It's 10pm...do you know your daughter's skin care routine?

The little girl in this video probably doesn't even know what the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is. But I'm thinking of nominating her--as their poster child. Here's why...

Oh, and before you jump all over me and suggest how she's "just mimicking her mom", let me state up front that I have a daughter myself and I get the whole wannabe-like-mom thing. So hear me out. Or better yet, here HER out:

I get laugh marks.

I get bags...and this vanishes those bags...it's not like a cover-up or foundation...

Banishing Cream--I also use this before I go to bed.

 Times have changed but when I was little, playing "mom" or dress-up meant wearing my mom's high-heels and maybe her lipstick. And it was all about the costumery. Not about the flaws. It was about aspiration and role-play. But now there seems to be a trend in skin care (and skin repair) in which women are starting to use more serious skin care at a much younger age.

Case in point from Cosmetic Surgery Times (9/1/08): "Millenium Research Group found that this year, 26 to 35 year olds will represent more than 20% of cosmetic botox patients compared to only 7% in 2007." That sounds statistically significant to me.

I don't know about you, but when a young (very young) girl can identify "laugh marks"--even just in playing around, there's something slightly disturbing about that. And I'm not even going to get started on the possibility that she's using a hydroquinone cream on her skin every night. How does a young girl get to this point?

Finally, lest you think that this video was some one-off idea done on a whim, the cliche "there's more where that came from" applies. And, as a mom, that turns my thoughts to something of a much greater concern: internet safety.

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