Gen Z’s ‘clean girls’ are choosing trendy skincare routines over sex: ‘My boyfriend gets really upset’

Sometimes, being a “clean girl” means not doing bad things.

Gen Z skincare fanatics are finding that participating in the “morning pour”—a social media trend that involves spritzing on multiple products, putting on hair rollers, and opening mouth guards to maximize real-time sleep beauty – not exactly conducive to a delay. at night I curl up.

But sacrificing a bit of romance in pursuit of hotness is worth it, enthusiasts say – living by the mantra that going to bed uglier means they’ll wake up hotter.

“My boyfriend gets really upset with me,” a 24-year-old named Daisy, who called her routine “non-negotiable,” told Dazed.

After all, there’s nothing sexy about chin straps, mouth tape – or face masks made from snail mucin.

“Once we’re done having sex, I have to run to the bathroom and spend at least 20 minutes double cleansing my face and applying serums and moisturizer. By the time I’m done, my boyfriend is asleep and there’s no chance for a cuddle,” she said, adding that her process often causes a “fight” the next morning.

“There’s no moment you fall asleep together right away in a romantic way,” the daredevil admitted.

Perhaps, then, it’s no surprise that Gen Z is leading a sex recession – even with celebrities touting the joys of celibacy.

But beauty critic Jessica DeFino told Dazed that she finds it “reductive” to assume that morning poopers aren’t having sex “just because they’re covered in layers of face masks,” arguing that “everyday sex exists off limits of appearance”. sex.”

“Sex exists outside of Hollywood’s ‘go to bed and turn off the lights and fk’ clichés,” DeFino said, adding that, for some, “getting pretty is seen as more important than having sex and falling in love.” because beauty is seen as the gateway to attraction.

In fact, some Zoomers might even spend the night with one for the sake of their skin care, according to one acne-prone TikTokker.

“My skin will break out if the pillowcases aren’t clean – I can’t,” one person commented on TikTok.

“If I don’t stick to my routine, I really start to change,” said another.

“I’m so paranoid my pillowcases/water/air are going to explode,” someone else wrote.

“How true,” cried another. “Or, you should sleep with your makeup on.”

Holly, whose name has been changed, told Dazed that she refused to take off her make-up when sleeping over at her partner’s house in the early stages of dating – because she didn’t want to show them her intensive skincare regime .

It wasn’t until she became more comfortable around them that she discovered her nightly routine.

“It felt like a new form of intimacy,” she explained. “They still seemed attractive to me in what I felt was the more self-conscious, less sexy way.”