Glamour

Although I don't generally tend to buy Glamour every month, after I have had a busy and stressful few weeks, Glamour is my guilty pleasure. I love to relax with a copy of glamour magazine and every issue I buy never fails to keep me going from cover to cover. I have february 2008's copy here, which is out now. I brought it to relax after handing in a chuck of my dissertation. This issue has interesting articles, fashion, hair and make up tips etc. On the cover: Reese Witherspoon - a candid article in which she talk about love, drugs, being a single mother and the influence she has on her children. "A sex cult stole my childhood" ...

Glossy magazines are usually not my cup of tea as I find them too full of ads and after reading one I often feel like my make up bag is seriously lacking in good quality cosmetics and feel the urge to solve the problem, which is not good for my bank balance. I bought Glamour last week as it came with a free nail varnish and as my sister-in-law mentioned she'd like some for Christmas, I decided to buy 2 December issues of Glamour (with a different colour for each varnish) and use them as stocking fillers for the grand total of £4 (£2 per issue). I gave a copy to a friend and finally decided to read my own. It is a mini magazine so it is ...

I've been buying glamour every month for over a year now and I love it. It's reasonably priced, usually only about £2 which is far less than other magazines such as Cosmopolitan (£3.20 monthly) and even some weeklies such as Heat (£1.65 a week = £6.60 a month). Every month the magazine gives sex advice, interviews a celebrity, has a centrefold of someone famous to raise awareness of testicular cancer, loads of fashion advice which ranges from both the reasonably priced to the slightly more expensive, alongside real life advice and beauty tips. There is a lot to read for the amount of money that you pay. The magazine is about 350 pages on average (A5 sized), ...