Have a Happy Period!

[lph]

wonderful yowza!

I remember one ad that annoyed the h*ll out of me some years ago - a splitscreen ad, with one woman who used Libresse Night (I think) and some other poor soul who used some inferior product. The woman using Libresse Night slept soundly throughout the night and rose with a happy smile on her face to make breakfast for her kids, the other woman tossed and turned all night, was up awake several times, and looked like a hag the next morning.

Uh, did they really think that women are in discomfort and sleep poorly because their pads aren't good enough and they're afraid of staining their SHEETS?

[pinkbikes]

Wow! I had no idea they put slogans on them!

Not sure if they do this over in the USA but our ads on TV here feature blue liquid being poured onto the pads to show how absorbent they are! Blue liquid? Are they kidding!?

[Bron]

Well do you want to know what they actually use for testing them?

[pinkbikes]

I hate to think!

[Dogmama]

Well do you want to know what they actually use for testing them?

OK, I'll bite...

Ooops, better make myself clear. Didn't realize I wasn't talking to a USA gal. Let me rephrase:

What do they use to test them?

[Bron]

That's fine, I understood.

Well one option is a mixture of egg white and blood orange juice. I can't imagine that that would look so good on an advert though!

[lph]

I always figured that the blue liquid was just because too many people would be grossed out by seeing something that actually looked like blood. Lots of people freak out just seeing blood from a scratch, not to mention the "unmentionable" type.

Come to think of it I read somewhere (BBC something on the "disgust" reaction) that blue is a colour people connect with clean, sterile, laboratory, non-biological, so they don't react negatively to it.

[Biciclista]

hey i just thought of a circumstance that would be "a happy period"
some poor woman with 3 kids in diapers who was afraid she was pregnant!!!!

[Aggie_Ama]

Wow! I had no idea they put slogans on them!

What I find humorous is Playtex Sport Tampons have all these motivational statements printed on the outside of the wrapper. I don't have one handy but they are things with a message like "Stay in the game" or "You are a winner". Trust me I feel like neither getting in the game or a winner when I have to use said product.