{"id":20113,"date":"2025-09-17T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/sephora-workers-on-the-rise-of-chaotic-child-shoppers-she-looked-10-years-old-and-her-skin-was-burning\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:37:35","slug":"sephora-workers-on-the-rise-of-chaotic-child-shoppers-she-looked-10-years-old-and-her-skin-was-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/sephora-workers-on-the-rise-of-chaotic-child-shoppers-she-looked-10-years-old-and-her-skin-was-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Sephora workers on the rise of chaotic child shoppers: \u2018She looked 10 years old and her skin was burning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preteens are parroting influencer speak, stealing and demanding anti-ageing products. Experts say the pressure to fit in is intense \u2013 and the beauty stores aren\u2019t helping<\/p>\n<p>Jessica, <em>25, <\/em>was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. \u201cHer skin was burning,\u201d Jessica said, \u201cit was tomato red. She had been running around, putting every acid you can think of on the palm of her hand, then all over her face. One of our estheticians had to tend to her skin. Her parents were nowhere to be seen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Sephora employee KM, 25, has her war stories too. Like the day a woman was caught shoplifting and told the security guard \u201cshe was trying to steal because her kid was getting bullied because she didn\u2019t have a Dior lip gloss. [The mom] couldn\u2019t afford it but her daughter told her she is going to get made fun of at school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/sep\/17\/sephora-workers-child-skin-care\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5be047995a1508882f008d8d5e9860d59efda07f\/0_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ecc3486a3890d3e3308b8472b0514554\" title=\"Sephora workers on the rise of chaotic child shoppers: \u2018She looked 10 years old and her skin was burning\u2019\" \/>Preteens are parroting influencer speak, stealing and demanding anti-ageing products. Experts say the pressure to fit in is intense \u2013 and the beauty stores aren\u2019t helping<br \/>\nJessica, 25, was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. \u201cHer skin was burning,\u201d Jessica said, \u201cit was tomato red. She had been running around, putting every acid you can think of on the palm of her hand, then all over her face. One of our estheticians had to tend to her skin. Her parents were nowhere to be seen.\u201d<br \/>\nFormer Sephora employee KM, 25, has her war stories too. Like the day a woman was caught shoplifting and told the security guard \u201cshe was trying to steal because her kid was getting bullied because she didn\u2019t have a Dior lip gloss. [The mom] couldn\u2019t afford it but her daughter told her she is going to get made fun of at school.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preteens are parroting influencer speak, stealing and demanding anti-ageing products. Experts say the pressure to fit in is intense \u2013 and the beauty stores aren\u2019t helping Jessica, 25, was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. \u201cHer skin was burning,\u201d Jessica &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/17\/sephora-workers-on-the-rise-of-chaotic-child-shoppers-she-looked-10-years-old-and-her-skin-was-burning\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sephora workers on the rise of chaotic child shoppers: \u2018She looked 10 years old and her skin was burning\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}