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As Stphen Colbert would say a Tip o’ the Hat to Dove for this ad and their Real Beauty campaign. There are others in the series which should show up when you play this one.

I don’t know if it’s helping gthem seel soap but it’s certainly making a worthwhile point.
 
Neat little add. I’m sure it’s true. Have you seen some of the so called beauties of hollywood with out make up? Scary stuff. Take Pamela Anderson for one:bigyikes:
 
I think it’s silly. After all, we all wear clothes we think show us to our best advantage. I don’t see anything wrong with good make-up and a nice hair-do. I never leave the house without make-up and my hair done right (for me). All they did was make a pretty girl beautiful, and I don’t see anything wrong wiht that.
 
Della said:
I think it’s silly. After all, we all wear clothes we think show us to our best advantage. I don’t see anything wrong with good make-up and a nice hair-do. I never leave the house without make-up and my hair done right (for me). All they did was make a pretty girl beautiful, and I don’t see anything wrong wiht that.
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No, that’s not all they did. After they were done doing that, they used a computer to elongenate her neck, thin her face, plump her lips, give her an eye lift and make her eyes bigger. The point of the commercial is that many women are trying to make themselves look like something that is NOT real.

Make-up and hair is good. I wish I had someone to erase the dark circles and lines around my eyes though. 😃
 
I was OK with everything until the computer altered her look. The enlarging of the eyes freaked me out! Pretty soon there will be models in ads with eyes so large they are not humanly possible. It kind of reminds me of the way the Disney princesses like Ariel and Belle and Jasmine all have ENORMOUS eyes, way out of proportion to their heads, and yet they are “beautiful” and every little girl wants to look like them. We won’t even mention the hideous BRATZ dolls and their enormous eyes and lips. I surely hope advertising is not moving in that direction with actual human models! Women will be going in for plastic surgery to have “eye enlargements!” Lord help us all! :eek:
 
Here is another ad from the same series, making a simialr point – women are trained from very early to be dissatisfied with how they look.
Conversely, men are taught an unrealistic standard of female “beauty”.

PS: another one called Daughters which I haven’t watched.
 
JudieK said:
I was OK with everything until the computer altered her look. The enlarging of the eyes freaked me out! :eek:
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Me too!! My friend showed me that ad a few days ago and that’s what stuck with me was all the computer altering of her face, neck, and eyes.
 
Those ads are … wow. And so true. The one with the little girls especially. I remember being picked on in first grade by a blonde classmate: “Don’t you wish you were blonde so you could be pretty too?” 22 years later I still remember that.

The ad with the photoshopping was creepy, especially when you consider the skyrocketing popularity of plastic surgery. I can’t go a day without hearing an ad for a plastic surgery clinic on the radio. Why do we do this to ourselves?
 
I showed the two ads to my daughter (10) and her best friend, and her comment was “I want to be a hottie like her!” (like the girl who was computer enhanced)
That is very sad. I will be having more conversations with my daughter about this.
Dove is to be congratulated for this campaign.
 
Wow - way cool for Dove!

I think anyone with a little girl should show her these.

I remember seeing something a few years back where some model took a group of girls who wanted to be models with her to different things. She talked about how she was hospitalized for anorexia/bilemia and how her teeth are fake because the stomach acid reaked havoc on them from her purging herself.

They finally ended at the computer lab where they showed the girls all the different adjustments they make. At the end, all but 1 girl said they were going to rethink their goals.

Interesting.
 
very fascinating video, I just don’t get it why such enhancing is bad.
 
Did you see what happened? The original model, who was quite beautiful, was unrecognizable after a computer had turned her image into something completely artificial. The final woman in the picture doesn’t exist. Indeed, she COULDN’T exist. But ads bombard girls with that standard and make them think these people are REAL, and that if they don’t look like that, then they are not pretty.

It’s bad because it gives girls deadly diseases like bulimian and anorexia, or at best, it makes them obsessed about something that they really should not be obsessing about.

And, no, I don’t think I’m over-reacting.
 
antimon said:
very fascinating video, I just don’t get it why such enhancing is bad.
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Because it’s not the same person anymore. They make you think that that is what true beauty is, and all it is is a fake, computer generated. It’s one thing to lead the girl with make up, at least you still see the real person. But then to take a woman who already looks beautiful and adjust her ‘imperfections’ by creating almost a whole different person is jsut out landish. It conveys the wrong message to girls and woman wheo are alreay so affected by what society thinks is perfection. It’s a very unhealthy immage.
 
child_of_God85 said:
Because it’s not the same person anymore. They make you think that that is what true beauty is, and all it is is a fake, computer generated. It’s one thing to lead the girl with make up, at least you still see the real person. But then to take a woman who already looks beautiful and adjust her ‘imperfections’ by creating almost a whole different person is jsut out landish. It conveys the wrong message to girls and woman wheo are alreay so affected by what society thinks is perfection. It’s a very unhealthy immage.
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My body isn’t perfect too, but I don’t mind looking at posters of bodybuilders. Teach those poor girls and women to respect themselves for who the are, tell them God loves them regardless of how they look, but please stop bashing something for being too perfect, it doesn’t make sense. My criteria of beauty are far from being based on topmodels or anorexic actresses, but I can still appreciate good-looking (even if computer-created) picture.
 
The Dove Ads have reconfirmed my opinion of beautiful women. I have a cousin who almost every man that sees her thinks she’s beautiful (and she is when she’s done up). HOwever, I saw her once after she took a shower and was ready for bed. She looked like a drown rat. I was 14 when this happened and from that point on I decided to wear minimal makeup at the most so that my future husband wouldn’t be scared once he saw me without all fashion has to offer. At 28 I have smile lines only, dark circles (they’re genetic), and when I wear makeup I’m complimented about my beauty as much as when I am without makeup.
 
How true! have you seen some of these stars (like Pamela anderson) without their makeup? Yikes!!! I know some women who sleep in their makeup for fear of being seen at night without it. How sad is that?
 
antimon said:
very fascinating video, I just don’t get it why such enhancing is bad.
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It helps people understand that the image of beauty they strive for isn’t real. Before trying to look like a model you see in a magazine (and thinking less of yourself if you don’t), understand that the model has spent at least two hours with a hair stylist and a makeup artist, and any picture of her (or him) has been airbrushed and/or computer-enhanced.

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Della said:
I think it’s silly. After all, we all wear clothes we think show us to our best advantage. I don’t see anything wrong with good make-up and a nice hair-do. I never leave the house without make-up and my hair done right (for me). All they did was make a pretty girl beautiful, and I don’t see anything wrong wiht that.
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Apparently there’s a lot you don’t see. There’s a difference between giving some thought to your appearance, on the one hand, and computer-enhanced photography, on the other. And just how much time do you think that model sat in that chair, anyway?
 
didymus said:
I don’t know if it’s helping gthem seel soap but it’s certainly making a worthwhile point.
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Apparently the point was not to sell soap, but to promote Dove Real Beauty Workshops for Girls.
 
Am I the only one here who thinks that the woman prior to the transformation was more beautiful. Her face had expression and afterwards she just looked haughty and unreal.
I never wear make up myself, and I am the only woman in my hairdressers with my own God-given eyebrows!
I just don’t understand covering up the lovely face we were given.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to make our inside so perfect?
 
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