As Carmen Says... "It's Time To Sweat!"

Advantages: Full body workout, makes you sweat, very effective
Disadvantages: Title is maybe a little misleading

...and should get very toned if you are committed. I do have to say, I am not a big fan of Carmen Electra. She has a fantastic figure but I did find her a little irritating in the DVD but, thankfully, she didn't speak that much! Instead, the personal trainer Michael Carson lead the routines and he was fantastic. It really feels like he is speaking to YOU and he explains everything he is asking you to do and what benefit it will have on your body. I would recommend the DVD for this reason alone. To summarize, I would highly recommend purchasing this DVD though be aware there is no striptease. The workout is around fifty-minutes (not 58 as on the back of the DVD case) and really pushes everyone to the limit - beginners and advanced. At the end you will find yourself exhausted and a little sore and that feels good because you know you have worked...

fairyfaye22 20.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Carmen Electra - Fit To Strip (DVD)

Fit to strip

Advantages: works
Disadvantages: quite hard

...Carmen Electra's Fit To Strip (Taken from back of DVD case) Disc 2 of Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease series is all about working your way to a dancer's body. Fitness expert and personal trainer Michael Carson takes you and Carmen through an intense total-body routine that focuses on strengthening and toning, as well as several mini workouts developed to target problem areas like hips, buns and abs. Fit To Strip whips you into shape, so you'll feel even more confident about taking it off in no time! Who's the Trainer Michael Carson is one of America's top fitness and personal trainers. He is also a choreographer and has developed many different fitness programmes. He is a trainer at the famous Gold's Gym and is also a consultant for Reebok International. As well as working with Carmen Electra on her workout series he also...

hollywoodmum 09.02.2008 · Read review
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GRACO CONTOUR ELECTRA - Lullaby & Good Night!

Advantages: bassinet with nightlight, vibrating padded mattress & music centre, toy bar, changing mat with straps
Disadvantages: electronic features can only be used with bassinet

...Our daughter is now 14 months and has used her travel cot as her main cot since birth. As we live in a 2-bedroom house and already had 2 boys sharing one room, we wanted something that she could use in our room for a while, that wouldn't get in the way too much, whilst still giving her room to grow. Graco's Contour Electra was perfect. It looked really stylish with its contoured design, and nicely padded top rails, and the mesh sides meant that baby could see you. It had a full size bassinet which we used as a crib when she was small, with an integral nightlight and a vibrating mattress and music centre to help soothe her to sleep. And a toy bar to keep her amused when she was awake. Baby had plenty of room for sleeping or playing, and it also doubled as a changing unit. It could be packed up or moved out of the way easily when...

LynettePalmer 19.03.2007 (12.04.2007) · Read review
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Carmen Reid - An OK Read

Advantages: Good for escapism, light-hearted, fun
Disadvantages: Not the best of it's kind, others do chick-lit better

...Annie Valentine is stylish, savvy, mulit-tasker extraordinaire and she is the central character in Carmen Reid's 'The Personal Shopper'. I've never read anything by Reid before and I nearly didn't read this after I noticed the appallingly cheesy tagline on the back of the book - 'A fabulous read. A sexy read. A Carmen Reid'. But I decided to overlook this minor 'flaw' and give it a go - after all, you should NEVER judge a book by its cover! Annie Valentine is the single mother of a stroppy teenage girl and painfully shy eleven year old boy. She is a super-busy personal shopper in a super-swanky department store. She spends her days mentoring and re-inventing her clients through the medium of clothes and she's damn good at her job. It seems though, that she is so good at her job that she leaves no time for her personal life. Will she...

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Review of The Personal Shopper - Carmen Reid

learn to strip!!

Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...****Carmen Electra's Fit to Strip**** First of all when i was looking for a fitness dvd i did not know who Carmen was, i just wanted a dvd that was quite fun so i thought a dance one would be good.Going on to amazon i was surprised how many there was and i ended up picking this one because my friend had mentioned that Carmen had been in the Pussycat dolls , they may be slutty but they can really dance and they look like they have fun. This dvd is all about getting a dancers body , it is hard at first but when you get into it you can really notice a difference It focuses on strengthening and toning and has several mini workouts so you do not have to go through the whole thing. This work out i amazing!! however it is quite demanding so if you are new to exercise /lazy i wuld recommend starting with the first one in the series...

katie22008m 11.10.2008 · Read review
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Electrocute Electra

