Guess who’s on a Dove commercial? 🕊

Helluuuuu Hivers! 🙋‍♀️ Remember how we all made Dalgona coffee and banged utensils during the COVID lockdown? (Indians would know what I’m talking about 😂) Apart from all the kitchen experiments and utensil banging, I happened to get an opportunity to be a part of a Dove deodorant commercial around the same time. So this post is about how an Instagram DM led to my debut on National Television ( I like how unnecessarily fancy this sounds 😂)

Flashback to January 2019 - I receive a DM on my Instagram from a random account telling me that she liked me from my profile and asked if I’d like to be a part of a Dove campaign. My immediate response in the head was - SCAM. I mean, how often does one wake up to an advertisement offer from a global brand? That too on Instagram? I usually do not reply to messages from unknown sources but I wanted to mess around with the supposed conman 😂 So, the first thing I did was reply to that message and asked them to send me a mail from their official email. I got no reply and was convinced that this was clearly a sham. The very next week, to my surprise I found an email from the casting agency with full proof documents. I also happened to learn that this was a paid project and I immediately signed up for it because the joke was on me now 😆

I filled up the form and got no response for about two years. I forgot about it too, until in January 2021 when I received a call from the agency again. The next thing I know, I am signing contracts and speaking to lawyers for confirmation. They saw my sister on my profile and liked her too. Both of us received our package - ring lights, deodorants, mobile stands, etc etc .

We had to self shoot it because we couldn’t go to the studio due to the lockdown. It was a 14 day campaign and each day we had to send a one minute video giving our review of the deodorant. They tracked our daily progress and took tiny clippings of our daily videos. Finally, they chose 4 girls from the shortlisted batch (both me and my sister were chosen) and we made it to the final commercial.

Honestly, this was a new but fun experience. Also, the payment made it much more fun than expected 😂😂😂 Lesson to be learnt: Check your Instagram DMs. You may have an exciting offer waiting for you , you never know 🤷‍♀️ 😂

Until another story, cheers! 🥂