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Real Beauty Sketches.

A forensic sketch artist drew women from their own descriptions and from strangers' descriptions, revealing how harshly women judge their own looks.

Brand
Dove
Market
Global
Region
Global
Year
2013
Real Beauty Sketches

The idea

FBI-trained artist Gil Zamora sketched each woman unseen, first from her self-description, then from a stranger who had just met her. Side-by-side, the strangers' portraits came out more flattering and more accurate, and the film was released online in several markets.

Results

  • About 163 million global views by June 2013
  • 4.6 billion media impressions

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