Tales from the pageant world

[MoonCat]

Dragons who give their kids botox injections. ><

OP is going to have some good stories. I can tell.

I agree, what a spazz that woman was.

I heard the woman who gave her kid the botox also gave her A BIKINI WAX! On an EIGHT YEAR OLD! Wtf?

[MadMike]

SC-why is it so much, it can't be that hard to sew it together and glue some stones on?

If she thinks it's so damn easy, why didn't she do it her damn self?

Good job blocking that pain in the ass. I probably would have told her, "I could get it done a lot faster if you'd step messaging me every 2 seconds!"

[pageantmama]

With 3000 (even if its exaggerated) individually attached stones? WAY too cheap!

Nope, not exaggerated. A gross of stones is 144, and a high glitz dress will have anywhere from 10 to 20 gross according to the size. Of course bigger sizes have to have more stones to cover more material. And yes, I do not charge a lot since I am just starting and trying to get my name out there. Since I am not a "name" designer then most hardcore moms are not going to order from me, they would rather get the same quality product from a "name" and spend thousands. But then when a dress I made wins best dressed, as they have on several occasions, the moms ask the name of the designer and I get orders And they are mostly shocked at how low my prices are. And that is why I can't stand the newbie moms trying to talk me down. I also make them just to sell, not custom just my own design in whatever size I feel like making. I will list a price and then of course moms will try and make offers. I have had moms say Oh I will give you 50 for it, we are just starting out and I don't want to spend a lot. Sorry but I spent twice that on the stones alone because they are all swarovski stones I have to admit, the stoning is a stress reliever for me and I just zone out and stare at the shinys as I glue them one by one, lol.

Dragons who give their kids botox injections. ><

OP is going to have some good stories. I can tell.

Yes, I have stories aplenty, both from customers and from being a pageant mom and witnessing it first hand. And that botox mom is the kind that give us a bad name. Not all of us dress our kids like truck stop hookers and force them to do provocative dances while having a fake tan, fake hair, fake teeth and more makeup then Tammy Faye. I admit, we have done a couple of glitz and my daughter was in heaven as much as a princess as she is, but I could not handle being around the mothers. Especially seeing them jerk their kid off stage and yell at them for not being good enough. I have seen a 2 year old do what I thought was a perfect beauty routine and then her mom jerk her by her shoulder and yell at her that she did horrible and she has been trained better then that. At the time my 2 year old red head was well, a stubborn 2 year old with a red head attitude and I was happy if she didn't just run circles on stage and stand on her head. I would have fainted if she would have done as good as this girl and her mom acted like she stood on stage and picked her nose the whole time. And it seemed no other mother but me was shocked at her behavior

[depechemodefan]

I heard the woman who gave her kid the botox also gave her A BIKINI WAX! On an EIGHT YEAR OLD! Wtf?

I have no kids so I imagine an 8 year old has nothing to wax, right? Then again, I've read that with all the hormons injected into cows, the hormons affect girls and make them menstrate like by age 9...but still, poor kid!

I'm kind of use as a librarian seeing moms being fucking nuts. Hello nutty mom #283, you are doing all the work for your kid, who looks at me with a blank look on her 14 year-old face. How hard is the kid thinking if she doesn't know what her topic is and your telling me it's my job to give a topic for your kid?

*must think of cute kitties, they take me to happy place*

[XCashier]

I have no kids so I imagine an 8 year old has nothing to wax, right?

No body hair, no wrinkles. That mother is insane (there's already a discussion about her on Fratching). She could cause her kid to have painful ingrown hairs or skin rash with that waxing. And who knows what damage long-term botox use may cause? Yes, I know you want your daughters to learn good grooming skills, but I would think an eight-year-old would need nothing more than a (very light) moisturizer, if even that much.

Granted, my only child is a boy, and I wasn't much of a girly girl, so I'm not exactly an expert on these matters, so YMMV.

[LillFilly]

Wow, yes, crazy lady indeed! Glad you blocked her and her friends, and were able to get your money back on the materials. Looking forward to some crazy stories

[PepperElf]

I always wondered what it must be like for the people that make pageant dresses, I guess it's right up there in dealing with psycho sucky customers!

Welcome to customers suck!

Pageant parents!

[Nyoibo]

If you haven't seen those shows with pageant mothers, you ought to. Those women are not even human. They are like, dragons parading in human form.

Firstly, no fair to the dragons.

gave her A BIKINI WAX! On an EIGHT YEAR OLD! Wtf?

What exactly does one wax on an 8 year old?


275 for a dress with 3000 stones? either everything is crazy cheap over there or you're really shorting yourself, or both, I'm pretty sure 3000 stone on their own would cost more than that here.

[Mikkel]

What exactly does one wax on an 8 year old?

Skin, I suppose.

275 for a dress with 3000 stones? either everything is crazy cheap over there or you're really shorting yourself, or both, I'm pretty sure 3000 stone on their own would cost more than that here.

made a breakdown of materials for her showing I am making less then a hundred dollars for my time

Shorting herself, probably, but not working for free. It could be called advertising.
I think that if people say you are the cheapest, it's time to jack the prices up a little.

[fireheart]

What exactly does one wax on an 8 year old?

Even though an 8-year-old wouldn't have any VISIBLE body hair to speak of per se, children do have "vellus" hair, which is more commonly known as peach fuzz. Apparaently the peach fuzz isn't good enough for some stage dragonspageant mums.

But I'd imagine that the peach fuzz would not do well with the wax....I feel sorry for the 8-year-old who had to go through THAT.

[iradney]

Ok, guys. Quite a few posts in this thread have already skirted the fratching line. Let's keep it to the incredibly sucky customer, and less about the crazy stuff pageant moms do, k? There's already a thread in Fratching about it (as so nicely pointed out by XCashier). I really don't want to have to close this thread, but if I have to, I will.

[spark]

Hey, a seamstress with customers even more nutty than mine! You couldn't pay me to do dresses.

(On the pageant subject, I did a few as a teenager. They can be a lot of fun if you don't take them seriously. But if/when I have a daughter, it would be entirely up to her if she does them or not. I honestly had a mixed experience, a lot of things about it were good, but failing to win repeatedly is really hard on the self-esteem. I'll leave the subject of mothers alone entirely. )

[KingOfAllSocks]

Wow. I guess one of the perks of being your own boss is that you don't have to put up with this rubbish. Great story. Almost as good, in fact as this story, along a similar vein, except involving a CS member who made a wedding cake for someone who wasn't even paying her for it.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Okay. Second, and last warning. (offending post above has been deleted.)