Covergirl Makeup Line: A Case Study

Decent Essays
The Covergirl makeup line is another product category that could play with self-concept and self-esteem in marketing. For years, covergirl had not had a makeup model for African Americans. I think that Covergirl would get more clients by having a variety of African American celebrities or models to advertise products at one time. Franklin states “Due to economic pressures, advertising decision makers have been pressed to tighten and restrain marketing resources, including Black and other culturally targeted efforts, rather than increasing them” (Franklin, 2014, p. 260). The Covergirl need to come up with a realistic advertising concept for the everyday busy woman.

African American women are looking for a woman with a hectic lifestyle. The

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The article, “Size zero, high-end ethnic: Cultural production and the reproduction of culture in the fashion modeling,” exemplifies the high expectations of modeling for other racially models in ways that explain how producers in the modeling industry, weigh their decisions on two analytically liked issues such as body types and racial exclusion. Mears argues a valid point illustrating how darker skinned toned females that are chosen to walk in the runways exemplify the opposite to the normatively white female body. She states, “Content analyses of fashion media consistently show that darker skinned women have and continue to be posed and styled in exotic juxtaposition to the normatively white female body, if they are included in fashion at all” (Mears, 24). Colour of Beauty, mentions that African American…

    • 439 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Madam C.J.Walker, was born Sarah Breedlove, she created hair products for African American hair and was one of the first American women to become a self made millionaire. Madam Walker made her money by inventing hair products that straightens kinky hair,. Madam Walker was a phenomenal woman, she built her community and women self esteem. Sarah Breedlove was born in the late 1867. Sarah also was born on a cotton plantation, also she was the first of her family to be born free.…

    • 433 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Due to Canada’s current growth margin, the ideal approach to reach optimum target markets a Greenfield Investment strategy must be implemented as the mode of entry. Free standing, buildings are imperative to achieve the convenience level consumers demand to achieve their patronage. Pros. Control over company image is paramount. By begging bare bones and building from the ground up ULTA Beauty is able to control store image and brand image, as well as staff.…

    • 799 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ulta Beauty Case Study

    • 1039 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Since they went public in 2007 ULTA has faced some declines in stock prices and faced management changes ULTA has maintained a steady rise in stock prices. This is a good company to invest in for the short term because they have a strong consumer base and has maintained their name in the beauty industry. As for a long term investment potential investors should keep a watch on the stock and the management systems. When this stabilizes I believe ULTA will be a strong contender for long-term as well as short-term investments. Bibliography AP News.…

    • 1039 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    This in turn makes them believe that the product will make them feel the same way. According to Berns, Barton, and Kerby, “Currently women account for 47 percent of the labor force… This is a major increase from 1950, when women represented just 29.6 percent of the workforce” (Berns, Barton, & Kerby, 2012, Women, para. 1). Due to the changing of their target demographics women make up a large part of the workforce today, and by producing an ad telling them that they can succeed the majority of women will feel that COVERGIRL supports them.…

    • 1552 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ulta Salon, Cosmetics, & Fragrance, Inc., now known as Ulta Beauty, Inc., was founded by Dick George and Terry Hanson. The two founders, once executives at Osco Drug, became business partners and launched a business plan made to revolutionize the way women shop for cosmetics (Kukec, 2017). George, once the president of Osco, had developed a new retail concept that would offer high-end cosmetics and fragrances, including services like hair salons and nails. The idea was to provide a convenient shopping experience for the busy shopper. Hanson was promoted at Osco, but in just a few short months, joined George’s team to help develop his ideas.…

    • 729 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Courtney Holdrieth Makeup Artistry is a makeup artistry studio that is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their services include bridal makeup, bridal spray tanning package, special occasion makeup, and spray tanning. Courtney Holdrieth has got a combined 420 hours of intensive training at the prestigious Makeup Designory School in New York City. Courtney Holdrieth Makeup Artistry has been seen in The Knot Magazine.…

    • 62 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Case Study: Lash Esthetica

