The Dangers of Beauty

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are additional required dues to pay. Sometimes the parents have to fill out an application with professional photographs, which if the child doesn’t already have any made, that’s more money to add up. In a beauty pageant in Austin Texas called Universal Royalty Texas State Pageant it is mandatory for the contestant to pick a supreme package, the highest ranging at $295.00 and the cheapest at $95.00. In this particular pageant the cost to perform a talent is $95.00 and if the child doesn’t do a swimsuit competition or a dress competition then that fee is raised to $195.00. Hair and makeup are priced together at about $150.00 and a DVD photo package is also mandatory, prices for that is $125.00. A deposit is also required which is $200.00 and a late fee of $100.00 extra dollars is required if the contestant has registered later than July 1st. Universal Royalty also offers many different types of competitions; a swimsuit competition is as high as $100.00 and a cover model contest ...

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all of these costs and fees, its plain see the amount of money that’s spent on one pageant is ridiculously expensive.
Most little girls enjoy dressing up their Barbie’s with latest fashion and even like getting into their moms makeup just to pretend to be a princess, it just comes natural to women to want to feel beautiful. Helen Brown, a writer for the Sunday Times Newspaper says, “you can't blame them too much: little girls have always enjoyed dressing up. It's just that there's a fine line between playing dress-up and looking as if you've just stepped out of one of those creepy children's beauty pageants.” Aside from the crazy prices, what these shows really say to other young ...

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