Comments on: Dove Commercials

By: rick

rick — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:13:45 +0000

So the question is, do women with naturally coloured hair require improvement, Jen?

As long as we're all 'keeping it real' isn't it hypocrisy to say 'Real is fine - unless it's your grey hair. That you have to dye.'

What's the message? Fat or thin = Ok, Grey hair = bad?

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:06:24 +0000

Hmm, I don't really agree that there is something fundamentally wrong with a woman who dyes her hair. Just because a woman tries to improve her appearance doesn't necessarily reflect negatively on her self-esteem IMO.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 30 May 2007 22:48:36 +0000

I don't, which is why I said "I assume".

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:56:17 +0000

how do you know the hair was dyed at home or at a salon? I've seen plenty of the older women having grey hair

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:02:07 +0000

I suppose the women's makeup and hair styling was done by professional artists for the shoots, but I'm not sure I would assume all the coloring was.

Anyway, I don't find anything ironic in dyed hair appearing in these ads. The point of the campaign, as near as I can tell, is similar to the point that Elder Holland stressed to women in the last general conference: to be more accepting of women's bodies in all their glorious varieties of size, shape and color. To my mind, that includes acceptance of the ones who choose to dye their hair.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:36:49 +0000

I mean I assume the hair stylists the commercial producers used did the dyeing.

Good points, Mike.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:24:45 +0000

Considering Dove sells hair colouring products, I assume they are not home dying jobs.

I don't understand. Do you mean that because Dove sells home dyeing kits (not home dying kits, which are sold in Dr. Kevorkian's catalogue ;) ) the women in the ads haven't used the Dove home coloring kits?

I promise I'm not just trying to be a smarty. I really am having trouble following you.

By: Mike Peterson

Mike Peterson — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:40:35 +0000

Not odd, but thought provoking. At what point is beauty no longer "real"?

Is wearing make-up cheating. Dying your hair? Getting plastic surgery?

Where is the line?

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:28:21 +0000

Considering Dove sells hair colouring products, I assume they are not home dying jobs.

Every woman I have seen with dyed hair is a real woman. Not a single mannequin among them.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:02:31 +0000

I know lots of real women who dye their hair.