Believe, if you call a woman in Brazil Airplane or Grape, you are saying she's beautiful. But what are the expressions and slang for beautiful woman in USA ???
Two things made me write this post: a brazilian playboy magazine cover and an ad a friend of mine created in Brazil for haircolor tint.
Playboy: Brazilian airline Varig almost went bankrupsy. A lot of people lost their jobs. So, Playboy magazine in Brazil selected 3 stewardesses who got fired. And the photo shoot title was: Varig's airplanes. When I was talking to friends about this photo shoot, many didn't understand why the girls were called airplanes. I thought they would understand because of a movie: Miss Congeniality. Let me be more specific: In this movie, Sandra Bullock plays a FBI agent, an ungly one. To solute a case, she has to get in undercovered in a beauty contest. Michael Kaine plays a beauty consultant who makes the miracle: the ugly agent turns to a beautiful contester. Before she goes to the contest, all the makeover was made in an airport hangar. When the job is done, you see her totally gorgeous, walking out the hangar like an airplane. I remember my friend Alfredo saying "here comes the airplane".
I asked to a couple of girls if I called them airplane what I would mean. The answer: fat. So, in portuguese, it means beautiful, gorgeous ... and in USA it means fat ??? In both cases make sense. Airplanes are big and heavy. But they are beautiful, pure engineering art. Airplanes are curvy, like gorgeous womem. And when they walk in a room they exhale their beauty and charm like the power that come out form the airplane's engines when they are taking of. That's a beautiful scene.
Grape: I have a friend who work in an advertising agency that has a cosmetic company as a client. They lauched a new colorhair tint that has grape seeds on the formula, what is supposed to be good for women's hair. And the ad headline says: If someone screams "beautiful", it means he liked the color. But if he says "you are a grape", it means he knows about haircolor tints.
So, what grape and women have in commom ??? Grapes are smooth like women's skin: it's amazing to touch. And grapes are sweet as women's kisses and their touch ...
No matter how we say, but women, you always deserve the best !!!
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