Facial masks on kids? Isn't this going too far?

[AFWQ]

Shay Mitchell, actress who was part of Pretty Little Liars, has became a business woman. Being one her brand Béis - who creates purses and backpages with different ways to store things inside it - and Rinni, which is a brand of face masks for kids.


(Source: instagram)

I created this thread because I would like to hear people's opinion on it and debate it a bit.

Has skin care became a need, which also affects younger generations or is this just another marketing tactic to sell products to kids?

 

[justpassingthrough]

Absolutely disgusting.

 

[KoV]

I clicked on this thread thinking it was going to be some kind of 5 years late diatribe about kids wearing masks during covid 😭


But yeah, I completely agree that this is a harmful thing for society for a couple of reasons. To answer your question, it's not a need.

 

[tigerrouge]

What I found more offensive - decades ago - were the dolls for child's play (Tiny Tears) that wet themselves, so that young girls could start being coached, from their earliest years, for their future roles in domestic servitude.

Children pampering themselves needlessly with face masks might be turning them into tiny cogs in the machine of commercialism, but it might be preferable to indoctrination into a life of existing to clean up other people's piss.

 

[Creative]

Who cares. If a child is gonna “wear” one of those it’s not because it will be her/his decision, there will be a crazy adult behind it. Those crazy adults that buy Chanel bags for their kids, make up, treat their dogs like if they were humans and what’s worse, they think having a pet is some kind of social benevolence when it’s actually one of the most absurd things a human can do…

So yeah, humans are absurd and this is just one little proof of it. Not crazier than many others that we take as normal now if you ask me.

 

[Avonlea]

What a great time to be alive. Adults are getting more and more infantile while children are being allowed to do things that they shouldn't even think about. Maybe parents should start doing their job and stop trying to be buddies and besties of their kids.

 

[MulletProof]

^ it 100% comes down to the parents.. this isn't the first or last beauty/skincare product that directly targets kids and that kids absolutely do not need. It's bad that a celebrity is behind it but then, they'll take all kinds of questionable gigs for money when they need to maintain the Hollywood lifestyle and they don't have exciting careers.

I have to say, I don't recall seeing so many kids at Sephora as in post-2020. They're a nightmare. I wanted to try the Rhode blush the other day just to see if it lived up to the hype (btw, it does, it's great 🙊) and failed on the first try because it was sold out due to kids with their moms CAMPING outside the store and buying it all up. The second time weeks later, once they had restocked, I had to just squeeze my arm through a group of girls that looked around 10 to grab it. The GRWM culture is wild, it's everywhere and I know my two nieces have been into makeup and talking like youtubers since they were like 9 😵‍💫.. but.. yeah, these are the same parents that raised them on ipads.

 

[AFWQ]

Adults are getting more and more infantile while children are being allowed to do things that they shouldn't even think about.

Very interesting way of thought. It made thought of this... how children role has shifted in history.


And, when came to dressing up as mini adults, change only actually happen in late 18th century/early 19th century.

 

[AFWQ]

I clicked on this thread thinking it was going to be some kind of 5 years late diatribe about kids wearing masks during covid 😭

Sorry for disappointment 😞 🤣

 

[AFWQ]

^ it 100% comes down to the parents.. this isn't the first or last beauty/skincare product that directly targets kids and that kids absolutely do not need. It's bad that a celebrity is behind it but then, they'll take all kinds of questionable gigs for money when they need to maintain the Hollywood lifestyle and they don't have exciting careers.

I have to say, I don't recall seeing so many kids at Sephora as in post-2020. They're a nightmare. I wanted to try the Rhode blush the other day just to see if it lived up to the hype (btw, it does, it's great 🙊) and failed on the first try because it was sold out due to kids with their moms CAMPING outside the store and buying it all up. The second time weeks later, once they had restocked, I had to just squeeze my arm through a group of girls that looked around 10 to grab it. The GRWM culture is wild, it's everywhere and I know my two nieces have been into makeup and talking like youtubers since they were like 9 😵‍💫.. but.. yeah, these are the same parents that raised them on ipads.

It no set of doubt. Other day I went to supermarket (where do I currently live it doesn't have big commercial stores) and I did got in bit of shock while looking at a male teen, who clearly didn't have any sort of set of facial hair contemplating for some time a barber facial hair set.

Plus, exactly that's all content children consume. We live in a very consumption period which you need in some sense to be insert in x or y segment in the market - to either for status, to feel well with yourself, accepting or even value by others (even in small ways).

When I saw this product and other content as such made me wonder if children now a days actually have content for them - like in 2000/10s for example with Disney Channel dominating children consumption and then teen soap operas (Gossip Girl, Twilight...)
And then was this swift of social media. It does make wonder if there was content for their respective ages, it would still be considered as desirable or enthusiastic by them, or if this saturation we live in with social media - constantly bombarded on how you should appear as behave as - has defined how young generations see themselves in order to feel accept by others and themselves.

There's even already some reflections of those actions physically, older generations tend to have a younger appearance then younger generations. It's observable in celebrities and in your day to day life.