Olay Total Effects: Surgical Makers’ Break

March 13, 2008 – 1:25 am | Written by KiwiPulse

   

This ad campaign from Olay doesn’t strike to me as effective or interesting. What is the message that they are trying to get across? Are they trying to tell us that this Total Effects 7x anti-aging cream, which is enriched with vitamins and minerals, will combat the seven signs of skin aging and there’s no need for the the ladies to go under the knife! For that fact, the surgeons will have lots of spare time to doodle on faces! Also, what do they mean when they say “surgical makers can do prettier things”?

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Advertising Agency: Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Argentina
Photographer: Vincent Dixon
Source: Ads of the World [1] [2] [3]

    

    


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7 Comments »

Comment by Nicole Price
2008-03-13 02:39:22

Its Surgical “markers” can do prettier things. I think its a pretty effective idea. Does sell to me.

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Comment by Dining Room Table
2008-03-13 06:43:48

Yes peculiarly enough, women seem to like these visuals. For men, I suppose that it does not make sense, to draw lines all over women’s faces and spoil the looks!

 
Comment by Beth
2008-03-13 10:52:03

The ad is clever, but the message probably isn’t immediately obvious to someone casually flipping through a magazine.

 
Comment by Eva White
2008-03-14 00:22:06

Is Olay total effects that effective as they claim to be?

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Comment by CharmaineZoe
2008-03-14 06:57:44

I think if I were casually leafing through a magazine and came across these, I’d stop to take a look - and that’s the whole idea. So from that point of view they work - not too sure if using a womans’face as a drawing board is such a good idea though!

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Comment by narissa
2008-03-14 10:13:35

i think it is effective to some. maybe it depends on the skin type?

about the ads, it does not make sense to me.

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Comment by Bedroom Furniture
2008-03-14 12:22:08

Hmmm, a bit indecipherable that ad. :???:

 
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