Essay On Beauty Advertisement

Advertisers often emphasize sexuality and the importance of physical attractiveness in an attempt to sell products, but researchers are concerned that this places pressure on women to focus more on their appearances. As stated in an article from Body Image and Advertising, the average woman sees 400 to 600 advertisements per day and by the time she is 17 years old, she has received over 250,000 commercial messages through the media. While only 9% of advertisements have a direct statement about beauty, many more implicitly emphasize the importance of beauty- particularly those that target both women and girls. (HealthyPlace)

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.

“Advertisement R Us “is an analysis written by Melissa Rubin on a Coca-Cola ad that was printed in the 1950s. At the time of her analysis on the almost sixty-three year old ad, Rubin was still a student at Hofstra University. The ad that Rubin analyzed was from the August 1950 addition of the Bottler Magazine which was only given to employees of Coca-Cola. Most, if not all, workers of that time were Caucasian male, which explains why everyone in the ad are Caucasian and all but four are males. The four women in the picture are wearing dresses, which help demonstrate the time the ad was made versus how it would be made in the 21st century. In 1950 it was common for only Caucasian men to be portrayed in many ads because that was how the society

     We live in a fast paced society that is ruled by mass media. Every day we are bombarded by images of, perfect bodies, beautiful hair, flawless skin, and ageless faces that flash at us like a slide show. These ideas and images are embedded in our minds throughout our lives. Advertisements select audience openly and subliminally, and target them with their product. They allude to the fact that in order to be like the people in this advertisement you must use their product. This is not a new approach, nor is it unique to this generation, but never has it been as widely used as it is today. There is an old saying 'a picture is worth a thousand words,' and what better way to tell someone about a product

Beauty is the quality of undeniable attractiveness possessed by a confident individual. Beauty is culturally valued because of its effect to make someone feel confident, creative, and unique. The beauty industry is expanding faster than ever because of the constant publicity it is receiving, whether it through social media, articles, or blogs. There are stores that are dedicated solely to all things beauty. One store in particular is Ulta Beauty. It is a beauty emporium where makeup gurus, or any ordinary person, could really get creative. Ulta’s popularity continues to grow because of its fun, colorful, and persuasive ads. An example would be an ad which contains a subtle, white, sparkly background, with vivid hues of purples, pinks, golds, and blues clustered together on the right side, with the words “All things beauty. All in one place. Go ahead, lose yourself,” and the large “Ulta Beauty” logo in the center of it all. The ad uses color, text, and gender appeal to connect to the value of beauty and to persuade women of all walks of life to shop there.

The two ads have a very different interesting factor of using women to sell their product by creating a psychological aspect to costumers so it will enhance their product of getting sold. Before advertisement became to effect tremendously in the American culture in 1920’s, Americans were going through ambivalence when they were categorized in functional groups such as the old middle class and the new middle class. The old middle class believed that hard work is good for the body and mind because Americans were working longer hours for less money compared to the new middle class that have great opportunities to work new jobs and have satisfaction doing the job while being paid well. Since America has changed to a new middle-class evolution, the economy and social status has shifted tremendously by creating new job opportunities

Moreover, as Richins (1991) reports, women always make social comparisons between the advertising models and themselves. As a result, advertising images create negative affect and increases women’s dissatisfaction with their own appearance. Since those images are edited through the consistent usage of digital technology, these idealized images do not portray women in a healthy manner. Indeed, these enhanced images would give these young girls the impression that they need to be ‘perfect’, just like these ‘fake’ images. According to Reist in ABC’s Gruen Session (2010), ‘young women get the message that they need to be thin, hot and sexy just to be acceptable’ in this society. Therefore, by generating the wrong perception of real beauty, the responsibility is pushed to the marketers, as they portray women with this stereotypical body type as acceptable. In addition, as the brand, Dove’s tagline in its advertisement - What happened to the ‘real beauty’? (Reist, 2010), marketers need not market their products in manners portraying women as airheads. Consequently, marketers gave most consumers viewing the advertisement, the wrong impression that

Today’s world is dominated by the great influence of advertising media, which often depicts the objectification of women. The film Killing Us Softly 3, discusses how influential the negative portrayal and misrepresentation of women is throughout advertising media. The Versace advertisement I have chosen to analyze displays a slim, scantily clothed woman of color guarded by a shirtless, muscular man. Based on concepts from the film and the course’s text, it is clear that this advertisement sets a particular feminine beauty standard and, nonetheless, illustrates women as solely being sexual objects of men, having little to no power. This fashion ad influences the way women view their physical appearance, along with their position and function in society.

Cosmetic brand Maybelline New York has an emotional effect on a variety of individuals. Their company has not only attracted the attention of women but has caused women to identify themselves as fierce, daring, and most of all beautiful. Maybelline’s eyeshadow advertisement “The Blushed Nude” portrays a young women who is striking, bold and beautiful. Maybelline wants consumers to feel beautiful and their advertisement provides the image and desires a women seeks in accomplishing natural looking beauty. Women wish to identify themselves as beautiful and belong to a

The first advertisement is for Chanel No. 5 bath oil. This image features a naked woman with her arms above her head, holding her hair up. Her body is bent in a provocative way. She is facing away from the camera, so you can only see her bare back. There is a towel that wraps around her from her front that comes around and down to cover her lower back and butt.

The cultural artifact I decided to analyze is an advertisement featured on the beauty company Glossier’s Instagram page on Sept. 16, 2017. The advertisement is a billboard in Santa Monica Place in California, of plus-sized supermodel Paloma Elsesser nude with bronzed, glowing skin holding her right leg up while sitting down. The words body hero in white font on a red label is in the corner. The logo stands out against the white background of the ad. Upgrade your shower at glossier.com is in the bottom right-hand corner in a slimmer and smaller black font than the size of body hero. With Elsesser's hair in a bun, the way she sits highlights her body curves even more. She takes up 95 percent of the billboard. Automatically, I am enticed to Elsesser's

One will see a white female with pouting red lips and the very petite body that resembles a thirteen-year-old girl. The extremely artificial women and the heavily photo-shopped pictures in these ad’s create a norm and make those women who look differently, feel insecure of who they are and make them feel as if they are less of a woman, for example they tend to over represent the Caucasian, blonde with bright eyes, white complexion and a petite body. This is an unattainable beauty for most women, which has caused many to develop issues such as eating disorders, depression and the very much talked about these days, anorexia.

The objectification of women is a huge issue in society and is often led by advertising. However many men still believe that the adverts depicting women in a sexual and often passive posture are not very offensive but rather very funny or sexy. However how would they feel if it were their daughter or sister being advertised throughout the world as a sex object?

As we all know there used to be a saying that quoted “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” That particular statement is true because even though one may feel as if they see nothing beautiful in them others might feel as if they are quite charming. Individuals feel as if outer beauty is the most important because the outer beauty is more egomaniacal and arrogant. Rather we like it or not the outer beauty is what defines people, and people may believe that one’s body figure, complexion, or sophistication is what makes them alluring. They use material things to help maintain these images; which is why we see so many beauty ads. Commercials can be prejudice towards other thing or products which makes most of these commercials/ads

As images like this began to appear, they shocked the public, especially children who were previously unexposed to such graphics. But, despite the shock factor and the apparent irony that exists in a clothing store whose ads feature models who aren’t wearing clothes, these ads work. Now these bags and other such ads are everywhere, both reflecting the crafty idea to turn customers into walking billboards, as well as representing the number of people who respond to these advertisements.