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To wonder why no-one in spot adverts has actually got spots?

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 21:25

Just watched the Freederm advert.

All the teenagers in it had the clearest skin I've ever seen. Not one spot amongst any of them.

Why would any of them need a spot product? Do the advertisers think we are plankton?

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RevoltingPeasant · 27/05/2013 21:29

Clearly it's because they all use the product!

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 27/05/2013 21:30

Same as why people in anti-wrinkle cream adverts don't have wrinkles?

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 21:32

I thought that, revolting, but aren't advertisers supposed to make you identify with the person using the product?

If you're a sad 14-year-old with a face like rhubarb and custard, you're not going to be convinced, are you?

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PhallicGiraffe · 27/05/2013 21:33

Because if they had spots, it wouldn't be a very good spot cream.

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 21:34

Actually I love the anti-wrinkle adds where the young woman with perfect skin, who must be all of 18 years old, pretends to rub the product into her skin, but she is just wafting her finger over her face!

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 21:35

They could do before and after shots, phallic.

But then the spots would probably be those joke stick-on ones.

I know, I'm fighting a losing battle here.

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LadyBeagleEyes · 27/05/2013 21:36

Wot they said^^.
I'm still looking for the perfect anti wrinkle cream. but it's way too late.

ImTooHecsyForYourParty · 27/05/2013 21:39

And the 20 year olds in the hair dye adverts claiming it covers all the grey.

Piss OFF and take your upward facing nipples with you.

oh. And the lash lengthening mascara with the models clearly wearing falsies and the magic shampoo and conditioner ads with the models with the hair extensions? Yes, I'll buy your product that's so great you can only advertise it by using people with fakes!

fridayfreedom · 27/05/2013 21:43

And people using star lifts when they walk briskly up to them and hop on!

fridayfreedom · 27/05/2013 21:43

Stairlifts!!!

StuntGirl · 27/05/2013 21:55

I agree, its ridiculous. Companies should be forced to prove their products work and show real results, not tout crap about how 68% of people from a sample size of 78 liked it. Bollocks to 'em.

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 22:00

And people wearing designer glasses who have prescription-free lenses because they do not need to wear glasses! At least you can tell those fakers, though. Glasses just look so wrong on them.

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Badgerwife · 27/05/2013 22:05

Grin at glasses look so wrong on them

I've needed glasses since I was 15 and bloody hell did they look wrong on me!

Yy to all the rubbish stats and those bastardly teens with the most amazing skin I've ever seen; as if the spots were all magicked away after one application

OctopusPete8 · 27/05/2013 22:07

I totally get you on this,

arabesque · 27/05/2013 22:07

And 'busy mums' who are actually size 8 twenty year olds 'busy' going out and enjoying themselves, not worrying about the absorbancy of disposable nappies.

Fluffycloudland77 · 27/05/2013 22:10

Or supermodels advertising packet hair dye. Worth millions but I slap me own high lift tint on every month.

Course you love, course you do.

I imagine they only go to west London salons for a blow dry and a gossip, not an all over tint with highlights.

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 22:16

You know what I mean, badgerwife.

I've worn glasses for 40 years and while I live in boe of someone taking them off and saying, "But Miss Rhonda, you're beautiful," I do feel they suit me and I look like I'm meant to be wearing them.

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 22:17

boe?

hope!

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Moominsarehippos · 27/05/2013 22:40

Because the kids in the ads are 9 years old. There was a press ad a couple of years back and the model really did look about 14. It was in the sunday times and I almost bust a gasket spluttering over my coffee at it.

Load a hooey. Bloody evil marketing bastards.

Badgerwife · 27/05/2013 22:41

I'm a reluctant glasses-wearer, I'll admit Smile but that's coz my one redeeming feature is my eyes and nobody can ever see them. I was devastated at 15, I could never look like those fakers with their big black-rimmed librarian glasses that still manage to make them look cool and amazing

Moominsarehippos · 27/05/2013 22:41

The model was in a wrinkle cream ad (oops, makes more sense to point that out).

DS says I look much better with my specs on. Thanks Son.

Bobyan · 27/05/2013 22:43

They can't use before and after spot shots because none of the over the counter spot stuff works on anything more than the occasional small zit.

As a 20 year acne sufferer believe me I know!

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SuburbanRhonda · 27/05/2013 23:02

Exactly bobyan.

It is galling for people with problem skin to be told all you have to do is waft some stupid "cool" teenage product over your spots and bingo - they're gone.

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SinisterBuggyMonth · 27/05/2013 23:34

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stopgap · 27/05/2013 23:55

I don't think the product is up to much, but at least Proactiv features users' before and after pictures.