Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique or 'Ho'tique

[aladams2]

To me, it's just dress up. Like Halloween!!! Are all of you objecting to your daughters dressing up for that? Come on! My girls get make up only for their dance recitals, which they need a lot on. They are not going to look that different from BBB. Like everyone else says TO EACH THEIR OWN. But please don't call my daughters Ho's just b/c I feel like they deserve a day at the "spa" to be made up and to look special on our ONE trip to Disney. Soon they won't be wanting to do this stuff anymore. FLAME! FLAME! FLAME!!!

 

[Schmeck]

To me, it's just dress up. Like Halloween!!! Are all of you objecting to your daughters dressing up for that? Come on! My girls get make up only for their dance recitals, which they need a lot on. They are not going to look that different from BBB. Like everyone else says TO EACH THEIR OWN. But please don't call my daughters Ho's just b/c I feel like they deserve a day at the "spa" to be made up and to look special on our ONE trip to Disney. Soon they won't be wanting to do this stuff anymore. FLAME! FLAME! FLAME!!!

It's dress up in a public place - there are things I'd let my kids do at home (like mix all the finger paint and paint themselves brown from head to toe) but I wouldn't take them out in public afterwards. After dance recitals, I wouldn't take them out to eat in a restaurant with the stage make-up and dance costumes still on either.

Actually stage make-up doesn't have to be bright and obvious to be done well. Well done stage make-up is subtle - you can always tell at the competitions and recitals the dancers who haven't had much experience with lighting and make-up. They look like clowns on stage.

 

[RMulieri]

Last I checked you go out in public on Halloween ,unless there is some new way of trick or treating I am not aware of? I let my dd dress up for halloween, and if she wanted to do it,I would have allowed BBB.It is not like she goes out every day with glitter in her hair and make up.Same thing with dance recitals.Not being mean, but one day of dress up at the MK or after a recital or Halloween ,does not make my 4 yr old a streetwalker or destined for a life of a call girl.If this is out of concern regarding Pedophilia, a pedophile is just as likely to go after a child that is dressed like a child.it is just as likely to happen the other 364 days of the year, not just the single day my dd dresses up as a princess.

 

[jellybeans0607]

I'm not a fan of the BBB either. And i've also seen some questionable Jasmines , but I dont think I would go so far as to call it the "ho" tique

Another poster mentioned they dont have real stylists in there. Well why the hell not? for that kind of money i would be quite tiffed to have a girl that took a braiding class. That seems like a complete rip off.

 

[MichelleVW]

I have not taken my daughter there yet however ,I will be in April and and she is thrilled. I have seen the girls walking around that have gone and they look exactly like they should - sweet little girls pretending and dressing up like a princess . Have you ever checked out one of the real disney princesses - they are very done up.

To call a child a HO or any other name is WRONG. Everyone is entitles to their opinion - but learn some manners and keep you mean and hurtful comments to yourself. What if one of these "ho's" heard you say that in passing - they would be crushed. Even worse what if someone called you child a HO.

Shame on you

PS - ajh88 - your daughter looks SO cute - just like a little princess and she looks thrilled in the picture.

Agree with everything you said!!

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

My girls are too old already for the BBB but if they were younger they might want to do it -- especially the older one who was always more girly. To each their own I say.

Please refrain from calling the girls who do the boutique "ho"s. The thread will be closed down if that's the road it is going to take.

 

[ajh88]

I must have left my sense of humor in my other pants - because while I absolutely respect anyone's choice about whether or not they want their child to visit the BBB, I do NOT find the use of the word "ho" (or prostitute) in reference to the activity very funny.

And I understand the OP didn't call any specific child or children that word - I guess I just don't find the use of either term a light-hearted or laughing matter.

 

[JackJack08]

I have not taken my daughter there yet however ,I will be in April and and she is thrilled. I have seen the girls walking around that have gone and they look exactly like they should - sweet little girls pretending and dressing up like a princess . Have you ever checked out one of the real disney princesses - they are very done up.

To call a child a HO or any other name is WRONG. Everyone is entitles to their opinion - but learn some manners and keep you mean and hurtful comments to yourself. What if one of these "ho's" heard you say that in passing - they would be crushed. Even worse what if someone called you child a HO.