    • 1285 Words
    • 5 Pages

    The entrepreneur I interviewed was Jessica Gonzalez, the owner and founder of Lash Esthetica. Lash Esthetica is a salon located in West Hartford, Connecticut that specializes in eyelash extensions, facial treatments and medicinal aromatherapy. Lash Esthetica was the first eyelash extension shop to be opened in Connecticut. The salon opened in 2006 and is still in business today. I found Jessica because I had been in the salon before when I was back home from school and knew she had opened and owned it for the past ten years.…

    • 1285 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Behind the Mask Insecurity is the lack of self-confidence or assurance in oneself. Many women experience insecurities because they do not feel good enough for someone or pretty enough for society. Many examples in these two stories, Mascara and Purse, shows how girls are tricked into being something they are not in order to fit in. Girls will do anything and everything to make them feel better about themselves and others. Most people do not even notice girls have insecurities because they hide them so well.…

    • 1157 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Imagine this; Crowds of people coming in to buy products, happier and more satisfied customers, making more profit, and people promoting your products. This can all happen if some things change. I am a huge fan of makeup, I own many of the eyeshadow palettes and makeup items your store sells at the Sephora in Westminster, Colorado but for the past few months, when I go into a Sephora your store seems to always be out of most things. I get you need to get more shipments, but I have been trying to get my hands on some things from Anastaia for months and the location I go to never has them. You guys are a great company though, I only shop at Sephora for makeup because your employees are friendly with service and try your best to always look for what I need.…

    • 517 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    These women have slender noses, average sized lips and some have coloured eyes (norm of European beauty). Jourdan Dunn told the Guardian last year, "people in the industry say if you have a black face on the cover of a magazine it won 't sell". Black doesn’t sell because it isn’t seen as beautiful. African Americans ' obsession and affirmation of "light skin" and "good hair" is Example: African features are beautiful on white women and not black women because black is ugly. Kim Kardashian and Iggy Azealia get plastic surgery to enhance their butt size, Kylie Jenner gets plastic surgery to enhance the size of her lips.…

    • 1792 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    On February 7, 2017, I created my makeup profile to share my talent and ideas, get clients and entertain my followers. Creating a social media profile makes the brain do creative and critical thinking. I wanted to succeed in this profile and I hoped that this would be my way out of the college route. So I thought, mostly every makeup profile starts with “MakeupBy”, and then their name.…

    • 299 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My target market is working women of upper-middle-class because they have enough money to spend a higher amount of money on cosmetics and jewelry vs the working class. The more money an individual has the more likely they are to make jewelry purchases. When speaking about cosmetics women don’t mind spending good money on makeup once they find a product that works for them. High end cosmetics are preferred more often than not due to being longer lasting, and having more color depth which are some features lacking in drug store brands. My target gender is women although men do spend money on jewelry and makeup.…

    • 343 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Makeup Research Paper

    • 819 Words
    • 4 Pages

    People have been using makeup since the middle ages due to religious rituals and culture. Makeup is used primarily now for completely other reasons, to enhance the beauty of people. Catch a celebrity without makeup and you will be appalled. Now, women are dependent on makeup due to beauty purposes rather than cultural. Reason is, makeup has the ability to make someone look more attractive in as simple as the stroke of a brush and you can actually buy a variety of make up for just under 10$. Of course, there are different types of make ups,high end , low end.…

    • 819 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Risky Cosmetics Case Study

    • 1549 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Background On February 5, 1931, the South China Morning Post, in an article titled “Risky Cosmetics”, reported on a new Ordinance in Singapore to prohibit the sale and import of cosmetics containing lead. The article described, in English, that several Chinese women in Singapore of “fairly good social position” had been blinded or paralysed by lead-laced face powder, while others had given birth to babies with birth defects or even stillborn infants. The poisonous powder had allegedly been manufactured in Guangzhou, where according to a doctor, a woman had been poisoned. The article also reported that the poison face powder had travelled to Penang and across the Malay Peninsula.…

    • 1549 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays