Subscribe to Mstars News!
Sign up for our weekly news updates by entering your email:
With all the hype around One Direction documentary 3D movie, This Is Us, coming out and the release of their new single and music video "Best Song Ever," you might have forgotten about the announcement of the group's makeup line. Called the "Little Things Collection," One Direction is set to release a line of cosmetics for their fans this summer and one psychologist thinks it will have a negative effect on young girls. With Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson and Liam Payne lending their names to cosmetic products, do you think the band is over-sexualizing their fans?
"This is much like when Primark and M&S released the bra for six-year-olds," educational psychologist Teresa Bliss argued in regards to the "Little Things" makeup line that will be coming out this summer.
"One Direction's make-up line jumps on the bandwagon of over-sexualizing our children for a money spin," she continued. "Children will always want to be a bit rebellious and they will always want to play grown-up. But having one of the most famous boy bands in the world peddle a make-up line is just an appalling way of tapping in on that naivety. This is a far cry from young girls diving into the dressing-up box and trying on their mother's lipstick."
Bliss, a mother of three added: "Many, many young girls dream of being Harry's girlfriend so to use that as a marketing tool is frankly upsetting. It is a shameless and cynical marketing plug which will encourage girls as young as eight to wear make-up, which is outrageous."
Do you agree with Bliss' argument?
Simon Cowell (the man behind getting the band together) recently talked about the boys of One Direction on "Chelsea Lately." The "X-Factor" judge explained why he formed the group:
"I liked them all individually, but for whatever reason, nerves or whatever, they didn't make it through to the next round. But I liked these boys and I thought you know what, let's give them another shot. They'd never met each other before, they had 10 days to do the next performance and when I saw them 10 days later, they were amazing. But with these five, you can't tell them what to do. They just do whatever they want. They make all their own decisions."
