Beauty Blog

Beauty Salons are booming thanks to girls as young as six wanting facials and manicures. A brand new child-only salon called Tantrum has opened on London’s King’s Road which

offers Fantasie beauty treatments, hair styling and make-up to children under the age of 10.

Child beauty has become big business. Research has shown that six out of ten girls

aged seven to ten wore lipstick and two out five wore eye shadow or mascara. These days you can even get high heels for babies, diet pills, breast implants, facelifts and padded bra all aimed at seven year olds.

Grooming has certainly changed around children. Children aged 6 or 7 are aspiring to be a lot more grown-up than they are, trying to be more like 12 or 13 year olds. Allowing childre

n to be pampered in this way can be a dilemma for parents and salon owners alike - on the one hand not wanting their children to grow up too fast but at the same time wanting their children to fit in with their peers and be the coolest girl in school.

Many salons offer mum and daughter days and pamper parties for children, which appear to

be attracting more and more children to have beauty treatments done. We are still a few steps behind the US though - across the pond beauty treatments are common place for children as young as two and has been considered normal by many parents for several years.

Kate Moss stepped out this weekend, not to her own wedding, but to fellow model’s Leah Wood and Jack Macdonald. She wore a full length silk gown in cream with gold shining platforms she looked ever the star, with long term boyfriend Jamie scrubbing up well in a three piece suit.

Her smokey eye make-up was spot on (as always), and her creamy natural look with neutral lip colour made sure she didn’t outshine Leah.

Kate does look gorgeous no matter what, and of course did not fail to pull a winning outfit out of the hat perfect for the occasion. The rest of us, however, can struggle during this time of year, the dreaded wedding season, to find the perfect outfit. Finding a look that can take you from the ceremony to the reception can be tricky, and coping with a tiny clutch bag for all day make-up essentials, don’t even get me started on daytime drinking, and you end up with a full blown fashion and beauty crisis!

One definite no-no is to not under and circumstances, try out a new makeup on the day of the wedding. Always do a trail run on anything experimental a few days before the wedding to make sure you don’t have any last minutes panics on the big day. I know it’s not your big day but the bride will not thank you to turn up with crazy Amy Winehouse eyeliner-gone-wrong in ten years time when they are going over the photographs! (Unless they are very cool)!!