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Children beauty pageants are “supposedly” for boosting self-esteem.   But under all those layers of makeup is a child that’s probably not the pretty pageant princess you see.   Children beauty pageants are a bad idea.  First of all, it doesn’t boost self-esteem, it lowers it, the glamour can turn little girls into brats and chemicals in makeup and hair sprays are bad for their health.

All the time in front of a big crowd should boost your self-esteem, right?  Not really.  Especially, when you’re wearing about a pound of makeup.  It actually lowers self-esteem, if the child isn’t wearing the glamorous clothing and makeup.  According to ForceChange.com, pressuring a child to promote materialistic values such a glamour, actually demotes self-esteem and causes many other problems.

After the pageant moms pamper their children, it’s really hard to go back to a normal life with all the challenges.  When pageant girls come back to the normal world, they’ll throw fits, if they don’t get what they want or are fed up.  Christy O’Shoney, a spectator from Honey Boo Boo’s interview on the tonight show says that Honey Boo Boo was so fed up with her mother, that she hit her mother.

Lastly, makeup and hair spray is harmful for everyone.  To make matters worse, they use it on young children.  Makeup is bad for your skin and causes wrinkles and pigmented spots.  Hairspray stunts growth, phthalates and plasticizers are common chemicals in hair spray that can act as hormone disrupters.  For an adult it’s no biggie, but for a growing girl the effect of hair spray can be permanent.  According to Wikipedia, phthalates are also linked to many diseases such as breast cancer and Endocrine disruption.

These reasons support that child pageants should be banned.  Children shouldn’t be used to show off to big crowds.