Beauty Secrets ... Of The Dead!
Fans of the Resident Evil movies may find something hauntingly familiar about the packaging for Avon's Derma-Full X3 Facial Filling Serum. As Joysiq's Alexander Sliwinski points out, the product, which promises to "dramatically reduce the look of deep facial folds and hollowness," is a dead ringer for the vial of T-Virus that kicks off the whole zombie shebang in the first film. In fact, the trailer for the second movie, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, suggested that the Umbrella Corporation, beyond creating all those suspect pharmaceuticals, biological weapons, and creepy mansions, was also in the business of consumer cosmetics. Beyond that, "facial filling serum" sounds kind of scary in and of itself. What exactly does it want to fill my face with, anyway?
After the break, watch both the real commercial for the Avon serum and the fake commercial for Umbrella's Regenerate. I think the lesson we can take away from this is that sometimes the quest for eternal youth can cost more than we anticipated. Also, using Avon will probably turn you into a monster. Fair warning.
Avon Teams With Resident Evils Umbrella Corp. For Face Cream? [Joystiq]
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Posted to Miscellany, Movies-DVDs, Video Games on 8 March 2009
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Yeah, I saw this product before and immediately thought "creepy". If I was looking for skin cream I'd probably stay away from this one for the sheer similarity between this and the T-Virus.
I saw the commercial for this during Dollhouse the other night, and I was like, "HOLY SHIT, IT'S THE T-VIRUS!" :P ....
I want it.
I think mostly I'd have a tough time buying an Avon product, they used to be horrible!
I seen this product a few weeks ago myself in an Avon booklet and was like >_>.... creepy~ and slightly felt to the urge to tell my mom not to buy it, due to possible zombiefication lol.
Art, imitating life, imitating art -- truly creepy. If you didn't know any better, you would probably think the RE trailer is an SNL skit inspired by the Avon commercial.