Here is the clip for the Herbal Essences commercial we watched in class titled, Take Your Hair to Paradise. The biography on youtube states: “ Herbal Essences whisks you and your 156,932 follicles deep into the heart of paradise … pleasure and jungle-y things abound.” I don’t have a lot of words to describe this clip but uncomfortable and cringing pop right into my mind.
“Herbal Essences | Take Your Hair to Paradise :30.” YouTube. N.p., 15 June 2015.
Web. 24 Aug. 2016.
I think the whole class shared your reaction of “cringyness” — but it’s useful to think back, now that we’ve read a bit about frontier myths, primitivism, and the gendering of “nature” to describe what formal elements of this ad make you feel uncomfortable.