Brooklyn Parents Think Their Kids are Ugly and Call in the Professionals For Help!

According to the Daily News' Veronika Belenkaya and Tracy Connor, a new spa which caters to kids (Dimples Kids Spa - isn't that cute?) has opened in Brooklyn Heights.

Here's a highlight of some of the services Brooklyn brats can demand: an "Evening Style" hairdo for $25, a "Baby Manicure-Pedicure" for $10, "Make-up" for $5, "Tattoos" for $3, and a choice of three different facials ranging from $15 to $20. Oh yeah, Dimples also offers "Whole Head Braiding" for $45. I'm willing to bet the farm that the few remaining African American families living in Brooklyn Heights won't be selling out and doing their hair braiding at Dimples.

Is it now safe to say that Brooklyn has morphed into a whole new level of gentrification hell? THIS is what they're talking about when everybody waxes on and on about what a great place to raise a family Brooklyn is?

We're all for entrepeneurs and supporting local businesses, but we'd like to see Brooklynites come to their senses and plot the downfall of this one. Well, they might not actually have to plot at all... Dimples may just collapse all on its own. Didn't the owner, Daria Einhorn, hear about the implosion of the worldwide economy? I'd like to think that even the Bugaboo pushing, mommy-and-me yoga participating parents of Brooklyn Heights have some limit to what they're willing to spend their money on.

And what about the employees of Dimples? I wouldn't be surprised if one of them ends up jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge when they realize the horrible level to which their cosmetology career has sunk.

This shit would never fly in the Bronx... I do my kid's evening up-do hairstyling, facials, and tattoo application MYSELF. After all, the it's important to teach babies that appearance is everything at a young age right? Right.

Big ups to "Tired of Being Broke" for sending us the tip.

*Photo of creepy pagent kid courtesy of http://www.universalroyalty.com/regan.JPG*

~ErLu

The Brooklyn Mark-Up Reaches New Heights

After the New York Times feature on BoogieDowner came out, we received a few emails from friends of ours who live in our former borough who said, "Please, take it easy on Brooklyn."

And you know what? We will take it easy on Brooklyn... Right after this post about $11 frozen yogurt on Court Street. (The beauty of the world wide inter-web allows me to have my fingers crossed behind my back right now without anybody knowing...)

A Daily News article by Veronika Belenkaya states that a fro-yo shop in Brooklyn Heights, Yofiore, is charging their customers $11.87 for a large frozen yogurt with toppings. One of the toppings is actually Tiffany solitaire diamonds... psych! Gotcha, right?

Seriously, this is disgraceful.

When asked for comment on the issue, one resident said, "This is downtown Brooklyn. Whatever flies in Manhattan flies here." That's the problem a-holes - it shouldn't "fly there" because you don't live in Manhattan. You live in Brooklyn... You know, the place where a naked dude just got tasered by the NYPD and fell to his death and hipsters are getting attacked by machetes? Now tell me again, why is the Bronx so scary?

So why the exorbitant price tag for something as simple as frozen yogurt? The shop's owner seems to have gotten caught up in the media-generated real estate frenzy in Brooklyn and pays somewhere around $14,000 for his 600 square foot space. Anybody else a little concerned about the inevitable bad outcome from these grossly over-inflated property values in Brooklyn and the countless numbers of new construction Fedders buildings that are littering the borough?

*Photo courtesy of Rosier for Daily News*

~ErLu