Eye Catching Impact of Celebrities

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Women both young and old flip through the pages of a magazine and sometimes stumble across something that catches their eye. Perhaps, what caught their eye was a make-up ad, possibly featuring a favorite celebrity, or even appeal to a woman's vanity.
"Celebrity impacts on so many aspects" (Pringle, 5), just like Halle Berry does in Revlon's advertisement promoting their new photoready eyeshadow. Halle Berry is undoubtedly an attractive woman who creates an "attractive persona" (Pringle, 67), which helps attract customers to pay attention to this product and its details. Halle Berry is extremely well known which also helps to attract people to stop and actually look at the advertisement other than just scan the advertisement. Since, Halle Berry is an attractive person she is evaluated as "more positively" and "judged as more persuasive" (Morris, 2), thus helping to promote Revlon's photoready eye shadow, since viewers might think she is a dependable source.
Over Halle Berry's beautiful face is a shadow covering everything, but her eyes to help "focus a viewer's attention" ...

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