A group of fifteen-year-old girls gathered in Mexico City this past weekend to celebrate life and love and lackluster demonstrations of gross materialism. Just kidding! A mass quinces sounds super fun: Dressed in colorful gowns and with hair coiffed...

We never had a quinces because we hated our friends and never considered ourselves part of any social circle worth coming out to, but we’ve gone to enough of them to wonder what the hell, exactly, is the point...

The Huffington Post asks whether beauty salons for young girls are a good idea. To which we reply “Little girls, in general, are a bad idea.” But what about when salons can teach girls about other cultures? Cultures like...

As any girl who has ever turned fifteen can surely attest, teen girls and WWE wrestlers aren’t quite so different. Luckily, World Wrestling Entertainment is joining forces with Mun2 to give one special quinceañera a wrestling-themed party. Because sometimes...

A new site aimed at helping young girls and their families plan their quinces has slipped onto the internet riding a white elephant with a feather headdress while “Isn’t She Lovely?” blasts over the speakers of the Pretty Princess...

Author Rosie Molinary wants to remind you that Latinas can be just as shallow and materialistic as any other obnoxious teen girl. In her recent book, Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image and Growing Up Latina, the South Carolina native...

Proving once again that Latino culture is best presented as an extravagant trainwreck, J. Lo is bankrolling a reality series about a quintet of Miami teens who operate a business that exclusively plans quinceañeras. “The Amigas Sweet 15 Club”...

In the wake of K-Mart trying their damndest to appease minority mothers and brats by selling ethnic dolls with “diverse” facial features, another company has come up with an even more novel way to cash in on brown pride—Quinceañera...

New York Daily News reporter and self-professed veteran of “old feminist and minority-empowering wars”, Dolores Prida has picked up on one of our favorite trends—the Super Sweet Quinceañera—from a book called Once Upon A Quinceañera-Coming Of Age In The...

As if My Super Sweet 16 hadn’t already exposed its extravagant underbelly, our favorite rite of passage for young Latina girls has hit a new high. (Or is it a low?) The rich parents of quinceañeras are increasingly being...

We are pretty much obsessed with quinceañeras around here so we were thrilled when one of our readers sent us a link to Quincegirl.com, a social networking site for young girls planning their quinceañeras from the makers of Quince...

A recent request that we dance at the upcoming quinceañera of a young, Floridian girl who goes by the name of Pepzi got us wondering about the current dance trends at quinceañeras. After all, for some of us, it’s...

Member how we wrote that post about that crazy, little beast, Aurelia Reyes, who had her quinceañera on “My Sweet 16?” And we were all, “we’d slap her teeth out,” and “she’s the best birth control we’ve ever seen...

It’s summer and the TV shows suck. Let’s talk about ‘em. Meet Audrey Reyes. The little, Cuban princess whose teeth we would slap out of her head if she were our daughter. (Oh—did we type that out loud?) Audrey’s crying...

When you come across the sourceless factoid that 332,134 Hispanic couples will wed by the end of this year, you can’t help but ask, “Who gives a shit, and why does it matter?” Thanks to our never-ending quest to...