A big sister's nailpolish and eyeshadow. Mom's high heels. Rites of passage--and good fun--for many young girls.
But these days, girls are digging deep into their piggybanks and hitting the malls. Glitter products, pedicures, mini-makeovers.
These tweens, as they're called, are now spending $51 billion of their own pocket money. And marketers, sponsoring birthday parties and sleepovers, are eager to know what a girl wants -- at age 10 and 8, even as young as 6.
This hour, On Point: When little girls become beauty consumers, and how young is too young.
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Camille Sweeney, contributor to The New York Times, her article "Never Too Young for That First Pedicure" appeared on February 28
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Samantha Skey, senior vice president of strategic marketing at Alloy Media and Marketing in New York
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Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, professor of child development and education at Columbia University, and director of the National Center for Children and Families
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Joan Jacobs Brumberg, professor emerita at Cornell University and author of "The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls"
Democratic insider Ted Van Dyk looks back on 40 years of wheeling and dealing in his new book "Heroes, Hacks and Fools."
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Ted Van Dyk, former political advisor to Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, and Paul Tsongas, and author of "Heroes, Hacks and Fools: Memoirs From the Political Inside"
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Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly
