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Christina Hendricks’ Hair Color Commercial Banned For Being Misleading

“Looks can be deceiving, they say. So can commercials, as we in the U.S. know. But according to our friends across the pond, this deception is worthy of legal action. As Jezebel reports, a Clairol commercial is being banned in the U.K. for misrepresenting Christina Hendricks’ dye job — in it, she went from red to golden blond. After complaints from two viewers, both hair-color educators who, the Advertising Standards Authority ruling states, ‘understood the color change depicted could not have been achieved using the product alone,’ the Authority determined Procter & Gamble fooled viewers by shooting Hendricks with blond hair before shooting her with red.” Read more at Refinery29.

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Jessica Alba’s Honest Company Sued for Being ‘Deceptive’

“Jessica Alba’s all-natural product line, the Honest Company, has been hit with a lawsuit that claims it ‘deceptively and misleadingly’ labels and markets its products as being ‘natural.’ In legal documents obtained by PEOPLE, consumer Jonathan D. Rubin claims that a number of products contain ‘unnatural’ and ‘synthetic’ ingredients and also says that the Honest Sunscreen product is ‘ineffective.’” Read more at People.

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