The touching up involved in making the perfect billboard model:
The video is part of a marketing campaign by Dove which sort of backfired.
It is extremely difficult for anyone to change the “perception of beauty” because aesthetically pleasing will always remain so. Give or take a few curves.
However, Dove’s campaign to “celebrate the curves and imperfections of real women and inspire them to have the confidence to show them off with pride” is really quite nice of them.
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I keep posting videos, just out of curiosity, does anyone out there still use dial-up to connect to the Internet?
November 22, 2006 at 7:01 pm
The village people do, I suppose. They think ‘broadband’ involves large amounts of satin.
How do you find these videos??? Very nice. Dove will make money out of this, but pretty good idea/gesture, yes.
I like curvy women.
November 23, 2006 at 10:49 am
Neenu thumba bourgeois.
Everybody likes curvy women, btw.
November 23, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Perfect faces seem artificial. Subtle and pleasant imperfections are groovy. But, I dont think these “celebrate the imperfections” ads actually work out. By nature, humans try to be perfectionists. (Atleast some of them do.)
Nice video.
November 23, 2006 at 9:32 pm
have you noticed … there is a really tiny smiley near the top-right corner of your page.
November 24, 2006 at 5:48 am
[Kartik] These ads are not really working out.
Looks like everybody would rather see perfectness in ads.
[Ankit] That smiley is there on all wordpress blogs. It’s like their watermark or something.
November 25, 2006 at 6:28 pm
oh, cool. Must like a authenticity stamp or something.
I can’t find it in the page source though.
November 27, 2006 at 4:26 am
You always miss an ‘h’ in my name.
November 28, 2006 at 7:07 am
kart-h-ik