Ayla Brown Profile
IT’S SHOWTIME AT THE MALL. Ayla’s long, brown hair is flat-ironed straight. On her left ring finger she wears a large white topaz, a graduation gift from her parents that doubles as an engagement stand-in: “When I travel, it scares off men who try to talk to me,” she says. The salesmoms come to ask if she needs any more accessories; Ayla politely declines. And then she heads out to a sea of expectant tweens crowding outside of Sephora and shouting, “I love you, Ayla!”
