おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
ワセリンのスキンケア利用について。
私は安い化粧水とワセリンだけで十分。敏感肌寄りの人にはぜひ数日だけでも試してほしい。
dewy
意味 露にぬれた (ような); 露の.
Jennifer Aniston puts it all over her eyelids for better lashes. Freida Pinto does the same, for a dewy look. Tyra Banks proclaimed it her “biggest beauty secret ever!”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
まつ毛周辺に塗る使い方はいまいちだったのよね…目が開きづらくなってさ…塗り過ぎだったのかな…w
slather
意味 [～ A on [over] B/～ B with [in] A]A〈バターなど〉を B〈パンなど〉に厚く [たっぷり] 塗る.
Now, this staple of grandma’s medicine cabinet is having a moment on TikTok and Instagram, with teenagers and beauty influencers promoting it as the go-to product for “slugging” — the practice of slathering your skin with the stuff before bedtime to lock in moisture and keep skin hydrated. (The term is meant to evoke the thick, slimy mucus trail a slug might leave behind if it crawled across your skin.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
ベッタベタになるからねw でも翌朝洗顔後にもちもちになるんだよー。
dab
意味 ＜…に＞〈バター· 薬など〉をさっと塗る ＜on, onto, over＞
One influencer, Brooke Paradise, dabbed her lips with Vaseline in a recent video and looked into the camera.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
“The girls that get it, get it,” she mouths along with a TikTok-famous sound bite. “The girls that don’t, don’t.”
bewildering
意味 （選択肢が多くて） とまどわせる, うろたえさせる
The newfound popularity of a product that costs as little as $1.79 is amusing and bewildering to longtime Vaseline devotees, many of whom are Black and have childhood memories of parents smearing it on their faces to protect them from the cold and wind.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
ascendancy
意味 [U] (かたく) ＜…における＞ 優位 [勢], 支配 (権) ＜in＞
“I’ve been raising my eyebrows about it for a while now,” Robyn Autry, a sociology professor at Wesleyan University who teaches about racial identity and Blackness, said of the product’s ascendance in certain corners of the internet. In the past two months, she said, she has watched, with incredulity, YouTube videos of white women with dewy skin singing the praises of Vaseline, a product her mother forced on her as a child.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
いいじゃんね…白人だって黒人だってアジア人だって子供の頃から馴染みあるっちゅーねん。
residue
意味 [C][U] (かたく) 残り, 残余; [法] 残余財産; [化] 残留物; [数] 剰余
Over the next decade, he figured out how to purify the residue from petroleum processing and convert it into “a thick, oily, pasty substance” that was “semi-solid in appearance, unobjectionable in odor,” according to the patent.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
pitch
意味 ＜…として＞〈商品など〉を売り込む, 喧伝する ＜as＞; （支持を得ようと）…の良さをアピールする.
He named it Vaseline. It was pitched as a skin product and a healer of wounds, burns and chafed or dry skin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
crude oil
意味 [U]原油
Even today, people worry that spreading it on their face will cause acne or even cancer, because the jelly is derived from crude oil, said Dr. Geeta Yadav, a dermatologist in Toronto.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/business/vaseline-slugging-tiktok.html
私が汗っかきだけど乾燥肌ってこともあるけど、ニキビなんて全くできないよ。毛穴が詰まるイメージ→肌が護られるイメージを持てれば、顔に塗れるよ（でも塗りたくない人達の気持ちもわかるw）
