Beauty Industry Bullshit: Dermo-clinically

[logansrogue]

So the TV is going on in the background and some stupid L'Oreal skincare ad comes on. There's Andie McDowell schilling anti-wrinkle cream, that apparently repairs DEEP wrinkles. And do you know HOW it does that?

DERMO-CLINICALLY!

God, I love the bullshit they make up for these ads. And by love, of course I mean "loathe with the fire of a thousand burning suns."

Dear L'Oreal - I am not buying your bullshit. That is all.

Comments

[hippiegal22.livejournal.com]

Beauty ads are so full of bullshit. When they have some actress who is obviously full of botox or airbrushed talk about how something from a jar cures her wrinkles I roll my eyes.

But then I think advertising in general doesn't understand how cynical modern society has become. I have a book that is a collection of magazine ads from the 60's. It's amazing how little ad campaigns has changed in 45 years even though everything else in the world has.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

What hasn't changed it the pressure put on women to look perfect at all times. That's why these companies are still in business. Women are so desperate to avoid losing what society apparently values them for that they'll shell out money on trumped up moisturiser in the hopes it does what it says it does. Cause they're bad women otherwise, and not worthy of consideration as human beings.

I hate the kyriarchy.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Her DERMO-CLINICAL TROWEL don't you mean!?

[boomstick.livejournal.com]

Is there ANY actress out there who is aging 100% naturally? I feel like horrible implants and injections are now the norm and it scares me.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

What is weird is that they don't look any younger. They just look weird and frozen. It really reminds me of "Death Becomes Her". That shit is becoming real, girl. THIS IS SCARY.

I'm an artist. I like a well-aging, normal face. I think Nature/God has a much better sense of what looks normal on a face than a hamfisted plastic surgeon with no sense of proportion.

[boomstick.livejournal.com]

I love wrinkles and I adore gray hair. There is nothing sexier than shocks of gray hair.

idk I see nothing wrong with aging. It's better than looking plastic!!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

My Mum fucking rocks the grey hair, she looks so gorgeous. :)

When my hair goes silver, I am dying that shit rainbow colours.

[fallimar.livejournal.com]

YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES.

Tis one of the things that attracted me to my husband-to-be.

Plastic beauty advertisement ladies make me wrinkle my nose up in disdain, they're like looking at weird, partially living versions of those horrifying clothing display mannequins with badly coiffed hair.
Gives me the heebie jeebies. I LIKE how people look when they get older, shows experience.

[melalucci.livejournal.com]

I think Betty White and Mary Steenburgen both look great, but I have no idea whether they've had work done or not...

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Betty White is a stone cold fox.

[boomstick.livejournal.com]

Mary Steenburgen is amazing...but sometimes I do think she got a facelift or something. I'll watch Back to the Future III and then Stepbrothers and it's like...HOW does she look so much younger in 2008 than she did almost 20 years ago?

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Derrrrrrrrrrrrmo-clinically.

[sir-devans.livejournal.com]

Dermo-clinically. Did they study that at the Ponds Institute?

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

They probably did, and got a Dermo-Certificate of Excellence.