Oil of Olay admit Twiggy is 300 years old

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News story here

wtf?

this one is my favourite

I KNEW it, she was around when dinosaurs walked the earth, isn't she Adam's (as in Adam and Eve) elder sister

But why has such a fuss been made over THIS particular advert, when there are countless others eg for mascara, where it states 'model wearing false eyelashes, enhanced in post production' and every photo has been photo shopped?

But surely no problem if there is a statement about it, Cybil?

I always watch mascara ads on tv very closely for this reason but never see a disclaimer saying anything like that. Is it so quick its subliminal?

I think there IS a problem...for example they would not be allowed to advertise slim fast for example and say 'fat persons head superimposed onto thin persons body'.

bibbity those disclaimers are on mascara ads(no 7) and hair dye ads too

I think I agree with you Cybil. I think a visible disclaimer (on print or tv ads) is ok. If you live in a world where you think Twiggy (at the age of, what, mid 60s?) doesn't have any wrinkles then you are a sad and hopeless case. Advertising doesn't have to be dumbed down entirely.

But images should say something like "photoshopped" or "airbrushed" as appropriate.

A little while ago The Guardian had an interview with Yoko Ono (70) with a huge close up of her unwrinkled face. I emailed them "Would Yoko's people not let you have the interview without the airbrushed picture, or was that your idea?" Needless to say it wasn't published .

Grandhigh, that is hilarious.
Am honking like sealino with laryngitis.

The Daily Mash is so funny, I like this one

And this

The ads I hate are the ones with Linda "oh I haven't changes my hair colour for at least 3 hours" Evangelista- she looks like an alien.

I have had my mother rolling about with Christmas lights one.

Ok I didn;t open link bfore I started ranting about ads

I had to do one more

MEDIUM-SIZED POTATO TOPS CHRISTMAS TOY CHARTS

Can I do one?

look a this for airbrushing

...look they should just put "all adverts are basically lies designed to appeal to your sense of inadequacy and you're wasting your money" across them all.

Considering there are entire companies who exist purely to airbrush photos of models for magazines are we surprised?

DH is good on photoshop and did a photo of me..wow, I was hot!

Photoshop disasters

Post-production is my DH's job. Mostly does personal shoots though.