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NewsBunny
04/18/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
I didn't get my first facial until I was 32.

Of course, I have FABULOUS skin.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
At a spa I nearly went to for Spa Week - "My First Facial", starting for girls (and presumably boys) at age 5.

5, people!!!!!!!!

Seriously, the only time my skin was perfect was between 5 and 10.

After that -- the deluge.
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BicSharpie
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
The closest I ever came to going to a spa as a child was when I would play in the mud all day and then my mother would spray me with a hose on the front porch before I was allowed back in the house.
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Eric Northman is mine
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
I can totally see some mums trying to drag their tomboy daugthers to this spa to try to make them look feminine and pretty. I was one of those girls who couldn't wear white and i'm still one of those girls who can't wear white without spilling/messing it up. I loved ruff and tumble games particularly bkie riding, soccer, track, hanging up the pool,dodgeball, digging up dirty and lolling around in the outdoors much to my mother's amusement and annoyance. As an adult, barely wear make up, dresses or heels but i don't mind my manis and pedis. My mom is always nagging me about making an effort to wear more make up, get my hair styled more often....blah, blah, balh. I'm pretty sure i'd have been dragged to one of these places if they existed when i was a kid and wasnt ridiculously expensive.
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ronaldpagan
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
This isn't really for the little girls, it's for creepy moms who want their daughters to be props. I mean, we all played dress up when we were 4, but that was more about turbans and fairy wings than pore cleansing and labia restructuring and what have you.

Also, listen to this bitch:

''At school, they do what they see,'' said Mercedes Schamy, who takes her 4-year-old daughter Guilianna to Le Petite weekly for nails and hair. ``But here she learns how to be different, like not running [inside] a place like a little boy.''

WEEKLY!
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shak_diesel
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
"At Le Petite, the young women who perform the spa treatments wear tutus and pink wigs. Cohen's ''dolls,'' as she calls them, are not licensed aestheticians."

So...let me get this straight. You're subjecting your little girl to damaging notions of femininity and toxic fumes by ridiculously dressed women who are not licensed to practice?

Looks like mom inhaled a tad too much nail glue for those acrylics.

What ever happened to just brushing your teeth before bed, washing your hands regularly, wearing deodorant and never forgetting to put on lotion (ahem, rule #1 for little ashy black girls). That's all the beauty tips I needed from mama_diesel when I was wee one.

OH THE VANITY!
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EKane
04/17/09

@shak_diesel: The things the employees do at Le Petite sound like what women that work at makeup counters do, and I doubt they are licensed aestheticians. Either way it goes, I wouldn't take my (future) child to a beauty counter let alone a 'spa.'
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EKane
04/17/09

@shak_diesel: Actually, I wonder if the owner of the salon is getting around hiring licensed workers because of the age of the clients/some other loophole in the salon regulations in Miami.
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Eric Northman is mine
04/17/09

@shak_diesel: random question, how do people with long acrylic nails wipe their butts? I'm always wary of touching people with really long nails; how much dirt do you bet are under those things.
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Flackette Goes Retro
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
I want my Tinkerbell chapstick back!
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MizJenkins
04/17/09

@Flackette Goes Retro: Seriously, the real tragedy here is that these girls will never know the joy of peeling your nail polish off five minutes after you've applied it and putting it on again.

That used to keep me busy for HOURS.
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hello.kitty
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
Le Petite: "a shrine to pint-size pampering, primping and preening."

and bad French. Putain!
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
04/17/09

@hello.kitty: *snerk*
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debo matar la zombi goldberry83
04/17/09

@hello.kitty: LOL! Holy crap, I didn't even notice that - I read it so quickly that I thought it said "La Petite". I even had to read your comment twice for it to register!
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KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
I saw a group of little girls after a makeover day at Disney (you pay a ton of $$$, your kid gets glittered and hussied up). They didn't look so much like Disney Princesses as they did mini versions of the girls you would see on HBO's Cathouse. Glitter, fake hair and nails...Way wrong.