Advantages: Umm...
Disadvantages: Unsympathetic, inconsistent characters; abysmal ending, really weird chorus, pathetic use of plot devices

...Let me get one thing straight here. I absolutely HATE this play. With a fiery passion which penetrates to the innermost core of my being. I loathe it. Reading it is not a pleasant experience. But re-read it I will, and indeed have. I have in the past because it was my set text. I will in the future so that I can write venemous criticisms of it, in the hope that my sacrifice of time that could be spent reading, say, Oedipus Tyrranus may serve to steer other people clear of this play. That?s how much I hate the Electra of Euripides. Here, in all fairness, I must add that many do not agree with this view. Some of the people I studied it with enjoyed it, and many critics think highly of it. I do not, and though I try to keep myself open to other people?s arguments, I sincerely doubt that I ever will. It must be said, I?m not a big...

Muswell 22.04.2004 · Read review
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Learn to lap dance in a very un-vuglar manner

Advantages: Gentle stretching exercises, great for toning up wobly bits!
Disadvantages: This might not suit you if you want something more energetic

...recently bought Carmen Electra's Aerobics Striptease DVD and it was not at all what I expected. It exceeded expectations! I love exercising and I love aerobics in particular and when my schedule forced me to drop out of aerobics class, I rummaged the shops for some energetic aerobics classes on DVD. I must admit that I hesitated for a while before buying it; Carmen Electra's reputation was not really encouraging for me to spend £6 on a DVD which claimed to help you "strip your way to fitness". The only reason why I ended up buying it was because I was jealous of Carmen Electra's legendary physique and wanted to see how she acquired it! But a pleasant surprise awaited me when I started the DVD. For starters, it is really decent- no stripping or vulgar moves. Instead, Carmen (looking sweet for a change!), accompanied by two other...

diamond_sparkles 05.09.2009 · Read review
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CARMEN REID IS A FABULOUS READ!

Advantages: A feisty, funny, memorable heroine plus a great story
Disadvantages: It came to an end

...wonderfully rounded. They are all given great parts in this busy story and not one is a disappointment. I loved and hated them as necessary. No way does the story focus totally on Annie's job as a Personal Shopper. You won't find screeds of fashion tips and hints cunningly included within the plot. You will find some, of course, but the theme is certainly not intrusive. We meet a few of Annie's favourite customers and their parts are well written and the interaction between them and Annie is not in any way unnecessary to the story. There's no padding in Ms Reid's writing. Oh! And I have to tell you that Carmen Reid is also the only author I've read to date who can write a lovemaking scene which is actually delightfully sexy and funny and not at all clinical or mucky. With lots of love and laughter, a little sadness and a huge...

Louizalass 24.10.2007 · Read review
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Great Modern Carmen

Advantages: Smooth voiced protagonists, nice sound
Disadvantages: Slightly tame Escamillo, maybe lacking in some french style

...Arguably the best recording of Carmen in the past 30 years. Teresa Berganza has a smooth and warm voice here, rather darker than Victoria de los Angeles (Thomas Beecham conducts, EMI) but smoother and lighter than Maria Callas (Georges Pretre conducts, EMI) and Regine Resnik (Schippers conducts, Decca). Her performance is similarly balanced - dramatic without being too vampish and with that sultry latin quality (a little bit lacking in Victoria de los Angeles in my opinion). She sings with greater precision in the runs and leaps than Resnik and her voice seems like balm after the altogether different instrument of Maria Callas (even at the later's best she growls rather more than Berganaza which you either love or hate). Placido Domingo is a king amongst recent Don Joses on record. Jose Carreras with Karajan may bring more passion to...

operalover2000 04.04.2008 · Read review
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Lush Carmen Miranda - My Fruit Cocktail

Advantages: A great all round soap for anyone
Disadvantages: None

...This is, without a doubt, my all-time favourite Lush soap. And it was my very first Lush soap, too! There I was, in a virgin Lush shower with Miranda and I was having such a fantastic shower, all because of a piece of soap! Needless to say my boyfriend thought i'd gone mad, as he said and I quote "its only a soap". Oh no my friend, its not just a soap its a Miranda soap! Originally named Carmen Miranda (the singer from the 70s, who dressed in very elaborate head- gear made of fruit. She was as famous for her singing as she was for her fruity head dresses) it was created as a big soap "pie" decorated with huge pieces of carved soap fruit on top. Truly, it was nothing short of a work of art. But then it was briefly discontinued, reformulated, and returned as Miranda, a white to light green soap with the fruit now being stirred into...

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