RESEARCH: BEAUTY PAGEANTS

I was thinking about beauty to the excess and thought about beauty pageants. They do have them for all ages but I think the most relevant when thinking about it to the excess is child beauty pageants as it is the most shocking. Child beauty pageants have surged in popularity and are being shown a lot on television as it is so shocking. It's a world away for most people, they would never put their children through it, but it is so interesting to watch as it is so different to most daily lives.

They use so many beauty products on these children. They doll them up so that they look so much older, but through seeing the size of them you can see that they're children. It's a really weird site, which is why it is so shocking. They are sexualising the children, using the products that are used on much older women to make themselves beautiful which always comes back to sexualisation, but they're using it on children. They lose their innocence.

It is hard to find realistic photographs of what they actually look like as with each of the images of these children they are all edited so much - as if the makeup wasn't enough. They look flawless. They have virtually no dimensions to them, they look like plastic barbie dolls. They don't look real.

Linking this to my work, although mine doesn't link to children, it is showing excess exactly as this is.

 

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