Best magazine - a little bit of everything for everyone! (Best Magazine)

Member Name: karlsm93

Product:	Best Magazine
Date:	13/07/09 (55 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A good variety of articles with something for everyones tastes and interests

Disadvantages: None

Just to make readers aware that I am reviewing best magazine, a celebrity gossip magazine, which in fact looks absolutely nothing like the picture that dooyoo have at the top of the page. I am not sure if there are two different magazines or not, but anyhow.

I actually didn't purchase this magazine, as I rarely buy celebrity gossip magazines, however my sister did, and passed it on to me when she had finished with it. I believe she actually got this magazine as part of an offer, along with two other magazines at the airport for part of a 3 for £1 deal.

The front page of this magazine includes headlines advertising articles inside on celeb diets, summer fashion, real life stories and celeb stories.

Jane Ennis is the editor of the magazine, and she begins the first page of the magazine with some of her notes about latest celeb gossip or opinions etc. Underneath her editor's notes is a short contents list, showing how the magazine is divided into different sections such asL
Celebrities
Columnists
Real Stories
Style
Food and Home
Health
Your best life...

The whole magazine is only 66 pages long, and the majority of these are filled with articles rather than advertisements which is a nice change.

Inside there are glossy celeb photographs, and with articles on various celebrities (the 30 June issue being on Posh Spice and Coleen Nolan). There is also an article featuring a 'steal HER style' , detailing how you can look like a particular star by finding clothes to dress similarly.

Real life stories in the issue I have, incluse articles on 'Mum's love made us obese!' and 'Raped by the evil loan shark'.

There are several pages devoted to fashion, and mixing work and evening clothes, with some of the latest high street trends at reasonable prices.

Carol McGiffin lends her voice as a columnist about some of the lastest weekly news, and Lorraine Kelly offers words of advice of matters of the heart!

Of course, no celebrtiy gossip magazine is without food/diet articles to make us all feel fat. In the issue I have, celebrity columnist Carole Malone is one of the five celebrities trying out the 'best diets in the world'. I have to admit, I have learnt to take little heed of such articles, but some may find them interesting. More informative however are the health articles talking about vitamins and the latest health news, as well as some yummy recipes.

Unlike other magazines, a page devoted to allowing readers to express their opinion about various things, is actually in the latter half of the magazine.

At the very end of the magazine along with the usual horoscope page, are competition crosswords/sudoku, giving readers the opportunity to win prizes up to £200. There is also a short section on travel featurign a particular glossy destination to tempt readers, and finally a page devoted to the week's telly.

All in all, I have to say, that even though I don't particularly like celebrity gossop magazines and would not usually waste money buying them, I felt that there was a little bit more to this magazine. Rather than flicking through numerous glossy advertisement before getting to actual articles, this magazine is full from start to end with articles and no wasted advert pages. I feel that this magazine offers a little bit of everything for readers ' gossip, competitions, tv, diets, health, recipes etc, and for the money that my sister paid, I think it wasn't bad value for money, and if ever I was to start purchasing celeb gossip magazines I would much prefer this best magazine to some others on the market.

Summary: A good value magzine.