So yeah. I am not a fan of the kiddie spa day.
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Tippi Hedren
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
You know, since we're in a recession and all...
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
04/17/09

@Tippi Hedren: ... but the kids haven't been laid off. They have allowances.
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EKane
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
I couldn't bear exposing my children to the toxic fumes in nail polish. I often wonder why I do it to myself; I paint my nails and when stand up and feel like I downed a King Cobra.
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greengrey
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
I never had a facial. If your skin doesn't have issues, why mess with it?
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EKane
04/17/09

@greengrey: Exactly. And where are they finding these three year olds with enough blackheads to pick at?
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Pocahaunted
04/17/09

@greengrey: I got a spa voucher as a birthday gift from an aunt once, and couldn't trade it for cash. I chose a 'relaxing facial', and the woman doing it started the treatment by stroking my inner arms with her fingernails (?!). I was strangely aroused.

My face looked wet for days, and I started to question my sexuality. Skincare FAIL.
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greengrey
04/17/09

@CocoBambi: See, that's why I can't get massages. I'd just get turned on. When I get manicures, the lady gives me a quick shoulder rub after. Then I give her a big tip. Then I feel dirty.

Haha, the lady who does my eyebrows when I'm too lazy to tweeze stroked my face once. It was uncomfortable.
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ThunderWomb
04/17/09

@greengrey: But facials FEEL so good. A face massage can clear your sinuses as well as your skin.
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EKane
04/17/09

@CocoBambi: I paint my own nails, and the only reason why I would pay someone to do it for me is for the quick rubdown on my hands and arms when they finish. Mmmm arm rubdowns!
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Pocahaunted
04/17/09

@greengrey: By uncomfortable do you mean strangely erotic?

I get massages every month or so (I play violin and it fucks my shoulders up so bad) and every time I thank God I'm not a guy or I would have the biggest, most noticeable erection ever. Skin on skin, and oil, and urrgghhh.
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
04/17/09

@CocoBambi: I peed, a little. Oh, at your comment. Not while getting a facial.

Heh. Facial.
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Pocahaunted
04/17/09

@..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: Haha, the only kind of facial I want now is, you know, THAT kind of facial. Oh god I'm such a perv.
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jigglyball
04/17/09

@ThunderWomb: Really??!? I have a gift certificate for a full massage and facial at a hoity toity spa, and I haven't bothered to make the appointment. My reasoning: I'm not running high enough mileage right now for my muscles to hurt, and there's nothing wrong with my skin, per se. But clearing up my sinuses? Sign me the fuck up.
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
I remember watching as my mum got a manicure when I was 10. The manicurist's implement thingy dug into and cut her nail bed. It hasn't appealed to me since.
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Mafalda para Presidente
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
My GOD, when I was a pre-teen I had no idea what make up or manicures of pedicures or waxing or tweezing or anything that did not involve crayons and water balloons was.

They're babies, for fuck's sake, you should hit them with a powder puff as they walk out the door and forget about everything else!
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Flackette Goes Retro
04/17/09

@Mafalda para Presidente: When I was a pre-teen, I still had to be reminded to wash my face and brush my hair at least once a day.
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Eric Northman is mine
04/17/09

@Mafalda para Presidente: Didn't wax my brows till i was a sophmore in college, didnt shave my pits till maybe 15/16, had my first mani/pedi at 16 and the i've only been to a spa twice for a massage. The first time i won a raffle the second time i got a 60% deal. Primping and preening is fine as an adult, i mean as long as you dont over do it but kids just need to be kids. Granted, some pre-teen girls would probably want to go spas like this and wear make up but we dont need to indulge kids every whim and place some weird importance on beauty/beauty rituals.
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GirlFailer
04/17/09

In reply to Sugar, Spice, Oxygen Facials
Oh man. They have these places called Libby Lu that throw parties for little girls, it sounds quite similar. These poor little girls go in with bare, beautiful faces, then come out with blue eyeshadow up to their brows. So disturbing.
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EKane
04/17/09

@GirlSailor: Libby Lu has been a victim of the economy.

RIP sparkles and inappropriate makeup

[blogs.timesunion.com]
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GirlFailer
04/17/09

@EKane: Hey, that's one "Fuck Yeah" for the recession!
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