New From Israel: Beauty-Free Cosmetics

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Shahar Golan · retweet 1 comment

Beauty-Free CosmeticsAs much as Israelis love English, Israeli business-owners like English puns and play on words better. Well, not really play on words, but what they perceive to be a clever play on words.

How about an Israel cosmetics company that apparently wanted to stress how inexpensive its products are, and came up with the ingenious name of Beauty-Free Cosmetics.
Yes, they wanted the customer to make a connection between the beauty products and the cost of similar products sold in the airport Duty-Free shops. These people love English so much they did not bother to check the meaning of ‘duty’ or ‘free’, and so they are now selling cosmetic products without beauty.

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  1. Israelity » Get Ugly Cosmetic Line 10 January 2008 at 9:49 pm

    [...] Ugly Daywear…Nice ring to it, don’tcha think? Or how about Beauty-Free Cosmetics for those days you just NEED ...

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