Annotated Bibliography

Bower, A. B., & Landreth, S. (2001). Is Beauty Best? Highly Versus Normally Attractive Models
in Advertising. Journal Of Advertising, 30(1), 1-12. Retrieved from
http://encore.utep.edu/iii/encore/search/C__SHighly%20versus%20Normally
%20Attractive%20Models%20in%20Advertising__Orightresult__U1/SdoArticles?
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This article discusses how advertising uses idealized and unrealistic images of perfection.
It explains how the use of beautiful faces and bodies become more attractive in products
rather than if products or advertising do not present perfection and beauty in the image or
models of products. It discusses that not only is the beauty image important to sale
products but also is important to the credibility and the confidence of the speaker in the
commercial that presents a product it is also very important. The advertising of the beauty
industry uses models beauty attractiveness to make the product credible as if industry
sells mascara to eyelashes they use a model with big eyelashes in the image of
advertising. This article is useful and important because it explains how beauty industry
uses strategies to make good profits through the use of models matching with the purpose
of a product to be sell.
Britton, A. M. (2012). The Beauty Industry's Influence on Women in Society. University of New
Hampshire. Retrieved from
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=the+beauty+industry%27s+
+influence+on+women+in+society&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C44
This article discusses the influences on women from the beauty industry. It explain how
the beauty industry uses advertising to promote a false image of the beautiful women in

all ages, shapes and sizes using, for example, photo editors to make bigger sales. This
article describes the beauty obsession that changes womens perception of beauty. It gives
explanations of how studies use the effects of cosmetics on women and self- esteem
(moral and immoral) as confidence. The article also discusses how good effects beauty
industry has in women as more attractiveness. This article is beneficial because is using a
variety of studies made to explain and clarify the effects of beauty industry on women.
Brumbaugh, A. M. (1993). Physical Attractiveness and Personality in Advertising: More than
Just a Pretty Face?. Advances In Consumer Research, 20(1), 159-164. Retrieved from
http://encore.utep.edu:50080/ebsco-w-b/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=063a31a9-594e4d36-969c-040e52236fa6%40sessionmgr114&vid=3&hid=115
This article explains how advertising uses body attractiveness to get believability. It also
explains the importance that the appearance of physical attraction and commercial
credibility of spikers are to the beauty industry advertising. The article describes some
factors that make society to be attracted by the beauty industry. As attractive models that
are idealized and unrealistic images are the kind of advertising that most of the men put
attention because they show a perfect and beauty women. The article is important
because is discussing the effectiveness of a physical appearance such a body image in
advertising to be an important role in sells in the beauty industry.
opaciuk, A., & oboda, M. (2013, June). Global beauty industry trends in the 21st century. In
Management, Knowledge and Learning International Conference (pp. 19-21).
This article gives details of beauty industry in the twentieth century and new consumers.
It explains the strategies that beauty industry has to have in order to engage the attention
of the costumers, it explains how beauty industry has to change the trade of the products

and be able to provide new products for the consumers preferences. The article explains
how beauty industry is divided into segments to have a diversity of products into the
different needs on costumers to increase sales and profits. This article is important
because it does not only explain how beauty industry is growing but it gives credibility
with graphs comparing the sales by product categories such as haircare, skincare and the
differences between the beauty industry standards in the 1920s and 2000s that helps to
see how beauty industry is changing.
Malkan,S. (2010). What Are the Effects of the Beauty and Fashion Industries?. The Culture of
Beauty (Ed. Espejo,R.). Detroit: Greenhaven Press (pp. 141-158).
This chapter discusses the effects of the beauty industry. The innovations in formulations
and chemicals applied to the products to be more effective affect the skin and produces
diseases. It is comparing the amount of chemicals allowed in different states. It explains
how toxic products by beauty industry are affecting persons health. It also talks about the
advertising that the beauty industry uses as an human image based on how much they sell
and not on the inner and natural beauty. This is important because the book gives
examples of effects on industry and also gives an explanation of why people buy these
products even though it has these effects.
Taylor, M. L., Coates, T. L., Anyansi-Archibong, C., & Norihito, T. (2013). The Twenty-First
Second Decade- Whither The Beauty Industry?. Business Case Journal, 21(1), 6-52.
The article of The Twenty-Firsts Second Decade-Whither the Beauty Industry? discuss
the growing and history of the Beauty Industry. The history of beauty industry is
changing through time by innovations on materials in the products. Putting different
ingredients such as flowers or fruit speared make a quickly way to gain popularity in the

nineteenth century. The article explains how innovations of ingredients as oils, roots and
mineral pigments allow industry to introduce new products such as new hair and skin
products. The article discussed how the developments of products increment the profits
and sales making companies industry to use medias to promote their products. As the
technology grows, the beauty industry uses more revolutionary elements to make the
products more attractive for consumers. This article is important and helpful to know the
history of beauty industry because it gives explanations of how products were changed
through the years and explain how beauty was at first and how beauty industry may end.