7 Comments For This Post

1. Rullsenberg wrote:
   September 21, 2008 | Reply
   

   Partner Cloud confused Keeley in the Boots ads with Keira K in Chanel: not sure who I felt more sorry for in that confusion...

2. Rob replied to Rullsenberg's comment:
   September 21, 2008 | Reply
   

   You know, if you rubbed those two together, you'd end up with a fire...

3. Rev-Views wrote:
   September 21, 2008 | Reply
   

   Ignoring how smug she is in those adverts they've really done their best to make her look awful in the second one haven't they? That eye makeup (darned if I know the proper word for it) looks like she's all made up ready for a post apocalyptic attack in a Mad Max type world.

   I wonder if there's a future marketing warpaint for the amazonian tribes of the wilderness after the bomb drops...

4. Anonymous wrote:
   September 22, 2008 | Reply
   

   It's not her I hate, it's the hideously patronising adverts.

   Woman: I am too stupid to understand makeup and skin cream.
   Man: Let me explain it slowly to you.
   Woman: Ooh! I'm too stupid to get this. Let me flirt with you instead.
   Man: No, I want to talk about science.

   I am going round to every Boots in the country and posting a copy of The Beauty Myth through the door.

5. Marie wrote:
   September 22, 2008 | Reply
   

   Oops, that was me, BTW.

6. Rob replied to Anonymous's comment:
   September 22, 2008 | Reply
   

   Which is pretty much why I hate the ads, too. But

   a) She is very irritating in them
   b) She agreed to do them. "Yes, please sign me up for a series of adverts in which I end up making Jennifer Aniston look like a Nobel prize winner. That'll do nicely."

7. annalowman wrote:
   September 22, 2008 | Reply
   

   Ha, Marie, that's the perfect summation.