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Seventeen
: Seventeen (is bad)! I once borowed an issue my friend had and then finaly went out and bought an issue myself. The articles were exactly the same. NOTHING new. This magazine repeats itself over and over and over again. Even when they do put something new in (rarely), it is someting so obvious!
They write about the same lame boy bands and the worst interviews I have ever read! I don't recomend you get it.
 Ok, just so you know, I'm 12 years old, but I know about all of the "stuff" that teen mags have in them. (And I'm really mature...just so ya know)
Anyway...
A couple of days ago, I purchased this month's issue of Seventeen, because it had my fave celeb on the cover, Hilary Duff, and had a little interview with her inside.
Well, after reading just one issue, I totally love this magazine! Not only did I like the interview with Hilary Duff, I also liked several other things in the magazine! I definitely plan on buying next month's issue!
I also have a subscription to YM, but one thing that I really like in Seventeen that I don't in YM is that in Seventeen's fashion "bargain bin", the highest priced thing they had (in this month's issue, anyway) was only $20, when in YM, the highest priced would be like $50-65, which would either be a T-shirt or a purse or something like that.
All of the makeup and clothes featured in Seventeen are cheap and affordable, and some of them you can actually purchase at stores like K-Mart, Claire's, or Wal-Mart.
What I didn't like about this was the fact that it's 214 pages, but ads take up 95 pages. There was 119 pages of actual content, and quite good content, I might add.
All in all, I think Seventeen is a GREAT magazine and I'm definitely looking forward to getting upcoming issues. (Who knows? I might even subscribe to it!)
 I've outgrown Seventeen magazine but I still have the subscription going on. As I do not have a penchant for teen mags anymore, I still think Seventeen is one of the best teen mags in terms of content. Yes, there are recycled articles but what magazine does not recycle their questions or articles? There are new readers everyday and they didn't read said article 2-3 years ago. Besides, I see YM do it way more often and in shorter intervals too. The articles seem to aim at a more mature audience. Over the years, I've noticed they continually add new columns. Most are better then some. The magazine has a good mix of fashion, beauty, body info and celeb inquiry while some other teen magazines are more focused to one subject. They have a college related column and many of their articles I found are more serious than other teen magazines. Their articles have dealt with prejudice, racism, homosexuality, sex, world issues and the Taliban's treatment of women (before 911). Out of all the teen magazines I've read, this is still the one I would reccommend to the teen mag reader.
This magazine is a perfect magazine for anyone. It has true life and drama, make up, beauty, health, a monthly interview on the cover girl (or girls), and so much more. They have great monthly workouts that focus on certain parts of the body like buns, abs, and legs, and the good thing is...they actually work! They have so many things to offer that I am not surprised it's the most widely read women's magazine in the country!
I've read Seventeen for years. I'm in college and still read it, although lately I've been looking at the older issues I have more frequently. The first issue I ever read (and still have) is the July 1995 issue, which had Alicia Silverstone on the cover. I've since looked at much, much older Seventeens and, being the third member of my family to have ever read Seventeen (my mother and grandmother both read it) asked about it. Seventeen used to be the setter of trends, not the follower. And I don't just mean fashion trends. Seventeen used to be the place to read about upcoming stars-in fact they were the first to showcase Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, and Liv Tyler. They used to be the one place you could read about other girls problems with parents, friends, boyfriends, and roommates and feel that your problems were not so bad after all. I've found everything in past Seventeens from basic ways to save the planet, how to get schools to fund sports and the arts, getting your friends and yourself to come to grips with Mom's decision to become a lesbian, how to abstain from sex and drugs if you choose, why driving drunk is bad, censorship in schools, and much, much more. In fact the only reason I was allowed to read this magazine when I was twelve (back in 1995) was because of the fact that it was not a brainless fluff read. I'd read it and afterward would know some of the latest things going on in the White House, I'd have found new, albeit little ways to save the Earth, and I'd have developed a newfound curiosity on how to take care of my car. If there were "real life" stories in Seventeen, they often focused on teen pregnancy and STD's, someone whose parent became gay, the fact that a school newspaper couldn't be published because of one article, a parent or friend dying of cancer, a reader dying of cancer, someone with anorexia, bulimia, or some other disease, or the lack of support for girls' sports.
I look at the Seventeens I have purchased in the last six months and cannot help but be somewhat disappointed. The articles are much more shallow. There was a section in one Seventeen either this year or the year before about some girl who had a "pretty disease" and Seventeen went on to make the disease sound not so bad. In a very recent issue, there was a very, very shallow article on homosexuality entitled "Are you gay?" that let on that if you so much as think of another girl that you must be gay. There was another article entitled "oppostites attract" that talked about a preppy girl going out with a goth guy. These were all called "real life" articles. Hmm. Then there is the story of Raquel, who to put it mildly, was dressing like a slut, and whining about how some guy upskirted her-and then had the nerve to go on about how she should be able to dress any way she pleases. There is also the story of a girl who voluntarily placed photos of herself online in lingerie and acted all surprised when some guy was making weird passes at her online-and she kept the website, complete with the photos of herself! And finally, there is the "My boyfriend cheated on me-with another guy!" an article which was completely lame. The fashion spreads in this magazine have taken a turn, too. They have girls wearing the least flattering clothes ever in the spreads-clothing that makes big girls look bigger and skinny girls look anorexic-and advertise this look as "flattering" on the models. There is also the section with the girls lying about their dress sizes-no joke-in an article, that as far as I am concerned, does not need to mention girls' dress sizes. As for the celebrities, well, Seventeen has been trying to ram Ashley Simpson down their reader's throats for a long time now, and they insist on repeating celebrities like the Olsen twins, Hilary Duff, and Lindsay Lohan until you are so sick of seeing them its not funny.
On the upside, Seventeen has been featuring makeup and hair styles for every type of hair and skin tone, a couple of real-life stories have been good, such as the one about Jamahl, who was killed in a fight and whose mother wants justice for him, the girls at one camp who tried to kill their counselor, and the story of a girl who lost her father in Iraq. The fact that Seventeen has yet to go star crazy like CosmoGirl and Teen People is also good-it has more fashion articles and advice columns than they do, and isn't crazy about dressing and acting like celebrities. I really do miss the columns titled "guys", "Sex & Body", "Drive,", "Relating," "College", "The Spin" and "Beauty Q & A" which ran until Seventeen was altered and "updated" back in 2003. I think that that is what kept this magazine from being shallow-the fact that real girls problems in every aspect of their lives were answered, and there was news about what was really going on in the world. If I were twelve today, my parents would not let me read this magazine. It's too shallow and fluffy-not enough substance.
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