Reminiscing with childhood friends recently, I was reminded of one of my early teenage grooming habits. When I was 13 or 14, I used to slick Vaseline on my unruly eyebrows in order to tame and "shape" them. Why would I do this, you ask? Well, I got the idea from my equally bushy-eyed best friend. Eventually, my mother grew tired of my shiny brows and sent me to a waxer, but my Vaseline habit Read more

More people in general have tattoos these days (a full 40 percent of the population between ages 18 and 29 now have some ink), but apparently the trend is especially strong among high schoolers, an increasing number of whom are getting body art before they reach legal majority. It's a tricky thing to get inked so young. I love my tattoo, but I thought about getting it for years, and even as an Read more

CasaSugar Community member h2urHome, interior designer Laurie Jones, recently gave her 12-year-old daughter's bedroom a fantastic makeover and posted the photos in the Su Casa group. She writes: Sloan had many requests, she wanted a very colorful room without it looking too "kiddish" (her word) and she also wanted it to look bohemian. She wanted an area for her friends to hang out in; an area she Read more

Hopefully not, but it does seem to be happening a lot more lately, if anecdotal evidence is to be believed. In fact, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Dysport and Botox was used on American teens almost 12,000 times in 2009, a 2 percent increase from the previous year. In some instances, Botox can be used on teens for certain medical conditions. But apparently, teens are Read more

In botulism news, a 16-year-old British girl is being given Botox by her mother, the self-proclaimed "Human Barbie" who's had almost a million dollars in plastic surgery herself. Given the context, I guess, the story isn't terribly surprising. What most concerns me about this is that the young girl who's using it says she's "met plenty of girls my age who are having these procedures," and Read more