Confession: Don't be jealous, but I am totally fine with my armpits. Call me an arrogant rube, call me body-shame ignorant, but prior to the Dove campaign to beautify the pits, I didn't even know I was supposed to hate them. Now I refuse to hate them so that I might one day grow to love them — that's what passes for…
This week, Soledad O'Brien announced that her O'Brien Raymond Starfish Foundation would be teaming up with CoverGirl cosmetics to produce a series of documentaries as part of their "Girls Can" movement. For O'Brien, Girls Can is an way to help empower young women. For CoverGirl, it's the perfect way to convince young…
Sometimes advertising agencies get creative and it’s great. Other times, the sentiment might be there but the message makes you say, "Wait, what?" Enter Dove’s new deodorant campaign in the Garden State.
Do you ever feel isolated, lonely or on the receiving end of a generalized cultural disapproval you can't quite pinpoint? Do you ever get the feeling the products you use and love are not really "meant" for "you"? Do you ever passively wait for the man or woman in your life to purchase a product that isn't actually…
"Why are women so camera shy?" I dunno, maybe because we don't want to look pleasingly pretty just because you want us to? Because we're constantly asked to smile on command, even at work and by complete strangers on the street, and called "bitch" if we're not in the mood? Because we don't feel like performing right this …
British tabloid The Sun wants women to realize how beautiful they truly are by posing for the paper in a thong so they can rate their own naked bodies — and be judged by a panel of men, natch — for a piece on how we ladies are "overly negative on ourselves" but "needn't be." Gee, wonder why that is!
By now, most of us have seen Dove’s “Sketches” video wherein several unsuspecting women describe to a sketch artist how thoroughly hideous they believe their faces truly are (spoiler alert: it’s totally not true). “Sketches,” however, seems to come from as sincere a place as anything created on behalf of a giant…
Dove Chocolate advertising masterminds Fred Armisen and Bill Hader want to know: are you more likely to tamp some Dove chocolates down your food pipe if a serene white lady is telling you to do it? Or would you rather have Kevin Hart shout chocolate endorsements at you while you watch molten chocolate being drizzled…
When a guy named Trevor Maltby left his car at the Cairns International Airport in Australia to go on a six-day business trip, he returned to find a small bird perched on top of a tiny nest on the windshield wiper blade of his Audi hatchback. This is one of the few occurrences in life that is both A) a really good omen …
Dove had positioned itself as being morally superior to other health and beauty brands after launching its legendary Campaign for Real Beauty in 2004 and its non-profit efforts to promote self-esteem in young girls. As far as corporations go, Dove seemed like a good one—or at least better than others—with a positive…
On tonight's Report, Stephen Colbert reported on Dove's recent launch of a deodorant specifically designed to make women's armpits more attractive. And while some may consider this a new low in the effort to exploit women's insecurities, Colbert saw a brilliant money-making opportunity.
Your armpit, already the subject of Vogue scrutiny for possible plastic surgery, has another problem besides being fat and saggy: Being just plain ugly.
A reader tipped us to this Craigslist ad promoting a casting call for Dove's "Real Beauty" campaign, which prides itself on featuring non-models in order to expand the traditional definition of beauty. The casting call, however, veers from that mission:
It started quietly, with the appearance of black loofahs in the body wash aisle. Marketing body wash to men has proved to be quite lucrative, unleasing a wave of new ads determined to convince men their body wash is magic.
This summer you can live like you're in an Axe commercial when the brand sponsors a Hamptons nightclub for the entire summer. Will ladies be as irresistibly attracted to the club as they are to dudes who douse themselves in the gross-smelling body spray?
This spring, both Target and Forever 21 are offering plus-size clothes for teens. This, of course, raises a whole host of issues:
Do you ever like to imagine stories about people you see on the street? Dove asked female strangers to share first impressions of one another on video, and the results are strangely uplifting.
Deodorant brands Sure and Dove are set to release new deodorants next month that promise to slow underarm hair growth with regular use. The brands, both made by Unilever, are said to use a "pro-epil" complex which supposedly slows the rate of hair growth. Unilever believes that the new products will be popular with…
