Those Old Chinese Faces on Products
Recently I just realized something – some products, especially Chinese ones, have a face as its logo/trademark/whatever you call it.
So I wondered – why the black and white face?
Even the yummy Mo Far Kor has a face on its case. To be honest, the faces look like those dead people on the obituary section.
The manufacturers must be thinking: “Ah gong, since you’re dead, I’m gonna use your face on my products. You will be always remembered!”.
How thoughtful, but I find it quite awkward and weird.
I was told that one of the reasons of including the face is that the customers will remember and recognize the item easily. Customers address the Windy Oil as “Ah poh yao” which means “Grandma oil”.
Seems convenient right? They even came up with a “younger” version of the medicated oil.
They call this boy the grandma Windy’s grandson – looking blue-ish and dead.
And Siangpure Oil’s face looking as strict as Singapore.
Anyway, usually middle-aged people and old timer buy and use the same brand because they trust the products. But what about the youngsters?
Therefore, I’ve came up with my own modifications of these items. Definitely can remember easily.
Saw Hong Choon skin ointment (I wonder why the name in the first place) should be replaced with the Hulk’s face. Since it’s for fungal infections, the Hulk (which is green) is totally suitable.
Besides that, people will remember Spiderman better than that old strict uncle. Spidey is much cooler too!
With so much hype about Ip Man, I think his face should replace the old grandma face. Renaming it to “Ip Man Oil” will be so much appropriate too.
I think Donnie Yen will use the medicated oil after every fighting scene.
And instead of the bubbly fat kid as the grandson – he should be replaced with Bruce Lee, since Bruce is Ip Man’s student. Hee-yah!
Oh yeah, besides all these products, there’s also the famous hair shampoo Bawang.
The uncle in the logo is so not suitable for the product – why is an almost bald uncle used to represent the hair care shampoo?
And also, why the name “Bawang”? Onion? What is the relevance? I have no clue…
Therefore, I propose a modification!
Change to my face (coz got more hair than that man) and rename it to Bawooi (which I have no idea why)!
Seconder please!
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lol hilarious and i ever thought the same way too. Why must they use “obituary” pictures? =P
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
spiderman oil? lol he won’t stick to walls after using it would he?
the bawang/bawooi shampoo… i can only see “mengurangkan rambut den…” in negeri sembilan that means “reduces my hair”!
LOL Bawooi. I wonder if my hair stays if i use that shampoo…
LOL. i also wondered why the chose ‘bawang’. why not ‘keladi’ or ‘durian’ instead? hehe.
Aha, I expect you tried to have the emo-set face possible for the last pix, to match the dead fella. ;)
haha first thing first I wanna buy IP Man oil lah!
memang betul letak gambar kenwooi mesti hot punya
hakhak…gambar paling latest tu sesuai sungguh.hahaks.
dan kenapa bawang ye..:)
Uiks…Bawang…i thought there is a product called bawang or something that was sponsor by Jackie chan…
Hahaha.. damn funny D
Haha….I love syampoo BAWANG….
ehhe.. make your own label la.. sure people will buy Kenwooi oil :P
LMAO…hahaha…ur post really makes me laugh like nobody business…
WHOA! nice edits…! Of course I quite dun like the labels… but I like the edit version! :D
hahaha i’ve always wondered y they put that kinda pics
maybe no suitable male model ? ;p
LOL!!!! True also, ur got more hair that that BaWang Guy XD and Jackie Chan should promote u too XD And hey u good at edit ei?
u need to senget a bit to make the pic more “photogenic” =b
btw, the Bawang is not in Malay. I’ve heard it’s actually a chinese name for 1 of the ingredients. i think that’s what i heard on tv
I think I will buy Bawooi more than Bawang. Hahahahaa!!!
The Bawang brand damn famous okay… Jackie Chan is the brand ambassador!
Ya lah hor? y got faces of people? I wonder whether they got royalty or not. How much is the Bawooi oil? Hahaha
I think those were the sinsehs…who concocted those traditional medicines. Some are really effective – better than western medicine.
boooooooo
;)
5 sebab cool tx5
i second it. haha
Yeah some of them are effective, but nowadays have many fake oilment. can put my dog’s face for the oil, heard dog’s saliva is good disinfection liquid.
Totally speechless but I can’t stop laughing.
Only with putting their faces on it you can be sure that you are buying the real thingy not the fake one. Haha..
bahahhaa. so true. the pictures do look like it’s taken for obituaries. but your suggestion are so damn hilarious man.
Haha Ip Man so yau yeng! But not sure if he’ll like it because most faces on medicines are dead people! LOL!
Haha…so funny..
