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So what are Sephora kids like in,
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in the, do you know what they are,
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brother kids at Sephora that like Sephora kind of?
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Well, look in the past year,
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a growing number of Children and young teens dubbed Sephora kids have
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shown a heightened fascination with beauty and skin care,
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I would think because of social media,
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right? These kids are into makeup,
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skin care routines often showcased by older influencers and role models.
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You know, it because I mean,
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it's like a more like our millennials are the ones,
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you know, the influencers that are kind of just being displayed
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on tiktok and all this and they're watching and they wanna get
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involved. I don't know.
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But this trend raises concerns about its impact on Children,
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including questions about self image,
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beauty standards and the influence of social media on their development.
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So people think that these kids are too young for make up
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Like when did you get your first like big girl makeup
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that's when my parents were like,
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PTE Mascara, you know,
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little things. Their big thing was the mascara,
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the mascara. I think everyone kind of started with the eyeliner
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mascara. When did you start?
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I never, I just put on moisturizer.
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today's generation is different.
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Again, what's the right way and the wrong way?
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You're gonna have to know you're having a daughter or you're having
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what, what age would you allow her to wear?
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Make up at least 13.
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But again, we'll see when I get there.
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Well, brother joining us today is Sonia Ramos mom and makeup
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influencer to share her perspective.
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Sonia, welcome. Thank you so much.
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So, I'm not sure if you heard our story with,
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was it Sephora kids?
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What do you think about this whole thing?
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You know, I think it's awesome that kids want to have
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a skin care. But I think,
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you know, when they go to Sephora,
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And so this isn't a plague,
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you know, a playroom where they can just mess a whole
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bunch of products up because,
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you know, when I went to Sephora,
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I seen the whole mess,
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you know, during some of the displays and I was just
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like, is this real like,
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So it was just a mess.
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I just think like there's no wrongdoing when it comes to like
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young women or even boys wanting to do skin care.
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they just need to be respectful when it,
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when they go to Sephora and actually,
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samples are samples but they're not like a little playground where,
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you know, they're trying to build a skincare smoothie like you
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Well, how young is too young?
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What, what do you think,
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like for, for kids wanting to explore with makeup and skin
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with my kids when they were teenagers,
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I would, they would just have a basic cleanser.
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they would have like an acne treatment and a moisturizer and sunscreen
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very simple. If I have a skincare routine,
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I'm not going to go and tell my 19 year old son
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oh, you should do a retinol routine because he doesn't
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need it. They have very young bouncy hydrated skin.
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I wish I had their skin.
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You know, I'm 46 years old and so you,
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you start seeing, you know,
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as you age, you know,
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different things and different needs that your skin needs.
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But like they do not need any of that,
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they just really just need to focus on moisturizer and protecting their
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skin with sun honestly.
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And can these kids mess up their skin by using these kind
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of products? Like the retinol,
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very active, like vitamin C,
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they don't need nothing to brighten.
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They don't need nothing too plump.
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They don't need hydrating under eye.
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I just feel like the parrot is responsible for this.
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They are kind of like they should read the ingredients on it
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and say, you know what,
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this is too much of an active like,
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do you need an exfoliant?
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Do you need Hyaluronic acid?
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Your skin is very youthful,
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very plump and you know,
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those products are meant for people that don't have that anymore.
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And I know you mentioned like the sunscreen is obviously something that
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you recommend to everybody.
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But is there any specific makeup,
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like items that I think kids can kind of like start to
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break into that world?
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That's not again super adult but like still,
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you know, more natural but just to get them in the
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motion of it, I guess like to be with like mommy
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and you know, stuff like that.
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Yeah, like you can go and introduce your kids to like
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go get a lip product because it's so easy,
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especially when you're young.
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When you're like 1415,
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16, you can do like the mascara,
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you can do, you know the lipstick,
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like you can do like certain things not like a bright red
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lip or anything like that.
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But you know, it's it's changed a lot since I was
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younger. We had really bad makeup back in the day
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but now there's so many good makeup out there that I
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can see why, you know,
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teenagers wanna go and,
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try all these products out.
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They do better makeup than all of us and,
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you know, we wanna learn from them too and we wanna
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know what they like.
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But at the same time,
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they, they are looking a lot older than they should.
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So I just feel like,
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you know, as a parent,
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like it's our responsibility to educate our kids regardless if we know
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it or not. There's youtube,
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there's tiktok, now there's IG and you know,
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we have to educate our kids and we're so responsible for them
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and how they turn 18.
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Ok? And then when they turn 1819 20 that's all that
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I get popularity and I get like,
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you know, everything is going on tiktok and the kids are
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like screaming. Oh yeah,
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I need like this whole wild step skin care routine but they
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really don't as a parent,
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they should be like,
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it's the parents' job for sure I feel.
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And we just thank you so much for coming on Sonia
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and letting us know your perspective on this.
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We wanna ask you where can people find you on social
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media? So I'm on IG and on Tik Tok and it's
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officially Sonia Ramos. Awesome.
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Bye bye. It's even like social media.
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I feel like just you have to keep up with how the
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other kids look and if another parent,
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it's like a chain effect,
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if another parent lets their kids wear,
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make up, then this kid's gonna want to wear makeup to
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You know what I mean?
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It's like I wanna do it.
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it's like that the boomer phrase,
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right? Have you jump off a bridge and you jump off
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