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• Nipple Jewelry: 5 Products Moms DON’T Need

  #5 Magic Virginity Juice.  A few drops on the old hoo-hah and you’ll be singing early career Madonna. Erase all that baby making “stress” on your business. Oh, and that package assures you this is an honest to goodness medical product, doesn’t it?...  Read More... Posted Aug 26 2008, 05:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Sex, breastfeeding, moms, Hello Kitty, makeup, virginity, Janet Jackson, nipple jewelry, goofy products, vaginal rejuvination

• Creepiest Story of the Day: Bikini Waxes for Eight-Year-Olds

  Some of this is so extreme you just can't imagine it: There's a story in Philadelphia Magazine (via Jezebel) about moms who take their kids to spas for treatments. As in, bikini waxes, and we're talking about an eight-year-old. (And yes, they discuss the fact that an eight-year-old probably has no pubic hair to wax.) And teens getting botoxed. Ten-year-olds with aesthetician-created, perfectly arched brows. Six-year-olds getting weekly blowouts. Yeeeugh. Clearly something has gone horribly awry here. The author says it's a slippery slope though. How many moms start off... Read More... Posted Mar 28 2008, 01:33 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: mothers, girls, moms, beauty, self-esteem, body image, makeup, hair, self image, treatments, acne, philadelphia magazine, perfection, spas, nail polish, bikini wax, stage moms

• Are You Ever Too Young for Pretty Toes?

  Which creeps you out more: the fact that a mom who knew better went ahead with a mani-pedi party for her 7-year-old, as reported in this New York Times story on spa treatments for pre-tweens, or the fact that the birthday girl's father suggested it? There isn't anything inherently bad about nail polish and lip gloss (you know, except for the phthalates). But why do parents get involved in all this make-up/makeover stuff for their young girls? Why the parties? Why does it have to be so state-sanctioned and encouraged and dumped in young kids' laps?   Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 04:31 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: kid's cologne, sexualization of children, kid's fashion, kids with psychological problems, makeup, kid's stuff, sexualizing girls, kids gear

• GreenHouse: Free Range Chicken Poop Lip Balm For All!

  Shall we file this one under BrownHouse, then? We've talked about greening your makeup drawer , Momspit lotion, and recycling breastmilk into homemade soap, but turning free-range chicken poop into lip balm drags the entire notion of using raw, organic materials in cosmetics down to a whole new level, doesn't it?    As you may have guessed, this lip balm contains no actual feces.  (Phew!)   But it is all natural (containing soy, jojoba, sweet orange, lavender, and beeswax), and the bold-type label that screams "POOP!" may actually deter certain little people from borrowing/eating/clawing/smearing it, which is always plus.  On the flipside, though - how embarassing would it be to constantly have to explain to people that your lip balm does not actually contain that which it advertises?  You couldn't pay me to carry this shit around. Posted Nov 19 2007, 03:03 PM by Alisyn with | with no comments Filed under: poop, greenhouse, makeup, green products, free range chicken, green makeup, chicken poop

• GreenHouse: Green Your Makeup Drawer (In Time for Halloween)

  As a kid, I planned my Halloween costumes around how much makeup I could get away with "borrowing" from my mom's cosmetics drawer.  I loved slathering on rouge, lipstick, eyeliner, mascara... it made me feel so glamorous and exotic and grown up.  But - *sigh* - those were the good ol' days, when parents were more worried about finding razor blades in their kids apples than exposing their kids to toxic levels of lead toys and yes, makeup. Read More... Posted Oct 22 2007, 10:26 AM by Alisyn with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: kids, greenhouse, makeup, Halloween, makeup and kids, organic makeup, green products, halloween costumes, lead exposure, organicc products

• When Should Girls Start Wearing Makeup?

  In an entry at DotMoms, Robin wrote about her lifelong love affair with lip gloss. But the incident that led to her post was her husband claiming their two under-ten nieces were too young to wear makeup. That got me to thinking: when is it okay for young girls to start wearing makeup? Personally, I think twelve or thirteen is a good age. But for my own daughter, I estimate the correct age to be 28.4 years. But I've already lost that battle. Read More... Posted Aug 15 2007, 01:29 PM by ChagHolland with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: growing up too fast, makeup