Teenage Cosmetics Essay

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The language of teenage cosmetics advertisements The heart of my research project was to comprehensively examine and analyse the language techniques used in advertisements for teenage cosmetics. Because I am a teenage girl, I am often the target audience for big cosmetic companies who are trying to market their cosmetics. This is what inspired my choice to do teenage cosmetics as my topic. I was determined to discover how the techniques of advertising are used to persuade teenage girls into purchasing products. For my report, my three focus questions were how do cosmetic companies try to persuade teenage girls to buy their cosmetics through advertisements how are the verbal and visual features in advertisements for cosmetics related, and finally, what effects do the verbal and visual features in cosmetic advertisements have on teenage girls? How do cosmetic companies try to persuade teenage girls to buy their cosmetics using language techniques? Throughout my enquiry I was able to determine that cosmetic companies try to persuade teenage girls to buy their cosmetics through advertisements by using a mixture of language techniques to convince girls into thinking they have to look a certain way. Some language techniques depicted in sources were adjectives, verbs and personal pronouns. Out of the 15 samples I acquired, 14 had at least one adjective. Therefore this validates that adjectives are a common language technique used in advertising teenage cosmetics. Adjectives are used in cosmetic advertisements to build the desire to have the product. It portrays the product in a way that makes it look alluring and in turn lures the consumer, teenage girls, in. They are used to highlight and elaborate the marketing points of the product, making it more desirable. In my advertisements, the majority used adjectives to describe the product and what effects will

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