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Fashion-y Question
So, I get the Sephora newsletter. And Sephora has six new colors of nailpolish (made by OPI) coming out.
The names are:
It's Bouquet with Me
Handpicked for Me
Go with the Flow-er
Cover Me in Petals
Leaf Him at the Altar
and
Iris I Were Thinner
***
Most of them are pretty mundane. I think the "Leaf..." one is kinda funny, but I'm sorta irked by the last one. I guess it is silly to analyze how a beauty product overtly perpetuates unrealistic standards of beauty, but I really feel this name borders on offensive.
Any other thoughts?
And, if you're curious about colors/etc, here's the link: http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C21930&om_mmc=ret-n1-20100323opi---all-h2b-gwp--om-us-opi-he-h-&dicid=415322:16730597038:12988860
Re: Fashion-y Question
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
They covered this on F&B a while back. A lot of people were rubbed the wrong way by it, but I don't really find it offensive. I don't know about you guys, but I feel like every woman says that! I know I do.
^^^^^^
THIS! This is what I was trying to say! Thank you, KB.
I'd like to think that a big beauty-geared fashion corporation would be well aware of encouraging such a destructive mindset to its customers... so I'm going to believe the name is meant to be ironic.
Lucy Elizabeth 10.27.12
I guess this is my issue. I could really care less about the name. In fact, I rarely read the names, I just look at the colors of the products. I only saw this one because I got the e-mail that said "Showing "Leaf Him at the Altar" and I thought "Huh, that's funny and kinda weird, what are the others called?"
When I saw the other name, my brain went straight to a group of girls I knew in high school. At 17 years old, they always used to *** about how they hated buying a size two or (*gasp*) four and just reeeeaaaaalllly wanted to get to a size zero. Most of them were underweight as it was. They all were die-hard Sephora shoppers. I'm pretty sure they didn't get irony.
I can't speak for the girls on the F&B board, but I haven't bought a "beauty/lifestyle" magazine in over two years. Plus, when I teach advertising analysis in my classes, I show Jean Kilbourne's "Killing Us Softly" (available, I believe, on YouTube -- it's a documentary about the way women are demeaned/oversexualized/too thin/etc. in advertisements).
Again, I can appreciate the joke/tounge-and-cheekness. But I'm a fairly well-adjusted, reasonable adult woman. And as I said in my post just before this, I'm not the one I'm worried about.
I am a die-hard Sephora addict and fashion magazine reader and am pretty comfortable with my large ass and gut, LOL!
I hope my daughter is well enough adjusted to not let the name of a nail polish dictate her body image.