{"id":34440,"date":"2011-03-20T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34440"},"modified":"2013-11-14T04:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T09:18:35","slug":"products-mock-botox-in-an-effort-to-capture-consumer-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/20\/products-mock-botox-in-an-effort-to-capture-consumer-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying Botox in an Effort to Capture Consumer Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There was a time when the idea of sticking needles into one’s face was something that was to be avoided at all costs. \u00a0Then there was botox. \u00a0And it didn’t take long before certain segments of society were flocking to the needlers, begging to be stuck. \u00a0Face needling has become so commonplace — so desirable, even — that non-needly products have been disguising themselves as needles, so as to attract consumer dollars.<\/p>\n

Of what am I speaking? \u00a0A product sent in by\u00a0Ella Dilkes-Frayne. \u00a0Ella saw posters in a mall in\u00a0Melbourne, Australia for non-injectable beauty products sold in containers that mimicked syringes. \u00a0 The product, hoping to capitalize on the new acceptance of and desire for botox, is a great example of how socially and personally acceptable bodily intervention is always changing.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted at Jezebel. There was a time when the idea of sticking needles into one’s face was something that was to be avoided at all costs. \u00a0Then there was botox. \u00a0And it didn’t take long before certain segments of society were flocking to the needlers, begging to be stuck. \u00a0Face needling has become so commonplace […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,230,55,2089,252,23703],"class_list":["post-34440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-cosmetic-surgery","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-healthmedicine","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34440"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59015,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34440\/revisions\/59015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}