Too Much, Too Soon
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July 13th, 2005 at 8:54 am
There’s a … 19 to 35 month category? Good grief. These kids are going to grow up seriously damaged.
July 13th, 2005 at 9:12 am
Ah, ironic, isn’t it, that the mother who is less than super-fantastic who’s daughter “chooses” (and I use that lightly) to be apart of the pagents of the beauty and the craziness. The children of the truly super-fantastic are no doubt outside now playing in the mud and enjoying every minute of it.
July 13th, 2005 at 9:15 am
… and naturally those with poor sentance structure must also be automatically assumed as being super fantastic, no? ;-)
Should read:
‘the mother who is less than super-fantastic is the one who’s daughter “chooses”‘
July 13th, 2005 at 9:15 am
Um… has anyone noticed that these photos are heavily photoshopped and are probably not of actual human children?!?!?!?!?
July 13th, 2005 at 9:48 am
I honestly thought they were photos of dolls at first. I guess in some sick weirdos’ minds, having your kid look like an actual DOLL is very attractive. “Open your eyes wider. WIDER. More vacant! Try to show less emotion, dear, you’re looking too child-like.”
July 13th, 2005 at 9:48 am
The children actually appear at pageants in this drag.
Didn’t you read the rules?
July 13th, 2005 at 9:53 am
Oh. My. Holyhell.
Please, someone tell me that this is actually a photoshop contest.
Please, someone tell me that no children were used in this travesty.
How do you get mascara on an infant???
~~~shudder~~~
July 13th, 2005 at 9:55 am
Can you say Susan Sugerbaker???
Freaky doll faces!
July 13th, 2005 at 10:00 am
OMG … don’t they know to blow up the picture and eliminate the white pixels where they cut and pasted the eyes? Not only are they photoshopped, it is painfully obvious that it was done by amateurs. This is digital photography gone very, very bad.
July 13th, 2005 at 10:07 am
I now know what my next nightmare will contain..
July 13th, 2005 at 10:12 am
Ack! What are they? Certainly not real human children!
July 13th, 2005 at 10:29 am
There’s TONS of Photoshopping going on … there’s no way you’d get ANYONE’S face looking that smooth with make-up (even models have to be Photoshop’d), and there’s no way a child, much less an INFANT, would be able to sit that long to do make-up like THAT.
I’m 21 and it takes me 45 minutes to do my make-up, for a baby that is an eternity and they probably take a lot longer!
July 13th, 2005 at 10:41 am
ohmygod that’s creepy.
July 13th, 2005 at 10:46 am
The Muffy Wong has spoken the words that are in the mind of the Tia! Creepy indeed!
Those eyes! They will give the Tia nightmares. Are these the Children of the Corny?
July 13th, 2005 at 10:53 am
The Tia has read the rules for the photo contest:
“These should be professional pictures, but should not be extremely or overly retouched. ”
The Tia wants to know in what universe are these photos considered NOT extremely or overly retouched?
The Tia is also wondering whether these infants are wearing wigs or whether the hairstyles are totally photoshopped.
The Tia would like to let all these little girls run barefoot through a sprinkler on a nice green lawn.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:03 am
Does the Manolo watch The Attack of the Show on G4? They featured this creepy website on last night’s show and today it is here. I had no idea that the Manolo was such a technophile.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:07 am
The Giabella is truly horrified, and would like to scoop up all those poor children and teach them to play the soccer and make the pies of the mud.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:12 am
Imagine telling your toddler, “No, Tiffany Paris, you can’t play outside; you’ll spoil your french manicure”
The Scarlett shudders. The horror.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:39 am
The Manolo he is not that tech savvy as to watch the G4. Indeed, this link it was sent to the Manolo by the Robert, one of the Manolo’s many internet friends.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:43 am
I… uh… this… Who does this? And am I the only person really creeped out by the phrase “(We are judging the child - not the retoucher!)”? Because that is totally not going to screw a child up at all.
July 13th, 2005 at 11:47 am
McSarah, actually, it should be:
‘the mother who is less than super-fantastic is the one WHOSE daughter “chooses.”
kisses!
July 13th, 2005 at 11:54 am
Oy! Stepford is missing their children!
