I was all set to start railing on yet another trend in little girl
beauty -- hair highlights -- when it dawned on me that I was, what, in
5th grade when my hair was processed for the first time. Not
highlights, a crappy perm. And not at a salon, but my mom and a box of
Ogilvie.
So messing with girls' hair is nothing new. It's just
where it gets messed with -- and the price -- are different. Right? I
don't know. I feel like there's more going on here. This story in the NY Times reveals something kind of predatory at worst,
distracting at best, for young girls to be going in regularly to be
"pampered" and processed and try to live in the world of Hannah Montana
and Jamie Lynn Spears.
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