Or give a baby a pedicure? These mums are leaning towards “Yes”.
“You look like Miley Cyrus on a wrecking ball.”
While most mums would shudder at anyone saying this to their 4-year-old daughter, this mum means it as a compliment.
Sophie-May Dickson is talking about her 4-year-old daughter, Princess Bliss Tianna May. Prin for short. She says it as her little girl is swinging on a ball in a playground, with long golden curly locks to her bum (which we later learn are hair extensions) and a pink tutu dress (well, at least she isn’t naked).
Sophie-May and Prin are on a new UK show called Blinging Up Baby, which says it’s about:
Every parent thinks that their child is beautiful, but some are prepared to go to any lengths to prove it. From crystal-covered dummies and frills to hairpieces, make-up and spray tans, the growing trend among ordinary mums and dads to kit out their toddlers in top-to-toe glamour is now worth five billion pounds a year.
Making your daughter a princess is costly, but Sophie-May doesn’t mind saying that she would “walk around in a black bin bag” to be able to afford her daughters’ clothing and primping. (She has a second daughter Precious Belle Ruby Rozina, 1-year-old).
But she doesn’t. In fact, she gets a spray tan with her eldest (who started spray tanning at 3), asking how dark she would like to go – with the response “just like you mum”. And if you asked her whether she has any issues with getting her 4-year-old to wear a hairpiece daily or regular spray tans, the answer is no.
“Princess has been into hair extensions since she was 2. She’s always been a glamorous baby. Princess was 3 when she had her first spray tan. She really wanted it because she saw me have one and she’d be unhappy if I said no.”
