From The WTF? Files

[annuin]

Am I weird for being disturbed by the fact that I saw a toddler, of about 3 years old, at a Babies-R-Us with a French pedicure?

I get maybe painting your daughter's toenails with pink or some other funky colour... but having them receive a French pedicure? a bit much methinks?

Comments

[leonatos.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. I was rather shocked to learn that my aunt was painting my five year old cousin's fingernails and toenails pink. Times really are changing....

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Well, just painting your small daughter's nails for fun I get, they like that, along with being allowed to play with mummy's make up and stuff... but a professionally done pedicure?

[missingkeys.livejournal.com]

Heh, my sister did a nail technician course when Chthon was a similar age, and she needed more practice than she could do on herself. She practiced on anybody and everybody, so Chthon's nails were very shiny and I had the first French manicure of my life. Our mother had new nails twice daily, iirc. :)

[missingkeys.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't pay for it, though.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping that's the case, though it didn't look like the mother was a nail technician (okay, insofar as one can guess at that kind of thing, lol).

Chthon, interesting name. Where's it from? any special meaning? I've never heard or seen it before.

[missingkeys.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I agree it's not that guessable. :) I just like to assume the best because I got some really funny looks when my sister was doing her nails all the time. I can practice face painting and people think it's cool, but when you're trying to achieve better nail skills or something it looks a lot stranger!

Thank you. I'm trying to stop using their real names in other people's/community journals, so we've got Chthon and Iorek. I came across Chthon wiki-clicking and was going to use it as a character name, but while I never got around to finishing the story I was writing I fell in love with the character and decided to start using the name online. It's a Greek word referring kind of to the earth, but rather than the name Gaia which is all light and fluffy Chthon's more the underworld/subterranean part of the earth. It's not a name I would have chosen to fit her personality--it fit my character very well, but not so much my daughter's--but I persist in using it because I love it. :)

[goawayplease.livejournal.com]

People painted my nails when I was a kid, but it was always in the same vein as people braiding my hair or dressing me up. I can't imagine someone taking a kid to the salon to get their nails painted. Hells, I don't do that for me now...

[alasharia-la.livejournal.com]

I paint Bella and Katharine's finger nails, and if I want 10 minutes of them not running around, jumping on me, their beds, etc, I'll paint their toe nails, too, but its normally a fuschia pink dry in 60 second nail polish (for both).
Of course, they don't know its dry in 60 seconds, so that buys me time to make and drink a coffee ;)

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, nail painting on little girls I get, along with the kind of "playing with mummy's make up" thing, but this was a professionally done pedicure, not the mother doing some quick polish jobby to make her daughter happy for a day.

[silverthoughts.livejournal.com]

A pedicure is a bit much.

[ladyattercop.livejournal.com]

No worse than the woman I saw buying her 8 year old an iced caramel latte in Dunkin Donuts the other day. At least the French pedicure won't cause early onset diabetes. d-:

There seems to be this weird plague of parents around our age treating their kids like a fashion accessory. The vast majority of Floridians are image obsessed, and you'll see people with a ridiculous number of brand name items on their toddlers. If Apple made a kid-proof iPhone, you could bet these folks would have on be pinned to their baby's Gucci onesie.