#sephora kids

[ihaventleftmyroomintwoweeks]

Opinion: we need to stop making fun of sephora kids and instead acknowledge that literal nine-year-old kids are learning at such a young age that they already have to preserve their youth and fight signs of 'early aging' while not even being a TEENAGER. like that’s genuinely insane to me. at that age, the only skincare they should be using is water and sunscreen. the real problem here is that literal children are so terrified of aging that they have full-blown sobbing fits when you deny them a 100-dollar-drunk elephant retinol.

[tekra-brings-the-rain]

Sephora kids are caused by three things (yes I do understand there is nuance):

Lack of space for preteens (and really anybody) to be in because of society’s war on teenagers/spaces being invaded by creeps

Parents forgetting that children are not decoration they can stick in front of an iPad and give an allowance to then leaving alone (and also not teaching them at all about how to interact kindly with employees)

Everything preying on the insecurities of young kids (especially girls) making them want this stuff in the first place

Searching up videos of them getting yelled at and talking about how annoying they are (while cathartic for many) is not going to solve anything. What will help solve things is creating safe third spaces (online and offline) for preteens, making sure parents actually parent, and dismantling the capitalistic system that is pushing on people’s insecurity about their appearance to the point where literal children have anti-aging skincare routines.

[gdragonsideburns]

People on tiktok complaining "sephora kid this sephora kid that" ITS BECAUSE 10 YR OLDS DONT HAVE ANYWHERE SAFE TO PLAY !!! THEY ARE ACTING LIKE THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE EXPECTED TO BE ADULTS WHEN THEY ARE TEN !! SOCIAL MEDIA MEANS THEY HAVE TO BE ON ALL THE FUCKING TIME !!

Of course they're fucking annoying and acting like assholes they are TEN. they're supposed to be learning these social skills with each other out in the fucking woods not in the fake mall ecosystem where drawing with a stick in the dirt turns into destroying hundreds of pounds in makeup products.

IF YOU WANT THIS TO STOP ADVOCATE FOR CHILDRENS SPACES !! ADVOCATE FOR (SAFE) TEEN SPACES !! INVEST IN YOUR LOCAL SKATE PARK GIVE THEM SKMETHING "COOL" TO DO THAT ISNT FUCKING MEDIA POSTING AND CONSUMING !!

FUCK !!!

[chelledoggo]

i'm so fucking mad

[stephaniesblogxx]

if a victorian child ever saw a sephora kid they’d have an aneurysm

[so-what-then]

We talk ad nauseam about the adultification of kids spaces but not at all about the infantilization of adult spaces. (Unless you're a rightwinger talking about Woke campuses).

Nobody finds it odd that adults are now the primary audience of children's shows? Nobody thinks its weird that its grown women reading YA?? No one thinks the Disney Adults phenomena is insane???

Why? Its just as problematic as Sephora Kids or kiddie influencers. Idgi doesn't it strike anyone as odd that all of this is happening at the same time? They are two sides of the same coin.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

everyone's freaking out about sephora 10 year olds but I feel like "rich kids are asswipes" isn't exactly shocking

[sentiemental]

Okay but like I’m so sick to death of people being confused why kids these days are “growing up so fast” and the whole Sephora kids thing as if internet culture hasn’t been nothing but hostile towards children for so long. Like of course the kids feel pressured into growing up fast, because as far as they’re aware being a kid is “cringest” thing you can be!!!!!

[tomator0t]

why are we hating on 10 year old “sephora girls” as if we didn’t just spend the last 10 years popularizing beauty gurus and advertising anti-wrinkle creams to children as a “preventative” measure . like WE invented no-pout drinking straws . we put our drunk elephant in cute colourful packaging . we decided to run claires and justice into the ground and force babies to immediately start cosplaying young women . we took away the safe space to be a child and now we’re making fun of ten year olds on the internet for just trying to find a space with the older kids.

[frankensteinsfairy]

Is "FORTY" the new "FAT"?: The Sephora Kids are Heroin Chic's Dark Shadow

[teagosworld]

I refuse to engage with any of this “Sephora kids” discourse beyond asking WHY ARE YOU FILMING CHILDREN YOU DONT KNOW AND POSTING IT TO THE INTERNET??

That is weirdo behavior!!! Not to mention putting these kids privacy at risk!!

Get a fucking journal, call your friend to complain about it.

Btw, the Venn diagram of people filming the Sephora kids and the people who constantly complain about “gen z filming strangers” is a circle

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Cus why are 10-11 year olds storming into Sephora and Ulta for drunk elephant and making “skincare smoothies” which Drunk Elephant described as this

Now, Imma just say this, but letting 10-11-year-olds mix products and then apply it to their face is probably not a good idea. There’s a reason many skincare products say to rinse your face afterward. Also, I doubt a tween in elementary school would know what their skin needs if its not said on tiktok. Moving on, the Sephora kids are also making a mess of the testers and just generally being barbaric and disrespectful to the employees and other customers in Sephora and Ulta.

These videos go into detail way more than I ever could:

Honestly, if the 10-12-year-olds are going to like animals and destroy everything they touch every time there’s a new skincare trend, then I am 100% in support of an age limit in Sephora and Ulta( I would suggest ages 16+ for alone shopping, and anyone under that has to be supervised by an adult).

I'm 18, a young adult, a technical teenager(and that only lasts for one more year. I'm turning 19 in exactly one month from today), and I'm scared to be living in a world where those tweens are gonna grow up to be teens and adults that I have to deal with in the workplace and daily life. The worst part is that they're going to act this way the next time there's a skincare trend(which is basically every other month).

[yamirexic]

kids out now!!!

frustrated with gen alpha and kids?

annoyed by the stupid sephora kids that ruin samples and act like spoiled brats?

love raw underground music?

then I guess "kids" is the right song for you

[chelledoggo]

this "sephora kids" trend is so fucking upsetting

yknow what an 8-year-old kid's "daily skincare routine" should be?

soap

water

don't fucking have kids if you're going to expose them to society's bullshit beauty standards at an early age

[m4rs-ex3]

the sephora-10-year-old-skincare-smoothie thing is so funny to me because like

remember when you were a kid and you would take a bunch of shit from outside and throw them in a bucket together... or mix everything in the shower together... or were a kid and

[yelenabemylova]

the kids of today will never have the experience of making "potions" by putting dirt and stuff into puddles because they're too focused on stanleys and sephora