Advertising that portrays beauty: healthy or heinous. Send me tips.

Next week, I'm going to focus on advertising for products and services related to beauty. Specifically, I am going to highlight both positive messages, and messages that contribute to the whole beauty distortion. I'm going to put companies in the spotlight for either being helpful to portraying healthy/uplifting images of beauty, or contributing to the unrealistic standards.

Advertising is a powerful weapon, and we as consumers have enormous power to either accept or reject the messages being presented to us. When we start flexing our wallets, companies start to take notice.

So, send me tips and links to ads or commercials you've seen where the product message was either:
- Positive and uplifting about healthy beauty images
- Distorted and used feelings of fear and inadequacy as a way to sell

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Update [12.03.06]: Auntie Steph has to go do emergency babysitting of her triplet nieces again this week, so I'm going to push out the advertising theme until the week of 12.11.06. In the meantime, still send me tips. Thanks!