MARIE CLAIRE.

Advantages: A great magazine with good content.
Disadvantages: At the dearer end of the market.

...-MARIE CLAIRE- "Marie claire presents new, innovative and inspirational ideas, combining style with commonsense. A magazine of contrasts, it beckons its readers with pages of the finest fashion, beauty and food. It's a winning formula of serious journalism and a healthy dose of glamour". Marie Claire is a thick glossy monthly magazine from IPC Media and it is Jam packed full of interesting articles that are topical and highly interesting. It celebrates its 15th year of production and it is aimed at the prime 25-39 age market. Marie Claire is a high quality, better than average, woman's fashion and beauty magazine and Its readership is over 15 million each month worldwide. - I have been buying Marie Claire on and off for quite a few years now. They always have such great gifts offered with this magazine and the month...

Morning_Becomes_Electra 06.05.2008 · Read review
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MARIE CLAIRE

Advantages: HIGHLIGHTS ISSUES ABOUT WOMEN IN OTHER CULTURES
Disadvantages: FULL OF ADS, PATRONISING!!

...MARIE - CLAIRE I used to buy this magazine in my twenties, but then stopped. I now only read it at the hairdressers. This is why: ***WHAT DOES IT OFFER?*** Marie-Claire is a fashion magazine with special interest articles aimed at women. It's motto is "Fashion With Heart" and it is priced at £3.30. This month's issue (Jan) has 244 pages, plus a 32 page special about hair at the back (confusingly upside down). It has an expensive glossy feel to it with heavy quality pages. However a rough estimation tells me that over 50% of it's content is ads!!. In fact, I leaf through 8 pages of ads before I even get to the editorial. Many of the ads are for high end designer companies such as Prada, Gucci and Armani. The magazine aims to publish stories about inspirational women and takes an ethical stance (also having a 'green...

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It's not Claire's, it's MINE

Advantages: Cheap an cheerful goodies
Disadvantages: Sometimes a little busy!!

...I don’t have a daughter, I would have liked one but someone, somewhere decided to punish me and ‘bless’ me with 3 sons instead. LISTEN UP……I am only joking!!!!! I love my boys to bits and wouldn’t change them for the world….!! But not having a daughter I had no idea that places like Claire’s Accessories existed! What have I been missing? Well I know now! When the one on our nearby town opened up years ago I briefly noticed it on one of my rare visits into town, but dismissed it as another, here-today-gone-next-week junk shop! Oh how the mighty fall! I found myself in the town the other week, well I didn’t really ‘find’ myself there, (I am still looking and doubt now that I will ever ‘find’ myself!) and had some time to kill. Now I usually visit...

kazziebears 07.07.2001 · Read review
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Claire's untidy, expensive accessories

Advantages: No queues as they're never busy
Disadvantages: expensive and cluttered

...Claire's accessories moved to Harlow a few years ago, much to the delight of everyone as it was a welcome newcomer being that it was the first specialist hair-care and odds'n'ends shop in the town. Up until then we had to rely on a market stall or small ranges offered by various other shops and supermarkets. I give it fair ratings that the stuff they offer is in keeping with current trends, keeping today's girls whatever age kitted out in the fashion, but (always a but) the shop needs a little attention in the following areas: It's not just school age girlies who want to be trendy so how about making it a little less cluttered for us 'mumsies' to get a pushchair around inside without the worry of knocking the person next to you out with the swing of a Tesco's carrier? I've only got a single pushchair so I pity those with a double...

GraingerN 15.03.2001 · Read review
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* Get Fit With Claire *

Advantages: Fun
Disadvantages: Not many!

...I used to be a HUGE Steps fan in my younger days! I was mad about them! I had all their CDs , Videos , Books , T Shirts , Scarfs , Posters , Mugs .... if it had a Steps logo on it , I had it. So as you can image I was pretty gutted when they split up. Fast forward seven years and Claire Richards , ex member of Steps , is back on the scene with a fitness DVD which helped her drop five dress sizes! I remember, it was Christmas last year, when the DVD was released ; I wanted the DVD but felt that it was too expensive. I can't remember exactly how much it was at the time , although I think it might have been aroung £17 which I thought was far too much to pay for a fitness DVD. So I decided I would wait. I waited so long that I forgot about the DVD , until recently. I was browsing through the DVD pages on Amazon when I came across...

