dove revision
Historically, Dove has represented women in their adverts as very glamorous and conventionally attractive with a very feminine look. They are often show bathing but wearing lipstick, eye shadow and nail polish. In 2002 Dove rebranded and did research and found that most women do not describe themselves as beautiful and 68% think they are average and believe that media creates unrealistic beauty standards that makes women feel worse about themselves. With this data Dove created the campaign called 'Real Beauty' by using normal people in their advertising to highlight the problems with hyper reality that them moved towards the 'evolution' campaign to show the world that they are being lied to by the beauty industry. Final thoughts Dove challenges beauty standards that are created and blown out of proportion by the beauty industry. The 'good mother' stereotype Over many years , the media has constructed a societal stereotype of the mother as a woman who cooks, cle...