absolutely fantastic.
pay attention ladies..
and gents.
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What a unique concept. Had tears in my eyes watching the women look at both pictures. You could really see the wheels turning.

Oh man, what if your own description looks better than the person describing you? I asked myself a series of questions about my own features and began describing attributes of comely aspects rather than faults-Self-Esteem intact, check!

I seriously dig the unusual aspects of a person's face rather than the mundane or golden mean perfection of one-Funky noses and succulent, over-sized lips, and maybe some freckles and forehead wrinkles....crooked smiles are always good

Someone describe the perfect buttocks now...

> Someone describe the perfect buttocks now...

Her ass? It looked like two weather balloons being inflated under 10 sq. yards of canvas cloth. In the dark light of the club, she looked just shy of being neutrally buoyant , as she literally swept the other dancers off their feet with her wide swinging load.

Absolutely wonderful to watch.

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I always thought it was odd that Dove has this "Real Beauty" campaign, but is itself a subsidiary of Unilever, one of the largest multinational personal care companies whose 'other' ad campaigns are responsible for the creation of the very issues this "Real Beauty" campaign is trying to combat.

Good message. Bad company. I guess I can upvote.

I hope I never have to describe a face for the police. I'd be useless.
Nose? Er, yes, he had one.
What shape? Er, hmm, er, nose shaped.
Eyes? Definitely.
Prominent feature? His AK47.

Sweet, let's keep telling women how beautiful they are, how many kinds of beauty there are, how important it is for them to find their own beauty and how important it is for them to focus on their attractiveness and how they're perceived by others. That way they won't have incentives to aspire to political, economical or technological power in society. Classy stuff.

Yeah I was a bit divided on how to vote for the same reason. I doubt many on the sift will be influenced to buy dove products just because of this commercial so eh...what the hell.

You raise an excellent point, which really tarnishes the possible good intentions that people surely put into this kind of publicity stunt. On the one hand it's a positive thing to try to expose the distorted self-image women are pressured to have of themselves, but it is ultimately a system of playing good cop bad cop in order to sustain the status quo and, above all, sell loads of shit.. "You're fat and ugly and a bad lover!" "No, you are beautiful and sexy and deserving of pampering!" Bottom ground: "you are all about looks and sex and gives us your money now please."

/steps off soapbox

Honesty and open mindedness are the key. If you're honest and open minded and are surrounded by honesty and open mindedness, then your body image should be solid and you can then focus on things that matter.

Just freaking stay in shape, that's where the hotness lies. We're physical creatures not meant to dwell as if in solitary confinement at our desktop.

I wonder what this would end up like if men were asked to do it.

Moral of the story is women tend to over analyze and turn trivial shit into issues?

Stop the presses - nobody in human history ever noticed THAT before!

this is bias - the sketcher knew the purpose of the experiment thus he could have overly exaggerated the ugliness of the self-described sketch and overly-exaggerated the fine lines and beauty on the sketch described by the 3rd person (if you know what I mean).

This wasn't double blind - the artist should have asked the exact same questions to the women regardless of whether they were described themselves or somebody else - and the women should have answered the questions in the same way.
But still - interesting.

You Are More Beautiful Than You Think You Are

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This could easily be applied to men, as well, though I think men are more likely to be closed off about it or to pretend they don't care (see BBWAF). Nearly everyone wishes they were (more) attractive, and nearly everyone focuses on their shortcomings rather than their advantages.

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Because looks are the most important thing. WTF.

Maybe women are just modest?

Why don't they care about how men view their own beauty?

End sexism now.

"Than" is the word you were looking for. "Then" is chronological, than is comparative.

Better yet, the artist shouldn't have known which woman was being described.

And I reckon the results would be reversed for men.

Overweight, Nah, I'm just solid.
Grey haired? Distinguished looking.
Short? Stocky.
Wears glasses? intellectual.

Frankly, the whole thing reminded me of this

Anyone remember that experiment a while ago where people were shown a selection of pictures of faces and asked to grade them on perceived beauty? The faces were procedurally composited from photos of different people, and the results seemed to indicate the more generic the face, the better the beauty score it received.

Now, a sketchbook artist session, AFAIK, is a back-and-forth process, where the artist draws something and the person doing the describing asks for adjustments - wider nose, eyes closer together etc. - until the result seems close enough. I suspect we can all describe ourselves much more accurately in such a process than we can random strangers we've never seen before. The stranger's description is likely to be much more generic than our own, and given the aforementioned experiment, therefore more beautiful.

What about all the people that really, are not beautiful but we keep trying to tell them that they are? its like all the people that claim they are AVERAGE size.. UM.. no your not and the NEW average size its only because people eat to much so that does not make the new AVERAGE acceptable or attractive it just means that the selection pool just became even smaller.

Regardless of any details and features, when someone smiles so genuinely you can see it in their eyes, they're beautiful.

You're beautiful! Don't forget to buy moisturiser though.

haha so pleased to see criticisms in the comments here. my fucking facebook feed was wild with praise for this horseshit.

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http://videosift.com/video/Dove-Real-Beauty-Sketches-Men

and remember this one?
"Talk to your daughter before Unilever does"
http://videosift.com/video/A-message-from-Unilever

First one slays me. Second one is dead.

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role reversal ftw!
2nd one is alive & deserves more eyeballs!

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