I’m not sure that a fascination on stars without their makeup is really indicative of the desired outcome.
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Enough has been said about the crisis facing women today, it’s time for a major media conduit to take action. As the Dove campaign has shown, encouraging women to embrace their natural bodies and building young girls self-esteem can be beneficial for females and drive consumer dollars. Let’s use this method by offering our purchasing power in exchange for influence.
Everybody that joins this campaign fights the ‘bad body image’ hysteria sweeping the nation. Each person signed up commits to buying at least two copies of the first magazine that publishes an issue where at least the feature photo shoot and cover does not have any airbrushing.
Why at least two? The issue would double in sales, making this campaign attractive to the publishers. You can give the extra copy to a friend who doesn’t know her own beauty. Spread the word that the standards for beauty we are not always what we see in the mainstream media.
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The Ralph Lauren perfume range continues to grow in strength with its new releases.
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Estee lauder war born on 1st July 1908 in New York, USA. Lauder was the only woman on TIME magazine’s 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988. Estee has attraction towards beauty products right from her childhood and so she started her career selling skin creams manufactured by her uncle. After her marriage, with the help of her husband, she launched her own company known as Estee Lauder Company in 1935.
In 1953 Lauder introduced her first fragrance, YOUTH DEW, bath oil that doubled as a perfume. Instead of using their French perfumes by the drop behind each ear, women were using Youth Dew by the bottle in their bath water. In the first year Youth Dew sold fifty thousand, by 1984, the figure had jumped to one hundred and fifty million. Lauder was a subject of a 1985 TV documentary called Estee Lauder: The Sweet Smell of Success.
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Dolce and Gabbana is the world-famed design house that made major affect on beauty in last 15 years. It was founded by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Since its beginning in 1985, Dolce and Gabbana has been considered as revolutionary affect in International fashion design. They have released many perfumes that have done very well for them.
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so it looks like maybe somebody listened: April issue of French Elle is “Stars Without Makeup”
http://tinyurl.com/cewp6c
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It’s finally really catching on:
See this NYTimes article. Thanks everyone!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/fashion/28RETOUCH.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=media
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What a great idea. I think it’s creepy how photoshopped everything is nowdays. It gives men a very distorted standard of beauty that doesn’t even, in reality, exist (and may not even be physically possible).
It’s shocking how “anorexic chic” is the new look with actresses. It was like that in the 80’s, then in the 90’s we had the Supermodels like Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, who looked healthy and muscular. Now it is a freak show to see who can look the most sunken-in. I don’t understand it.
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Anonymous replied on Mar 15, 2009Great Campaign Ms. OnDrey!
Great response Outdoors2!
Vanity in this country is out of control!
It is disgusting. It is destroying our younger generations. It is not reality
Try putting some normal, naturally beautiful women on these covers.If only most of the world could realize that beauty does come from within, we could put these “Vanity Poisoners” out of business.
Just my opinion, half the men in this world looking at and/or reading this kind of smut to get some kind of thrill, don’t even know these pictures are airbrushed.
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Hello to everyone that has joined the campaign! First, I want to say “THANK YOU.” You have inspired me to put all my efforts into this project. I just wanted to send an announcement out that outlines what those efforts have been and how you can help them!
Your help has come first and foremost by joining the campaign. If that is all the time and effort you can donate to the cause – thank you for that! This email is intended for anyone else that feels particularly strong about this issue, as I do, and I promise that this email will not be followed by any more unless there is some MAJOR news.
What we need right now? More attention to the campaign.
How can we do that? By getting more memberships.
Why? Publishers and media will be more likely to publish an issue/pick up this story if they know that tons of people want it!
The most important thing you can do? Get a friend to sign up. Get your mom, your little sister, your daughter. Send it on to your family members, your sorority, your volleyball team, your facebook friends, and any other group you know that there are women who might want to see a cover without the warping and changing so common now.
What have I been up to? First, I have been busy sending this campaign to everyone I know and their mothers (literally). The campaign is getting attention on the blogosphere after it got started with the Jez post, but there is plenty more to be done. Have a blog? Write about it! Know a good blogger? Send this to them as a tip!
I’m also sending the campaign and the wonderful responses I’ve gotten on to media outlets. Who better to cover a magazine story than the mainstream media? Someone will listen to this challenge that we’ve presented to magazines!
I am trying to exhaust every outlet and every possibility online, and that includes sites like Diggand Yahoo Buzz. If you have accounts on either of these sites, feel free to Digg the campaign or Buzz— it up.
Again, thanks for joining, and if you made it this far, thanks for reading!
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Anonymous replied on Nov 25, 2008Wierd idea.
If you had a face like a pizza, wouldn’t you want to be photoshopped a bit?
It’s not all photoshop any way-they have this stuff called ‘makeup’ these days.
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Clare Ondrey replied on Nov 25, 2008Weird idea – but not really understood by you I see.
The longer this campaign has gone on, the more I’ve heard people make this (or similar) comments.
There is a middle ground between asking a magazine to not completely change a woman’s bone structure with photoshop and asking them to put someone with ‘a face like a pizza’ (what is this, Animal House?) on the cover. I know photoshop very well and I know what professionals ’shoppers do to pictures. Trust me, there could be a compromise for a magazine cover.
It’s amazing that so many people can support this idea, and yet so many can also get so threatened by it. This is why it’s important for women to stay positive and support each other in all sorts of ways!









