Shocking 1950s Cosmetics Ad

[Bonobo3D]

Radioactive dirt, quite the problem back then. Good thing for Dorothy Grey Salon Cold Cream, it seems to have wiped the problem out completely.

[HotBroodish]

P.S. They never said the cold cream was radioactive.. they said they made dirt radioactive and put it on the girls face to see which cleaning method worked best to remove it.. You have to assume something like, if it still clicked the cleaning method wasn't very successful. The reason they did this was to prove how much grit is on your face that isn't detectable by the naked eye.. and how much is left behind after you think you've washed thoroughly.

[HotBroodish]

I just googled and found an article stating that "The average American gets a dose of around 360 millirems of radiation per year—roughly the equivalent of 36 X-rays..." And I personally have no idea how much or how little it would take to register on a geiger counter. I'd like to know!!! Maybe after something as common as an X-ray you'd be clicking too! Anyone know for sure?

[UFORiAZ0mbie]

atomic test booklet? lmao

[KhornyKhajiit]

Now... comes with additional plutonium-sticks.

[TheYouwontgetit]

cool beans... ...where can i buy this for my girlfriend...?

[SquishedButterfly]

I kept expecting to hear one of those high speed disclaimers at the end saying, "does not cure cancer".

[rebelmodels]

●₪₪₪₪₪₪₪► Rebel Models ◄₪₪₪₪₪₪₪●

There is nothing shocking about these Cream, but about the fact that the dust in 1950 had radiation! Who knows from what pollution or explosion Hiroshima, Nagasaki or the incidents reported by Wilhelm Reich.

[TheSkinsAdded]

Nice 1950s commercial for Dorothy Gray Cosmetics is about a nostalgic things.

[bojanks15]

so did all the girls everyone look like ugly manakins back then?

[Aspenfash899]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Bitchtheman]

Honey, you're radiant........with radiation



[CrunchyDaddy]

Awww, they cut off the part right before she turned into the Hulk

[kirawillrise]

really people? you need to understand, that (assuming they didn't lie about the amount of radioactive material) small amounts of radioactive material is not really harmful to the human body. you come into contact with that much radioactive material everyday

[Amberphire]

Wow, just wow.

[strongtalentedman]

(side effects include mutated children, skin disease, and diarrhea)

[tpcornholio]

@strongtalentedman hahahaha lmao!!!

[Ruach]

She is positively glowing

[f0nn1x]

lmao where did she live, the mojave? remember ladies, a clean skin is a nonradioactive skin.

[milacrzy]

i dont get it ! what did they do to her?

[Caldella]

@milacrzy They basically put stuff on the woman's face that had small amounts of radiation, then used various products to remove it, judging the effeciancy (and supposedly proving their product the best) by how little radioactive material was left after each product.

[amaloveable]

@milacrzy the model has radioactive stuff on her face and the cold cream has radioactive in it. i know i didnt get it either until i replayed the video over and over until i got it.

[trevizo25]

dont see why its so bad can someone explain please :O

[amy1bacon]

@trevizo25 they put radioactive products on her skin :P theres the problem

[Clario40000]

@trevizo25 it's not that bad people are retarded as shit. First off they probably never even did that test, and secondly small amounts of radiation are fine.

[Torkenxoll]

Shes gonna turn into a ghoul!!!

[TheEpicBreakdown]

I found the Anti-gay commercial more amusing to be honest...

[sleazybtd]

You have to write to them to get the booklet? What happened to their website?

:-P

[Durpypaws]

Walking through a radioactive wasteland. Dorthy gray cold cream. Scavenge some today.

[thoserubyslippers]

<3 old commercials

[Tukuklan]

fucken radioactive lol

[oPuppet]

loool whut

i was talking to myself the whole time

didnt even see the vid

[TheMarkster1957]

She looks like June Cleaver.

[RachelxRuin]

If they used alpha radiation, then it isn't even a big deal.

[GluttonForSex]

Back when there wasn't a single Asian, Latina or Black girl on TV. Ever. I'm really thankful I wasn't born in that age to be honest.

[kabeltomten]

This Dorothy Gray Cosmetics is guaranteed to melt away upp to 80% of your face

[kionie1]

damn! I wonder if they still sell this stuff?! Sounds amazing

[zJumpyyy]

reminds me of boishock...

[MPSecare]

This is one of the ingredients in Nuka Cola®

[BatmanOnIce]

Am I the only one that was expecting to hear the voice of Cave Johnson?

[B11590]

Damn, and i thought todays commercials were boring...

[jones81381]

@B11590 I prefer these older commercials. Rather than try to sell you on a pointless mascot that has nothing to do with the product they are actually selling, they actually tell you the basic facts and try to preemptively answer common questions and concerns by their target audience. I wish commercials were like this again.

[wtf0804]

Botox will be like this in 40 years

[tenshiuve]

Oh yes, because in the 1950s we had so much knowledge to make snarky comments about it now.

[IRWheezie]

My Pip-boy is acting funny...

[TheFlashFrame]

FAALLLOOUUUTT

[liveisafunnyway]

@TheFlashFrame nobody else seem understood..

