Jenny sighed again and again as she struggled to organize an event worthy of such a special occasion. The plentiful choices of location and banquet halls in Wisconsin made her task harder instead of easier. Her quiet office looked out over the John Taylor Park band shell in the historic small town of Menomonee Falls, WI. She thought of Elizabeth and John, her friends and special clients, who entrusted her with planning their wedding reception. It was fortunate that they already had made arrangements to be married at the three century old St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, where their parents and grandparents had been members most of their lives.

Being married in a small town could present some problems, but not here. There were several choices of banquet halls with catering right in town. Elizabeth and John deserved the best that Wisconsin had to offer, thought Jenny. A fall wedding would be so much fun. The maples would be ablaze with color, and it would be so romantic to hire a carriage to take them from the church to the banquet hall. The decorations could echo a fall theme. The catered meal had to be top notch, at least 5 stars. The banquet hall had to be spacious to provide a festive meal for 250 guests, at least. Jenny studied the menus and brochures from the local banquet halls, looking for just the right one. There were so many good choices just in Menomonee Falls, let alone in Milwaukee, which was so close. Being situated on the shores of Lake Michigan could give Milwaukee an edge. It was enough to set Jenny’s mind awhirl.

A walk along historic Appleton Avenue would be just the thing to clear her mind, Jenny thought. Once again, she marveled at the blessings that had landed her in this small Wisconsin town. It was really not so small, with a population just over thirty thousand, but lovely, quiet, with so much to offer. Some of the banquet halls were within walking distance, so Jenny decided to stop in and discuss catering details with them. While prices would figure into the mix, the quality of the catering was most important. Jenny did not want to leave any detail to chance.

After several hours of discussion with banquet hall managers, Jenny took her notes and wandered through Mill Pond Park. A quiet nook with a bench called to her. The summer day was coming to a close. Jenny sat quietly picturing the wedding reception, the catered meal, the fall decorations, and most important, the joy of this occasion. She could see Elizabeth and John in the center of the long banquet table, sampling an elegant catered meal. Soft lights and soft music would relax everyone as night quietly fell. It would be a perfect close to a perfectly wonderful day.

Every mother who has a little girl has become aware that that her daughter is interested in makeup. Little girls watch intensely as Mom puts on foundation and eyeshadow and lipstick. Almost every little girl winds playing makeover games on her own up with crayons and lipstick, or she sneaks her mother’s lipstick and comes out all proud, looking totally comical.

With the advent of the internet, little girls have a chance to think about all this at a much earlier age than they used to – in fact as soon as they can manage to get around online. While the boys are playing shot ‘em up games and war games, killing their adversaries or wiping them out, the girls can start practicing to be beautiful with online makeover games and try out makeover procedures! It is unclear whether boys and girls develop disparate interests at a very young age or whether society unconsciously brings this about by what they emphasize in their children. Probably it is a little bit of both. Little girls love Barbie dolls to dress up, or for, in one case I heard about, to make parachutes for them and throw them out the second story windows! But online games make trying on dressing up achievable.

Any little girl who wants to practice with colors and accoutrements to enhance her beauty and attractiveness can do so with makeover games online. These games are readily accessible and easy to manipulate for even very young girls. Most of the online beauty and makeover sites offer games which allow a girl to choose a look for herself and experiment with colors and styles. She can choose a basic style, such as a “country” casual look, or a dark and dusky look, sexy, or wholesome; some of the looks are specific for little girls of a Mexican families, or Chinese or Japanese or even East Indian or American Indian. With each of these basic facial types, a girl can try on eyes of various colors. They can have light blue eyes, green eyes – even lavender colored eyes. To the eyes they can add thick brows or thin pencil line brows, lush eyelashes (they all have this option), even sparkly lashes. The hair on the basic model that comes with each game can change her hair color and her hair style and can see for herself how a style enhances the basic face structure of the model. After all this, in most of these free makeover games a girl can add foundation makeup of various colors and types, then lipstick in light or dark or wild shades, rouge or not for the cheeks and on and on!

Most little girls who get tired of chores or homework in a flash can play online makeover games for hours! Now they have a chance to dress their models in different styles, add earrings, other jewelry, jackets, scarves and on and on. Changing a look fascinates them.

Personal appearance is as natural an interest for little girls and cars and trucks for boys. But there is a hidden benefit to these easy online games! Little girls who don’t see anything interesting in technology are so fascinated by all of this fun making over the models in the online makeover games that they are learning how to navigate the internet totally tearlessly, and this is a skill that will help them long after they lose interest in dressing up dolls.