Comments on: Beauty News Bits – Cosmetics making you feel crummy?

By: TheBeautyBrains

TheBeautyBrains — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:10:16 +0000

Jaz…Thanks for the kind words.

Cynical girl…Do you need a model to let you know how good you could look or just a regular looking person?

Incidentally, we’re all suckers.

By: The Glitterati

The Glitterati — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:28:49 +0000

Amen to that, Cynical Girl!

By: Cynical Girl

Cynical Girl — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 03:42:49 +0000

I think you get more flies with honey. Tell me I’m beautiful but that you have a product to let me be MORE BEAUTIFUL and I’ll buy it.

Because I’m a sucker.

By: jaz

jaz — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 15:20:32 +0000

I really love your blog. Thank you for doing this. – jaz

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:17:31 +0000

Well, there's the product and then there's the marketing. The marketing is god awful. It's hard to know what really works and what doesn't, because there's so much heavy-hitting marketing that doesn't tell you anything honest about the product. And then beauty magazines just repeat what the marketers tell them.

And it's also a beauty-product marketing tactic to try to make women feel ugly and inferior. That one is age old.

I can see why a new tactic would work, because lots of women are now very guarded against these old messages.