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    Beauty Pageants: From Prim to Poisoned Her eyes glimmer with the latest layer of eyeliner. Her cheeks, a wind-bitten pink, ache from constant smiles. She combs her hair, unaware of the damage she is inflicting on herself. She looks around. Some wear false hair, others false teeth. Every participant there is driven by the same potential outcome of beauty: meticulous hair, white smile, bright eyes, and a thin figure. Everybody strives for that same superficial facade – not the average values for a

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    Although there fun and amusing , Pageants promote stress, insulting outfits, giving children the wrong idea of how girls or women are portrayed. First they get caught up in the routine and don't focus on actual things in life like schooling. These young girls and boys are still adapting to life and learning new things as there brain continues to grow. Children need to focus more on school and achieving actual goals for their future. Like getting into things they genuinely like and enjoy while still

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    Why Child Beauty Pageants are Harmful Beauty pageants have been around for some time and have even become apart of our American society, however parents don't realize or comprehend the risk they are taking with their children. Society has made the beauty pageant industry seem appealing, especially with shows like "Toddlers and Tiaras". Meanwhile, young girls are being forced to grow up in an environment where they are taught to look and act like adults. Instead of having normal encounters with costumes

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    term “beauty pageants coming up,” will result in 2,710,000 results appearing in 1.18 seconds. Children are the fastest-growing segment of the beauty pageant market, with annual children's competitions attracting an estimated 3 million children, mostly girls, ages six months to 16 years, who compete for crowns and cash. Infants, carried onto the stage by their mothers, are commonplace. April Brilliant, reigning Mrs. Maryland and the director of Maryland-based Mystic Pageants, says pageants give little

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    common sights when one participates in a beauty pageant. Beauty pageants are very popular in America’s society as it displays many young women’s attractiveness and talents. But a new style of beauty pageant has emerged, and it is striking high numbers of viewers. These pageants are just as glamourous as before, and competitions are vicious, except there is a change to the contestants. This is known as child beauty pageants. These types of beauty pageants are very adorable on the surface, but they

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    parents that make you put on a dress and makeup just so you can be in a beauty pageant? Well some kids do have parents like that, and they are forced to be in pageants only because the parents want them to participate in them. There are a lot of problems caused by parents putting their kids in pageants. Young girls shouldn't be in beauty pageants for many reasons. Being in beauty pageants takes a lot of money. The outfits for the pageants can cost thousands of dollars that can be used for college and family

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    Child Beauty Pageants Should Be Banned

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    necessities, but for the sake of pageants, and every minor detail that goes along with the pursuit of perfection in them. Buying whatever is needed to look perfect for beauty, not to mention getting private lessons in talent or stage routines, these girls begin to think that money is no object and they should have the best of everything. In other words, they become high maintenance; always believing they should look their best. With as much attention as they get, these pageant girls begin to believe that

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    women for many years. Beauty pageants cause people, including the contestants, to fixate on the appearances of the women who compete, making this activity detrimental to the females who compete in them. These pageants maintain a history in our country and start from a young age, causing serious mental, emotion, and physical harm to their participants. In the United States, society pressures females to be perfect starting from a young age, an idea supported through beauty pageants and our nation’s fascination

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    Beauty pageants can be organized to advance some good causes. The contests are also a form of entertainment similarly to movies and music. For many models, the shows offer an opportunity for exposure and possible endorsements of brands or scholarships for winners of the pageants (Wolf, 2013).For years, women have been subjected to contests that seek to identify the most beautiful amongst them. Like cattle being taken to a slaughterhouse, women are paraded and subjected to a rigorous exercise of identifying

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    Many children throughout the United States are in high-end glitz beauty pageants. Children can start competing at the age of 12 months and keep competing until they are 17, then they move up to an adult beauty competition. Children beauty pageants have been banned in different countries, due to the negative aspects. Many Americans do not see that beauty pageants can be harmful to children, and the pageants get worse and worse each year. They utilize many tools adults do and use on an everyday basis

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