thread: Do you think this is over the top?

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  1. #1
    BellyBelly Member

    Oct 2007
    Ever so slowly going crazy...
    2,268

    I think its so wrong.
    The tarting up of little girls today is just gross!!

    I only just let my DD, (12) shave under her arms, she had lots of dark hair and we were in Fiji. She WILL not be getting nails for her grad!!

    A leg wax???

    My mum is getting DD an battery shaver for chrissy, for her underarms and legs. Even then she had to talk me into it!!!

  2. #2
    Registered User

    Jan 2009
    In my own little fantasy world
    2,946

    Yep. Way over the top. Let kids be kids. They have plenty of time ahead of them to be grown ups.

  3. #3
    Registered User

    Feb 2006
    Newcastle, NSW
    4,219

    At my daughters Yr6 graduation last year, some girls went all out! Some turned up in stretch hummers and almost all of them had fake tans, fake nails and their hair upstyled at the hair dressers. My DD went in a gorgeous dress, heels and I did her hair and she was (I think) much more beautiful than the other OTT girls.

  4. #4
    Registered User

    Jul 2006
    Cloud nine :D
    6,309

    Agreed let kids be kids. they are growing up too fast these days...

  5. #5
    Registered User

    Jul 2009
    1,973

    My year 6 i had a lovely dress,simple ..my sister did my hair and mum let me out powder on my face..

    It's just silly the lengthd ppl go to these days

  6. #6
    Registered User

    Dec 2007
    Victoria
    7,260

    I was so excited for my grade 6 graduation that mum painted my nails and did my makeup! lol
    No way would I have been allowed to get fake nails and no way will DD, the leg wax, I think it depends entirely on the individual, but unless there is thick dark hair I don't get it.

  7. #7
    Registered User

    Nov 2008
    Perth
    3,686

    Whoa!! That's crazy!! I hate to think what will be the 'norm' (for want of a better word!) when my DD reaches Grade 6!!

    I remember my Grade 6 graduation clearly... I wore a floral skort (remember those things, shorts and skirt combined?!), a white frilly top (delightful), flat shoes with white frilly socks (am I painting a pretty picture?) and my mum blow dried my bobbed hair for me. No nails (or polish) and no makeup. Oh, we also did some bush dancing.

    OK, so I did graduate from Grade 6 in the late 80's but at least we were allowed to be 'kids'

  8. #8
    Registered User

    Jun 2010
    763

    A leg wax !!!

    What the??

    That is just completely scary... She is 12!

  9. #9
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    on cloud 9.....
    2,105

    OMG, a leg wax and fake nails, that's crazy...

  10. #10
    Registered User

    Mar 2007
    6,900

    Umm.....yes, over the top!! WTF??
    I wasn't allowed to shave my legs until highschool, never would have been allowed fake nails! Couldn't dye my hair until year 12!! And I'll be doing the same for my DD, it is just so unnecessary and wrong IMO!!

  11. #11
    Registered User

    Jul 2008
    Melbourne
    3,244

    Yep. Way over the top. Let kids be kids. They have plenty of time ahead of them to be grown ups.
    :yeahthat:

    we had to wear our school uniform for my grade 6 graduation

    i can't believe what it's like now. makes me sad to see them growing up so fast

  12. #12
    BellyBelly Member

    Mar 2005
    Limestone Coast, SA
    2,671

    wrong wrong wrong

  13. #13
    Registered User

    Jul 2006
    Melbourne
    4,895

    I understand the leg wax - I am of european decent and shaving was the worst thing my mum could have let me do - she should have let me wax IMO. I also started developing at that age (11/12) - so bbies started to develop and dark facial, leg, arm hair etc....I didn't actually wax my top lip until I was way into high school & everyone noticed the hair - so embarassing.

    The nails - umm, no I don't agree with fake nails but polish would be ok.