Are today’ tween generation growing up to fast? Is skin tight, low-cut shirt & pants with the words “juicy” written on the butt appropriate for a thirteen year old? A high school graduate asking for a nose job as her graduation present? Botox injections for a twenty-something year old girls “self esteem”? Is this what society expects from its young generation?
A few days ago as I wandered through Victoria’s Secret Pink section I stopped for a moment to look at the shoppers around me. Majority of them were my age, young girls around twenty. Then I spotted two girls standing together giggling to each other. I was in shock. These girls barely looked old enough to be in junior high, let alone high school. What struck me most was the fact that they were in what I consider to be a ‘grown up” store. What were these “tweens” doing in here? The Pink line was made to target high school aged teenagers and young adult women. Not junior highers who want to look like Victoria Beckham. As I left the store and began to look around I noticed how much older these girls were dressing. Back in my day (which wasn’t too long ago) me and my friends and the whole rest of my middle school wore cuter and much less form fitting clothes. I cannot remember anyone wearing shirts which read, “squeeze me”, “tasty”, and “bite me”. Nor do I feel that anyone should wear shirts that say anything of the sort, especially young girls. What happened to the flowers and ladybugs that we embroidered on loose fitting shirts? Now it’s all about being like you older teenage sister. Young girls these days age eight to twelve are referred to in society as “tweens”. These tweens are dressing more like their sixteen-year old counter part verses how girls of the “tween-age” have dressed for the past forty years. Look down the aisles of a department stores, you will see much more “fitted” clothing, holes in the jeans, tights that resemble a hookers ensemble. This is what the young generation of America wants to dress like.
Not only is it the clothes that these young girls are wearing, it’s the make up they choose to put on everyday. Layers upon layers, these girls pile on the make up more than Joan Rivers. It is more than ridiculous. These girls are obsessed with being older and looking the part as well. While in Sephora I notice that not only older women have surrounded me searching for a younger version of themselves, but these “tweens” are in here as well. The amount of makeup these girls wear would last me about five days. What makes it even more appalling to me is the fact that their mothers let them walk out of the house looking like a lady of the night. This is pure madness. I hear a young girl ask her mom for a new compact makeup kit, and of course her mother said yes. I know for a fact that if I went out of the house at that young age and with that much makeup on, my mom would’ve rinsed my face off with a hose. Not seeing a tween with a lump of makeup on her face is a beautiful sight to see. Maybe it was because her parents had common sense to not let their daughter tell them what to do or they set rules for her so she wouldn’t look like a clown. These young girls need some serious help. They need to stop and realize, though it may sound cliché, that they are indeed naturally beautiful.
But many of these young girls grow up and realize that they can buy themselves a new body. From Heidi Montage to Ashlee Simpson practically every young Hollywood star has been under the knife. It is like going in to Starbucks and ordering a vanilla latte with non-fat milk. If you want it they can do it. Statistics from the American Society for Plastic Surgery show that procedures for girls eighteen and younger have doubled over the past decade. This is not only sad but scary as well. Many girls who go to have surgery are concerned with self-appearance. And believe that since they were not born with the perfect nose, they can buy it. Girls are willing to change their faces just so they can be thought of as prettier. Now twenty-something aged women are going in to have Botox injections to help their physical features. Just the other night I was watching Entertainment Tonight and they did a story on how Hills star Heidi Montage had Botox injections done on her eyebrows to make the seem higher and more prominent. This is a sad reality. Once Botox was used to help a fifty year old women decrease the appearance of her wrinkles, now young women are getting it so they can look like the girls in the magazines.
What will have to happen to stop these young girls and their pursuit of the “perfect” body, clothes, etc? One solution lies within society. Our obsession with beauty has gotten out of hand. The countless shows that help transform “ugly ducklings” into “beautiful swans” is ridiculous. Though I am all for being happy with yourself and thinking that you deserve to be as beautiful as the airbrushed models in magazines. But newsflash those models pictures go under hours of copying and editing. Or one may think that her body isn’t as good as the ones the see on TV, or the neighbor next door. Hello!!! It is as good. We were created to be a certain way, why would we changed what was always meant to be? We all have to grow up sometime.
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