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This week Kerry Anne and Airdrie review:
Maybelline New York Instant Age Rewind Double Face Perfector
Clairol Natural Instincts Hair Colour
Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula and Shea Butter Formula Lotions
L’Oreal Full Definition Voluminous Mascara
Links
Maybelline New York Define-A-Lash Mascara
Davi Skin Care
Le Grand Cru Face Cream for Women
The Peninsula Hotel Beverly Hills
Pome Studio
Reality Check
Hindustan Unilever, a subsidiary of Unilever, launches a controversial ad campaign in India for it’s “Fair and Lovely” skin whitener cream. This has us re-thinking the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, also by Unilever. Listen to the podcast for our discussion of this hot potato.
Check out another video at Your Dirty Answer
The Tyee article Real Beauty . . . if you’re White
Hindustan Unilever (wikipedia):
Hindustan Lever was forced to withdraw television advertisements for its women’s skin-lightening cream, Fair and Lovely. Advertisements depicted depressed, dark-skinned women, who had been ignored by employers and men, suddenly finding new boyfriends and glamorous careers after the cream had lightened their skin
Song of the week
The Icicles
“Crazy” (mp3)
from “Arrivals & Departures”
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Love your podcast and blog, I refer to it before buying products!! I think your reviews are honest and unbiased. Love to hear you talk!! Keep up the good work.
Are you planning on reviewing Mineral makeup? or have you and I have missed it?
Thanks again
Vicki
Hi ladies,
I’m a few weeks behind in my podcast listening and just finished listening to episode 79. I really enjoyed the reality check. Interestingly, in addition to the Dove products and the Fair and Lovely, Unilever also produces the AXE line that overtly uses sex in its advertising. So clearly, Unilever uses whatever means necessary to sell products and make money. For them, the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty is simply a marketing ploy. If they truly believed in the message, they wouldn’t contradict it in other areas of the company. As much as I love the Dove products and have cheered on the Campaign for Real Beauty, I am disillusioned by Unilever’s other ad campaigns. I can honestly say that I will stop purchasing Unilever products.
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