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Let's talk about what's hashtag trending.
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This is episode one of
I'm Alexia, and in each episode, I'm going to be
running through some of the topics that people are
talking about on social media.
So, you know, what's trending. keeping up so far?
Let's jump into the trends.
Netflix's new documentary, The Social
Dilemma, has people going crazy over their social
media use.
It talks about the different algorithms and
different designs and also about how social
media is changing us.
We watched this in one of my classes at school.
Our whole class was just like, "what was that?"
Different people are really addicted
to their phone more than we are.
And I'm pretty addicted to my phone.
I just got a Snapchat, one second.
The Mandalorian season two came out on October 30th.
The Baby Yoda memes.
Baby Yoda fans have been waiting for season two for
what feels like forever.
I don't know about you, but the end of season two,
episode one definitely left me wondering and
connecting a lot of dots.
And that's all I'm going to say for now.
Unus Annus is coming to an end and people are
freaking out about it.
Unus Annus was a YouTube channel that was
started almost a year ago on November 15th, 2019.
This YouTube channel has a bunch of fun videos on it,
but really there's a deeper meaning.
What would you do if you knew how much time
you had left?
Pretty dark, right?
The Unus Annus channel has had a countdown since
they begun.
And that countdown is coming to an end.
On November 15th,
the channel and all the videos will be deleted.
A lot of my close friends have been watching them
like since the beginning.
I didn't hear about it until, like, I think like
four or five days ago, my friend was over
at my house.
She's like, I don't know if I want to tell you about
this because you're going to fall in love with it
and be really sad.
And then she told me about it anyways.
And now I'm like watching their videos, like, you're
going to make me fall in love with this channel
like ten days before it ends.
Are you kidding me?
Now that we're wearing masks pretty much all the
time, a big problem has come up...acne....
or maskne.
Let's take a couple of minutes to look at this
trend more closely.
What is maskne and what causes it?
So maskne is
basically a form of acne. With covid, we've been
forced to essentially cover our faces where they
normally weren't covered.
And so what happens is we have things that are
regularly supposed to be on the skin.
So, for example, our skin oils or sebum, we have
some dead skin cells or keratin sites and those
are regularly supposed to be there.
And they go through skin cycles and they sluff off.
But what happens with maskne is a little bit
of bacteria throughout the day, whether it's from our
mask or our hands inadvertently touching our
face mixes with humidity that really gets trapped
underneath our mask.
And they all sort of combine together to make
what we now know as maskne.
How can you treat maskne if you already have it?
Once we have it,
one of the important things is really to try to
target spots without irritating our skin.
When you go to your local drugstore, pharmacy,
there's many different options and most skin
types can handle something like salicylic acid
around two percent.
Another option would be to use benzoyl peroxide,
although I am a little bit more nervous about benzoyl
peroxide because it can be a bit more irritating, but
off the shelf, it is available in around two to
five percent concentrations.
And for maskne, that's more on the cheeks
or on the chin,
it can certainly be a good option. For maskne that's
coming closer to around the mouth,
that's an area where the skin is a lot more
sensitive.
So in that circumstance, I would say it's probably a
good idea for one to think about the salicylic acid.
Can you give me your top three things that everyone
should know about maskne?
My top three things would be prevent it by wearing a
cotton or silk mask that's clean.
That's number one.
Number two, make sure that your clean hands and clean
face when you go to apply the mask and number three,
apply treatment and expect to notice improvement
after about five to seven days.
So that's kind of, patience, would be my last
suggestion.
Well, thank you so much.
You're welcome.
I just spoke with a dermatologist about
preventing maskne, but I was wondering if you
could give me your top three tips, how to cover
up maskne?
When it comes to the makeup side,
always make sure that your brushes are clean.
It's very, very important to limit the amount of
bacteria that you're not only putting on to your
skin, but back into your product as well.
Number two would be to actually assess the
pimples that you're working with.
If it's really red and lifted, you might want to
use a colour corrector to cancel out any of
that redness.
My next step would be to use a little concealer
that's close to your skin tone.
When we first think of concealers, we think of
the brightening under the eyes.
When we're working with pimples or maskne, we do not
want to draw attention.
So using something that is closer to your actual skin
tones will help to minimize and actually
camouflage that area.
I have my makeup here right now.
I don't have any maskne, but I do have a red pen so
I can draw a little circle on my hand.
Could you off me through the steps of how
to conceal the maskne?
Of course, nice red pimples on our hand.
Pretending that you're in the back of your hand is
your face.
It's nice and fresh and clean and moisturized.
Step number one would be to use a matifying primer.
This will help lock in any products you put on top of it.
So it lasts the whole day.
We're just going to tap it on top.
When you actually tap it helps distribute the
product in.
Yes, exactly.
In more of an even way rather than swiping, which
could then break the pimple or lift up
some skin.
And we don't want that.
Once you've primed, now that our pimple is red,
we want to go in with a little bit of a colour
corrector.
And in this case, like we said, we're going to go in
with some green colour corrector.
Tap it again on top of our red pimple.
Don't use too much.
This is OK.
This is coverable.
Yours looks great.
I can't even see it anymore.
This really just helps with, again, the amount of
actual concealer that you need to use.
So our next step is concealer.
And I like to use a medium coverage, take a bit of
your concealer and just tap it on top.
So our last step in order to lock it all in, I like
to use a loose powder.
Sometimes I'll just use a little bit on my finger
and tap it on in place.
Well, that's a wrap.
The first episode of Hey Alexia, What's trending?
Eh-oop!
Let me know what you think about maskne and what
trends you want to see in the future.
Hit me up at CBCKIDSNEWS@CBC.CA.
All right. I'mma head out.