Tag: beauty industry

Dolly revives model search: but at what cost?

Sunday Herald Sun, March 25, 2012 This month at Melbourne Westfield Fountain Gate, Elodie Russell beat 500 other teens to be named Victorian state finalist in the new Dolly Model Search. The Geelong student and 500 other girls competed in the model search resurrected after 10 years. Elodie is 14. But girls as young as […]

Children obsessed with body image issues: UK study

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg and MTR discuss on Sunrise A UK survey, commissioned by UK charity YWCA Central, has found half of all girls and a third of boys are obsessed with body image. According to a report in the Daily Mail this week, children are willing to take extreme measures to get a perfect body or […]

10-year-old French girl sexed-up for women’s fashion

You’ve probably already heard about 10-year-old French model Thylane Loubry Blondeau and the controversy over the way she is being posed and styled in adult-like ways. I’d written about Vogue’s treatment of Thylane and other young models in an earlier piece titled ‘Vogue’s tarted up photo shoot of little girls is no parody.’ Interest in […]

iPhone modelling app: more ranking and judging of girls

Modelling app ‘fuels teen insecurities’ A leading body image expert claims a new iPhone application which evaluates a person’s modelling potential is feeding an “epidemic of body dissatisfaction”. The $2.49 app, called Model Potential, rates the user’s appearance after instructing them to enter statistics such as their height, gender, dress size, bra size and body […]

The beauty industry: brought to you by a 5-year-old

Teaching little girls that make up rituals should start early “Make-up is for everyone!” declares 5-year-old Madison, who has become a You Tube sensation for her video sessions on make-up application, recorded and uploaded by her mother. A child doesn’t make this statement in a vacuum. As documented over and over on the MTR blog, […]

Topless ‘plus size’ women in Vogue shoot equals empowerment?

Huzzah! More sexualised images of women served up by the fashion and beauty industry Here’s some photos from the latest issue of Vogue Italia featuring Australian model Robyn Lawley, with two other plus-sized models, Tara Lynn and Candice Huffine. The colloqial expression “Huzzah” was deployed recently to describe the inclusion of the size 14 Lawley on […]

Miss Earth Australia – Green Activism In A Tiara?

Today a guest blog post by Julie Parker, reprinted from her site Beautiful You. I’m not a fan of beauty pageants. Any competition that requires women to compete against one another in swimsuits; having their bodies scrutinised, judged and scored, is not going to win any awards from me for being a positive pastime for […]

Petition launched to stop US child beauty pageants in Australia

Calling on Federal Minister Peter Garrett and Victoria counterpart Wendy Lovell to intervene Collective Shout has initiated a petition in response to the news that a US pageant company plans to import its child beauty competitions to Australia. You can find the petition on the Care2 petition site . Please sign and circulate it through […]

Turning girls into tarted up dolls: we don’t need toxic US child beauty pageants here

Teaching girls their value is in their physical beauty Many readers will have seen the documentary Toddlers and Tiaras revealing the child exploitation that is the US beauty pageant industry. A five year old begging not to have her eyebrows ripped out. Little girls preening, strutting, pouting, beckoning to the judges ‘come here baby’, kissing their […]

Colonising the world with body hatred

Commercial exploitation of the female body exposed at Endangered Species Conference Just came across this piece  in The New Internationalist and had to share it with you. It’s an outstanding unpacking of the normalisation of rigid norms of female beauty, which have been exported around the world. Written by Giedre Steikunaite,  it’s a report on […]

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