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for Cosmopolitan

Rating Summary based on 59 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		14
  • 4 Stars
    		24
  • 3 Stars
    		9
  • 2 Stars
    		11
  • 1 Star
    		1

Detailed rating

  • Quality of features
  • Quality of journalism
  • Quantity of advertising
  • Value for money
  		• 3.6
  		• 3.6
  		• 3.9
  		• 3.5
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  • 88 of 88 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    pesky33

    2 Stars WELCOME TO THEIR YOUNIVERSE Diamond review Review with images 26/08/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages takes a while to read

    Disadvantages Disadvantages they live in their own little world

    So, what the flip is Pesky, well known tomboy and avid ranter against traditional female stereotypes doing buying this filthy rag? I have no idea, to be honest, so let’s say I was forced to buy it for work. I work in a dentist and am forever trying to find the correct balance of waiting room magazines; good enough quality that they don’t look tatty after only 2 days, and not tempting enough that people will pinch it (and people do you know… and if you’re one of them, shame on you!) So, there sat Cosmo on the WH Smith shelf, with a free book (always a good idea to have a free book rather than a ... more
  • 61 of 61 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 theediscerning

    Member since 14/08/2002

    Reviews written: 150

    4 Stars How the other half lives? 29/06/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages MUCH better than the corresponding men's mags

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Still only a magazine

    Some time ago theediscerning dipped his toes into the world of men's mags, with the help of a 3-month subscription offer of a £. He duly signed up, and actually received 4 copies of Maxim, and thought it was complete and utter rubbish. Page after page of advertorial and glossy pictures for idiots who need a spurious magazine half-full of skinny bimbos to tell them how to live as a man. And so, when the opportunity came up to see the other side of the coin ~ to get 3 copies of a women's magazine for the same price, he leapt at it. It certainly helped that the offer was for Cosmopolitan magazine ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Belfastgirl

    5 Stars For females who like reading adverts 14/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Full of fashion tips

    Disadvantages Disadvantages too many adverts

    Cosmopolitan (Cosmo for short) is one of those magazines that I just have to buy every month - when I see it on the shelves, I think, "I have to get that"... I'm still a little undecided as to whether it is just out of plain old habit, or if the magazine is actually good! Cosmo has definitely got better over the last year, hopefully gone are the days of the free pink flip flops which are lurking somewhere underneath my bed, never to be seen again! May I add that these flipflops had one purpose - to save my ordinary shoes when I was painting my bedroom, so they now are pink with turqouise and ... more
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Calypte

    Member since 01/08/2001

    Reviews written: 139

    2 Stars Stop drooling, boys 05/08/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages if you must buy a woman's mag...

    Disadvantages Disadvantages repetitive, tired, hypocrisy

    There was a time when the new edition of Cosmo landing on my doormat (an elderly relative having been persuaded that, if she was going to get me a magazine subscription for Christmas, maybe I’d prefer Cosmo to Reader’s Digest. Oh, and it’s about, um - hair and clothes and stuff, auntie, honest!) was greeted with a fair amount of enthusiasm. From the doormat, it rarely lasted to a second day’s reading (mind you, that could’ve been more to do with the assignment on pension funds I was supposed to be writing instead – amazing what distractions could be found at ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    PrincessGem

    5 Stars and cosmo girl would know... 23/04/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages fun, fluffy read, affordable products, down to earth writing

    Disadvantages Disadvantages repetition, over-emphasis on sex, lack of originality sometimes

    The writers at Cosmo have a hard job, in my opinion. This magazine has been going since the 1970's, and there's only so many ways you can re-work the same fun features on love, life and fashion & beauty. So I think the girls of cosmo deserve a round of applause for still selling thousands of copies a month to a very wide audience. Though the target market is clear (young, fun-loving girls) It's the first magazine from my monthly pile that my mom steals to flick through, my best friend (about as different from me as night and day) read it religiously for a long time, and even my flatmate's ... more
  • 39 of 39 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    PerfectlyPink

    3 Stars HAVE BETTER SEX 05/12/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Lots to flick through

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too many adverts

    Hello! I'm new to Ciao and this is my very first opinion! I've read other opinions to get the gist of what I'm meant to be doing including a few "How to Write Opinions" which I hoped would get me off to a good start! I think I may of already broken one of the rules by waffling! -Sorry! :) I've decided to write about Cosmopoliton... **~~WHAT IS COSMO?~~** Cosmo is a women's magazine which seems to be aimed at young female professionals. It regards itself as very prestigious! It features alot of fashion and beauty but also include articles which deal with issues like rape and alcholism amongst ... more
  • 73 of 73 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    emmorticia

    4 Stars Scantily clad women galore.... 26/05/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages lots of stuff to read, good for fashion and sex tips!

    Disadvantages Disadvantages too many damn adverts...

    HA! Knew that would get the men's attention! Cosmo is one of the magazines that is always flung into my shopping basket when it comes out every month - I started buying it last year after reading the front cover and seeing what sort of features it contained. The size of the magazine impressed me as well - it's a big chunky magazine and seemed like great value for money at only £2.80, but that was before I discovered just how many adverts each issue contained... This magazine is published once a month, and is aimed, I'd say, at women in their 20s and 30s. Marketed mainly as a fashion mag, it's ... more
  • 50 of 51 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 KarenUK

    Member since 08/07/2000

    Reviews written: 1125

    2 Stars SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX SEX 24/07/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Free book with the August issue

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too much advertising, too much sex (Yes, you CAN have too much sex!), skimpy models, expensive products advertised, did I mention TOO MUCH SEX??

    I’m not really a magazine person. I mean, I love reading, but much prefer books. I find books more interesting, I get more out of them. A novel is a long, slow, pleasure-filled session; a magazine is quick and often unfulfilling… which really brings me round to the question – Why? … did I buy Cosmopolitan? Well, because it came with a free novel!! Yes, one Amanda’s Wedding by Jenny Colgan – just the sort of books I am stuffing my bedside table with at the moment. It had a good cover, nice colours, nice font and looked a good read. It also came with a free ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    emu128

    5 Stars WANNA SEE EMINEM AND MICHAEL GRECCO IN THE NUDE 01/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Eminem and Michael Grecco

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too many adverts

    Well do you? If you do you've clicked on the right op, because I have some very juicy gossip for you all to read, interested or not! INTRODUCTION Cosmopolitan magazine, sometimes called Cosmo for short has been around for ages but only been REALLY noticed recently. Many folk look down apon this mag and think that it's dirty, disgusting and only for desperate women with sad lives but that isn't true at all and read on to find out why. The subject of this op, the magazine, of course did not attract your wondering eyes to open my op and read it, of course the title probably did, didn't it ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    AliceCarroll

    2 Stars if this is todays woman were in trouble 17/03/2002
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages lots of sex tips

    Disadvantages Disadvantages if you'd use them, you dont need them

    Oh how men quiver at the thought of the "cosmo" woman!!Liberated, sexually dominant, knows what she wants and knows how to get it!!!Grrrrowl, she's a tigress in the sack and as sleek and streamlined as a racehorse as she climbs that career ladder crushing the gasping men in her wake with one tap of that killer manalo blahnik heel. It seems this 80s and 90s image of the cosmo woman, has in fact faded as far as the magazines content is concerned.For withthin Cosmos glossy pages is a quivering, unstable, emotionally wrecked, overweight and COMPLETELY CLUELESS female stereotype, more concerned ... more
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