I am shocked and appalled!
I am addicted to fashion magazines. I absolutely love reading through them, laughing at the women on the don't list, shocked by the women with the hideous outfits and bars across their eyes, in awe of the articles of clothing that I will never ever be able to afford, and, yes, I am magnetically drawn to the perfume sample pages. I love them most. The first thing I do is open up each one and take a whiff. Some I love, some I merely like, others I hate.
I got my 'Allure' magazine in the mail today. Like usual, I start out flipping through and finding the perfume samples. Lot's of good ones this month. Then I get to page 199. It's a picture of a woman kneeling in what looks like 2 or 3 inches of water on a blue surface. "Beguile your senses. Succumb to the freshness." Is written on the page. Hmmmm....... I'm thinking. Very intriguing. So, I rip open the folded part, and stare in disbelief. It's a fricking Tampax ad!! A scented fricking Tampax ad!! I almost died. This has totally ruined the perfume sample experience for me. "New Tampax Fresh. The only cardboard tampon that doesn't smell like a cardboard tampon."
5 Reasons why this is just plain wrong
I got my 'Allure' magazine in the mail today. Like usual, I start out flipping through and finding the perfume samples. Lot's of good ones this month. Then I get to page 199. It's a picture of a woman kneeling in what looks like 2 or 3 inches of water on a blue surface. "Beguile your senses. Succumb to the freshness." Is written on the page. Hmmmm....... I'm thinking. Very intriguing. So, I rip open the folded part, and stare in disbelief. It's a fricking Tampax ad!! A scented fricking Tampax ad!! I almost died. This has totally ruined the perfume sample experience for me. "New Tampax Fresh. The only cardboard tampon that doesn't smell like a cardboard tampon."
5 Reasons why this is just plain wrong
- When was the last time anyone told you 'you smell like a cardboard tampon?' I don't think anyone is actually going to be smelling that location during usage.
- "Succumb to the freshness." Who are they trying to fool? Fresh cut grass is fresh, the air after a nice rain is fresh. If a woman needs this to smell fresh, she should be seeing a doctor.
- I was tricked! Had I known I was about to open a scratch and sniff for a new Tampax scent, I probably wouldn't have.
- I'm baffled how the woman is kneeling in water yet her dress is blowing up in the breeze. That just bugs me.
- Do they really think hordes of women will be storming the doors at their nearest Wal Mart to get their hands on these little gems?? "Oh, thank God, I seen the ad in my magazine and I just love that scent!! I've gotta get these!"
Day 3 without Charlie. I'm a little crabby now. My kids have driven me crazy today, if I could, I would run away. :D
@ 5:19 PM
6 Comments:
LOL! Seriously no one has ever told me I smelled like cardboard. But maybe they were just being polite!
Hilarious!!!!
"Succumb to the freshness." Who are they trying to fool? Fresh cut grass is fresh, the air after a nice rain is fresh. If a woman needs this to smell fresh, she should be seeing a doctor.
I can see it now...I am in an elevator, and someone says, hmm....is someone on the rag in here? i smell summertime!
Nobody has ever told me that either chicken little. I'm pretty sure it's just a plot to work away at our insecurities to make us believe that if we don't use these new tampax tampons, we will smell like cardboard. LOl
seahag, that's funny!! I'll be constantly wondering now, is it perfume or feminine hygene products?? Yikes!
madman, I'm glad I got a good laugh out of you. Makes my day. :)
it's just plain wrong. thats all there is to it.
wrong.
I agree Bobby! :D
Life could be worse - just think. You could be the marketing director for Tampax, and have to run those idiotic ideas past the rest of the team... bleah. Can't you just see yourself up in the wee hours of the night, trying to think of how to make women want to buy them? Makes these horrible high heels feel better.
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