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Tween girls are grabbing the attention of social media right now. Their crime? Take the appearance of your skin seriously.
The old-timers’ complaint is that today’s kids are already using flashy products on their perfect, line-free faces. Alpha generation girls Holding a comically large Stanley Cup So they always stay well hydrated, shop at Sephora, have seemingly unlimited skin care budgets, and stock up on all the best products.
I used to worry about my kids using drugs, but now I’m worried about the active drugs in moisturizers. It certainly seems like he can step up.
But video after video has been circulating online and throughout the Today show criticizing them for things like using anti-wrinkle creams when they don’t actually have wrinkles.
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Are some of these girls using unnecessary or even harmful products? Maybe. But do they deserve the barrage of disgusting videos made about them in retaliation for being misunderstood? no.
The video also targets these young women as entitled and disrespectful. That’s another issue. Of course, it’s not OK to make a huge list of things your tween requests for Christmas. Of course, disrespectful behavior towards Sephora employees should not be tolerated.
But as someone who spends a fair amount of time with Alpha generation, I have yet to see much of this behavior. The group I know are mostly calm and confident in their flawless skin.
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Of course, social media also plays a role. These girls are influenced by the older set. They are “get ready with me” (there are so many abbreviations, these videos are called “GRWM”) where an older, cool girl applies various serums and potions to her already gorgeous face. I saw the clip.
The younger set copied the look and medium. Her 11-year-old children are now making videos showcasing their “skincare routines,” applying more than a dozen different products to their skin without causing any damage that needs fixing.
But so what? It’s not that previous generations of teenage girls didn’t have good skin care habits. It was. It’s just that our skin care habits were really bad.
We scrubbed our faces with street gravel, or St. Ives Apricot Scrub, followed by Oxy Cleansing Pads. This pad felt like applying rubbing alcohol directly to an open wound. We thought we were battling adolescent acne, but a look through old yearbooks reveals that the battle was all in vain.
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Our makeup was equally chaotic. Those of us who were teenagers in the ’90s would pluck out all our eyebrows and draw a thin line where they used to be. We are all trying to grow them again today. The lip color at this time is dark brown lip liner and light brown lipstick. We applied orange self-tanner or, worst of all, lay in tanning beds after school.
It didn’t look good. It didn’t look good.
In contrast, today’s teens and teenage girls look fresh, bright, and healthy. They don’t rub their faces not even an inch aware of its presence. They read the ingredients of the product. Those who are doing things “wrong” are learning and modifying their routines.
They’re motivated to take care of their faces so they don’t become scrubbed, rashy, pointy-browed monsters. Give them a break.
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When asked to defend the fact that she has one, a Generation Alpha teenage girl who lives in my house said, [very basic] Skincare routine: “I have skin too.”
I don’t wear too much makeup either. Less is more, the “clean girl aesthetic” with glassy skin and glossy lips is still all the rage.
One of the weird things this generation does is use too much highlighter. They’ll look back and wonder why they thought looking greasy was a good look.
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But it’s been a rite of passage for teenagers throughout history. Why did you do that to your hair? why am i wearing that? Where did my eyebrows go?
This generation is already well put together and not too awkward. Let them have this. Let them make mistakes and give them the freedom to experiment with skincare and makeup styles. And of course, rent their products.
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