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A Forensic Picture Is Worth A Thousand, Er, Millions Of Views

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a forensic artist's sketch is worth millions of views. That's what the viral video-minded team at Unilever have learned ever since uploading a video showing an artist sketching portraits of women based on their descriptions of themselves for a new Dove soap campaign. The power of the campaign stems from a before-and-after device: First the artist renders a sketch based on their own description, and then he sketches one based on an observer's description, which is always more flattering -- revealing issues about women's own sense of self-image.

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