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Each day we are constantly barraged and hounded with the promise of a better way of living. It doesn’t matter whether you are the epitome of egotism or the embodiment of inhibition, the advertising industry has honed a sure-fire way of nit-picking at your insecurities and luring you into a trap designed to offer immediate, yet short-lived, satisfaction. As adolescents, we are attached at the hip to all forms of social media and are naturally subjected to endless streams of advertising, whether we realise it or not. Do the words “Fit-Tea” ring a bell at all? On average, it is estimated that teens are exposed to thousands upon thousands of ads each day, a factor that advertisers happily use to their advantage. While we may not think it, we adolescents are an easily-targeted and influenced demographic due to our disposable incomes and insecurity, advertisers often preying on our basic human need to feel accepted. Being such easy targets, we are exposed to advertisements on virtually every platform imaginable: whether it’s on Facebook, Instagram or even (though much less likely nowadays) reading a magazine. Such is the case for this ad for L’Oréal Nude Magique Foundation found in Dolly Magazine. Upon absentmindedly flicking through the magazine and stumbling upon this feature, I found myself unexpectedly drawn to the ad, but by analysing this ad using the AIDA model (Attention, Interest, Desire, Action), the exact reasons why and how this ad managed to capture and hold my

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