Give Your Skin A 'Shimmer'
By: Mari Davis
Photos below: From top to bottom: (1)Impulse Body Spray; (2)Impulse Body Spray Advertising shot by Rankin and produced by BBH.
Photos courtesy of Impulse and BBH
DALLAS, May 21, 2003/ FW/ --- Sparkle this summer... literally! Impulse, the UK’s favourite
body spray brand launches 'Impulse Sparkling Body Shimmer', a new beauty product which can
make you light up any room... guaranteed.
Easy to use with its aerosol can format, all you have to do is generously spray your body
with Impulse Sparkling Body Shimmer after a shower or before going out.
The product does the rest by defining your skin with a shimmery silver glow with light
reflective particles.
Tanned for the summer? No problem! Impulse Sparkling Body Shimmer will define and highlight
your tan, giving you a fresh, flirty look.
A night out in town? Impulse Sparkling Body Shimmer will compliment this season's hot trend
of metallic silver clothes and accessories.
To celebrate the launch of this new limited edition product, Impulse hired Rankin, one of
the UK's most renowned fashion photographers.
For the advertising campaign which launched yesterday, Rankin has recreated his
unique body shimmer technique that he used in his famous shot of supermodel
Gisele, to create a new press and poster campaign.
Though the 'shimmery' look is easy to achieve in life, reproducing it on a photograph
was a complex process.
Extensive hair and make up tests were conducted two days before the shoot to guarantee
optimum effect.
The day of the shoot, it took 3 hours to cover the naked model's body with a thick coat
of silver body paint, followed by Vaseline and then a final coat of black and silver glitter.
Intense photographic lights were then used to create a surreal sparkling effect.
The result - a visually iconic image of a naked model which looks more like a computer
generated picture than a photograph.
The ad campaign will run for three months, while the product, Impulse Sparkling Body Shimmer
will be available from April to December 2003 in retail stores.
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