Why some NZ kids are 'fighting wrinkles' before their 10th birthdayThe Spinoff summer reader, Friday January 10
Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff’s “not quite” Daily summer reading list, published twice weekly throughout the festive break and brought to you by Resene. Right now on The Spinoff: Alex Casey tells the story of her Scottish elopement. Hayden Donnell celebrates the glorious weirdness of parliament’s online petitions page. Why won’t Facebook clamp down on Marketplace scams? How do you celebrate a long-term relationship when you don’t believe in marriage? And we rank and review the best secondhand bookshops in Auckland and Christchurch. But first: Some of the most passionate consumers of anti-ageing skincare are children. How did the beauty industry get under their skin?
It’s Mother’s Day at Mecca, the two-storey beauty megastore in the centre of Ōtautahi, and the floor is heaving with mothers and daughters lathering their hands with lotions. The giant faces of gleaming, poreless women beam down on them – spend over $80 on products in store today and receive a single red rose, delicately wrapped in tissue paper, to show your mum how much you love her. A girl no older than 10 takes a bottle of Drunk Elephant Protini™ Powerpeptide Resurf Serum, $153 for 30ml, off the brightly-lit shelf. “This is the one that Mia recommends,” she says, presenting the bottle in her hands with the flourish of a beauty influencer on YouTube. Her mum chuckles and rolls her eyes. “Mia is nine years old,” she replies.
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A guide to Wellington's best BYO restaurants My Greatest Trip: Eloping and Nessie hunting in Scotland The lonely grief of baby loss and infertility Rewatching Heavenly Creatures, three decades on Dreaming of my not-wedding day Banks are grappling with a scam ‘crisis’ while Facebook profits from it
Auckland’s secondhand bookshops, ranked and reviewed Christchurch’s secondhand bookshops, ranked and reviewed Munchies and mania: surviving a 24-hour movie marathon
Confessions of an unlikely petrolhead Celebrating the lynchpin of our democracy, parliament’s online petitions page
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