Gen Z

2023 - 3 - 12

Post cover — Image courtesy of "New Zealand Herald"

What's Going On With Gen Z & The Beauty Industry? A Millenial ... (New Zealand Herald)

Three 20-something women sat down with our beauty editor — and changed her perspective.

The inspiration comes from social media, yes, but at the end of the day — for these three women at least — they’re still looking to embrace their true selves above all, with a few #viral beauty products thrown in for good measure. After seeing idealised beauty content on social media, almost half of the girls surveyed have undertaken a procedure to look more like the influencers they see online. “This year, I followed a few more Cambodian pages because I was like, I need to be more in touch with my culture and my heritage. Following on from this research, Dove has launched their #DetoxYourFeed campaign, which offers tools for both young people and their parents to help navigate social media and create a more positive online environment. The Dove Self-Esteem Project recently revealed the results of their research into the effects of social media and idealised beauty standards on young girls in New Zealand. I sat down with three Gen Z women to try to understand their approaches to beauty and all three agree that social media plays the most influential role in how they discover new trends and products, and how they form their own sense of style. Twenty-four-year-old Megan Watts’ mother is a doctor and dermatologist, so she’s always had access to expert information when it comes to skincare and taking care of her skin. And at that time I was writing about fashion and beauty for Girlfriend magazine and still didn’t have a true sense of myself or my own style. “It’s nice to see other people that are in the same boat,” she says. “And then I remember the first day that I posted a photo of my hair curly, and I had more compliments on it, more people telling me that they preferred my hair this way.” When I see Gen Zs in the street, or on my social media feeds, I’m in awe of their sophistication. When “nude” lipstick made us look a bit ill (unbeknown to us) and Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse always left a film of foundation on our flip phone keypads.

WATCH: TikTok creator explains the benefit of travel agents to Gen Z ... (Travel Weekly)

TikTok creator @travelagentandy has enlightened fellow TikTokers with the concept of booking travel through a pro, rather than using third party sources.

“There are some agents and agencies that collect money upfront just to make sure you are serious about booking, …but that’s only some. But many in the Generation Z populous – or Zoomers, as they are often know – were unaware of the essential helping hand that travel agents provide. How do agents even make money?

Why Travel Agents Are Still Essential, According To A TikTok Creator (NNN)

To educate Gen Zers, an emerging creator on TikTok known as @travelagentandy has enlightened fellow TikTokers with the concept of booking travel through a pro.

[TikTok](https://dugbo.com/) known as @travelagentandy has enlightened fellow TikTokers with the concept of booking travel through a pro. While some agents and agencies collect money upfront just to ensure you are serious about booking, it is only some. “When you book through third-party websites, you’re actually marked to the hotel as a budget traveler, so they’re not going to do anything extra to woo you.” Before the internet, the only way to book travel was in person. Travel agents collect a commission on any bookings that are made. Finding a travel agent and booking trips face-to-face was a given if you wanted to explore the world.

Gen Z is bringing back outdated Y2K technologies, and it's not ... (Domus)

From old digital cameras to music players, young adults seemed to be drawn to tech products that had been ousted by smartphones, in a global trend ...

Again, this is a return to the past that has nothing to do with quality (with video the results in comparison with a smartphone are far worse than photos), and everything to do with the need to find and convey meaning in a way that's unadultered by filters and artificial intelligence. Yet, there’s a recent trend within the trend that recently contributed to the skyrocketing prices of compact cameras from the late era of analog cameras such as the Olympus mju II. Something hard to find in older cameras which, albeit qualitatively better, come with a way longer learning curve for the uninitiated to the complexities of film photography. The lack of quality is not an issue, A) because it’s part of the aesthetics (and also because Gen Zers don’t feel the urge to print) and B) because the ability to capture the experience is what really matters. Just like Gen X and Millennials, they long for simpler times, with a profound difference: they don’t have to go back as much as previous generations to find them. Many Gen X young adults in the eighties and nineties were drawn to hair and clothing styles from the fifties.

Staff Senate to host Gen Z book club - Marquette Today (Marquette Today)

Generation Z (individuals born between approximately 1995 and 2010) are our current and future students here at Marquette. In addition, the older members of ...

This makes Gen Z an integral piece of our campus landscape in numerous ways. University Staff Senate plans to host a book club to discuss Dr. In addition, the older members of this generation are now part of our workforce.

Gen-Z Republican Reagan Paul Challenges Stereotypes - The ... (The Maine Wire)

“Gen Zers are progressive and pro-government, most see the country's growing racial and ethnic diversity as a good thing, and they're less likely than older ...

Part of that may be the fact that Reagan Paul is a mold-breaker in a way. When she got home, she co-sponsored a bill requested by the Town of Prospect to put a suicide barrier in the Penobscot Narrows Bridge from which at least a dozen souls leapt to their deaths since its opening less than twenty years ago. She worries about what she sees as a growing sense of despondency both generally, and with her peers. Paul’s goal, she says, is to make a difference by standing up for her faith and conservative values. She has introduced other bills create a voter identification system, allow individuals with conceal-carry firearms permits to be armed in schools, prohibit doctors from prescribing abortion via tele-health appointments, and authorizing the Public Utilities Commission to issue a Request for Proposals for small nuclear reactors. In this respect, she is a welcome breath of fresh air.