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Ear Piercing @ Claire's

Advantages: quick, painless, friendly staff, good hygiene
Disadvantages: too close to display window, can be crowded in some places

...After almost 27 years with half-healed non-usable odd pierced holes on my earlobes, I decided today to get girly again and get them re-pierced (and partly preparing for my wedding next year!). After searching on the net to find local ear piercing service I found Claire's. I did pass a couple of 'body-piercing' shops in town but both do tattooes as well, and the sight of that made me shudder a bit hence never even walked into these shops. Claire's seemed less intimidating (apart from the area they do it is right next to the entrance to the shop at the display window, so if you don't mind being watched then enjoy your 10 minute fame!) I have to say the staff are very friendly and helpful. Pre-procedure hygiene is adequate and maintained throughout (we are not talking general anaesthetic operation here so 'full consistent...

egghead76 14.08.2008 · Read review
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Claires' Ear Piercing Service

Advantages: Pretty & fashionable accessories, good quality
Disadvantages: Not the cheapest

...I've never had my ears pierced, not even my lobes. Maybe law school got to me or something, but I decided to go straight for cartilage piercing (that's the one higher up, around the "bony" area)... and straight to Claires. First off, you must know that Claires charges 14.50 quid for cartilage piercing and 6.99 quid for the normal (and boring...)lobe piercing. Some other places charge as little as 5 quid but that's usually for the piercing alone and doesn't include after-care solutions or the earring(s) itself. If you're dishing out the dough from your own piggy bank, Claires probably doesn't sound like a good option to you now, but read on... Just stroll into any Claires outlet and tell them what kind of piercing you want done. If you're below 16, you need a parent or guardian to be with you. The staff then asks you which stud you...

vlee11 09.12.2002 · Read review
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Claire's plastic trash

Advantages: Cheap...well, kinda....
Disadvantages: The shops is way too small...

...were very poorly diplayed, and even the display units were in need of repair. However, what really made me heave, was the fact that pieces of cotton wool (which previous shoppers had used to remove the nail varnish they had been testing)were left all over the top of the units, and no one had attempted to clear them a way...there wasn't even a small bin available for their disposal. I had ventured along to Claire's in search of a suitably disgusting birthday present for my Mums eight year old god daughter, and I have to admit that there was a lot to choose from. I could have purchased anything ranging from the mundane 'bobble'to a fury halo or glitter hair-spray. I finally settled on a pair of fairy wings, with matching wand. However, be warned that in my experience Claire's products, whilst most are within your average price range, they...

Honesty 23.03.2001 · Read review
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Claire's Accesories

Advantages: Friendly Staff, Cute Jewlelley suitable for all ages, Make-up suitable with eye catching characters, fairly priced.
Disadvantages: Poor Quality, store is very small and cramped, not suitable for adults as its too ''child friendly''.

...Claire's has been my favourite store for a while now, but as I have grown out of several products at Claire's and I have grown older, I sometimes feel that not all the products are suitable for me, my choice there has lessened to only necklaces and lip-glosses which have an incredibly good price. Necklaces are ranged in cheerful colours and bracelets are matched to the bracelets at some points, the price range is fairly good at £3.50 but sometimes not very good quality. I had once brought a fake pearl necklace which looked unrealistic and fake with the beads at different sizes and poorly made, the string holding the beads fell apart leaving my necklace broken but to me it didn't matter as I was sure I wouldn't wear it anymore. Rings are a ton also, every girl with a fetish for rings would leave with just one or two rings from...

HellokittyLuver 18.07.2006 · Read review
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Claire's bow-tique

Advantages: Large variety
Disadvantages: Always too busy, can be expensive...

...I have shopped at Claire's since the Churchill Square shopping centre was built in Brighton a few years ago. If you want an accessory, chances are you'll find it in Claire's. Picture the scene: Yopu step through the door of the shop. Immediately the assistant at the door shoves a little basket in your face, asking over-brightly, "Would you like a basket?" You decline, knowing that if you do take a basket you'll only wind up filling it with items to a value that'd make your bank manager faint. Looking around the store, you spot a bunch of teeny-boppers crowding around one of their fellow 12-year-olds sitting in a chair by the window, trying to pick out which earrings she wants, whilst the assistant stands there looking bored. All around you there are young girls grabbing at items hanging on the wall, and pushing at each other to get...

kdelioncourt 13.06.2002 · Read review
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