In advertising, skincare commercials/ads are marketed print visuals and/or visual-audio videos created by the beauty/skincare industry that sell acne reduction or removal products. These commercials/ads work to target insecure acne-prone teenagers or adults (usually women) and trick them into believing their skin must look flawless in order to be considered “beautiful.” Basically, it’s selling a specific idea of “beauty” created by this society which is being absolutely flawless. An analogy of this would be make-up commercials/ads. These commercials/ads are similar to make-up ads, considering make-up ads also are selling an idea of beauty and how flaws should be covered up. Similarly, skincare/ads are selling the idea that flaws should be decreased or avoided from appearing on the skin. [...]

In advertising, fragrance ads are mass-marketed commercials and print ads that sell products such as perfumes and colognes. These ads are different from most others due to their eccentric and widely-recognizable tropes, such as an overtly esoteric and artistic presentation, highly-aestheticized cinematography, vague plot and imagery, and persistent attempts at subliminal messaging. The ads work by targeting a specific demographic of the population and selling a desirable fantasy or lifestyle that is supposed to resonate with the potential customer’s identity. For example, J’Adore by Dior is a fragrance ad that uses elements such as actress Charlize Theron, streaks of gold, and shots of high decor to present an appealing fantasy of luxury and class. [...]

“Mind your own biscuits and life will be gravy”

Qualifier: southern breakfast food

Term: Minding your own business

Classification: something you tell a nosy person

Differentiation: the saying is a play on words that combines a moral concept with food

Sentence: In the south people use breakfast food to create a saying that tells people to mind their own business because someone is being too nosy; the saying combines a moral concept taught in southern homes with the southern traditional foods of biscuits and gravy.

“She’s whiskey in a teacup”

Qualifier(s): Teacups are delicate and pretty like a lady / whiskey is strong alcohol the mostly country men drink to get drunk and act wild

Term: She’s wild and yet still a lady

Classification: Women of the south are strong willed and still uphold an image of pretty

Differentiation: most southern women are viewed as damsels in distress and need help with everything, but they can also be tough and strong

Sentence: When you picture a teacup you think that the content inside is tea but in the southern sayings that uses a teacup and whiskey we are talking about the strength of a woman, she is wild and yet still acts like a lady and upholds morals; women of the south are strong willed and can still hold an image of looking pretty despite being viewed as a damsel in distress and needing help with everything southern women can also be strong and tough. [...]

Today’s Tea:

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…….(           )          (          )       )

__(____(___)____(___(__(________

\            Just cuz it’s dubstep         /__

..\           Doesn’t make it            /         |

…..\                Riddim               /_____|

……..\_____________________/

(tweet created by Subtronics)

Used widely by DJs to create music especially at music festivals, Riddim is a type of Electronic Dance Music that uses a variation of flangers and triplet percussions to create a rhythm. Flangers are used to mix two sounds together—one of the sounds is slowly introduced into the first sound—and a triplet percussion are three beats played along with the original beat. In Shock Value by Subtronics, you can hear the triplet percussion and flangers being used between :45 and 1:00. [...]

On Instagram, an Inspirational Quote is a sentence that is written on a background/image and posted on an inspirational quote page which is meant to produce a specific effect on readers. An inspirational quote is classified as a quote that motivates and encourages its readers. While a regular quote can serve many purposes, an Inspirational quote’s purpose is to uplift and encourage. An example of an Inspirational quote is “If cauliflower can somehow become pizza… you, my friend, can do anything.” [...]