Shame on you

PS - ajh88 - your daughter looks SO cute - just like a little princess and she looks thrilled in the picture.

I have to agree! We all need to remember, Disney isn't the "real" world. It's magical! That's what we all pay thousands of our hard earned dollars for. An "escape" from the "real" world for a week or two. I don't think any of us, would let our daughters go around at home "made up" as they are at BBB. But for one day..I think they look sweet!

 

[HansLeuschner]

I must say that this scares me a bit.

Are you saying all our daughters who went to BBB look like Ho's and the like?

A few years ago my daughter went to BBB and got the extensions, makeup and so forth. (My wife was there, not me so I can't say for sure)

The makeup was a bit much for me on my 4 year old and the nails were ok, since they only lasted a couple of hours before she broke them/ lost them.

She had a blast.

I agree that society seems to be pushing our girls to grow up too fast and to look a certain way.

sad really....

For our upcoming trip we decided to not go to BBB but to the Wonderland Tea Party instead. (She still loves the princesses) We'll do our own Bippity-bopping..

 

[Elliott]

I posted earlier that BBB is not our thing, but to refer to these little girls as ho's, or princess prostitues is so harsh to me And although I wont take my little one to BBB, I can see how comments like that can be hurtful to the mommies that do take their daughters there.

We all agree, no one should call anyone a prostitute, especially not a child but I don't think you are following my point - that is often what these girls look like!

uh-oh. I was hoping to splurge on my 5 year old sister in February- since I'm in college I don't see her much and love to spoil her rotten! My parents are conservative and think today's society encourages girls to grow up too fast- should I just buy her a princess dress and do her hair pretty instead?

Definately! Take her to a Princess breakfast or lunch instead.

It's great if you'd like to do something for that for your kid though. I definitely wouldn't call it a "ho" tique though.

I'm just a bit sad that in DTD you can get made over like Hannah Montana now *sigh*.

I thought the "Ho'tique" was pretty ingenious, and the Hannah Montana brain-wash is ridiculous. I was sure that Disney would drop her after her nearly nude pictures printed a few months back but $$$ talks!

I don't know if they would have curled her hair or not, but Harmony Barber Shop on Main Street does do a great $14 kids hair cut and your little boy or girl can opt for some fun colors and confetti sprinkles. It would be worth calling and asking if they might be able to do your daughter's hair up like Snow White - albeit you will probably have to provide your own head band.

We asked about the Barber Shop when we didn't like what was coming out of the BBB and the BBB receptionist told us they would only cut hair, not do any styling. Another point against the BBB!

I won't flame you either.
My DD (5) has no desire to go to BBB, even though she truely believes she is a princess.
She has no desire to sit for an hour to be made -up and she has also told me she doesn't think those girls look like princesses.
Fine with me, saves me $100.00 because I agree with her.

Your daughter is on her way to being a fine, upstanding woman!

I have stayed out if it , because the last thread like this over on the theme parks board got nasty and ugly..I guess moms tend to get upset when the Op calls the little girls hookers and prostitutes It is not my cup of tea, and DD really didn't want to do it so we didn't. Does it sexualize little girls? maybe.But unfortuantely most things these days seem to.I still can not believe some of the clothing for my 4 yr old and some of the tween Halloween costume choices for sale.But I would never call another little girl a prostitute or a 'Ho. If it is not your thing then don't go there plain and simple.But don't put down others that do, or call the grils ho's or prostitutes.Lots of little girls love it, and I have seen some very tasteful pretty princess makeovers.The Hannah Montana look is geared for the tweens that have pretty much outgrown the traditional princesses.While I was there (dd had an appt but decided not to do it when she saw what it was all about)I saw a little girl with pretty obvious facial deformities get made up, and she was thrilled, because for once to her and her family, she looked like a princess, and everyone said how pretty she was.her mom was all teary eyed and said to me she would have paid anything just to see her little girl smile .Anyway, like I said different strokes for different folks...

It is hard to argue with the "Different strokes for different folks" strategy but expressing ones own "strokes" is what these forums are for. It is necessary for members of society to speak out when they see a wrong being done, especially when the victims are children. You may feel that the BBB participants are far from victims, but the innocense of children has fallen victim to the slippery slope of what is acceptable at what age and the BBB is a drop of oil on that slope.

ITo call a child a HO or any other name is WRONG. Everyone is entitles to their opinion - but learn some manners and keep you mean and hurtful comments to yourself. What if one of these "ho's" heard you say that in passing - they would be crushed. Even worse what if someone called you child a HO.
Shame on you

Settle down. Again, no one has called a child any names. It is Disney for Pete's sake! (No one would call my little girl anything like that because I don't dress her like one!)

To me, it's just dress up. Like Halloween!!! Are all of you objecting to your daughters dressing up for that? Come on! My girls get make up only for their dance recitals, which they need a lot on. They are not going to look that different from BBB. Like everyone else says TO EACH THEIR OWN. But please don't call my daughters Ho's just b/c I feel like they deserve a day at the "spa" to be made up and to look special on our ONE trip to Disney. Soon they won't be wanting to do this stuff anymore. FLAME! FLAME! FLAME!!!

No, what they won't want to do is wear the ankle length dress and walk around MK with us! Instead it will be bikini tops and shorts that don't hide anything, and a boy she just met who is only interested in one thing and believes he is halfway to it because of how she looks. Her make-up and hair will look exactly like what comes out of the BBB.

Another poster mentioned they dont have real stylists in there. Well why the hell not? for that kind of money i would be quite tiffed to have a girl that took a braiding class. That seems like a complete rip off.

Good point. You would think Disney could get someone with some talent who could make these little girls look like Cindrella or Snow White, etc. I would pay any price for that.

 

[r4blessings]

Wow! I usually avoid threads like this, b/c I hate the contraversy but I also took my dd4 to BBB for the first time this past august and I have to tell you I thought she looked adorable! She picked sleeping beauty, so certainly her gown was not revealing. She did choose the hair extension thingy with her crown and I could tell by the way she kept tossing her head that she loved having the long curls on her neck and back. I don't find anything wrong with that, or the hair extensions. Our fairy godmother went very, very light with the make-up. I had asked her to, b/c it was in August and I knew it would melt right off, and she did, and you could hardly tell she had any on. Maybe a little blush, a sweep of pale glitter and that was it. No mascara, eye shadow or lipstick. So I don't know what the OP was referring to as far as all the makeup.

I also don't have a problem with my dd wanting to play with makeup or put in her fake pony tails. She is not being sexualized or growing up to fast. She is mimicking me. I wear make-up (b/c I enjoy it) so she wants to. I have long curly hair (so she wants to be like me). The same reason they sell baby toys shaped like cell phones or pretend diaper bags. Not b/c anyone thinks they should be rushed into having babies, but b/c they recognize our children want to emulate us. I think its cute that she wants to be like me, or one of her aunts or a disney princess.

And our experience at BBB was fantastic. The money spent was on the experience. The FG made such a fuss, she had her picture taken and wore a gorgeous gown. We then went out to dinner at 1900 Park Fare and then called it a night.

I personally don't care for bikinis on little little girls, but I would certainly never call them pedophile bait or little prostitutes. I am a little offended that you would label my daughter that way, just b/c of some glitter and a fake ponytail that she got during her make-over.

 

[Juliet25]

Fortunately, my DD5 is not really into the princesses. I too think the make-up and hair-do is *way* overdone. I heard of BBB before I went to WDW, and I thought it might be fun for DD to do. She's a tomboy, but she does like to put on nail polish and have her hair done. However, when I saw a little girl come out of the boutique I knew it was *not* for us. To put it politely, it's just NMS.

BTW, I'm as liberal as they come and I'm a bit appalled by the looks that the BBB produces.

 

[MichelleVW]

Maybe I'm just going on the wrong days because I am not seeing the "painted ladies" coming out of the BBB? I see little girls with very little make up on, hardly noticeable at all to me. This observation is coming from someone who HATES seeing little girls growing up too fast.

I really have no idea what children you guys are looking at.

 

[Colleen27]

I really don't get the objection to the BBB. I don't see it as any different than girls playing with Mommy's makeup and prancing around in her heels, as little girls have been doing since forever. It isn't about growing up too fast - what grown up wears pixie dust in her hair? It is just little girl fantasy in a fantasic place. And there's nothing at all sexual about this:

It is sad that we're so conditioned to fret about predators that we cannot just let our little girls enjoy playing dress up in the most magical place in the world!

