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Teens are worried about wrinkles. Here s how Gen Z is helping to fuel a beauty boom
While young skinvestors are often in pursuit of self-care and overall well-being, experts are concerned about the premature demand for more invasive treatments.
By Leah Dolan, CNNUpdated 6th May 2021
Before coronavirus shuttered the world, a typical month for Connecticut native Zac Mathias was packed with appointments for microneedling (a collagen-stimulating process that involves repeated pin-pricks all over the face), regular resurfacing hydrafacials, rejuvenating laser treatments and the occasional red-light therapy session.
The beauty influencer particularly misses his weekly infrared saunas, where light is used to heat the air instead of traditional steam. The technology has been praised for reversing the effects of photo-aging. Mathias is 18.
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You can feel the thrill in the air – even from behind a laptop screen – as 20-year-old Millie Taylforth bounds through the city to her appointment, blonde hair slung into a loose pony. She’s got the nervous energy of someone about to get, I don’t know, an ill- advised break-up fringe? A spontaneous piercing? At a push, you might guess she’s on the way to get Botox or fillers.