Gen Alpha kids to fuel holiday skincare spending
When Melissa Fuentes imagined the Christmas gifts she'd buy for her 9-year-old Tatiana, she figured she'd want Barbies, Bratz dolls or a scooter – the kinds of things she found under her tree growing up in the '90s. Instead, something unexpected made it to the top of the list this year: skin care. "I would have never imagined that I would be buying moisturizer" for a child, Fuentes, 31, told CNBC from Coral Springs, Florida. "There's this obsession with moisturizing. … That's all she's really into right now. Cheerleading,…