Cars, Money, Friendship, Bling, Travel Applied Directly to Forehead

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Chris Thomas has the story of multi-level marketer BeautiControl, a music video the company created, apparently, to motivate its consultants and the backlash caused by what Thomas describes as “horrible marketing.” The video, much like that “apply directly to the forehead” commercial, features six stiletto-wearing, wannabe bootylicious primpsters dancing, posing and rapping “cars, money, friendship, bling and travel” over and over. In reaction to consultants’ complaints, the company removed the video from its YouTube channel but Thomas was kind enough to capture it for us so we can all wallow in its horrific beauty.

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