The Sephora Teen Freakout
Culture Study Podcast
Anne Helen Petersen
4.6 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Sephora teens are teens who hang out at Sephora — and they’re a point of cultural anxiety because 1) they’re buying a lot of makeup and skincare products and 2) we have complex and contradictory feelings about when we should start caring about makeup and skincare products, even though absolutely everything in our culture tells young people they should’ve started caring about these things yesterday. Do Sephora Teens just want a public place to hang out without their parents? Didn’t we *also* play around with makeup at their age? But wait where are they getting all of this money? I I was so thrilled when Elise Hu — author of a whole book on the contemporary skin care industry and mother of three teen/tween girls — agreed to come on as co-host for this episode… and I can’t wait for your thoughts.
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| 1:14.5 | Okay. It is a phenomenon that's getting a lot of attention that started getting a lot of |
| 1:18.9 | attention at the end of 2023 around holiday season. When folks were noticing elementary aged |
| 1:26.1 | girls going to Sephora, using up all the just try |
| 1:30.1 | mes, and those are the little tester products, and then kind of running free without their |
| 1:35.6 | parents and having a lot of knowledge about the products in the stores. So they knew the brand names, |
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