Beauty Pageant: Right or Wrong

A person with an inert beauty is born to present. At an earlier age, children showing these great attributes and talents showcase their beauty by joining to a beauty pageant. This program is what is referred to as “Child beauty pageant”. With this showcase of talent, it describes beauty not just only on the physical look of the child but also on other categories of the child’s attractive persona, like talent, interview, sportswear, evening wear, decade wear, and et cetera. In this child pageant, children are asked to present and walk in the stage while wearing their customs, beautiful hair styles, and fascinating make ups.

What makes up a child pageant? The pageant is subdivided into different categories. Usually, this pageant gauge girls and sometimes boys. Age categories vary like 0-11 months, 12-23 months, and 2-3 years, 4-6 years and onwards. Little Miss, Baby Miss, and Petite Miss are just some of the age divisions of the child pageant. During the pageant, children are asked to present on stage for two hours or less while wearing their genuine attires, customs with great make ups. In the event, critique will evaluate children

during the presentation. Critiques judge these lovely kids while during the sportswear, evening wear, swimwear, writing skills, talent (dancing and singing), modeling, and interview.

Boasting self-confidence and self-esteem are just some of the many essential values in allowing children to join any pageant. However, there are facts and criticisms towards the parents allowing their children join the pageant. Children are exposed to cosmetic make ups, spray tans, and other aesthetic chemicals that could be harmful to children at a very young age. The child’s face and body hair were even waxed or threaded for them to look much glooming and blooming on stage. These criticisms have raised attention and to ask if the child pageant are under the scope of the “Child Labor Law”. Child pageants set some rules that allow it to be an ungoverned program. It is not considered as a “working” act. Thus, it is not covered by the restriction of the “Child Labor Law”.

Further criticism showed that the rules over the pageant should be modified providing a fulfilling contest of beauty. According to the point of criticism, children could be negatively impacted by the actions taken by the beauty pageant, and it can further be damaging to the child’s persona today and in the future. With the pageant, a changing lifestyle will be change. Like the effects of the competition to the child (stress and anxiety). Later on, children could develop depression, lowered self-confidence, and eating disorders. With that, as parents we should always consider the overall welfare of our child before allowing them to join in any beauty pageant. Anyway, beauty cannot only be showcase by joining to a beauty pageant.