Teenage acne considered cute!?
I’ve never considered an outbreak of spots cute, and I can’t really imagine anyone else finding plouks attractive, but this survey from iShare into acne uncovered a large number of spot fans.
Demographics
Between the 17th and 19th of May 2010 1,081 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.9% of the sample were female, 30.8% in their twenties, and 69.2% in their thirties, and all were unmarried.
If you’ve been in Japan for any period of time recently you surely cannot fail to have seen an ad or ten for Proactiv (no link – they’ll have to pay me for one!), all exceedingly annoying! I also saw last week that the Bashful Prince, Ryo Ishikawa, has recently broken out, so given that he is this year the king of advertisements, I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets lined up to endorse Proactiv too.
Oh, and I just checked that in the US a thirty day kit is $19.95, in Japan a sixty day kit is 9,300 yen, making it about 2.5 times more expensive in Japan.
I never had acne, although I now have psorisis and have to wear short trousers on doctor’s orders!
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