Bathrooms - Dealing with Beauty Queens

Beauty queens have always existed, from the days of Cleopatra, make-up and image have played an important role in female identity. Think of Cleopatra and her role as an Egyptian Queen takes a back seat to the image of her languishing in her bathrooms, taking long baths in milk as part of her intricate beauty regime. But spending hours and hours in our bathrooms is perhaps becoming something of a modern obsession. And more pre-teens are becoming beauty addicts with their parents struggling to get them out of their bathrooms.

Bathrooms and Beauty Addicts

Reports in the tabloids have picked on the new trend of girls as young as 11 unable to leave their bathrooms before piling on the foundation and mascara. In fact, one young girl was profiled for her obsession of fake tans by the age of 9 and leg waxing by aged 11. It takes this one girl (profiled in the Daily Mail) two hours to get ready. Spending so much time in bathrooms, aiming for an image of perfection, reveals the kind of pressures young girls feel under in today's celebrity-led culture.

Bathrooms and the Strive for Perfection

Although anxiety around body image and beauty usually hits in the teenage years, girls are getting younger when it comes to locking themselves in their bathrooms for hours on end. Everything from hair straightening to facials to foundation and lip gloss has become part of many youngster's routines. But spending so much time in their bathrooms is considered to be damaging - especially when many consider these ages to be so young that such adult concerns shouldn't even be on their radar yet. So what are these children doing in their bathrooms? The beauty regimes of cleansing, toning and moisturising may take up to two hours, but reports suggest many are opting for expensive beauty salon treatments on top of their daily routines in their bathrooms. Eyebrow wax, pedicures and hair highlights are just a few of the monthly treatments some children are demanding.

Obsessed with Bathrooms and Mirrors

There's a growing concern that not only will all this time spent in their bathrooms lead them to putting their looks before their exam marks, but that the search for perfection could increase the risk of psychological difficulties such as eating disorders. And when children are spending so much time in their bathrooms, the parents need to act. For some, this indulgence is encouraged, one child told the Daily Mail she was blond and dumb: "I don't need brains".

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