Boys Getting Manicures. What is the World Coming To?

By Sarah Wexler, Allure magazine

Forget "manscaping"-it seems that the newest salon customers are more than a decade away from being men, considering they've only recently graduated from Mommy & Me. Last week, Gwen Stefani hit a salon to get a bright red pedicure, and brought her son Kingston Rossdale along. The fashionable 4-year-old got his own mani-pedi, with each nail painted a different color. His hair is also dyed a platinum blond, just like his mom. I repeat: He's 4.

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I don't think boys should be denied beauty treatments if they want them. But my beef is with his age, and the message all that dyeing and plucking and buffing and painting might communicate to a child: Your appearance matters. One of the joys of being four is that you can wear a tutu on your head, let your curls run wild, have dirt under your fingernails, and not even notice.

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Many of us protest the appearance-worshiping kiddie-pageant parents who turn little girls into mini-beauty queens...do we really need to bring boys into the fray, too?

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