No, no, no — it’s not going out of business [moment of silence for CosmoGirl.] However, my subscription just ran out, and I’m not renewing. I’m not too terribly upset about it, though… I got kinda bored with the mag after the first three months of my two year sub.
Just sayin’.
Anyhow, I thought I would share some images with you guys to commemorate this! There are a lot of them, so I’ll be separating it into a two different posts. (The other will go up today at noon.) I cut up my magazine, organized it, counted pages, and photographed some ads and spreads.
Ads, articles, and spreads
Traditional print ads, product placement, articles, and spreads
What we found out: in this issue, there were…
33 pages of spreads
25 pages of articles
92 pages of advertisements
Want to check out which ads made me go “huh” and “hmmm…”? Read more!
Clicking -> enlarging. A lot.
I happen to be a Negative Nelly, so we’re startin’ off with the bad:
Yep. Apparently it’s appropriate to suggest a threesome in a mag which caters to the preteen crowd.
And O HAY random semi-clothed women looking like they’re suffering from mild intestinal distress!
True Religion needs to get together with Juicy Couture to product one joint ad… in which the model will be wearing both pants and a shirt. (Psst… it’s not actually that hard to do!)
And because I happen to still be feelin’ the negative, let’s move on to the ugly:
Way to use the same ad firm for your subsidiaries, L’Oreal.
I wouldn’t actually have a problem with this if there was a) a little more variation (I didn’t even notice they were two different companies until cropping the images,) or b) a little less suckage. I mean, check out that bottom right ad! What do they think they’re doing with that shadow?!
But hark! you cannot be negative forever. The good:
1/5… pretty poor batting average, Maybelline/L’Oreal. But either way, you did manage to make that new gel liner of yours pretty appealing!
Classic, simple, clean — love it.
That’s all for now! See you in… six hours for more cattiness and photos. Prepare for commentary on the spreads and a few celebs.
