“Beauty Knows No Pain” documents a group of young female fans – ages four to eleven – of the teen pop star Hannah Montana. At last year’s Hannah Montana concert in Houston, Texas, I stopped a number of the families and asked if their daughters would be willing to pose for studio portraits wearing their concert outfits. A group of the parents agreed, and through them I met additional Hannah Montana fans, who also wanted to participate. These portraits make up the central part of my new photographic series. The images demonstrate how current trends in beauty and celebrity culture influence the ways in which even very young children fashion their identities. Many of the girls are customers of shopping mall salons such as Libby Lu, which offer pop-star look-alike packages, complete with a team of hair-stylists and cosmetic artists to give young fans makeovers, and which sell a range of Hannah Montana-brand items, including wigs, clothing, make-up, and accessories. These portraits explore the ways in which young girls appropriate a prefabricated media image of femininity, interpret it, and give it their own meaning.