Beauty and the Young... The pressure of Society

Last month when I headed off to the Midlands Blogger Meet up in Birmingham, a few of us got chatting about blogging and the general blogasphere. It all started because a couple of people said that in their Mid to late 20's they feel quite old in the blogging market.
Now I, like I think most people do, read a lot of blogs written by people my age but on occasions I have come across other blogs, some by bloggers who are a lot younger. Obviously blogging has grown quite a lot over recent years and now there are people of all ages doing it. We got to chatting about age and bloggers and in particular the younger bloggers out there. Now when I say younger bloggers I am talking those in the range of about 13-16.

We all agreed that although obviously there is market for younger bloggers out there, some of the blogs you come across are, for one to a better word, absolutely ridiculous. Sure we all like to do little bits on products we love or have brought, but as a mid 20 something blogger (and I wasn't alone in this) who sees high end products as a luxury, it is absolutely shocking to come across bloggers at the age of 13 or 14 flashing Mac... YSL.. Chanel.
We all said, cast your mind back to that age, I felt the highlight of my beauty days was when I got to buy something from Natural Collection, Collection 2000 or No. 17 (or Seventeen as it is now).

So what happened. Its only *cough* 10 *cough* years ago since high street brands were the norm for teens. I mean as a teen you go to town with your friends, raid the counters of Boots or Superdrugs with your pocket money and come away feeling like you have had a real treat. So what happened? When did it become acceptable for the young girls of today to be thinking the norm is to go out and spend £50 at the Mac counter. Man you could but one of everything from the MUA stand for that!!!

There is such a lot of pressure on the girls of today. They have to have the best clothes, the latest fashions, the most up to date hair, phone, shoes... who is to blame though? Is it just how the world is evolving or it is the magazines, the media, the way that girls can spend hours online reading about fashions, make up trends...

Whats your opinion on this?? Do you think that it is just the way youth of today is growing up too fast or is it the media pressuring young girls into what they think they need...