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There's A Wrinkle In That Plan
Mar. 31st, 2008 01:20 pmDoes anyone else wish the beauty product industry would stop trying to tell us that wrinkles are a life-threatening illness that must be combated at all costs?
Oil of Olay is particularly bad with their advertisements, stating the only way to avoid invasive plastic surgery is to use their product in such a dramatic, over-the-top serious manner it makes me bust out laughing. It is somewhat ironic that this produces laugh lines, which I personally think are a good thing for people to have.
I won't even delve much into the fact that it's all a bunch of bullshit, anyway. I seriously doubt many, if any at all, people really experience any significant difference when they switch from their regular moisturizer to Olay Regenerist. (Regenerist, my aunt Fanny!)
Silly me, here I thought there was another alternative to plastic surgery: allowing the body to age as it is supposed to.
Also, the words luminosity and radiance should be stricken from the English language. They are being abused by the beauty industry. On a tangent, I do have to admit it amuses me that several years ago, everyone used radiance as a keyword, but now they've all switched to luminosity. Which means...radiance.
My skin has never been luminous or radiant. So will these products claiming to provide it work on me?
Please note: I don't particularly like my ever-increasing wrinkles, but life is too damned short to fret about them. And my pocketbook is too damned empty to spend much trying to fight something which, by the laws of biology and probably physics, is going to "win" anyway.
(And, yes, I do understand the point of advertising is to get people to purchase a product, etc.)
Oil of Olay is particularly bad with their advertisements, stating the only way to avoid invasive plastic surgery is to use their product in such a dramatic, over-the-top serious manner it makes me bust out laughing. It is somewhat ironic that this produces laugh lines, which I personally think are a good thing for people to have.
I won't even delve much into the fact that it's all a bunch of bullshit, anyway. I seriously doubt many, if any at all, people really experience any significant difference when they switch from their regular moisturizer to Olay Regenerist. (Regenerist, my aunt Fanny!)
Silly me, here I thought there was another alternative to plastic surgery: allowing the body to age as it is supposed to.
Also, the words luminosity and radiance should be stricken from the English language. They are being abused by the beauty industry. On a tangent, I do have to admit it amuses me that several years ago, everyone used radiance as a keyword, but now they've all switched to luminosity. Which means...radiance.
My skin has never been luminous or radiant. So will these products claiming to provide it work on me?
Please note: I don't particularly like my ever-increasing wrinkles, but life is too damned short to fret about them. And my pocketbook is too damned empty to spend much trying to fight something which, by the laws of biology and probably physics, is going to "win" anyway.
(And, yes, I do understand the point of advertising is to get people to purchase a product, etc.)
