Cosmopolitan (1-year) [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION] [PRINT]
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Cosmopolitan (1-year) [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION] [PRINT]
Cosmopolitan (1-year) [MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION] [PRINT] Reviews
This was my “first” grown-up girl magazine and I still share a fondness for it and usually buy it at least three or four times a year. My guess is in order to keep the cover price down, the mag is trying to cut corners on other importent areas like–paper quality. The magazine is printed on a lower quality paper than most–decreasing its’ durability and readability. Also, let’s face it–some of the writing is just not up to the same level of many competing magazines. The articles seem repetitive, simple-minded and without a lot of useful information. Let’s hope the “old gal” gets a quality “face-lift” and soon.
After casually flipping through Cosmo while waiting in line at the grocery store when I was in college, I finally decided to subscribe, and boy did I regret it. I was hoping to enjoy Cosmo as my monthly guilty pleasure, but what I got was an incredibly banal reading experience. The fashion, hair, and skin tips are not bad, but similar advice can easily be found in several better magazines.
Horrible experience that ended in disaster. My advice: DO NOT ORDER A MAGAZINE FROM AMAZON because it is impossible to change the information in time. I ordered this magazine for my daughter-in-law but mistakenly clicked before changing the shipping address. What a nightmare…and in the end, I canceled the entire subscription. It was simply impossible to contact Amazon as they are not set up to talk with anyone even though I noticed the mistake within minutes of ordering. Take my word for this ~ DO NOT COME TO AMAZON for such orders. They are simply not set up for to service the customers properly.
Cosmo however, became a cultural staple because of the promise of its cover teasers. Yet, for anyone over the age of 14, the articles that these teaser headlines offer are uninformative and generally useless. By the third month of my subscription I realized that if you read one issue of Cosmo, you really don’t need to read another one. They are all the same! Cosmo masquerades as an empowering lifestyle magazine for fashionable women in their 20s, but as a woman in that demographic, I found this magazine to be a colossal bore of recycled (not to mention really prosaic) sex-tips and retrograde advice that will set women back a good forty years. Needless to say, I did not renew my subscription. I subscribed to Self and Women’s Health instead, and am much more impressed with their overall content. I will however warn that Self and WH are low on beauty and fashion content, so I am thinking about subscribing to Glamour or Marie Claire to compensate for these shortcomings.
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