[ffx95]

Radioactive make-up? most be worth dieing for....

[krakatoa47]

at least it got off the dirt!

[retoxications]

welcome to rapture

[badattitude77769]

The Geiger Counter Proved???

[DangerousDan77777]

Search: dorthy gray illuminati

These fucks poison their fellow man, woman, child, earth for money, please do a search, stop these fucks from murdering our children.

[ccrimsonfox]

Sadly, people are as gullible as they were in the '50s, if not more

[Potatogalaxy]

If Moira Brown taught me anything, it's that a small case of advanced radiation poisoning never made a difference in the long run.

[balletslippers91]

"and it was made just radioactive enough to show up on a geiger counter"

My face at that point was priceless.

[deathbyzza420]

i wonder how many of our commercials for antidepressants and pro HFCS etc will be laughed at by people 50 years from now from people on youtube talking about how retarded we are.

[DangerousDan77777]

@deathbyzza420 So many people have lost it because of hitlers matin bormann control of the pharmaceutical and chemical companies in America, Operation Paperclip, nazi, I mean nasa, these fucks have been destroying us and controlling us like puppet on a string for years and years.

[ch0biq]

Not that shocking. Considering everything involving radiation then was supposed to be "healthy"

[AntiVenom36]

Yeah it is a shocking commercial. Radiation is dangerous and deadly. No doubt that product been recalled and discontinued.

[badattitude77769]

@AntiVenom36 Bet you a dollar to a donut that all those horribly deformed babies in Iraq wish they had never used depleted uranium.

[sickoe93]

& those SAME group of idiot scientists allowed nuclear weapons to be created.

[rhyanwood1]

Isn't surprising. They used to advert cigarettes as 'Healthy'.

[CutieHoney13]

The old Transatlantic accent....it's a combination of American and British accents.

[klaz48]

"You know you've removed the dirt when your skin is gone!"

[Mteigers]

Hmm.. I doubt they're still in business.

[HaskelCausey]

We freak out about this and yet... we use fluorescent light bulbs and microwaves? That shit can fuck you up big time too

[GansoMen]

@HaskelCausey LOL xD

[lorez201]

@HaskelCausey How do fluorescent light bulbs harm you?

[HaskelCausey]

@lorez201 They contain a highly toxic metal called mercury. Mercury is some pretty bad mojo; if one happens to break that whole area is considered a contamination zone and dangerous. And lights containing this are believed to cause certain illnesses including cancer. Fluorescent lights are good for big businesses and warehouses because they're a money saver when comes to the electric bill, but I would never use them in a house or school. It's just not worth it considering the dangers

[lorez201]

@HaskelCausey I see, I thought you were saying that the light could harm you, in some manner analogous to the microwaves. Yeah, I knew all about the mercury vapor used. Plus the fluorescent material coating the insides of the bulbs is carcinogenic. However, although there are substitutes for fluorescent light bulbs, there is no known substitute for the mercury vapor (of which there is an *almost* inconsequential amount) that produces the fluorescence-stimulating UV rays in the bulbs.

[NLeroyP8]

lol i laugh at her voice of the chick whos talking about it

[AAarcher221]

We now know this stuff as... asbestos. If you're feeling a shortness of breathe, heaviness of legs, or your heart stops, that's not a heavenly feeling the cream gives. That's asbetos.

[Felhaven]

No worse than having your feet xrayed everytime you got sized for a pair of shoes.

[iceisisis]

omg are you cerial



[weweallthewayhome]

busy me!!!

[SaggyBawlz]

Whats so shoking about this? This ad is saying that there is radiation on your skin from OTHER cosmetic products, and you can test it with a Geiger counter. Then you can use the cold cream to remove that makeup and dirt, thus removing the radiation.

[tauempirekid]

and thus rebecca black was born

[Evaspie]

oooo radioactive! I must have it!!!

[TryHardProductions1]

We made this dirt just radioactive enough to cause full blown skin cancer and leukemia.

[DZalvi85]

i think the shocking part was that they use to write to mail addresses back then, no twitter, no facebook

[JM1375]

a thura cleansing

cold cweam

[AGrayPhantom]

New slogan for Aperture:

Aperture Science(tm): We are only slightly more ethical than the Umbrella Corporation!

[juntartful]

is the girl that talking is lucy from I love Lucy?

[darlene1029]

I imagine some of the crap they put into cosmetics today are far worse. In fact I'm more concerned they put SPF into all of it, I would rather take my chances with the sun. We're all becoming Troglytes, pale, vitamin D deficient because of it.

[LockedGT]

@darlene1029 And radiation is better? Dumbass

[CripShat27]

This is why I don't wear makeup. EVER.

[vgcatsfan1]

made by aperture science

[FatTonyCologino]

@vgcatsfan1 owned by Prescott Pharmaceuticals.

[Tonsuma]

@vgcatsfan1 I...was thinking that exact same thing before I even read the comments. Who the hell else puts radioactivity on your face?

[TheBrownFlash]

Will I get superpowers if I use this?

