Stellar mass vs dust extinction. We compare CEERS-14821 (coloured stars) with the complete CEERS sample (black dots; Bisigello et al., in prep.) at all redshifts. We also show the median values of other samples of dusty objects (Alcalde Pampliega et al. 2019; Pérez-González et al. 2023; Gentile et al. 2024a) and low-mass dusty galaxies (Rodighiero et al. 2023; Euclid Collaboration 2023) from the literature. We report the selection criteria for highly extincted low-mass galaxies in Eq. (1) (solid blue line; Bisigello et al., in prep.) and the relation between stellar mass and A_V from the literature (dashed coloured lines; McLure et al. 2018; Lorenz et al. 2024).