Ok, first of all I used to love Marie Claire. Remember when you were younger, and reading some older ladies Cosmopolitan, or sneaking a look at More! to see the "position of the fortnight" was like, really exciting, and gave you an idea of a grown up woman's world and S-E-X. Well, I don't because my mum read Marie Claire, and for a long while I hailed this magazine as the Queen of the glossies, and the only magazine I would ever need. Well not anymore. Marie Claire is spilt into various sections, for example, the beauty section, the fashion, the lifestyle and a "reportage" section. What makes this glossy different from other big ...  Read the complete review

I have fallen in love. No, not with a shampoo, but with this fantastic mag, which I have been reading for only a few issues but have already become addicted. As a 17 year-old I guess I am probably one of the younger readers of Marie Claire, but it really does hit the spot for me. This is a refreshingly different, not at all frothy and very balanced woman's magazine that is mature in style and accurate in content. As a would-be women's magazine journalist, the features are an inspiration: a rare find if you consider some of the junk we are presented with today. The second issue I bought was a self-esteem special and I haven't felt so good about myself ..  Read the complete review

It was with an almighty thud that the copy of Marie-Claire hit our hall floor. I won’t pretend it was long awaited, in fact I’d forgotten about it. One of those Greasy Palm offers recently was tied into a magazine subscription, faced with a stark choice of Home and Garden etc, I’d plumped for the good old Marie-Claire. At least there might be some righteous feminist article in there, a few glimpses of cutting edge fashion, a voucher or a free front cover lipstick. Anyway, something I could relate to as a 20-something woman, without a hayfever inducing cover shot or boring mail order elastic man-corsets. I am a magazine lover. There, I’ve admitted my vice out ...  Read the complete review

Marie Claire Magazine started out in France in 1937 as a weekly edition. Over the years it has expanded, and is now published worldwide to countries including the UK, USA, Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Greece, Russia, Saudi Arabia and many others. The magazine's subject matter centres around health, beauty and fashion, and each country's edition had subject matter specific to it. The magazine also deals with relationships and current world issues. Each monthly issue features a celebrity on the cover who gives an interview inside the magazine along with additional photoshoot. Running in Heels, the reality TV show follows three interns working ...  Read the complete review

In my twenties I used to waste a criminal amount of money on magazines - I could easily kill about £20 a month on these! I started off reading More but outgrew it, graduated to Heat and Now but with the internet, you can pretty much curb your celeb gossip craving without buying the mags. I had a preconcieved idea that Marie Claire was in the same vein as Cosmopolitan (which I personally hate) so never bothered with it. I started reading it when I came across one of these offers - it was get a copy of Marie Claire free and the next four issues for 25p each. Credit crunch times meant I leapt at that offer and it did what it was designed to do, ...  Read the complete review