What is the point of advertising some beauty product using people in ads that look like they don’t actually need the product? Lately it seems like most of the ads I see, whether they are commercials or printed in magazines, are for cellulite smoothing crèmes and granny panties that are made to hold in protruding guts. That’s all gravy (or helping the effects of gravy, I should say), but every model I see in them can’t weigh more than 100 pounds, and the only time they’ve really seen cottage cheese is when they are watching it come spewing out as they force it back out of their tight little bodies with one strategically placed finger.
Call me old fashioned, but seeing as these products are made to sucker in middle aged, out of shape housewives that have popped out a few pups, aren’t they the ones we should see in the ads? Maybe I just don’t get it. If anything, seeing perfect models using these products makes me want them less, I always think to myself “I’ll get it as soon as I lose 20 lbs and go under the knife for a few procedures.” They seem more like maintenance or tune up tactics and not miracle solutions.
You really want me to buy your crap? Don’t put someone fresh off America’s Next Top Model in your commercial; Show me that it can turn Kirstie Alley into a Kardashian, and I might consider it.
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