Last but not least: Face leasing
Once upon a time, there were two college students who needed to find a way to pay for their education. They thought about how they could make some money—and came up with an unusual idea.
The solution to their money worries is called Buy my Face - a face rental company. All the students needed was a good make-up case, nothing more. In the beginning, they offered relatives and acquaintances with business connections the chance to paint logos and advertising slogans on their faces for 1 pound a day. Word of the service soon spread and bigger fish started to bite. They made their breakthrough with the Paddy Power betting office of tax consultancy firm Ernst & Young. Now they were even sent on trips, to the opera or on a ski tour. They are also said to have received inquiries from Germany and the USA. Of course, the service soon no longer cost just 1 pound - in the meantime, the economist and the surgeon are said to have already earned over 30,000 pounds by renting out their faces.
The idea of selling your own body as advertising space is not entirely new (see for example here). But it still seems to work - so why not ...
(Source: Tages-Anzeiger)
