Procter & Gamble Company/Cover Girl: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Cover Girl campaign

When it came to cosmetics, the phrase "cover girl" had long been synonymous with an image of a clean, fresh, wholesome, pretty face.

Procter & Gamble Company/Cover Girl: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Cover Girl campaign

Barbra Brady

Overview

When it came to cosmetics, the phrase "cover girl" had long been synonymous with an image of a clean, fresh, wholesome, pretty face. The Cover Girl brand parlayed this image into a supremely valuable property, one that initially evolved when the brand's originator, skin care legend Noxema, developed the new line of makeup in 1961. Pure and natural was the promise, and young women bought it, making Cover Girl the longtime leader in powder and foundation products.

By the 1990s many of the women who had...

Not a subscriber?

Schedule your live demo with our team today

WARC helps you to plan, create and deliver more effective marketing

  • Prove your case and back-up your idea

  • Get expert guidance on strategic challenges

  • Tackle current and emerging marketing themes

We’re long-term subscribers to WARC and it’s a tool we use extensively. We use it to source case studies and best practice for the purposes of internal training, as well as for putting persuasive cases to clients. In compiling a recent case for long-term, sustained investment in brand, we were able to support key marketing principles with numerous case studies sourced from WARC. It helped bring what could have been a relatively dry deck to life with recognisable brand successes from across a broad number of categories. It’s incredibly efficient to have such a wealth of insight in one place.

Insights Team
Bray Leino

You’re in good company

We work with 80% of Forbes' most valuable brands* and 80% of the world's top top-of-the-class agencies.

* Top 10 brands