The makeup brands, CoverGirl and Revlon produce a commercial that introduces the audience to their latest foundations. Foundation is a skin colored makeup that the user applies to their face to create an even, uniform color to their complexion and to cover facial flaws. The CoverGirl commercial includes Taylor Swift, a famous singer-songwriter wearing the foundation and she promotes the newly formulated version of the foundation. The Revlon advertisement involves Emma Stone, a well-known actress advocating a brand-new, lightweight foundation by discussing her flaws and demonstrating how the foundation conceals her imperfections. The commercials effectively use pathos, ethos, and logos to convince the viewers into purchasing their new foundations. …show more content…
The CoverGirl commercial conveys the feeling of confidence by presenting bright colors, joyful music, and smooth, elegant movements of Taylor Swift. She dances swiftly around the studio room to jubilant, up-tempo music in a light material such as silk to emphasize the lightweight and natural aspect of the foundation. The commercial reveals how comfortable and confident Taylor Swift is in her skin by providing before, after and close-ups shots of her skin with and without the foundation. In the Revlon commercial, Emma Stone says that every girl has secrets and flaws and they should not fear having secrets or try to cover up their flaws, instead they should feel confident and comfortable in their own skin. For instance, she reveals one of her secrets by saying that her makeup secretly boosts her confidence and makes her feel like she is barely wearing makeup. In contrast, the Revlon commercial creates a connection between the viewer and the actress by explaining flaws and demonstrating how the product looks in natural lighting while the CoverGirl commercial simply demonstrates the actress wearing the makeup with aspects that is visually appealing to the viewers. Both advertisements encourage their viewers to feel confident while wearing the foundation that gives off a lightweight and natural look to the
Cover Girl is an American cosmetics brand. The commercial appeals to ethos through the use of Taylor Swift. Swift is promoting the brand and encouraging others to buy it. She is seen as a ‘credible’ endorser because she is an iconic, famous song artist, with gorgeous, smooth skin. To the audience, it looks like she uses Cover Girl, hence why her face looks so clear and smooth.
In this ad, an Ethos or ethical appeal has a great impact using Taylor Swift as the “credible” actor, a famous American singer, and a songwriter. She’s attractive and has a beautiful clear skin. To the girls viewing this ad, it seems like Taylor uses the Covergirl foundation to give her that flawless skin making her face feel light weighted.
The Cover Girl ad from March 2011 includes a picture of Queen Latifah in a beige like colored background with her green eye shadow on. Queen Latifah has small brown eyes with very long and luscious black eye lashes. She has a big and beautiful smile with shiny white and straight teeth. Queen Latifah also has a nice pair of small, gold, round dangling earrings in her ears. The word “Cover Girl” is displayed in big and bold green letters across her forehead, all to help improve her the way she looks. Queen Latifah is written in small green letters underneath in the right-hand corner right underneath the word “Cover Girl”. This picture of her is from her head to her shoulders, just enough for the viewers to focus on Cover Girl’s product, which is the makeup. You cannot really tell what type of shirt she is wearing in this photo but the little piece of frill coming off of her shoulder matches pretty well with the whole color scheme of the ad. She also has her hair pulled back into a long pony tail to also help show off their product even more. This advertisement by Cover Girl effectively uses logos, ethos, and pathos to convince the viewers to buy Cover Girl products.
The largest, most eye-catching image in the advertisement is that of a model of color. Then, to pose contrast, the advertisement also provides an image of a very light-skinned model. Additionally, there are models with skin tones in between. Further, the advertisement includes a male model. This fulfills the pathological appeal to identity; L’Oreal intends for a large variety of people to identify with this advertisement. As previously mentioned, other makeup brands have come under fire for not including makeup intended for darker complexions. They have also been criticized for not using models that represent these groups. L’Oreal aims to establish itself differently: this brand wants to cater to the lightest and the
Advertising is everywhere, it’s online, billboards, magazines, and the most popular television. Different advertising are mostly targeting towards a certain gender, age, or interests. Covergirl advertising is mostly targeted at women, and is also seen in every place you can think of. You most likely could go up to any girl and ask her-what is the Covergirl slogan? Easy, Breezy, Beautiful, Covergirl. Covergirl has done a great job at advertising there make-up products. Covergirl has branched out to every type of advertising there is. They have commercials, bill boards, online ads, there in many magazines, and they are also being promoted on the poplar show America’s Next Top
This is Beyonce’s fragrance so it makes sense that Beyonce is the model for it. Since Beyonce is a worldwide phenomenon that many people look up to, she really grabs the audience’s attention by being in the ad. Not only is Beyonce a brand of her own, she is also a very attractive woman. Beyonce attracts men with this ad because she is Beyonce and the sexy glance that she is giving. She also lures women in with this glance because they see Beyonce looking like Beyonce and they think that if they get the same perfume that Beyonce uses, they will be sexy like she is. She is using ethos by including herself in this ad which shows that this product is a reliable and credible because Beyonce herself is using the product and being her own spokesperson/advocate for the product. This is personal branding which really works well for this ad because this is Beyonce’s product and it shows just how reliable this product
The definition of true beauty continues to evolve as generations pass and new ones emerge. Ulta Beauty, a popular cosmetic store, sells products with the aim to make women feel confident in their skin. Their use of advertisements helps spread the word about new, improved product lines and reach out to potential buyers. Selling makeup is the obvious goal of a cosmetic store, but the kind of consumers they attract and how varies between different franchises. When a company displays their products in one shot instead of in a commercial, the task of conveying the message becomes harder. Ulta Beauty persuades women to purchase their products by pointing out buyers’ insecurities while still appearing to promote empowering feminist values.
In the ad there is the custom of bright colors that is used in a soft way lot to get some kind of interaction and effect with the audience and the product itself because it “confirms that purchasing intent is greatly affected by colors due to the impact they have on how a brand is perceived”(Ciotti) meaning “colors influence how consumers view the "personality" of the brand.” (Ciotti) And from the looks of the personality of the brand it was known that Cover Girl has been out for a long time and knows what makes it a popular makeup brand that has made color affects a big part of their brand they used in their advertisements and
The famous actress and model Sofia Vergara is the model for this advertisement. With her gorgeous look and stunning hair she can attract any person going through a magazine. Her golden hair with golden eyes and eyebrows are what covers most of the advertisement and this shows the aim of the advertisement. Her white shirt, like the color of the shampoo bottle shows connection between her and the product. Her natural beauty with the classic smile captivates
Covergirl has spent an extensive amount of money and time to reach its first position, in the cosmetics market. To reach first position the company spends millions of dollars on marketing campaigns, which include television sponsorships and advertisements. Covergirl cosmetics are the official sponsor of the reality television show, America’s Next Top Model (Niti, 2014). The winners of the show have modeled for the
The Revlon Beauty Company is a global and classic brand. An advertisement found in Glamour Magazine, promotes the sales of Revlon’s well-known nail polish enamel. The ad features a man with a woman’s hands draped over him to promote new nail polish colors. Revlon attempts to convince readers to purchase beauty products, including nail polish, through the use of colorful imagery, diction, and appeals to pathos and ethos; overall the ad is fairly effective at convincing the target audience of women ages 18-40.
In Seventeen magazine from August 2015, there is a Revlon ad that shows a picture of famous actress Emma Stone with a mirror like background. Overall, the advertisement uses the actress and the romance theme to their advantage on selling the product. On the left side of the advertisement Stone is wearing a bright, bold, and beautiful red ultra high definition, or HD lipstick. One thing that is very noticeable in the advertisement is Stone’s lips, they are bigger more plump lips they are even more than the average person which ultimately enhances the overall look of the product. Also, Stone has some bright green eyes and light fair skin that coincide
Revlon brand rose in 2008 with 12.2% in the facial sector, with 3 important new products such as (Revlon natural make up, Revlon color stay mineral foundation and Revlon custom creation foundation) which led to the growth in that year . These products were supported through print advertising and television leading to celebrities such as Jessica Alba and Halle berry. Revlon has expanded their brands globally with the helpful use of their brand ambassador strategy by engaging Elle Macpherson and Jennifer connel in representing the brand.
The music in the background lures in the audience more and persuades the eyes to focus on the way these “ideal” bodies are being advertised. The commercial depicts the notion that skinny is what is desired. Kim and Khloe Kardashian are displaying what all women wish to have, the perfect body. They are using this sense of desire to lure the audience into persuading them to purchase their products. Affective marketing in commercials consists of certain techniques such as sound, music, and slow motion movements to make the viewer fall in love and be attracted to the product. They also use persuasive words that really make the product seem reliable without question,
It’s the overuse of Photoshop in beauty ads that also plays a large part in our changed view of womanhood. We are shown how the woman on the cover and are expected to believe this is how she naturally looks, but with a bit of makeup. Heavily edited