I love that Lego is trying to appeal to more girls with their new line of girl Legos: Lego Friends. They have a pretty decent-sized variety out already of Lego Friends sets. We started with this one and the details are very cute. The instructions are pretty easy to decipher, but a younger child will have difficulty putting it together on their own. If the child does not have experience putting together Lego sets with directions, I would plan on needing to assist them. The downfall with Lego sets now-a-days is that there isn't a lot of room left for creativity. A lot of the pieces are molded and designed so that they easily complete the set, but don't have a lot of functionality outside of the original design. In order for the beauty shop to be successfully put together, you need to follow the directions and put it together as instructed. Girls could use the pieces to attempt to be more creative and build something on their own, however they may get frustrated by the lack of basic building blocks. The pieces are specially designed to be fairly easy to complete the set, but there aren't a lot of the basic building blocks in the set to really expand on the original idea. There also isn't as much to do with the beauty shop as one would hope. Once you get it all put together, it becomes a pretty tight shop without much room for the Lego people to really move around and "play". Overall, I think Lego has a great concept here, but they may want to brainstorm ideas for how to allow for more creativity in their sets.