 

[akelly]

I really don't get the objection to the BBB. I don't see it as any different than girls playing with Mommy's makeup and prancing around in her heels, as little girls have been doing since forever. It isn't about growing up too fast - what grown up wears pixie dust in her hair? It is just little girl fantasy in a fantasic place. And there's nothing at all sexual about this

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I totally agree. I think the ones sexualizing the BBB experience are the ones saying the girls look like "hos." How dare you say my daughter looked like a prostitute or insinuate that the parents who take their DDs to BBB are sexualizing their daughters. Why would you think that a girl who gets to play dress-up in a make-believe world is being sexualized.

Our seven year old did BBB last January. Boy, did she have fun. She had a FGIT trainee working on her hair (did a great job) and the regular FGIT did her make-up and nails. She thought it was so fun to have TWO ladies spoiling her. She got the bun style and wore her Cinderella dress and looked gorgeous. For pete's sake - let the girls have some fun in the fantasy world that is WDW. If you don't want to have your daughter participate then fine - don't insinuate all parents who do let their daughters participate are making a bad parenting decision.

This thread really has my blood boiling.

 

[ambiwan]

We are taking DDs (5 and 2) in December. They can't wait for the BBB. They just want to be princesses! I personally don't care for a couple of the BBB styles (I agree that children are growing up too fast, and they just feel inappropriate to me for my children). So I told them they had to have the bun style. I could do it myself, but they are so excited about actually being turned into princesses in the castle (we're doing BBB in the MK). How is a little glitter sexualizing children? My children call anything glitter "pixie dust" and can't wait to have it in their hair. They don't do this every day - they know this is extra special. I wouldn't allow it to the grocery store. But if they can't dress up and look like the princesses they adore in the most magical place on earth, we're destroying the magic of childhood.

 

[Erin13178]

I haven't read all the posts, but for us personally, I see no problem in going if that is your cup of tea. But to me, it is a bit pricey for the hairstyles and makeup.

Honestly when we go next year, I'm taking glitter and sparklies and makeup and I'm doing my dd's hair in our hotel room. Plus my bff owns a salon an hour from Disney and she will likely be there with us again next year. I'm sure we can pull it off for way less.

And yes it's about the attention etc, but I think my dd would value riding Peter Pan 5 more times instead of spending the time at the BBB. JMO

 

[crisi]

Who is exactly is sexualizing the little girl here? The mother letting her daughter play dress up or the person calling the little girl a *****?

 

[Nie0214]

I didn't see any problems with the hair-dos. When I was in the World of Disney store in DTD, a Fairy Godmother came and gave me pixie dust in my hair & my mom too! It was fun and added more pixie dust to a lovely WDW vacation.

 

[Lucky'sMom]

I also have never responded to a post like this before, but feel I must on this one. My DDs did the BBB in June. It was nothing less than a memorable, "magical" experience for both of them (and me too). We had a separate "boys night" and "girls night" that evening, and the BBB was a part of a very special night for my girls. My DDs arrived dressed like Sleeping Beauty and Belle, and had such a special time with their FGIT. Each girl had 2 FGIT working on them. One did the hair, and the other did the nails/make-up. Any part of this experience (ie, make-up) is certainly optional. Yes, you could just do their hair in the hotel room and put some sparkles in it, but your daughter would be missing the "experience" of the BBB. My DDs absolutely left looking like princesses. My DD7 had the bun hairstyle and my DD9 had the hair extension, which did, indeed, make her look like Belle. We traveled via Disney bus to the Grand Floridian for dinner at 1900 Park Faire. So many people made such lovely comments to them, and the bus driver even played a message aboard the bus that everyone should be on their best behavior because there was "royalty" on board. I have rarely seen my DDs smile and blush as much as that evening. I also don't understand the OP's comment that they didn't know there were only 3 hairstyles available. Did you do any research about the BBB before your appt? Every possible detail is available on these boards. Anyway, I am offended by the "ho" comment. How dare you make such a comment about sweet little girls on their Disney vacation? If you don't like the BBB, fine. Don't go. But don't judge other girls or their parents who do decide to go. I'm about as conservative a person as you can meet, and my DDs looked beautiful and made some very special memories that evening.