Would You Depend On Beauty Treatments To Improve Your Daughter’s Confidence?
Children younger than eight are regularly having beauty treatments like spray tans, according to a new study. Two in three mothers (68 per cent) regularly allow their young daughters to pamper themselves at the salon, says research from The British Association of Beauty Therapists and Cosmetologists (BABTAC)
Three quarters claimed that treatments such as hair removal, manicures and facials improved their child’s self confidence.
Meanwhile 62 per cent felt it was a good opportunity to bond, 69 per cent just wanted to fit in with their friends and 12 per cent even said they encouraged it because it made their child ‘look better’.
And it isn’t just birthdays and parties when mothers treat their daughters to a trip to the salon. A third (33 per cent) allow their daughters the indulgence ‘regularly’ while 41 per cent limit it to special occasions.
Commenting on the results of the study, Lesley Blair of BABTAC said: ‘It’s not unusual for children as young as three or four to imitate their mother and want to be a part of the beauty regime; all that is just harmless fun and a part of growing up.
‘If you think about how popular children’s pamper parties are, where the little ones are decked out in glitter and are given manicures and pedicures, it’s no surprise that mums like to treat their little girls every now and then.’
However, the survey also highlighted some more worrying copied behaviour.
Sixteen per cent of the mothers polled admitted they had noticed their daughters being ‘self-critical’ when imitating certain habits, while a further 21 per cent had mimicked ‘weighing on the scales’.
Lesley continued: ‘The real trouble comes when they pick up negative behaviours and traits, getting on the bathroom scales and criticising their reflection in the mirror, and then feeling that they need these treatments in order to boost their self-esteem.
During this time in a girl’s life, she is very vulnerable and impressionable; so it’s important to work on their confidence so they are happy with their natural selves.’
Is not advisable to start making kids up or allowing them to do that when they are small.
Hmmmmm
Hmmmm I agree to a point once the child involved is a teenager
Yes outter beauty has a lot to do in building self confidence but I don’t agree that make up and artificial stuff contribute to it. Most people hide under artificial beauty but forgetting the inner beauty is what speaks more than outter. So self confidence should be built in them rather than beauty treatment.
Makeup doesn’t boost a child’s self esteem and it is the mum’s duty to instill that in her daughters.Statements like ‘you make up for what u don’t have and my angel you are very pretty naturally and makeup will only hide that,’ can boost a child’s self esteem until she is mature enough for it.
I would never. I would let them grow and do all that by themselves.
No I won’t.
Hmmmm well it depends
totally against it.i wont allow my kids make dat young. i would rather help build their self confidence n teach dem to blieve in dem selves. and appreciate their natural and inward beauty.when they grow up dey can do all dat if dey choose.not matter how ugly d child is its d mothers duty to make her child see herself differently.or do we now make up our sons to build their confidence or allow dem go through face lifts or plastic surgeries???
except she is a teenager
I can’t allow that for a daughter except she’s in the university.
No i will not
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It’s terrible trend I keep telling my daughter she is beautiful both inside and out side …what good is a beautiful woman when she is empty inside