Week 9 BOC: Chocolate

Chocolate has been becoming more and more popular due to the growing fad of trying to be healthier. Chocolate has flavonoids, which act as antioxidants, which help to protect the body from ageing caused by free radicals, which can lead to heart disease.

Many chocolate brands and manufacturers highly advertised chocolate this year for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and for other Holiday shopping days. I did a Google search for chocolate sales and the first brand I found under the news articles for the company setting record sales for their company for Cyber Monday this year.  

Here are a few things the article said about Moonstruck Chocolate Co. “Around 3 p.m. on so-called CyberMonday, Moonstruck Chocolate blew past last year's salesfigures for the day that's become the online version of Black Friday. With a herd of white chocolate snowmen welcoming shoppersto its website, the Portland-based retailer predicted Monday would set a salesrecord. That's sweet news for Moonstruck, which hasseen the Monday after Thanksgiving -- a shopping event created by an onlineretail trade group in 2005 -- grow from its fifth busiest in 2009 to a topselling day last year.”

One of Moonstruck’s advertisements, full of these delicious looking sugar coated white chocolate snowmen is a good representation of the winter holidays to come. It is fun and cute with a great headline saying holiday party, which already gives you ideas of how you can use these chocolates. The sale it’s self isn’t the greatest sale ever, but you get an additional 10% percent off an order of $60.00 or more plus free standard shipping to one address. The advertisement doesn’t specify if you can’t use this CYBERMONDAY11 10% off plus free shipping. So in the case that you can use this discount code on top of other sale prices and discounts this would be a good deal

Week 6 BOC: Chim Chim Cheree

Pic-O-Pay – Brand of toothpaste

Fluoristan - The original name for crest. A white powder, SnF₂, used to fluoridate toothpaste.

Hexachlorophene - A commercial preparation of the drug, pHisoHex, was widely used as a very effective antibacterial skin cleanser in the treatment of acne. also known as Nabac, is a disinfectant. The compound occurs as a white to light-tan crystalline powder, which either is odorless or produces a slightly phenolic odor.

GL-70 - An additive in Gleem toothpaste in the 1950s, and was advertised as its unique decay and mouth-odor fighting ingredient. Whether or not GL-70 was a genuine ingredient is unknown.

Dermasil - Medicated lotion.

Vitrol-D - Vitamins added to hair products Calcium Citrate 1000mg +Vitamin D3 200 I.U + Zinc Sulphate 4mg + Magnesium 100mg

Lanolin wave - A yellow waxy substance secreted by the sebaceous glands of wool-bearing animals. Lanolin and its many derivatives are used extensively in both the personal care and health care sectors.

Boo-boop - Type of razor used to shave

Tufsyn – Used to strengthen the rubber in tires made by Goodyear

Retsyn - Green flecks added to breath mints to absorber bad breath

Acrylan - Acrylic yarn fiber similar to nylon

Marfac - Vintage oil and gas ad marfak, or marine facility

Melmac - Inexpensive dinnerware made from melamine resin

Orlon - Acrylic fiber, crease resistant

Korlan – A type of tree that grows tropical fruit

Accutron – A type of watch that uses vibrations to keep time

Teflon – Used on cookware for non-stick cooking under high heat

Ban-Lon - Pullover shirt made of artificial fiber.

Blue Magic whitener - Cheer Blue, white magic laundry detergent

Fastback - Ford Mustang that has a solid curve from the roof of to the car to the end of the trunk.

Wide-Track  - Type of racing tires with a fatter area that drives on the ground.

Autronic Eye - An automatic headlight dimming system

Platformate - An additive in gasoline to make the vehicle drive better, made by shell

It goes two miles more - Super Shell company ad

Nasograph – A device made for the breath better ad to show that using their product makes them breathe better.

Naugahyde - An American brand of artificial leather

The giant who lives in my washing machine - Salvo laundry detergent, who promised to "Put a giant in your washer!"

Jolly and Green - The Jolly Green Giant, the face of a canned vegetable company.

tiger who causes my gas tank to flood – ESSO power in your tank

handsome white knight - Ajax white knight mascot, cleaning products, ad targeted house wives

Man with the eyepatch – Mascot for Hathaway button down shirts

That nut who flies into the front seat for Hertz - Hertz (Let Hertz Put You in the Driver's Seat)

About Me

Born Nicole Beverly Stephenson and raised in Traverse City Michigan I have always wanted something more exciting in my life, something more like fashion. I eventually moved to Las Vegas Nevada to pursue my dream and Graduated from the Art Institute with a Bachelors Degree in Fashion Retail and Management. Today I am a fashion illustrator and creative designer. Some of my specialties are retail store designing and merchandising, drawing fashion designs, creating graphic designs for advertisements and art, and anything else I put my mind to. My current projects are designing clothing for a large department store for their women’s wear department. I’m also working on designs for my own store I plan to open with in two years, if the financial support continues according to plan. My favorite things include uniqueness, loud colors, ambition, glitter, and when everything comes together as a whole. One of my favorite quotes is “Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.” - By Edna Woolman Chase. I feel that this quote is true because one must have the personality to wear certain fashions and be able to pull it off, otherwise they are just clothes. Another one of my favorite quotes is by Henry David Thoreau and he said, “Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.” This quote is funny because all new fashion designs stem from a previous fashion trend.