Marie Claire is a woman's magazine with TRUE style. They cover everything from Politics to Lipsticks. I consider MC to be my favourite magazine next to Cosmo and they are polar opposites as far as women's magazines are concerned.

MC will often cover important issues such as self-esteem, STD's, Women's Rights. They usually cover 2 serious topics and each article will last serveral pages. They are, dare i say, BOLD enough to cover issues, that are hard to stomach at best, attrocities against women in our land and foreign lands, that some people may never know about, and certainly not in the depth told in these articles.

Then they usually have an article about women's perception of self. That is rare for a womens magazine for the obvious reasons of needing to sell poor self-image in order to sell products advertised between the pages. Past articles i remember are men drawing their womans' bodies and them women drawing their own so much bigger. They usually write articles in a very non judgemental way and that is important in relation to sense of self, b/c a lot of women are extrememly judgemental of their bodies. They also feature women of different body types throughout the magazine, and we know how rare this is.

Then they fill the rest of the pages with a variety of fashion and makeup and hair. That is also done very tastefully, sometimes too tastefully if you ask me (like boring), but i love it nonetheless. Their 101 section of clothing showcases 101 pieces of clothing on friendly looking models and there's usually a couple of things i really like, i would say the fashions are geared for the mid20's to early 40's in a range of prices.

The hair and make up are slightly conservative, the layouts are very nice and well constructed.

They do have a really good freebie everyweek. I remember when they had the calvin klein contradiction body wash scrub, and i bought 3 more after my subscription and took the coupons to the department stores around NYC. Awesome. It was last year and i still have one left.

They also feature a contest every week that is affiliated with a charity and they often have other ways to raise money inside the magazine and this is a really nice feature, b/c i think it gives the magazine a certain reality that we are still living on planet earth, and that not everyone is worried about the size of their pores right now b/c they have other problems.

This is a great magazine. Even my hippie girlfriend who always complains that i subscribe to too many horrible disgusting girly mags has nothing to say about this one.

Great articles, great insight into womens esteem, interesting political articles, forward thinking, and of course how to wear your hair, keep your pores small while having good sex. What more could you ask for.



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