October 27th, 2009 admin
Have you seen those Message bracelets? Those tiny and cute pieces of wristbands or silicone rubber bracelets in colorful hues that were once found on the hands of high schoolers and middle schoolers but which are now found to grace the manicured hands and wrists of celebrities.
What started off as a mere fashion accessory has now evolved into Message bracelets or awareness bracelets and their job now is to spread awareness about different social issues. People are now trying to convey a message to society by wearing socially responsible Message bracelets.
And the messages can be anything, starting from raising awareness about breast cancer or ovarian cancer or cervical cancer or blood cancer or AIDS or hepatitis to environmental damage and pollution or global warming or the vanishing green cover from the face of earth or go green campaigns.
Some of the Message bracelets send across messages like Say No to Child Labor or Stop Child Trafficking or raise your voice against underage prostitution, while some others try to create awareness about orphaned children and their plights, literacy campaigns for the underprivileged and the deprived, Save the Girl child mission and many other such socially relevant campaigns.
PETA or People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals also sell Message bracelets to create and spread awareness about the dangers of poaching wildlife, the dwindling numbers of whales and tigers and cheetahs and lions and pandas in the world etc. It also tries to educate people through their Message bracelets not to treat animals cruelly or kill them unnecessarily.
Then there are Message bracelets through which environmentalists try to create awareness about Save the Forests, Save the Greens, or about female infanticide or obesity or the dangers of diabetes – the list is endless. In short it means that if you have a socially relevant cause, then get hold of silicone rubber bracelets, inscribe the message on them and distribute or sell those Message bracelets to people to raise funds for supporting your cause.
The best place to purchase these Message bracelets is the internet. Just type “buy Message bracelets” in the search engines and you will get access to millions of sites selling different kinds of Message bracelets, espousing different causes, embossed with different slogans or messages and you can pick any of your choice.
Sometimes they cost a few cents, sometimes they cost a dollar – to be frank they are dirt cheap and fly off the virtual racks, especially in the wake of any natural calamity or catastrophe as happened after the December 26th Boxing Day Asiatic tsunami.
The tsunami relief fund sold millions of Message bracelets worldwide and the millions of dollars that were raised were used to send relief to tsunami victims who had lost their all.
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October 22nd, 2009 admin
Oh no, these silicone rubber bracelets aren’t necessarily what you think them to be. Most people look at these silicone rubber bracelets as just another silly fashion accessory that makes the women and girls go crazy. But in reality, these humble and often derided bracelets have succeeded in transgressing the boundaries of the fashion and style world and have managed to enter the hallowed precincts of a socially responsible “spread awareness” zone.
Yes, I am talking about the Cancer awareness bracelets. You must have heard of them or at least seen the yellow Lance Armstrong Foundation Cancer awareness bracelets? This particular Lance Armstrong Foundation supports the victims of cancer, spreads social awareness about cancer, supports cancer patients and they came up with this fabulous idea of selling yellow wristbands or Cancer awareness bracelets to raise funds for supporting the cause of their charity.
You won’t believe it but millions of people across the world have purchased and now proudly sport the famous yellow Cancer awareness bracelets. Naturally, as you can understand, millions of dollars have been raised through selling these Cancer awareness bracelets and the latter are well recognized wherever you might go. These Cancer awareness bracelets have made people stand up for the cause of cancer and made them fight this life threatening disease.
You will find many celebrities sporting Cancer awareness bracelets and they are all associated with various cancer fighting NGOs or social organizations or charity groups.
There are also breast Cancer awareness bracelets, cervical Cancer awareness bracelets, ovarian Cancer awareness bracelets as well as other kinds of Cancer awareness bracelets and the color of choice is a pretty pink. Pink is a healing, comforting and soothing color and it is also regarded as a girlie color. And this pink ribbon owes its origin to a 68 year old woman named Charlotte Haley who used to make and distribute peach ribbons.
Along with these ribbons she sent out handmade cards with the message – “the National Cancer Institute has sanctioned $1.8 billion as its annual budget for fighting cancer, but only 5% of that money is being utilized for the prevention of cancer. Please help us wake up America and its legislators by sporting this ribbon”. This lady, Haley had a grandmother, a sister and her own daughter who suffered from breast cancer.
This is the story behind the invention of the pink ribbon symbol. She had refused Self magazine’s request to use the peach cancer ribbon on grounds that it was too commercial and the magazine came up with the idea of a pink ribbon. This is how the pink ribbon was born. In fact Cancer awareness bracelets are extremely ubiquitous nowadays.
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October 18th, 2009 admin
Contrary to what the high priests of fashion or fashion pundits might predict, Custom rubber bracelets or silicone rubber bracelets are very much here to stay. Although this humble little piece of fashion accessory has been regularly written off by the style gurus and trend watchers, Custom rubber bracelets have their own set of followers in liberated fashionistas who believe in making an individualistic style statement through something different yet simple!
High points of Custom rubber bracelets
Do you know why so many women, girls and men and boys patronize this simple piece of fashion accessory?
- Because Custom rubber bracelets are trendy and look good on your hands, they even make your hands look pretty.
- Unlike bracelets in precious metals which cost a bomb, especially during festive periods, Custom rubber bracelets are cheap and inexpensive and extremely pocket friendly. Even college goers can afford to purchase a dozen of them in different colors and designs.
- There are innumerable patterns to choose from, endless styles and varieties and they help you make a fashion statement that is hard to imitate.
- But perhaps the most important reason for sporting Custom rubber bracelets or silicone rubber bracelets is to spread awareness about burning social issues, spread a valuable social message or raise funds for different causes and varieties of significant charities.
- In short Custom rubber bracelets are both socially responsible as well as chic and sophisticated and they have finally managed to transgress the boundaries of being mere fashion accessories.
- Companies which want to promote events and activities, distribute Custom rubber bracelets, so do groups and NGOs which are trying very hard to make a big or small difference by trying to raise money to support various charity causes.
- There are Custom rubber bracelets with messages inscribed on them and many of these lend themselves to customization and personalization. You now have the opportunity to create and order Custom rubber bracelets engraved with your own design or logo or text or message, in a color of your choice.
- The best part is that these Custom rubber bracelets are strong and durable, crafted to last, boast of excellent quality and are manufactured out of 100% high density industrial silicone.
The internet is one of the best places to order these Custom rubber bracelets and it hardly matters whether you order one or 1 million! They will be delivered to you at your doorstep whether you want it next week or after 10 days or tomorrow!
To add a unique touch to your Custom rubber bracelets, you can fill them up with words of your choice or emboss a slogan or add your organization’s logo and choose attractive, contrasting colors to grab the eyeballs.
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October 12th, 2009 admin
Price aside, rubber bracelets are a whole lot more than meets the eye. Yes, the bracelets are very inexpensive to have made. Yes, silicone rubber is a low cost material to use. And yes, they can be cheaply produced for pennies on the dollar, but many things can influence the value of a simple rubber bracelet. Many of the bracelets carry a deeper, more significant quality that goes beyond the material costs.
They’re not cheap rubber bracelets!
Those silicone rubber bracelets very often will represent important social issues, ideas, and often sentimental topics currently facing the community and the world.
Also known as Awareness Bracelets, the bracelets continue to help publicize and promote various foundations and charities. The simple gesture of wearing a colored bracelet showing your support has become popular and fashionable.
How often do you see people wearing a colored rubber bracelet? I see them all the time. I often will see kids wearing numerous awareness bracelets on their wrists. Many remind us to be aware of the many health and social issues facing society today. Others are used to encourage better respect for the world’s environment.
Awareness bracelets have come in to their own, symbolizing something more significant and important to our lives. I am not talking about the actual bracelet, I am thinking figuratively of the concept and ideology a particular bracelet will come to embody. Does it represent support for cancer patients, HIV patients, or some other important cause that needs our attention and support?
The simple gesture of wearing the colored rubber bracelet is a small step in helping maintain awareness for an issue that may be important to you personally or to society as a whole. So there is a whole lot more to those rubber bracelets than just cheap silicone rubber.
If your organization is promoting an awareness campaign, then having custom rubber bracelets designed into awareness bracelets is a useful and practical option. The rubber bracelets are inexpensive to produce and easily customizable to fit any purpose.
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October 6th, 2009 admin
In order to form a memorable message, it is necessary to introduce an extraordinary method of presentation to your audience. Whether it is a gift or a fight for a social movement should be determined an incomparable means of convincing the masses to accept the message. It is this uniqueness that has made silicone wristbands so fashionable internationally.
While there is no question about the effectiveness of custom bracelets to champion their movement, people frequently have no thought how to do so. Here is a brief template to help you with the first steps in your attempts.
When conceiving a custom rubber wristband, you have to consider three important questions: First, the color of the bracelet, secondly, the selection of the logo and the third is the message debossed on the wristband.
The employment of particular colors means different movements. We all know about the popular yellow Live Strong wristbands that seek to unite cancer patients from around the globe in its firm determination to subdue this deadly disease. It is not required that you strictly follow these color codes to create your wristband, it is merely better, to pick out a color that is right for your campaign or your brand name.
Suppose you wish to use silicone wristbands to spread the news about your organization taking part in various kinds of environmental activities. In this situation it might be best to select green as the color of your wristband. If you are fighting against any kind of drug use, then yellow is the color that will have a greater representation of your goals. Or perhaps you are endorsing a breast cancer cause then using the color pink would be more fitting for your custom bracelet.
Individuals tend to better respond to any form of message if it is represented by icons or photographs. For this reason, logos are really important, symbolization connected with a particular cause or brand tend to create a persistent effect in the minds of individuals. Logos have massive advertising value and can stay in people’s minds much longer than words or phrases. Thus, you will notice big companies and small noncommercial organizations have their own logotypes that help excite the memory of of individuals to recall their icon.
As you can see, selecting the appropriate logo is really important: there has to be a connection between the design of the logo and aims of your organization. So, the logo on your custom wristbands should adequately represent your particular ideology.
The ultimate and most essential consideration is the selection of a message or slogan to put on the bracelet. The slogan should be brief, concise and gives a direct impression and understanding of the desired goals for the message.
Therefore, the success of utilizing custom wristbands depends on three elements: color, logotype and slogan. If you are concerned about the success of your campaign, make sure to incorporate the correct combination to make the most effectual and attractive custom wristband.
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