Haha old habits die hard since ‘old’ people cannot change their habits to recognise new faces better to stick to the black & white pix else the old folks thought company ‘chap lap’ already. If all follow your new branding certainly run into trouble selling.. Love your creativity they are great job man..cheeers.
founder ma.. hahahhaa.. must remember them by, chinese are chinese, very filial one.. now i wonder why ang mo never put their face there on every cosmetic or drug they invented.. :)
btw, one glimpse on that one looks like William Hung la… guess which one..
You actually went around to make research? lol
hoho funnyyyyyyyyyy
Creative idea! It might work and sales would be much better (I guess) since younger generation would be attracted to the items.
waaa i like the evergreen one….the new one seem not suitable…
put my face must be great.. hehe
KEROL MEDICATED
got to make the right pose for the labels bro. side angle a bit, look a little up as if you saw a pair of underwear flying in front of you. then you’ll get the perfect pose + slight frown.
uncle! itu Bawooi satu botol berapa harga ha?
few years back, there was this square-box face powder with an amoi face on it which my mom always bought…why don’t you put ur own face on it…that will be very funny…hahaha
darn good blog post…i love it…creative la u…do drop by when u post something new..
Haha you should remove ur specs to make it look more real!
IP MAN OIL! if so, the price must have increased and not so affordable already );
Actually u are right…most of them are dead.
wahahhaa.. where do uget all these corny ideas from man.. =p
and it’s true about the hairline receding uncle used as the front logo.. never really realised about pictures in front of products til u mentioned it..
i eating one of those ‘asam’ but dont remember it name. and also the pill famous for stomach ache…ermmm
A good post bro. :)
yalol yalo~~~ old folks are always like tat ler..they will buy those ointment with the “dead” pics on it!
btw, love those amendment u have done!!
My god. LOL
haha, like the amendment, I should do one for my twins.
I think that ban leng ori photo looks a lot like William Hung hahaha
Muahahhahahha……fun fun fun!! ^^
I agree..
You must replace that BAWANG guy..
He almost bald ..
Nice blogpost!!! Hilarious
hahaha..that’s funny…LOL
walaweh…ur photo should paste on tongkat ali lorr..hahha
if i c ur face on one of them hor, i sure wont buy one AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA……..
BAWOOI?? hahaha
bawooi…? haha gonna look for one now..! better promotion skills la as u got more hair
BAWOOI?? haha… i want to buy one…
hahha…bawooi….good one bro
I wonder where can get those limited edition medicated oil..hahahah damn funny lah.
spiderman oil?? wakakakka
Hey kenwooi. (: thanks for the visit to my blog–I’ve been following yours for a while so to have you even click the link to my page is awefrigginsome. (:
LOL
nice post
the last pic makes me goes lol….i think they wanna call it ba wang in chinese.
where I can get that BaWooi one?
is it also for hair…
hahahah…LOL
I am totally agree with you! hahaa ur hair more thn him! BAWOOI
haha…dats very funny Ken. Btw, Ba wang is good leh…
And, I remember I was eating that mo far kor, with the same pix 30 yrs ago!
aha! you always put so much effort on your blog..no wonder you’re popular..good job =) have a great day…
Heyo! This is a really funny post!
Kenwooi, lucu!!!!!!
Sedang ketawa dengan suami…
Yang paling best, muka BAWANG t
Lucu sangat la Ken!!!
Wow…i miss the “Mui Fa Kor” packaging so much :P Hihihi…but hor, my colleagues told me…”BAWANG” Shampoo is really good, shall give it a try one day~
hahaha..the one with bruce lee’s face will sell well
Cap Lady Gaga lah baby! Let’s go Gaga!
Old school stuffs. Not sure whether they still produce things with the faces nowdays. Mo Far Kor is legend :)
lol best modification I had seen so far. u’re more creativity then I thought!
nice blog
Very creative of you to examine all these Chinese faces on products.
ur such a creative person mannn… i tot bawang is a chinese word? isn’t it? but still sound funny. Imagine like ur are using a product from onion – bawang merah – pedih mata oooo…
wah it’s good edit picture..u so creative person .. i like..
kelakar betul!
So free ar you! =)
HAHA i just realised when you mention abt it lol ipman oil HAHA
ken.. put ur face lorr.. hhah..
eyh.. put ur chat box lorr..
easy to me ‘tinggal kan jejak’
wow lao. U r damn funny!! I like the one about “as strict as singapore”. :p
Intriugieng…
Oh man! This is so funny. Well, in actual fact I am a big fan of Yuyee Oil. Smells soooooooo good and some..uhmmm…wind would be release soon after you rub it on your tummy. :)
OMG lol. i noticed that too. :D haha same pic format
me..me…pick me!! i’ll voluntarily b ur seconder…..
They should try out your idea. Replace those old faces with marvel hero or super stars. haha