An eight-year old girl being forced to get a bikini wax by her mother is just scary.

http://www.phillymag.com/articles/pretty_babies/page1

"Facials, bikini waxes, mani/pedis and blowouts have long been de rigueur Rittenhouse and Main Line beauty regimens — but nowadays, the “women” getting these luxe spa treatments have yet to reach puberty..."

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Sally said, (268 days ago)

surely there wouldnt be any hair down there?

valkyrie blondhaar said, (268 days ago)

http://goteaminternet.com/show/8824

AArtaud said the exact same thing.

ashleigh said, (268 days ago)

One place even makes the moms sign waivers stating that they do not want to perform the services but the mother insists.

ashleigh said, (268 days ago)

@val: Oops I missed that.

Deep-Fried Goodness said, (268 days ago)

That's messed up. If the person is underage, the salon should be legally obligated NOT TO perform that service.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (268 days ago)

It's probably not that common, but between that and the thongs for little girls, I have to conclude that we are all doomed.

And that the Girls Gone Wild videos will still be doing lots of business ten years from now.

ashleigh said, (268 days ago)

@Deep-Fried: No shit... it's like statutory rape... only... statutory wax?

ashleigh said, (268 days ago)

@Combustible: Girls Gone Wild will be doing lots of business ten years from now... with girls that are ten years old. Ew.

Uncanny MONCHICHI said, (268 days ago)

@Ashleigh: Someone needs to save us from ourselves.

It's this kinda thing that makes me think that maybe a zombie apocalypse, robot uprising or alien invasion might not be so bad.

mizzchelle said, (268 days ago)

DUDE that's in PHILLY!

mizzchelle said, (268 days ago)

Ha ha, in a scary sort of way:

“I’ve actually been joking that I’m going to write a book called Where Has All the Pubic Hair Gone?” Janice Hillman, a doctor in the Penn Health System at Radnor who specializes in adolescent medicine, tells me. “It’s such a rarity to find it these days in 10- and 12-year-old girls, and older girls. I need to check for it at that age — it’s an indicator of puberty and development, how much there is, where it’s growing. And now, I need to ask girls, if it’s not there, ‘Do you wax? Do you shave?’ Because so many of them do.”

ashleigh said, (268 days ago)

@Combustible:It'd have to be zombies. Aliens probably have more intelligent forms of life on other planets to invade. And robots are simply the souls of aliens trapped inside machines. That what happens to aliens when they die...

ashleigh said, (268 days ago)

@mizzchelle: Please darling, go stop these women. Isn't there some nurse thing you can do?... Like inject these mothers with anti-crazypsychotoorichfortheirowngood medicine???

Moondust said, (268 days ago)

That article is both infuriating and depressing.

Oom Mao Mao said, (268 days ago)

It's disgusting since body image issues weren't enough.

Gah.

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