The Sephora kids

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Tweens are shopping for trendy, expensive skincare products. Gen Z worries it’s “aging like milk.” Are today’s young people too afraid of looking old? Allure editor-in-chief Jessica Cruel and Vox correspondent Rebecca Jennings explain. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Generation Alpha is obsessed with skin care as explained by a member of Generation Alpha.
0:06.0	What's your skin care routine?
0:07.5	Walk me through everything that you do.
0:09.5	Oh boy.
0:10.5	Okay.
0:11.5	So I get up and I wash my face. I use two cleansers. I go in with moisturizer. I use like this
0:18.8	rose water spray from Trader Joe's. I go with another moisturizer and I go in with my like
0:24.3	SPF sunscreen. I use a toner which is probably like my favorite part of
0:29.4	skincare. It makes my skin like glowy and not so dry which is what I'm going for
0:33.9	Ellie and then I used like two different eye moisturizers L because sometimes my eye
0:39.7	bags can be bad in the morning.
0:41.2	Ellie is 14 going on to 40.
0:43.5	I just go in with this revived serum
0:46.2	really makes your face glowy.
0:47.4	She's glowy regardless.
0:48.6	But on today explained, kids have become fixated on skin care and a multi-billion dollar industry has found a new customer base.
0:57.0	Is this okay?
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