| Product: |
Bliss |
| Date: |
08/04/05 (402 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Small, good light read .
Disadvantages: Lots of adverts
Bliss magazine is primarily aimed at teenagers in the range of 13-17 I would say. The magazine is A5 size, it used to be A4 but then it decreased it size along with a few other magazines supposedly so it can ‘fit in your handbag’. Well it doesn’t fit it mine, but then again mines quite small.
So anyway the latest issue I have, is the May issue which has a picture of Lindsay Lohan on the front. Each issue they have a celeb on the front. At the top is the name of the mag is big, bold pink with the website at the side. At the bottom it says ‘136 must-have shopping buys!’ and in between these two is the-life stories headlines and other features in the mag. The front of the mag is very pink and yellow, which I suppose is appealing and stands out.
On the back is an advert for Lacoste touch of pink perfume.
Bliss’s editor is Lisa Smosarski, who is newly appointed. The magazine celebrates its 10th birthday this month so it started in 1995. The price is £2.10 which is the average kind of price for a magazine like this. Cosmo Girl, an equivalent magazine, is £2. The magazine contains 163 pages and I’ve just counted over 20 pages of advertisements most taking a whole page.
Inside is a letter from the editor then a contents page. The page features all that is in the mag under specific headings:
BLISS FRONT ~
Contains the Mail Room which is the letters page. The star letter receives an MP100 camera phone this month worth over £100. Other features include different items to buy, blag it, where you send texts in to win prizes and cringe! Which is the embarrassing pages. This months cringe subject is ‘birthday blunders’, fitting in with Bliss’ 10th birthday. ‘That’s just so Wrong’ shows embarrassing pictures of celebrities.
BLISS YOU ~
This is stuff for you like quizzes, ‘be your own personal trainer’, win a prom party for your school, and animals that die for fur.
BLISS LADS ~
Includes Guy Spy, a poster of Mr May and interview, ‘lookin’ for luv’. This is like personal ads pages for lads looking for girls. ‘How sexy am I’ where there are pictures of three girls and the lads give their opinions. This is quite good actually as it is good to see how the girls rate themselves and the lads rate them. There are also posters in this issue including stars from Casualty, Corrie, Orlando Bloom, Will Young and Josh Hartnett.
BLISS CELEB ~
This features pictures of celebs in their younger days, interviews and in this issue behind the scenes at Fooballers’ Wives. The Next Big Thing tells you the essential and best things to watch, listen, read, see and what’s hot and what’s not.
BLISS STYLE ~
Summer’s hottest looks, previewing trends, Get gorgeous beauty tips and tips for preventing spots!
BLISS GURU ~
This is your typical problem pages with your love, life, body, boy, career and photo gurus. Each one of these has their own couple of pages. The photo guru is where problems are acted out in photos with speech bubbles coming out saying what they’re thinking.
BLISS REGULARS ~
This has everything that is always in the mag such as horoscopes, free stuff, mag blag (subscribing to the magazine) and famous last words in the form of strange pics of celebs from fans. Free stuff in this issue includes hair straighteners, widescreen TV, mobile and a NY trip. To try and win these you have to text or phone in. There are also codes and coupons for 25% off at figleaves.com and 20% off at Tammy.
FREE GIFTS ~
Each issue each get a free gift. These are alright. The one I got at the moment gave a free vans drawstring bag in two designs. The one they gave me was pink with skull and crossbones on it. Not really my style so won’t be using this. The other light blue I think with elephants on it. The issue before gave a Barry M nail varnish kits with stick on nails. They sometimes also give you offers where you can send away for things for free and only have to pay for p&p.
I have recently taken out a subscription for the magazine for £9.97 for 6 issues delivered to your door each month. This is good value as it works out at £1.66 for each issue. Plus you get a gift for subscribing. The gift advertised with mine was the Rimmel perfume and nail varnish. Part of the reason I did it was for the perfume. But what I received was a Minor make-up bag with a few products. I suppose there must have been some clause somewhere saying subject to availability.
In this issue is advertised a free Tigi hair kit worth over £26 when you subsribe. You can also do £19.97 for a whole year.
WHAT I LIKE ~
I like the horoscopes as they give you a horoscope, your lad life horoscope, your best day, and the lad you fancy’s horoscope. They also give you your ‘astro buy’. This issue it’s purses. I also like the ‘how sexy am I?’ feature as it is interesting to see the differences in what lads think are good features about someone and what girls do.
In my opinion I would say that Bliss has gone down in quality recently. I can’t pinpoint this exactly but I just feel it has. So why I took out a subscription who knows! I think it was the perfume free gift that did it, which I didn’t even get in the end!
Though saying this about the quality, it could just be because being 17 nearly 18 I’m growing out of it.
This is the address:
Endeavour House
189 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
WC2H 8JG
E-mail ~ biss@emap.com
Website ~ blissmag.co.uk
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