Regular readers will have noticed that I haven’t been blogging that much lately. But I haven’t been inactive. I have for some time thought that what I do would lend itself well to being done in a podcast format rather than just text. Very good. Unfortunately, it turned out that I [...]
With profits of €1.8 billion, they aren’t exactly barely scraping by, but profits are down. L’Oréal are not performing as well as other big companies at the moment.
I can’t help thinking that the biggest problem is just that they are simply too big. Some of the brands that get lost in their huge stable ought [...]
Not directly related to beauty, but a handy reminder that there are always people out there ready to separate you from your money and not too scrupulous about how they go about it.
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Recent archeological research has turned up evidence that Neanderthals ground up shells to adorn their bodies.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/11/caveman-neanderthal-makeup-spain
The kind of man that a woman finds attractive varies over her monthly cycle. During ovulation more masculine looking men are rated more highly. Also men with more dissimilar immune systems are more appealing. During the less fertile stages, less masculine and more similar men immunologically are the preference. It isn’t [...]
I am normally a bit of a news junkie but I have been traveling this week so I haven’t had my normal newspaper fix. As a result of this the first I heard about the rather gruesome story from Peru was from a briefing note from the cosmetic manufacturers trade association. The note was assuring [...]
This week I heard for the first time about Google’s planned Chrome OS system. When I found out that it was planned to be a clean and quick operating system I knew straight away that I wanted it and that when it comes out I will get it. The interesting thing is [...]
I really thought I had seen it all, but this really is a novel marketing angle. A UK company has launched a lip gloss product that includes a test strip so you can check if someone has doctored your drink with a date-rape drug. The idea is that it will be on sale in vending [...]
The Advertising Standards Agency in the UK is charged with maintaining standards in advertising. On the whole, I think they do a good job. You don’t have to work in a consumer goods company to know that there are people about who will say almost anything to make a sale. If you spend any time [...]
