11:52 am - 04/08/2012
Venus Angelic, Dakota Rose And The Living-Doll Trend Sweeping The Internet
Teenage girl's mother praises her daughter's obsession with looking like 'living doll'
Top: Dakota Rose, Bottom: Venus Angeli
The mother of a teenage girl who posts shocking videos of herself posing as a 'living doll' has defended her daughter's lifestyle.
Margaret Palermo claims 15-year-old Venus is an 'innocent and good girl who likes frills and ribbons'.
Venus, known online as Venus Angelic, became an internet sensation after her online tutorials, in which she gives tips on how to achieve the bizarre look, received thousands on hits.
Venus appeared on ITV show Daybreak with her mother, where presenter Helen Fospero admitted she would be 'horrified' if her own daughter wanted to dress like a doll, branding it 'not normal'.
Margaret, from London, responded: 'I would be horrified if she came home pregnant, I am not horrified if she is innocent and good girl who likes cute clothes and frills and ribbons.'
'I am absolutely fine with that, her face is already doll-like and if she likes the style I am fine with it, I would be more worried if she came home drunk or smoked.'
Inspired by the craze for Japanese anime, Venus set about changing her look to that of a porcelain doll after a trip to the country.
Venus said:'I was always like this, i liked to dress in frilly dresses and tie my hair in pigtails, then I discovered how and what I really want to be as a teenager.
'A lot of people like the look and I want to help them achieve it.'
Venus, who dresses as a doll every day, explained she takes only 15 minutes to achieve the look using powder, light pink eyeshadow, mascara, lip liner and gloss.
She has 78 videos on her official YouTube page - including makeup tutorials and nail art. Her Facebook page boasts over 13,000 fans.
One of her top tips is to use contact lenses with a full, opaque color to make your eyes look doll-like.
Another Internet sensation is Dakota Rose, known to her fans as Kota Koti, who has amassed an online following of over 50,000 on YouTube with over 13 million video views. In most of her hair and beauty tutorials, where Dakota Rose teaches viewers how to mimic her doe-eyed, bow-lipped style, the young girl remains silent as subtitles provide a step-by-step guide for viewers.
16-year-old Dakota Rose, who goes by the name of KotaKoti in Asia and DakotaKoti in the West, is enthralling her Japanese fans with pictures on her blog showing her remarkable resemblance to a living doll.
But she also has a large and particularly malicious group of online adversaries, who have dedicated much time on the Kota-Koti Tumblr to pick apart the young girl's physical appearance. "At first I saw in a second that her lower eyelid became darker for 1 second in her last video (the beginning of the outfits video when she shows her face), that made me think that she may be Photoshopping her whole video's frame for frame," wrote Tumblr user prettyuglylittleliar who claimed Rose Photoshops her portaits.
It turns out that Dakota Rose is the younger sister of another Internet model gone glam, Kiki Kannibal, who has had some very disturbing incidents happen to her after posting her own living doll videos several years back.
While the living doll-look is going global, in Asia it has been a long-running trend.
As early as 2010 it was reported that an increasing amount of Japanese women were aspiring to look like dolls, embracing femininity and obliterating sexuality altogether.
Experts however have expressed their concern the trend could encourage the sexualisation of children
Dr Gray, clinical director at The British CBT & Counselling Service (www.thebritishcbtcounsellingservice.co.u
He told MailOnline: 'At any age placing too much value on physical appearance can be potentially detrimental to a person’s self esteem and sense of self worth.
'Equally concerning is why these images have been created and for what purpose.
'Distorting or enhancing pictures of children so that they appear older and more sexual surely crosses the line between how we should treat the children in our society and how we should not.'
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The fact that Dakota Rose is actually 18 and racist and homophobic, so ew. Also dressing cutesy doesn't mean that you're inherently sexual and blame shouldn't be placed on them.