July 13th, 2005 at 11:54 am
Did anyone scroll down to see the girl with the bangled headdress a la Cher? There was only one normal looking kid in the bunch. Please tell me this contest is a joke!
July 13th, 2005 at 12:34 pm
The LittleMissAnnieOaklee has only one thing to say……Jon Benet Ramsay and look what happen to her!!! :(
July 13th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Quoth the server “404!” Darn. And I was looking forward to seeing what new horrors Faithweb had to offer.
July 13th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
if you google “angelswithattitude” and go to the cached page you can see the many creepy children with large vacant eyes and, for some reason, they all have the same nose.
July 13th, 2005 at 3:01 pm
The McSarah she is the speller of the awful variety, having spent far too much of her school time staring at the shoes of her little playmates… she greatly appreciates lexa’s comment and will go now to spell-check this blurb in her Microsoft word.
July 13th, 2005 at 3:01 pm
I just read about something called “reborning” dolls–here is a link, although I am not sure it will work: http://www.writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/002804_07132005.html.
Perhaps that is what these pictures are of? The hair in most instances is clearly fake (a wig, if an actual child) and as many before me have noted, the eyes are creepily, “Children of the Damned”-like, vacant. It would also explain how one could get an infant or toddler to stand still for the makeup spackling. And the infant with chunky glitter on her eyelashes–well, I certainly hope that’s a doll.
July 13th, 2005 at 3:06 pm
I just clicked on Manolo’s link to the creepy baby page again and noticed it is no longer working. Interesting…
July 13th, 2005 at 3:08 pm
Girls who look almost like dolls…dolls that almost look like real children…so creepy. It reminds me of the principle of the Uncanny Valley.
On Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley
July 13th, 2005 at 4:09 pm
I was able to see it before the website went down. Truly creepy. And the slogan - “Daughters are Angels” just seems wrong with all the pictures. As only perfect, fake, minuture women with blank stares and blank smiles are angels. And those pictures certainly sexualize those little girls which is just an invitation for pedophiles on the net. Really scary.
Daughters (and sons) are angels - but they certainly don’t need to be fake or perfect.
July 13th, 2005 at 5:23 pm
Dangit. It’s not there anymore.
Or maybe I should be thankful?
July 13th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
The fans of the Manolo have overloaded the server of the zombie babies.
July 14th, 2005 at 1:13 am
It is good that Fashion does battle with the powers of darkness… oh, wait, what was that about a carry handle?
July 14th, 2005 at 1:29 am
The creepy-eyed children live on here:
http://beckycarter.com/color.html
July 14th, 2005 at 2:19 am
I saw a step-by-step retouching web page for these pageant kids a year or two ago. They completely removed a girl’s *arm* from one picture as it was found to be unflattering. To another girl’s head, they manufactured rolls and rolls of ringlets out of thin air. They moved another’s head to a better angle. They add or take away teeth, skin, you name it. It’s that shiny white eye glimmer that creeps me out the most.
You can find a list of ’services’ here: http://www.touchofglamour.com/Photo_Retouching.htm Click on any of the faces and you will find the before and after images.
July 14th, 2005 at 9:53 am
Man that is scary. Those kids look like they are coming to eat our brains. . . .
July 14th, 2005 at 10:46 am
Those eyes make me think all those girls are hyperthyroid. It’s not normal to see white all around the iris. Yet another example of fetishizing a pathology. Ick.
July 14th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
Chi Chi — my immediate, horrified reaction:
They are Barbies.
o.O
*shudder*
July 14th, 2005 at 9:26 pm
These are great too!
http://www.paradisegalleries.com/artist.asp?label=artist&cartist%5Fid=100000008&artist=Kymberli+Durden&mscssid=PS695JU0WP248J3EE2960XHKFH9H9EP0
Who will YOU welcome into your home? Dylan? Justin? Or pretty little Victoria?
July 14th, 2005 at 9:29 pm
Chi Chi Dango - left side, sixth pic down (I can’t bring my self to say ‘girl’) looks like the Bride of Chucky on a good day… The Lady is glad that she has not seen the site…
July 14th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
Run! The Children of the Corn, they are here!
July 18th, 2005 at 1:59 pm
the site’s gone!