To the editor: I’m confused, as a result of your article on preteen “skinfluencers” says these children are displaying off their multi-hundred-dollar hauls of make-up and different merchandise on TikTok.
Do these youngsters have jobs? How do they pay for his or her costly hauls? Oh, that have to be their millennial dad and mom.
However all the pieces I hear about millennials is that they’ll’t afford houses and are struggling underneath crushing school debt. What am I lacking?
Plus, I’m certain these millennial mother or father enablers are nicely conscious that each era has had an unimaginable instance of what magnificence ought to be, and that has pushed them to unrealistic expectations, physique dysmorphia and melancholy. Why are they establishing their youngsters for that kind of future? What’s going to occur to those children’ psychological well being after they develop up and have actual pores and skin points?
Looks like two sturdy catalysts for low vanity, melancholy and psychological well being points are at play right here: social media and physique dysmorphia. We’ll be studying about that within the L.A. Instances in 5 or 10 years.
Kathi Weiner, Dana Level
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To the editor: I don’t perceive the brouhaha over preteens’ obsession with skin-care merchandise.
With at the moment’s unhappy statistics about isolation, melancholy and even suicide amongst youngsters, it doesn’t appear to be such a horrible concept for teenagers to exit to the mall with mates to check out magnificence merchandise. As a substitute of watching their telephones, ladies are socializing, interacting with adults and specializing in self-improvement.
And the way can anybody fault a “skinfluencer” for posting a video on “how you can behave politely in shops”? Millennials could ask why a 12-year-old wants a “pumpkin peel” — I’m unsure why a 35-year-old wants one.
Kendall Wolf, Encino
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To the editor: What? No point out of pimples throughout puberty?
It should have been a gradual information day. No matter occurred to “man bites canine” tales?
Oliver Seely, Lakewood
