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"Jump on my Facebook right now and you're likely to see two links popping up over and over: On the one hand, we have __[Coachella Rave Dad.](http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/coachella-rave-dad-is-probably-the-best-thing-ever-to-happen)__ And on the other, the new __[Dove Real Beauty Sketches](http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/dove-hires-criminal-sketch-artist-draw-women-they-see-themselves-and-others-see-them-148613)__ campaign. And it actually works quite well, because chances are, after watching Dove's campaign, you'll be in need of a laugh.\\n\\n\\n\\n                   \\n\\nIn Dove's ad, a sketch artist completes a portrait of a woman based on her own self-description. He then draws another based on the input of a stranger, describing the first woman. Guess which one looks prettier. There's a big reveal, an \\\"aha!\\\" moment, and the women are floored. And most of them cry.\\n\\n\\n\\nDove's ad has struck a chord with my female friends, propelling them to tear up, too\u2014and share the video. Maybe it's because they all identify with the feeling of being their own harshest critic (I know I do). Or maybe it's because it's just so damn moving to see these women viewing the two portraits, side by side.\\n\\n\\n\\nStay with me for a minute: It seems to me the campaign is less about physical beauty and more a raw (and, in terms of advertising, brilliantly executed) presentation of a *Life of Pi*-esque rhetorical probe. Do you choose to view yourself in a glass-half-empty or glass-half-full light? How do you see yourself? Do you want to be on a boat with a tiger or a cook?!\\n\\n\\n\\nWe all know that happiness is beautiful (and, in fact, one woman comments that the stranger's portrait looks so much\u2014not younger, not sexier\u2014*happier*), so where does that leave us? According to Dove, stepping away from the fluorescent lighting (and close-up mirror, and thoughts of plastic surgery, and general downtrodden-ness) and into a conversation about *real* beauty.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  __RELATED LINKS:__\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  \u2022 [Ugh! Why Are Super Bowl Commercials STILL So Sexist?](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2013/02/why-are-superbowl-ads-still-sexist.html)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  \u2022 [This Yogurt Commercial Will Make You Anorexic (Maybe)](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2011/06/this-yogurt-commercial-will-make-you-anorexic-maybe.html)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  \u2022 [The Different Ways People See Faces](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2010/01/the-different-ways-people-see-faces.html)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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