Designing A Product, An Advertiser

Covergirl is an American cosmetics company. The company was founded by the Noxzema Chemical Company, and later bought by Procter & Gamble. The company is currently the best-selling cosmetic brand in America especially in the teenage marketplace (Debbie, 2006-2014). Being in the first position of the cosmetics market, the company has many competitors, and the biggest competition comes from the Maybelline cosmetics company, this is because both companies offer products with similar prices to similar consumer groups. The company Covergirl cosmetics is more of a brand licence rather a cosmetics company, because it does not provide any face to face customer service at any makeup counters, but they do provide a large variety of

The placement of the products and the words surrounding them are a key influence on how the advertisement is portrayed to the public. Makeup appeals to some people due to its ability to enhance certain features, for example eyelashes or eye color. In this particular display, all of the products that exemplify beauty remain uncapped allowing the consumer to better visualize how that product benefits them. It also conveys a sense of transparency because the brush doesn’t need to be hidden, moving the consumer to trust the claims of the other items on display. The other merchandise stands slightly obscured behind the enhancing products and appear to be sample packets instead of the actual bottle. Because of the white packaging,the item blends into

They try to play sexual emotions in advertisement. They show an attractive woman and a bottle of beer. They try and make it seem that if you drink their product that you can get this type woman. Also they try and use the emotions of the females talking about how a decent looking woman can become very attractive It also seems to draw onto girls that have a lower self esteem. Showing that you will become a much happier person if you are good looking and dressed very sexually, than if you are not the best of looking person.

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

It’s simple, striking, and exceptionally clever. How is this appealing you ask? Well if you are sophisticated and beautiful woman, you want this product. The simplicity of this ad is what gives it so much character. According to A Meeting of Minds, “Connecting objects through color or space conveys association among the ideas behind the objects” (Dobyns, 321). This ad compares a black stiletto heel, which can be associated with sex appeal, beauty, elegance, and power, to the slim mascara brush. This comparison causes the audience to subliminally associate those desirable traits with the mascara. Due to the exceptional contrast in the picture, the viewer’s eye is not distracted. It immediately focuses on the two objects present the stiletto and the brush. This extreme contrast of black and white can flood the viewer’s mind with a variety of associative polarities such as night and day or good and bad. Because the heel and the mascara are depicted in black gives the notion that black is dark, sexy, provocative, and smooth, which is what a high profile woman wants. She wants to catch attention, be recognized, and lusted after. Hence, a woman viewing this elegant ad will want this product because the simplicity of it will allow her to mind to associate desirable characteristics to the make-up.

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.

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.

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

In the Cover Girl commercial, they use Taylor Swift as a credible women who is a famous singer. The commercial is providing a persuasion of saying since Taylor can wear this make up and look flawless, everyone else can by buying this product. The Chanel billboard does not have credibility to a celebrity such as Taylor Swift in the Cover Girl advertisement. However, the woman on the billboard is shown with beautiful skin from the makeup that the audience is persuaded to buy this

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

Present in the advertisement is her long dark red hair blowing behind her and appearing to be more on the serious side showing a small amount of teeth, but instead flaunts her light pink lips. In addition, some accessories are seen like a long gold earring on the right and a matching gold bracelet on her left hand. The earring and bracelet was not the only thing matching in the ad, but Barrymore’s shirt and blue eye shadow were

I say this because everything you see during the ad has been modified to entice the viewer and persuade them to buy their product. For example the women shown during the advertising had foundation and they used camera’s that changed the perception of their face.

The man is fully clothed in a suit, which represents power and formality. It is extremely suggestive as it looks like he came to this position without the woman’s knowledge or consent since her sunglasses are pushed up for her to see. He is in a dominating position where she has to look up at him and the man’s face isn’t shown in the ad, which shows that he is confident. The ad is suggesting that if you have Sky Vodka, you can look glamourous and wealthy as well. The men are always given more power and a higher status than the women (Appendix A). The second image reveals how femininity is portrayed. In the ad for Dolce and Gabbana’s Monico Lipstick, notice the lightness of the woman’s hand touching her face, the touching of one’s face, especially the finger-to-mouth pose is reminiscent of a child. She is also dressed seductively with a come-hither look on her face that is bold and suggestive (Appendix A).

Images in advertisements, such as the image of Kate Moss in this perfume ad, have underlining messages and signs that are used to appeal the public in order to sell their product.

The Covergirl ads that we are talking about are for mascara and lipstick. Both of the ads are a close up pictures of women who are normally looking away from the camera. These women will have their hand over their mouth or their mouth open most of the time. The backgrounds of the ads will match the color of the makeup that they are selling, these colors used are bright. Models in the ads are very plastic looking, their faces are a little blurry and unfocused so pores are virtually invisible. The models are also very skinny, so skinny that they seem unhealthy. Around the pictures there are sentences telling you about the make up normally including the words “New and improved”, stating that this “New” makeup is better than their old product.