09/03/2022
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” Those words of Maya Angelou fit perfectly into the theme of International Women’s Day 2022: Break the Bias. Brands as usual came up with creative and thoughtful campaigns to promote gender equality by breaking stereotypes and biases against women. Bombay Shaving Company’s “Break The Hierarchy” campaign stood out among others by celebrating the choice of women to keep or remove their body hair.
Taking a bold and peppy approach, the campaign film calls out society’s bias against the hair on a woman's head but not her armpit or upper lips, all of which are equally natural. It delivers the message that women, irrespective of the fact that they have heads full of hair or clean-shaven, with curls or highlights, with hairless armpits or visible hair on the upper lips, are all beautiful and equally deserving of respect. It urges women to break stereotypes and be their unique selves. The campaign celebrates the choice of any individual with respect to their hair. Bombay Shaving Company very cleverly portrays that what you do with your hair, is only your business.