[gamemasters9]

Remember, at the time the general public had NO IDEA how bad radiation was. In fact, tons of products at the time had radiation, it was the norm.

[Beentakenaway123]

omg you had to write to get the freaking book thing. hahha

[donniedarkodevotte]

Why did every actress/actor's accent sound exactly the same back then?

[bravocmdr]

@donniedarkodevotte

why does everyone sound the same now adays? :P

[donniedarkodevotte]

@bravocmdr

That's easy. They don't. Next question.

[Nitonogol]

@donniedarkodevotte Because they had class

[UntouchableTreasures]

@donniedarkodevotte They were trained to speak that way. It was a job requirement. :)

[stickystick105]

@donniedarkodevotte actually its just the recording

[donniedarkodevotte]

@stickystick105

Huh? Almost every actor and actress in every tv show, movie and commercial had the same accent and it had nothing to do with the recording.

[spookylilcountrybat]

yeah, you bet... cause we all know how much better a tub of grease removes dirt than a bar of soap. I used to, even as a child, seriously contemplate for as much as an hour at a time, why my grandmother even had that stuff. I knew even then that rubbing scented grease with dye in it on your face at night had to be bad, not good.

[RitzPhantom]

Oh the voices of the 50s.

[kazemaru1134]

O.O why do i feel this is this the kinda stuff that would be in Bioshock....

[ce12968]

its coal cream. not cold cream...

[catalot]

It gives you that glowing appearance.

[ShadowDia]

O-O radioactive dirt....on your face....

What kind of dirt was that woman walking in?!?!

[milacrzy]

interesting commercial...

[fyte4luv808]

u'll get more radiation when i jizz on ur face

[IWHWM4ever]

Yay I Love Lucy! :)

[TerraGamerX]

I wonder how the description for this sounded when hiring... "Wanted: Beautiful model to apply radioactive dirt on face"

[jordantyree98]

what the hell

[SunneBar]

Pain is Beauty, people. Pain is beauty.

[jfo898]

You all realize they weren't exposing her to radiation, right? They used a GEIGER COUNTER to read the level of radiation on her body, which they claimed the dirt in her pores were exuding.

[Jumpinsnakes]

@jfo898 Actually they irradiated some dirt enough to be read by a geiger counter and put supposedly the same amount of irradiated dirt on her face as would be collected daily by an average women, than they used the cleaning cream to remove the dirt and measured again with the geiger counter to show that all of it had been removed. They didn't explain this at all well in the ad. At least this is what I got from the ad.

[210h1disg1n]

This somehow makes the word "cleanse" sound dirty.

[YamiSatoshi]

I guess that explains the expression "girls don't sweat; they glow!"

[BaseballBoy458]

Commercials like this should've been on tv's in fallout 3

[HarmlessVampire13]

Thank you, Dorothy Gray.

[LucianUramu]

why is everyone so butt hurt? You all do realize we're not in the 1950's right?

[thesoundvillagedemon]

This is from the 1950s people -_-

It was a different time and not much was known about radiation

obviously,the model agreed to do this

[CosmeticsByCortney]

The goal is to Radiate.... I mean, be Radiant!

[blacksun45]

And remember! Radiating skin is good skin!

[deerythedeer]

I want to learn how to to speak in this 50's American accent.

[museblock]

Wait, so are all you saying its NOT good to smear radioactive dirt on your face?

[SeVIIn1]

So who else is going to write in for the booklet?

[CosmeticsByCortney]

@SeVIIn1

HAHA! LOL

[chieromancer]

Ironically, cold cream is one of the worst things you can use on your face.

Clogs the pours.

[xalentcash]

they couldn't just color the dirt... LOL I bet she died of face cancer

[ricglos]

radiation was the fad in the 50s,,, it sold lots of coldcream but didnt do anything about the fear of radiation, did it?

[Dragdamar]

No more radioactive than the tritium sights on my pistol...

[EmilyA1984]

Couldn't they have just said that the Dorothy Gray cold cream gets all the dirt and make-up off, without putting radioactive crap on the woman's face? 

[Leebehr]

Radioactive??? O M _F_ G!

[nygge]

what...the...fuck...

[kate2683au]

does it also remove the radioactive particles that they put on her face?

[electrogeek77]

@robertwgardner Human suffering is hilarious!

[robertwgardner]

@electrogeek77 Point taken. I removed my insensitive comment.

[grarox]

wasn't the beginning I Love Lucy theme song?

[Snapepet]

@grarox It was really, really close-actually, a little bit of a sneaky rip-off, but I compared, and no, not the exact same. Excellent call on your part, though!

[gldni17]

Oh, a little minor radiation never hurt anyone. Except for all those cases of cancer that are believed to be the result of overuse of radiation-based hospital tests. Other than that, though, all good.

[DangerousDan77777]

@gldni17 You would not disrespect your dentist, your doctors, Ama, American Mafia Association, American Murder Assholes, they were trained that way, heck, the American Eugenics Society was created by the Rockefellers, Hitler loved it.

[shananagans5]

Good thing they cleaned it of so well. lol I just love this stuff.