SPACE NK... a queue full of kids... aibu

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Popped into town with my dd to get some clothes for her and thought I would go to the Space NK to grab a couple of bits.... however to do this inwas informed by a security guard to wait in a queue.... populated by children! And not teenagers... children

It has just moved from a side lane into the main shopping centre but have I missed a children's line .... aibu to think the products £££ wise and also more importantly ingredient wise are not for children

I'll go to the one near work where there are definitely no children!!

What's going on ? Aibu to think SPACE NK is better suited to adults

Yes also enjoyed body shop

It was reasonably priced

I do feel your frustration about kids in shops generally. They should give way to their elders (adults) and not hold you up in queues. It’s very rude

@DonnaBanana You're rather missing the point.

Children have every right to hold their place in queues and adults should not be pushing in just because they are adults.

This is about children buying inappropriate and harmful products, promoted by people on tiktok and facilitated by family members who should be protecting them.

Blimey I only go in Space NK myself when I'm feeling rich and a bit recklessly extravagant. So only a few times in my life then. At 12 it was Boots or the Body Shop, or I'd 'borrow' my mother's stuff.

I suppose it’s not dissimilar from pamper parties for children. I imagine that they have skin products and make up at those. I think primary aged children are missing out on having ‘ordinary’ parties with a group of friends, either at home or a venue.

I use £4 Rimmel lipsticks. My daughter uses her money from work to buy pricey lip oils from space NK. She didn’t start till 18 though.

I always tell her to avoid the skincare products. Because most of them I tell her are designed for women of my age to try and have the beautiful youthful skin that she already has! Thankfully she sees my point.

I was chatting to the staff in my local Space NK and asked why it’s no longer stocking Byredo. They said their head office is now targeting teenagers and the brands they’re more likely to buy. So Byredo is out alongwith some other skincare brands and shelf space being taken by newer teenager brands.

I don't get it. At that age I was getting into Boots 17 clear mascara and lip gloss. How the heck do they afford it? It must be their parents. Why are they funding this?! Bloody TikTok.

Yes, it is the case in my city too although there are 2 nks. The one in the shopping centre is mobbed by teenagers, no testers...there is another one for grown ups. I think they are intimitated in H beauty, dunno.

My just turned 11 year old has zero interest in make up but more recently she said she's more into skin care and often says she prefers the 'clean girl' look.

She doesn't have tik tok or any social media and is still very child like in sense that any pocket money she gets she spends on toys or magazines so no idea where she gets this from but she said it's def a thing and mentioned kids going to sephora etc.

My 7 year old has asked if I can take her to sephora. I don't go myself or own anything from sephora so it's bizarre how she knows so much about high end brands..

Surely it’s today’s version of the body shop? Or what was the bloody awful apricot scrub? I convinced my dad to buy me some and burned my face!

Anne French 😂

No wait! Aapri!

Work with someone who told me about all this a while. She teaches about Social Media as well. Influencers on tiktok making their living and parents happy to fund/ignore the purchases.

It's ridiculous beyond belief.

You’re not wrong that children don’t need expensive skin care.

You are wrong to imply that somehow adults shouldn’t need to join the “queue populated by children” or should be able to skip said queue, or to be amused by being asked to join it. A queue of customers is a queue of customers.

Hi. Not a criticism, just wondering where she got the term 'clean girl' look if she's not on social media. Friends? YouTube?

St Ives Apricot scrub? I loved that stuff 🤦‍♀️

I saw a kid (12) who bought like £40 cream and it wasn't a one off. Crazy a parent facilitates this nonsense. So damaging and unnecessary for children's skin, and teaching a lot about about materialism and vanity. Obscene amounts of money for average families. Peer pressure then too.

(I say vanity and not self care / hygiene as thats where I think this falls).

Probably, but at 4 times the price!

I genuinely have no idea. If she's on YouTube, she's watching arts and crafts or animal videos.

I've got a nearly 11 year old, whose on YouTube too, but not SM. She typically watches the same sort of stuff as your daughter. It's only a matter of time before she comes across it!

Aapri!

I would baulk at spending this on myself.

It’s really such a shame. It’s honestly poor parenting. Childhood is/should be a magical time.

In the mid 2000s as schoolgirls (y8) we were only just getting into make up in the form of eyeliner.