Veet Pulls Its Ad After Creating Hairy Controversy

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Veet Pulls Its Ad After Creating Hairy Controversy
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"Don't risk dudeness."

That's the tagline in Veet's new wax strip advertisement, which has stirred up some controversy online from both men and women. The 30-second commercial features a couple peacefully sleeping in bed. A clean-shaven man wakes up, shocked, next to hairy guy with a woman's voice — meant to imply that women should shave to avoid looking like hairy dudes.

See also: Dove's Beauty ***** Experiment Wants You to Embrace What You Have (http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/dove-beauty-*****/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


The ad, which was originally posted on Monday, was ******* from Veet's YouTube (http://mashable.com/category/youtube/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) page and website on Wednesday morning. However, it can still be viewed (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nfrqETDhbaAJ:www.veet.us/dontriskdudeness/+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) through Google's cache. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/09/veet-ad-controversy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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