National American Miss - Why Beauty Pagents Are Wrong

Over the last month I have been on holiday / culturally , spiritually and fashionably enriching my life .

I must say that one of the funniest most bizarre things I came across was the National American Miss Competition . The final of this competition was held in a hotel I was staying in in Orlando .

 Thankfully It was a fairly massive hotel so they weren't everywhere however you did have to get into lifts full of meringue dresses and stressed parents .

So before I encountered this monstrosity of children being dressed up like dolls I had of course watched 'Toddlers and Tiara's' on TV in England starring 'Alana' or more famously known as 'Honey Boo Boo'.

What surprised me most at this competition was the amount of normal looking girls with pushy parents telling them that they really were special in the looks department . I mean there were a few who were just stunning but do the parents not realise that this is not the thing for their child ?

In the Lobby of the hotel alone there were 7 year olds strutting their stuff in tiny dresses with heels and full faced makeup looking frankly ridiculous . At that age they should be playing in a park or dressing up Barbie's instead of being a life sized Barbie of their mothers .

This leads me onto the mothers of these poor children . The mothers pressurize their children and do all they can to make their child stand out from the crowd . I sat in on one of the competitions and it came  to the extremity of what looked like a 12 year old 'Hollie' wearing something crossed between a burlesque outfit and something Rihanna would wear on stage .

The mothers are just trying to live through these kids its so sad but true . It also teaches these young girls the wrong idea about beauty . You don’t need to look pretty to have success in life. They promote fake beauty because the girls begin to think that being pretty is the fake tan , eyelashes ,extensions and the rest of it .

Beauty being judged and especially in a child is wrong  . Children are too young to know that you don't need beauty to be good in life.

Beauty Pagents are wrong . They promote people teaching children the wrong ideas about beauty , children of young ages are dressing ridiculously inappropriately , its frankly child abuse - tanning , waxing , wigging , dying and makuping children within and inch of their life . And most of all , these children aren't learning what it is to be a child and how to have a normal childhood.

This is why Beauty Pageants are wrong .