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I live in a suburb of Los Angeles, so I haven't seen it here, yet. I imagine there is a lot of this out on the Westside though, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, W. Hollywood. So glad I live in my humble little community!

As a professional in the business I can say i'd NEVER do something like that. I would tell a client HELL NO! I do not allow anyone to get waxed by me until they are of an age to give informed consent. 8-12 is way to young to be waxing downstairs. I would never do it PERIOD.

I do wax on younger than 8 when it comes to eyebrows. I know there are kids out there with thick dark unibrows that I glady wax for them so they can have some peace in public and at school. It's bad enough having the normal teasing going on let alone getting picked on even more because of their eyebrows.

A stylist with any conscious should just tell those mothers where they can stick it.

Why in holy cow would you want to have your eight year old's bikini waxed? is this not sexual abuse on some level? When I was eight years old I had started my period but I dont think I had all that much hair if any! and besides that I would have faught tooth and nail if someone tried to take my pants off much less get a wax!!!

what is the point of waxing if there is nothing to wax?

Thing is, mothers didn't create a porny culture where female body hair is offensive, I'm not excusing them I think it was absolutely wrong taking their kids to get his done, I'm disgusted. Very disgusted. However these mothers must think that what they are doing is GOOD for the kid or else they wouldn't do it right?, so how can they think this is good? Well if you take a look at our society right now , and the one the mothers grew up with too, we are constantly being told hair on us is DISGUSTING and MUST come off. Like it's a disease, hatred for female body hair is that strong, but the hatred doesn't stem from us because we get nothing out of this but pain and annoying routine trying to get it off, it's also expensive. Men benifit from it not us .Ancient chinese culture for example, the mothers bound their daughters feet to make them smaller, because the mothers had THIER feet bound too so they just cycled behaviour, now people could say it was the mothers fault for this practice but it wasn't, the men in the culture expected and wanted tiny feet so the women thought they were doing GOOD by HELPING thier kid to achieve that expecation even though it was horrific and painful.

We live in a porny culture , where clothes for kids have been sexulized , music is sexulized, tv, magazines, ads, nearly everything we see has a woman turned into a sexbot , it's unavoidable ,we don't live in a vacume. I despise the women who took their 8 year olds to have their genitals waxed, I do, I DO NOT excuse it , I hate that younger girls are being effected but even though I hate the mothers that do this I hate the culture that encourages it even MORE and the men who reap the benifits from this culture too. I hope theres some kind of revolution or something cos I'm strating to get sick of this now.

OK (1) Those kids are (hopefully) not having sex so why do they need bikini waxes? (2) Isn't that kinda painful? I've only had arms and legs done with wax but OW!! And yes it kinda IS like child abuse, partially cos of the pain!!(3) In the UK article Oh mi GOD a pole dancing toy thing holy crapola!!!! (4) They are FEMALES so unfortunately they will probably spend most of their bloody well LIVES dealing with bikini waxes, dying their hair, applying make up and so on why the HELL do they have to start NOW? Can't they give the kids a BREAK?! and (5)...
THANK F.... I don't have kids and have to deal with constantly telling them no when society is pushing a sexed up version of childhood. Yet ANOTHER reason I am glad I am childfree!

I hear what you are saying, but trying to separate the mothers from the "culture" that encourages this is impossible. If no one else were doing it, it wouldn't be an issue, so the women continuing this practise are themselves to blame... in other words, they ARE the "culture" you speak of. There is no Big Brother issuing orders to do this.

Men only expect this [censored] now (hairless women) because women give it to them.

Hmmm - let's remember that this is the same society that spawned Britner Spear's mother getting her a boob job at age 16 - and lkook where she is now!

My daughter is 10. She has a unibrow (that she and her oler brother inherited from me). I use one of those little trimmers because she doesn't like the way it looks. My son does get his brows waxed when HE asks for it, but he only started thst hen he was 14 (his brows are very bushy and go in all directions.)

I told DD she couldn't start waxing her brows until at least 14.

I just started letting her shave under her arms. It took her about 6 months to nag me into that. I still haven't shown her how to shave her legs, because I don't see a need to, yet.

As far as "down there" - Forget It!!! There's not enough there to even count (unless you're a mother freaking out about your only daughter hitting puberty). I'm embarrased to let anyone see that area on me other than my husband and gynecologist (and don't even really like her being down there.) No way I'm letting someone near my LITTLE GIRL!

Ok - this one hit a nerve obviously...

Ugh...I'm disgusted that there are parents who think this is ok, and also disgusted that there are stylists/spa workers who would agree to perform the waxing...it really does seem like child abuse!

One of the comments on the article was that little boys can't wait to start shaving- and it struck me as an intereting counterpoint. Certainly shaving a beard is more common (normal) than bikini waxing, but maybe along the same lines? I guess beard shaving is more akin to leg shaving.

I wouldn't have waxed as an 8 year old, but any teenager who swims is defintely shaving at least a little "down there".

I would guess that as soon as these girls get pubic hair, they will stop wanting to get waxed. OUCH.

Right! I couldn't wait to be able to shave my legs! LOL I have never had a bikini wax. But as one of you mentioned, I also waxed my underarms once. I'm not doing that again. Owie! LOL

My oldest daughter bugged me for about 18 months before I'd let her shave. When I finally handed her a razor & shave gel, she was terrified of cutting herself. LOL She was 13 1/2 when I waxed between her eyebrows that one time. She won't do that again, hehehe