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How MAC Cosmetics Sells Product

This is how MAC Cosmetics chooses to sell its products.  I suppose if you're an "intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch" they'll still take your money.

http://www.maccosmetics.com/whats_new/plushglass_video.tmpl?ngextredir=1

 

Here is a rough transcript of what Sandra Bernhard says in the commercial. It truly was painful listening to it.

Yes I get it, it's about my lips. You're always ready to move on with your lips. I mean, these are lips that reflect the 60's…Flint, Michigan. Hotness, sexiness.

You got in your Pontiac station wagon and you drove cross country and you saw the world as it was. The little highways and byways. The evolution of music and the radio.

This little mouth was here, in New York City, eating a Belgian waffle.

Can you rally handle it? I mean, when you think about it can you handle these lips? There I am, with this mouth, with these lips, lips that represent sexuality first and foremost.

Oh she's freaking me out! She's scaring me! If you're some little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right wing, republican, thin lipped bitch…

If I had thin lips, I can never express myself the way I'm able to express myself, with a kind of passion. Sexy…powerpout…loudmouth!

A little hyaluronic acid from a roosters comb…cock-a-doodle-do

Full bodied lips. Sexy in seconds, full and sexy. It all comes together from the inside out. Buxom, full and flushy, shapely, spicy, ample, plump…seeking...pucker.

Are you ready to be grabbed, thrown down on a bed and ravaged? Kissed and loved and adored for the responsibility you created.

I'm talking about MAC plushglass, volumizer, powerpout, and color.

 

Crikey!

**Update**

Looks like they edited the video taking out the idiotic venom.  I'd like to see them get rid of her as a spokesperson, better yet, the brainiac at Estee Lauder's marketing who thought this was ok. 

 

**Update**

The link above doesn't lead to the video anymore but I found it on Youtube

 

Posted by Ed Z on August 15, 2006 02:16 PM |

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I am thin-lipped, and definitely a right-wing, Republican bitch. But should I ever run into Sandra Bernhardt, I'll make sure to make her notice how unintimidated and unafraid I am, especially of some wannabee star who never quite made it.

Posted by: Karol at alarmingnews.com [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 19, 2006 12:21 PM

Sort of sorry I missed it. It sounds like it would have raised my hackles and I love having my hacles raised...

Posted by: prying1 [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 19, 2006 09:28 PM

It really was unbearable. And to think, someone got paid to put that commercial together.

Posted by: Ed Z | August 20, 2006 12:34 AM

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