To the editor: I’m confused, as a result of your article on preteen “skinfluencers” says these youngsters are displaying off their multi-hundred-dollar hauls of make-up and different merchandise on TikTok.
Do these kids have jobs? How do they pay for his or her costly hauls? Oh, that have to be their millennial mother and father.
However all the things I hear about millennials is that they will’t afford houses and are struggling below crushing faculty debt. What am I lacking?
Plus, I’m positive these millennial dad or mum enablers are properly conscious that each technology has had an inconceivable instance of what magnificence ought to be, and that has pushed them to unrealistic expectations, physique dysmorphia and melancholy. Why are they organising their kids for that sort of future? What’s going to occur to those youngsters’ psychological well being after they develop up and have actual pores and skin points?
Looks as if two robust catalysts for low shallowness, 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. Occasions 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 right this moment’s unhappy statistics about isolation, melancholy and even suicide amongst kids, it doesn’t appear to be such a horrible thought for teenagers to exit to the mall with pals to check out magnificence merchandise. As an alternative of gazing 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 “ behave politely in shops”? Millennials might 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 will need to have been a sluggish information day. No matter occurred to “man bites canine” tales?
Oliver Seely, Lakewood