Colour-change lipsticks and home perms: Tracking 80 years of teen beauty trends


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A retro beauty setup in New York, July 8, 2024. Youth might be wasted on the young, but beauty trends rarely miss them. Photo: The New York Times

Youth might be wasted on the young, but beauty trends rarely miss them.

Although a spate of recent headlines has centred on the “Sephora teens” who run like wolf packs through the aisles of the personal-care retailer, snapping up rarefied lotions and lash-growth serums, the adolescent urge for transformation is hardly new.

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