In Style Magazine

Pros: Good pictures, current fashion advice, wide range of ages, fun to read
Cons: Too bulky! Too many ads

Hi, my name is Chelledun, and I am a magazine addict. My most guilty pleasure as part of my magazine addiction is my subscription to InStylebecause it costs substantially more than most other magazines. A subscription is advertised in most ...

Pros: Very trendy with some really interesting looks and information
Cons: Very trendy , outrageous to some extent. Very heavy.

Opening In Style you have to go through 22 pages of advertisements  before you even get to the table of contents. Being a fashion magazine this isn't completely off putting, it's just more to look at ,not to do real shopping with but I can't ...

Pros: 452 pages of celebrity style, beauty and fashion.
Cons: If you can get through the hundreds of advertisements, there are some great articles!

This month's May In Style magazine arrived in my mailbox featuring actress Renee Zelwegger as this months cover model. It's a beautifully shot cover , featuring the work of famed photographer, Matthew Rolston. Renee is the featured reviewer and she talks...

Pros: Great for lining birdcages and wrapping raw fish
Cons: Must...stop...the evil magazine people....My...head....will...explode...

Every month some alien force hijacks my body while I’m at the newsstand; the unseen force reaches in my wallet and makes me hand over $3.50 in exchange for this magazine. And every month, I spend the twenty minutes it takes to read the magazine from...

Pros: Less fattening than Chinese take-out
Cons: An hour later...

I was waiting for a friend to get ready for a GNO (Girls' Night Out) and was tired of trying to carry on a conversation through the closed bathroom door. I'd already memorized the cartoons on her fridge and checked out her wedding album when my eye fell...

Pros: A treasure trove. Full of colorful pictures!
Cons: Too many words! It's trying too hard to be Scientific American.

Let's see: if the table of contents doesn't start until p. 32, or the features until p. 95, and each issue is heftier than the September Vogue or your average coffee table art book, it must be InStyle. The April issue was 556 pages, making it the...

Pros: Lengthy and luxurious
Cons: None

Why is it that Americans are so preoccupied with the personal lives of the celebrities that we rely on to entertain us on Friday nights? I truly don't have an answer to this question, but I do know that if you are like me and you're anxious to glimpse...

Pros: recipes, decorating AND fashion; thick as a big book
Cons: lots of ads, Man of Style (who cares?)

The first time I read an InStyle magazine, I knew it was the fashion magazine for me. For one thing, I’ve grown pretty tired of what I perceive as the snooty attitude of magazines like Vogue and Harper’s. I live in Iowa, for God’s sake. A lot of the...

Pros: Keeps you up on what's hot now
Cons: Too many ads

Already know the top 10 ways to please a man? Don't want to read about life changing moments? Want to escape just for a little while with the rich and famous? Then this is your magazine.

Do I think I will ever walk the red carpet in one of...

Pros: Delivers everything In Style
Cons: Not much that I can see!

I think when looking for or even reviewing a magazine you need to look at the audience at which the magazine is geared. Magazines are put out there for a specific purpose and you shouldn't buy a magazine whose purpose you couldn't care less about. For...

Pros: Hip, happy mag with an excellent cross-section of the tastiest fluff
Cons: As gutless and toadying as its parent publication, People

This is one of the more expensive monthly fluffies I subscribe to ($1.99 per with subscription, about twice that at the newsstand), but it doesn't disappoint: the cover price is a bit over-the-top, but it's certainly $2 worth of reading. The billboard...

Pros: Thickness made it appear you are getting more for your money, a lot of good photos of celebs in evening wear.
Cons: Not an accurate view of reality for the average reader, disillusioning

I subscribed to Instyle for a year. I decided to subscribe because one day I was at a doctor's appointment waiting to be seen, and I see this magazine that says Special Holiday Edition In Style. Minnie Driver was on the cover. I pick it up, and...

Pros: see celebrity homes; beauty products best buys articles
Cons: lots of advertising

To me, the best thing about this magazine is getting to see inside celebrity homes. I don't know what kind of masochist I am, but I just love looking into homes the likes of which I will never be able to afford!

I've read a couple...

Pros: pages and pages of clothes, stars, homes, and food
Cons: only comes out once a month...can get very heavy on advertising

Every month, this is one of the first mags I reach for. Pure eyecandy here...all froth and fluff...and FUN to skim through. If you like clothes and celebrities mixed in with some light-as-latte articles on how stars stay so beautiful [the mag blithely...

Pros: light reading, realistic fashions
Cons: lots of ads

In Style is undoubtedly one of my favorite ways to pass several hours on an airplane or my required time on the cardio machine (very boring) at the gym. Most issues are 400+ pages, and if you look at each page, you can definitely get through a few hours....