Glitz pageants for children can affect a child's confidence and self image negatively. Glitz pageants are a lot more different than natural pageants. In glitz pageants, the girls are required to have big hair, make up, fake teeth (flippers), acrylic nails, spray tans, colored contacts and maybe teeth whitening. Compared to natural pageants its very different. In natural pageants, girls are not allowed to wear make up unless they're 13 and it has to be a very little amount. Wigs and hairpieces are not allowed, its called a natural pageant for a reason.
The little girls being involved in glitz pageants may grow up thinking that external features are the most important and never consider how being a good person is also important. They may also give the message that self-worth is in physical beauty only never about what talent you have. Beauty pageants also foster destructive perfectionism, and self-criticism. Derenne states, "The current media culture is complicated and very confusing. Women are told that they can and should 'have it all.' They expect family, career, and home to be perfect."(Derrene). Society already has a lot of expectations for women on how they should look and live their life. What beauty pageant's message should convey is that winning isn't the most important thing but you should just have fun while doing it. Child pageants may bring down a child's confidence and enlarge their ego to unhealthy levels. Derenne also states, "Women are consistently given the message that they are not pretty enough or thin enough."(Derrene). Most of women's magazines usually talk about how to lose weight or get a man. This usually affects younger women because they are trying to get a man, get married, have a perfect life and stay looking youthful.They are taught that a perfect women will always look youthful no matter her age. Some women may get botox and implants when they get older as a result of these pageants.
Child pageants aren't all bad. They can also help a child's self-esteem and teach them to be their very best. It could also help them not be shy when they're on stage and people are watching them. It gives them the confidence that they can be themselves. They also teach children how to deal with competition, follow rules, and play fair. They also help kids strive to move up. If they don't win now, they can win later .Child pageants can make or break a person, they can help strive to make them a more confident person as they grow up or a bratty person who is self obsessed and has a really big ego.
Glitz pageants are usually the most expensive and the most harmful to a child's self esteem and promotes poor body image. There should be a change to pageants not to completely get rid of it. They should be modified to make little girls the best they can be. Adolescent girls should be taught the opposite. They should be taught that they don't have to be the prettiest girls in order to be happy. On top of that, pageants are also very expensive. Today news interviewed a mother whose daughter has been aired on the hit TV show Toddlers and Tiaras, "TODAY: Pageants aren't exactly cheap. How much do you think you spend on a pageant? Juana: Oh gosh. I’ve never added that up. I honestly can’t even tell you. Entry fees for a big pageant can be about $400. Her glitz dress was $4,000. Costumes, they’re around $300 to $500. Coaching lessons are $50 a session, which is like an hour. If you get into headshots, that’s super expensive. So it gets pretty expensive, not including your (hotel) stay and your gas and everything. " (TODAY). As a result of being exposed to glamorous expensive things all for a beauty pageant, the girl might grow up materialistic. She might even believe that she's not good enough if she doesn't win. Glitz pageants raise the issues of their kids having self image and poor body image.
The little girls being involved in glitz pageants may grow up thinking that external features are the most important and never consider how being a good person is also important. They may also give the message that self-worth is in physical beauty only never about what talent you have. Beauty pageants also foster destructive perfectionism, and self-criticism. Derenne states, "The current media culture is complicated and very confusing. Women are told that they can and should 'have it all.' They expect family, career, and home to be perfect."(Derrene). Society already has a lot of expectations for women on how they should look and live their life. What beauty pageant's message should convey is that winning isn't the most important thing but you should just have fun while doing it. Child pageants may bring down a child's confidence and enlarge their ego to unhealthy levels. Derenne also states, "Women are consistently given the message that they are not pretty enough or thin enough."(Derrene). Most of women's magazines usually talk about how to lose weight or get a man. This usually affects younger women because they are trying to get a man, get married, have a perfect life and stay looking youthful.They are taught that a perfect women will always look youthful no matter her age. Some women may get botox and implants when they get older as a result of these pageants.
Child pageants aren't all bad. They can also help a child's self-esteem and teach them to be their very best. It could also help them not be shy when they're on stage and people are watching them. It gives them the confidence that they can be themselves. They also teach children how to deal with competition, follow rules, and play fair. They also help kids strive to move up. If they don't win now, they can win later .Child pageants can make or break a person, they can help strive to make them a more confident person as they grow up or a bratty person who is self obsessed and has a really big ego.
Glitz pageants are usually the most expensive and the most harmful to a child's self esteem and promotes poor body image. There should be a change to pageants not to completely get rid of it. They should be modified to make little girls the best they can be. Adolescent girls should be taught the opposite. They should be taught that they don't have to be the prettiest girls in order to be happy. On top of that, pageants are also very expensive. Today news interviewed a mother whose daughter has been aired on the hit TV show Toddlers and Tiaras, "TODAY: Pageants aren't exactly cheap. How much do you think you spend on a pageant? Juana: Oh gosh. I’ve never added that up. I honestly can’t even tell you. Entry fees for a big pageant can be about $400. Her glitz dress was $4,000. Costumes, they’re around $300 to $500. Coaching lessons are $50 a session, which is like an hour. If you get into headshots, that’s super expensive. So it gets pretty expensive, not including your (hotel) stay and your gas and everything. " (TODAY). As a result of being exposed to glamorous expensive things all for a beauty pageant, the girl might grow up materialistic. She might even believe that she's not good enough if she doesn't win. Glitz pageants raise the issues of their kids having self image and poor body image.
Derenne, Jennifer L., and Eugene V. Beresin. "Body Image, Media, and Eating Disorders." Academic Psychiatry 30.3 (2006): 257-61. ProQuest. 23 Oct. 2014 .
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