In the study there was a great use of direct address in the advertisements for both ideological and practical
reasons. The use of the second-person personal and possessive pronouns such as ‘you’ and ‘yours’ seek to
address the readers directly and personally. When people are addresses individually rather than as part of mass
audience it is considered highly valued. This handling of people on an individual basis is referred as ‘synthetic
personalization’ (Fairclough, 1989:62). Based on the total fifty eight beauty products advertisements analysed,
twenty had used direct address. Examples are as shown below: