week 6- response to Sara M

I agree that it is kind of scary how young girls are in fact victims to the media portrayal of women in society. Whenever my little sisters (10 yrs old) are around me when I do my make up to get ready to go out, they always try to convince me to trade my “grown up” make up with theirs. They have their little pretend lip glosses and eye shadows they sell for little girls, and of course that is not good enough for them. They want the powder, bronzer, blush, mascara and anything else they can get their hands on in my make up bag. I find this kind of funny because they have their own little pretend make up to play with! Why do they need mine?? Well, apparently, according to them, their play make up is for “kids” and its “stupid” and “cheap,” when in reality if I wanted to I could just use their and it would be just as nice. But because it has the label of “kids makeup” they have to want mine. Its crazy that at this age they are already thinking about dressing up and wearing makeup when their little faces are beautiful enough to not have to put anything on it and they would probably just ruin their skin if they started dabbling in this stuff. They see all this new makeup on tv modeled by the most beautiful women (who are photo shopped none the less) and they want to have it because it is directed towards women. And the women who want to look as beautiful as the models, have to have that particular makeup. Its kind of weird that girls younger and younger are so concerned with how they look and how they are seen by other people, I think I’m going to have to have a talk with my sisters and straighten this out...haha