Bazaar is bizare!

[Virginia]

I just got my copy of "Bazaar" magazine. It is the "Spring Preview."

All I can do is shake my head. First, why do they "air-brush" these models to look like they are aliens? No joints, arms and/or legs that look so thin they look past being malnurished. Their legs and/or arms look so long it verges on the ridiculous. Then some of them you can't really tell if it is a painting or some distorted photo-shopped drug induced photograph. Some of the girls are very pretty, feature wise, but they don't even look human. It is just too weird for me.

That plus the clothes, well as the old adage goes, "there is no accounting for taste." I have been "around" so to speak and I can't recall seeing any women wearing things like you see in some of these fashion magazines.

Anyway, the magazine is out and there are some new make-up and body lotions that I would like to try.

Shop on ladies!

Virginia

[Eileen (SO)]

Magazines like those are no good for your self esteem, Virginia. One reason I don't read Better Homes and Gardens either. LOL!
For clothing, we share catalogs geared toward larger ladies. Less fashionable, but more affordable and is common among the great unwashed.

Eileen

[Virginia]

Hi Eileen,

As I am sure you are well aware by now - this girl does NOT have a self-esteem problem . That being said, there is a lot of money spent to develop these "slick" magazines and the advertisers spend one hellofa a lot of money to get into them. I think I had a "special" subscription last time on this one. Two years for $12.00 so it is the advertisers that pay for it. The articles - I have never heard of most of the people they interview and they all seem so shallow. All they know is fashion, but again my main reason is to see what new skin and make-up items are out there. I can't see paying $55.00 for eye-liner or $40.00 for lipstick but its nice to know someone apparently can. AND....... don't laugh, but I tear out the perfume strips and put them in my lingerie draws and my "unmentionables" smell OH! so good! Just saying!!!

[Carol Ann]

Virginia,

Seeing as how I don't get any of those rags I place softener sheets made for the drying cycle in my draws and yes a very nice fem smell

[Toni_Lynn_P]

Two little things on this ...

Here in Canada, I get a magazine called LouLou. I really like it as it has at least given me some idea on outfits to create. You can google for it by searching on loulou magazine,

But -- in a funny note .. not that this has anything to do with the topic --- many years ago, I was in a backwoods town in central Pennsylvania doing some work computer work in a grocery store. A local church had placed big hand lettered posters for their annual social .. labeled as as such ... "THIS SATURDAY -- ANNUAL CHURCH BUZZAR". Oops

Hugs

Toni-Lynn

[Eileen (SO)]

That's funny, Toni-Lynn. For the price of a desk top dictionary...

A friend gets Redbook, also a cheap publication with gobs of 'helpful' hints. Another is Country Living. There are only so many pies one could make in a lifetime. Of course it's all marketing toward an ever changing clientele with no interest in real life. An air brushed photo of what my Grandma called a skinny malink doesn't do much good for the vulnerable youngsters. I don't have self esteem issues either, Virginia. That was many, many years ago.

Eileen

[Davita]

Two mags I have liked over the years have been More and Marie Clare. These are about finding decent value for services and all things fashion. They can help with what's trending and what is not worth buying. I've also gotten Redbook; to me, it was less fashion but more home stuff.

Want a silly? I love reading Hightlights; can it be any more down to earth? Sure it's a kid magazine, but that's one of the beauties of it. If you have little ones, it always has a time waster project that you can help with too.

[Eileen (SO)]

I loved Highlights when I was little! Too bad we overlooked that in raising our own family and choose the kid version of National Geographic's Ranger Rick. Those were good, but recycled articles every few years on the correct assumption than children grow up and move on to other reading material.

Magazines for grown ups, (I'm avoiding the term 'Adult' because that's not the type I mean) seem to do the same thing, recycle articles. Really, how many quick tips to reduce belly fat are there? Or the ten best ways to turn on your guy in bed. Every few months or less, another list of ten, really? Isn't being awake good enough?

I haven't seen a Bazaar magazine in such a long time, Virginia. Between air brushed models, perfect homes, recipes, and how to be a sex kitten, I have little interest in the expensive make up ads.

Eileen

[Toni_Lynn_P]

....and how to be a sex kitten....

Oh I am so up for learning THAT! Where do I sign up?

Be that as it may ...

During my teenage years I read 5 magazines:

Reader's Digest
16 -- it was a teen celebrity / idol magazine geared toward teen girls
Tiger Beat -- same as 16
Seventeen
Boy's Life

I was able to read 16 and Tiger Beat quite openly. I guess my mum though they were more about music. Seventeen was another story though. It was always hidden away. That's where Boy's Life kicks in, cause I'd have my copy of Seventeen tucked inside a copy of Boy's Life, so as to disguise what I was reading. Oh, how I dreamed of having a subscription to it way back when

Hugs

Toni-Lynn

[DonnaT]

BUZZAR could have been a play on words. Maybe they have a sheep (or head) shearing party.

[Alexis]

I long ago discovered while living in NYC and meeting for real models that they barely looked like the fashion mags, later I meet an editor and was told the even the most "perfect" girl got photo shopped.
So though I look at some mags now, I really never buy any. But Cosmo. For the articles mostly.
Alexis