswear outfit. I walked out and the kids actually think it's fun some of them. If all your little girlfriends are doing it then sure it looks fun.

Well, once I heard "This is little Brittney and her eyes are blue and her hair is blonde....." and saw the judges study the kid I thought "What in God's name is this saying? Your worth is all in how you look and your poise is faked? What in the h*ll happens if one of these kids loses and eye or is burned or something? Then what? They're done for life?"

Bama, in no way am I saying this is you. I've seen friends and how much time and energy and money they put into their kids. They truly enjoy it. However, and you are honest I'm betting you saw kids get their hair yanked and I don't just mean brushing it hard. Again, I only witnessed the action once but one mom called the kid a F'ing w*ore, and an aunt had to step in so she didn't kill the child. I know this can be in other activities like sports. I do get that. However, it just blew me away the whole experience.

The very BEST? Little INFANTS. Mom's carrying these tiny babies who get judged. It was almost comical if it wasn't so sad. Again, not judging Bama, and I know in the South pageants are much more competitive. Just in my opinion "Barbie Doll" there in the UK's weave looks like awful.

 

[wallflower67]

Because that pageant scene calls for it. BTW, that mom should save the 300 Euros and get her face a make over.:crazy:

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LOL!

Sadly, I think things have gotten a lot worse since the JBR days, esp with the digitized photos.

I pulled my daughter out of dance class when she was 8, because the costumes were getting waaayyyy too revealing and sexy. And my daughter would have none of it anyway. Trying to get that kid in a dress and stage makeup was nearly impossible. She loved dance class, but hated having to dress up for the recitals.

 

[Deborah1012]

I just sent the link to my sister, her reply:

Couldn't even read it all. That mother needs counseling! I guess because mom is kinda ugly she needs to have her DNA be beautiful. So very sad! Poor kid is gonna have major issues when she turns 30! not to mention 40 then 50! ... if she doesn't kill herself first.

 

[bamabeauty]

Thanks for the kind words Filly and yes I have heard moms call their daughters the b word and spank them for not doing good on stage. There are more good moms than bad ones but it really has gotten out of hand. My daughter enjoys doing them and I am very choosy about which ones she participates in. I think there are too many girls activities that make them grow up to fast. We did competitive cheerleading until this year . I did not mind the make up they wore and our uniforms were not at all revealing but some of the teams uniforms were down right skanky and some of the music and moves made them look like mini strippers . I am sure this could be said about dance also . My daughter loves gymnastics also and it is one thing that has seemed to stay more age appropriate but their is so much pressure put on gymnast and 4 days a week got to be way to much. So now we just dabble in a little of this and that and do not have a daily or weekly commintment. I think it is a good thing to keep little girls little girls for as long as possible.

By the way Sashas weavce was very bad. If she showed up at a pageant in Bama with that $2 flea market weave she would be laughed right of the stage.

 

[zadari]

it seems almost like she is trying to set her kid up for child .. that lolita is a term they use for models i think