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.
