Wal-Mart offers makeup and anti-aging products for 8-year-olds

[The Straight Story]

Wal-Mart offers makeup and anti-aging products for 8-year-olds


Wal-Mart is going after the tween (ages 8-12) market (and their parents' wallets) with the new GeoGirl beauty line. That 8-year-olds need lipstick is another debate, but this line will offer colorful cosmetics and "mother approved" makeup products. According to a recent article in Women's Wear Daily, the formulas are designed for young skin and have natural ingredients like white willow bark to exfoliate, chamomile, lavender and calendula to calm and antioxiodiates to prevent aging. (Sounds a little much for a tweener, but I not a parent to one.)

There's a cleanser, mineral blush, liquid2power shadow, feather-lash mascara, face shimmer and body mist, among the offerings. The line, which will replace the space vacated by Mary-Kate and Ashley cosmetics in Wal-Mart, is set to debut next month in stores and at geogirl.com.

http://blogs.chron.com/shopgirl/archives/2011/01/walmart_launche.html

[K8-EEE]

1. Well, how insane is that. nt

[Kalyke]

2. Yet another reason to never shop at that store.

[blondeatlast]

3. I wasn't allowed to touch makeup until I was 12--and then under mom's supervision only.

I'm a fashionista type, but the stuff I see on girls my son's age and younger (he's almost 14) curls my short ones. I'm kind of thankful I don't have a daughter nowadays.

[provis99]

4. why in heck do women wear makeup anyways?

I though makeup was part of the "please your man" male domination scene that feminists rally against.

[leftstreet]

8. The weird thing is...cosmetics make people look like assault victims

Blackened eyes, bloody lips, blue and purple bruising

Seriously, think about it

:scared:

[Odin2005]

16. This guy does not find make-up attractive.

[lookitssupergus]

5. Wal-Mart

This can not be right. What is the point of having this? Money? Yeah it has to be.

[eyeofdelphi]

6. it's getting a bit ridiculous

my boyfriend's niece, who is now 10, has long been wearing make-up. of course, her grandmother gave her a bra for her 6th birthday! so what do you expect? and don't ask me, i have no idea what purpose a bra serves a 6 year old.

[ismnotwasm]

7. How encouraging for pedophiles

Hmm, younger and younger. They must be ecstatic.

[Newest Reality]

9. In the case history of the diagnosis of

the infused and enforced, collective mental illness of the culture, this is a significant presentation concerning underlying factors.

[LibertyLover]

10. My tween daughter will not be getting any of that crap

I do let her use lip balm during the winter for chapped lips, but that's the extent of the make-up she is allowed. Heck, the kid can't remember to put her dirty clothes in the laundry bag and the other night her excuse for not cleaning up her room was that her trash can was full (I kid you not.) so I'd buy this garbage for her to put on? I think not. Plenty of time to play with make-up when she is 14 or 15.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. antioxidants prevent damage, not "aging." This is a title meant to shock. Surprise, surprise.

and it's replacing the Mary-Kate and Ashley line? Six of one, half dozen of another. Yawn.

[LiberalLoner]

12. I read once that they used to call pedophilia "The German's Sickness" in

Europe during WWII and right afterwards, because the Nazi regime was infamous for having a culture where basically almost all the men were pedophiles. It was simply promoted in their culture. Sexuality for the men was about dominating and "taking" their women - about violence - and the most violent and dominant sex one can have, is against a six-year-old or younger, not so?

It's really about the sickness in our culture. I read that kiddy porn was the fastest growing porn market on the internet a few years ago. I still remember one friend, almost a decado ago now, saying that when her husband returned from Afghanistan, he said he spent most of his time as an IT type, removing kiddy porn from the computers before they could be returned stateside.

It's just our culture. We have a great, great, great deal in common with the WWII era Nazis I think.

That's the way I see it. Don't care if I get flamed for stating what I see as the truth.

[luvspeas]

14. I saw some child porn once...

It was mortifying. The apartment building I lived in had a room with computers and internet access for community use. I sat down at one of them, woke it up, and there on the screen was this page of kiddie porn. The management said they had an ongoing problem with somebody doing this despite their setting up firewalls etc. It grossed me out completely to know that someone in my apartment complex would do this. I also reported it to the police. Anyway, the reason I'm saying this is because all the kids had really red lipstick and rouge on. It was obviously like some kind of code. Like the way porn stars all are expected to look a certain way. I got a DSL line that day and never went back to that computer room again.

[luvspeas]

13. So much bullsh*t! I'm not sure where to begin...

the cosmetic industry is so highly unregulated terms like natural have virtually no meaning. So called natural ingredients can be just as harmful and over time will create greater sensitivity to all sorts of things, making skin more reactive. Things like blush, eyeshadow and mascara have been known to contain heavy metals, carcinogens and let's not forget the possible long-term effects of exposing young eyes to all this stuff day in day out. Believe me, I am speaking as a life-long cosmetic user who now has a wide range of chemical sensitivities because of it. Mine is manageable because I can stand to smell stuff - I just have to be super careful about what goes against my skin. I know people who can't go indoors much of anywhere because of all the fragrances in everything.

[Odin2005]

15. This is sick. great, lets fuck up girls' body images up some more!

:grr:

[Karia]

17. I dread the marketing campaign

Tween girls are a major target of advertisers these days. Yuck. They are ALREADY being bombarded with propaganda that they need to buy, buy, buy in order to be acceptable.

[sakabatou]

18. WTF?

[REP]

19. Thank god! I'm so tired of looking at wrinkled, pale children!