Does Beauty Sell?

I really can't recall paying attention to the appearance of the salespersons when I go shopping; I'm focussed on the clothes.  I think fixed up I'm even hotter than Halle Berry, so I'm not intimidated by the look of the other person at all

I agree with this study - I fit the age group and I know I don't like to buy from other females who I deem more attractive than I. It's mostly because I feel they're all looks, and I assume they think they're better than me because of their caked-on make-up, designer clothes, $100 hair, and pointless manicure. The only chance they have is if my boyfriend is with me and he makes a comment about how fake or ridiculous the saleswoman looks.

I also agree with the author, in that I don't think the age range given represents the only group affected by this phenomenon. I would tend to believe younger girls would be less affected, as would the eldest ladies - because neither typically "cares" so much about their appearance compared to another's. Children have yet to be influenced by the media's beauty-seeking bias, and elderly tend to be beyond the superficiality of appearances.

Lastly, I agree that I have no problem with some nice-looking saleswomen, and I try to give everyone the opportunity to alter my initial judgment. When skill, kindness, and a fun personality become clear under the make-up, I can easily reconsider my assumptions.

Well, first of all, beauty is to be admired but the wrong beauty as you mentioned, "Vain", is an ugly beauty so if you don't feel your best, you go into a store just to pick yourself up and run up on "Vain" beauty your going to get scared off,  but if you go into a store feeling your best and just wanna feel better, than that "Vain" beauty is just on the surface, you'll see it and maybe that "Vain" saleslady will want a piece of your beauty, cause true beauty is from within.

As a woman I hate to admit it but this is why so many women call us weak. I used to be one of you, I used to have a distain for fit attractive women. I used to blame them why I wasn't getting the guy of my dreams, they made me feel ugly, they have no idea what it's like to be me. I thought that I was the way that women are supposed to be. I would not have admitted it back then but I was fat. I was just like everyone other woman I judged women, some deserved it, most didn't. I felt fat, I looked fat, I made me fat, and I took it out on my boyfriend all the time. He is a great guy, he is friendly to everyone. He speaks to women and it made me crazy. What made it worse is that after he and I dated I gained weight. He works out everyday he's not trying to be some muscle guy. But he keeps fit, he has a job that is not very active and it made him feel better. He would try to encourage me to join him and I would actually snap at him. He was not being rude or insulting, he saw that I was unhappy and was trying to encourage me to join in. We would go out and with his open personality and not "fit" shape I got jealous of all the women that paid him attention, me, I was jealous of the women and him. We would argue, I would accuse him of things, and start doing crazy things to check up on him. I have an Masters Degree in Marketing and I am hacking a email account like a insecure nut job. The more he worked out, the uglier I felt, the more I judged, the less good time I had with my man. I kept making excuses for the way I am and the way I felt.

 

Well, one day I was going through his desk. I started picking a lock with a paper clip and I stopped. I had to make a huge change because it was not worth it. He didn't deserve what I was doing, I let women that I don't even know make me feel terrible because they were doing something that I was not doing for me. So I get up and made a change. I started to eat different and stopped making excuses. I started working out hard, I started lifting weights. I lost 60 lbs in a year and a half.

 

Soon after I started to notice that women treated me different way more then men. Even women that I knew started to treat me ugly. They would not speak to me, judge me, and call me names even though I did nothing. That's when it hit me so hard that I was really a miserable woman. So when I see and hear things like that I have to say something. It's not their fault they they are pretty. Some get it natural and some work hard for it. I know so many women that are quick to tell how they don't feel pretty or how they don't like the way they look. We buy books, have surgery, clothes, shoes (I was addicted), and all this other junk. We blame everyone instead of shutting up and taking the time to do why they do... the work..

Look, good looking or not, I'm just looking for good service.

Unfortunately I've found the prettier the person then the less that person can help me.

(There are the few "good looking people" who do a great job at whatever they do. I'm just addressing the issue of my experience with "pretty sales people" and I sorry to say that the "pretty" ones have to try harder because I'll just assume they have fluff for brains and life is too short to deal with them)

 

A good personality and knowledge of the product, are key to what their selling, as well as any sales that they may know about will get me to at least think about buying an item.

 

This maybe the reason why ads are youth oriented, because older adults don't fall under the spell of the hype of an ad campaign directed at the young and the preferred demographic (these are the people who are willing to spend $500 dollars for a pair of ripped tattooed and bedazzled blue jeans that would normally sell for $30 dollars).

All I can say is that I don't get buyers remorse when shopping.