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When she was in fifth grade, Scarlett Goddard Strahan started to worry about getting wrinkles.

By the time she turned 10, Scarlett and her friends were spending hours on TikTok and YouTube watching influencers tout products for achieving today’s beauty aesthetic: a dewy, “glowy,” flawless complexion. Scarlett developed an elaborate skin care routine with facial cleansers, mists, hydrating masks and moisturizers.

One night, Scarlett’s skin began to burn intensely and erupted in blisters. Heavy use of adult-strength products had wreaked havoc on her skin. Months later, patches of tiny bumps remain on Scarlett’s face, and her cheeks turn red in the sun.

“I didn’t want to get wrinkles and look old,” says Scarlett, who recently turned 11. “If I had known my life would be so affected by this, I never would have put these things on my face.”

The skin care obsession offers a window into the role social media plays in the lives of today’s youth and how it shapes the ideals and insecurities of girls in particular. Girls are experiencing high levels of sadness and hopelessness. Whether social media exposure causes or simply correlates with mental health problems is up for debate. But to older teens and young adults, it’s clear: Extended time on social media has been bad for them, period.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

By the time she turned 10, Scarlett and her friends were spending hours on TikTok and YouTube watching influencers tout products for achieving today’s beauty aesthetic: a dewy, “glowy,” flawless complexion. Scarlett developed an elaborate skin care routine with facial cleansers, mists, hydrating masks and moisturizers.

Failure of parenting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Using anti-aging products at a young age will have the opposite effect because of increased exposure to different irritants in various products. Whatever you use isn’t necessarily good for your skin, esp if it causes inflammation. But ime the best anti-aging is eating healthy and exercise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All you young people need to know you're gorgeous just as you are. You don't need products to make yourself beautiful, don't believe the advertising.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Nah, I was ugly as shit when I was young too

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The algorithm is working as intended.

Skin care was not on Mia’s radar until she started eighth grade last fall. It was a topic of conversation among girls her age — at school and on social media. Girls bonded over their skin care routines.

The beauty industry has been cashing in on the trend. Last year, consumers under age 14 drove 49% of drug store skin sales, according to a NielsonIQ report that found households with teens and tweens were outspending the average American household on skin care.

What the fucking fuck are parents doing? Encouraging this shit?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Scrolling their Insta rather than parenting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mean, yeah, it's awful, but why did they use a picture of some woman in her fourties as the article banner?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why would someone aged 10 or 11 ever think, even for one moment, that anti-aging products (any, whatsoever, at all!) are something they might need?!

"kids shouldn't be on the Internet" "we need to regulate social media" "we need to ban the sale of this or that to young people" blahblahblah - no, we apparently need to teach kids basic common sense, such as that if you aren't even fully grown yet, you definitely do not need anti-aging products

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Armchair judgement of children being children up in here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Anti-aging influencers like Peter Pan told them already long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course kids don't have basic common sense. It develops with experience and from the things we teach them. That's why you don't leave them on social media completely unsupervised. They learn stupid shit from influencers because they don't have any filters yet.

There is a reason kids don't have full rights. Don't judge them like they're adults. It's our responsibility to protect them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah at age 10 you'll believe anything people will put in your brain, it's crazy that the parents let that shit happen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Vanity doesnt have an age limit. Kids are the most impressionable members of society no matter how jaded they act. It is our adult duty to shepherd them as they learn and not condemn them for the experience or lack thereof

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

This worldwide obsession with anti-aging is a plague. It has to fucking stop. Everytime I hear someone calling women over 30 "old hags", I can't help the feeling that they're pedophiles. Just let girls age normally, for fuck's sake!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not social media that is the problem. It's capitalism. Social media is no different from the snake oil sales person, door to door sales people or Avon parties of the past. The problem is that kids aren't educated about how to deal with capitalistic greed that will do everything to convince you something is wrong with you in order to sell you the cure and are then allowed access to the Internet without that education. And the sales people don't face any consequences for marketing to children because they just pretend not to know and don't have to look them in the eye, so it's easier to be unethical without consequence.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Both things can be a problem simultaneously 🌈

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Wow, that tops the most dystopian headline… for the day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is why you patch test things, everyone's skin is unique

But she shouldn't be using them in the first place at that age

Also is it confirmed that I was a skincare product and not a coincidentally timed medical issue, because medical issues should be ruled out instead of going unnoticed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Patch testing likely wouldn't have made a difference, this is about extended use that probably broke down her skin's barrier over time.

When I had a baby and then got COVID, I started washing my hands more often, and really too often. Using the same gentle non scented antibacterial soap I had been for years, I turned my hands into a dry cracked and bleeding mess, and when I used the same gentle non scented oatmeal moisturizer I have used for years, I ended up with insane burning on the backs of my hands, and a bright red burn/rash. This was all in about a week.

I stopped using hot water to wash, and only used soap on my palms/fingers. I waited for my skin to repair itself. Now I continue to use that same soap and lotion with no problem. It was never the products that were the problem, it was over use.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I like crow's feet. I like smile wrinkles. I like gray hair. I like stretch marks.

Just because people say these are bad doesn't mean there aren't an abundance of people who like them

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