haha. no only is a waste of money, but it is also a waste of time.


no!!..teen vogue... I will NOT pay $$$300 hundred dollars for a very, very ugly bag. there are people starving and you want me to pay so much for the ugliest clothing. NO thanks. this magazine makes me love Roxy, Billabong etc. so much more and appreciate it. now those are some nice looking clothes.

anyone agree? comment


I wish I can give it negative stars

i bought the subscription for my daughter. i have nothing to write about because i have not got any issue yet, even i paid for it more than a month ago. it takes long time. hopefully i will write an update review when i finally get it.

My 16 year old daughter requested that I get her this subscription after a year of missing it. We got the first issue in four weeks.

I ordered the catalog through the mail in July, I have yet to get the free gift they offered it is now September. My subscription was paid for as they asked to get the free gift.
What's irritating is that there is no one to contact if the catalog is late or never got it in the first place.

Annoyed in California

Okay... I can see why one would be upset with the higher-end fashions in TeenVogue... but it's not THAT big of a deal. This magazine, in my eyes, is actually very excellent-- the fashions are inspiring to both fashionistas and designers, and encourages a more unique look than the typical Hollister tee and skirt. The photography is excellent, and I find the articles rather interesting. Also, it doesn't include the racier subject matter as found in CosmoGirl, Seventeen, ect.
If you enjoy cutting up magazines to make collages or hang full pages on your wall, this magazine is for you. That sounds derogatory, but what I'm trying to highlight here is the beautiful shoots and intriguing advertisements. This wonderful publication is recieving too much negative hype on this site, and if you appreciate fashion and photography, I suggest you check this magazine out at a drugstore, grocer... whatever. It's DEFINITELY worth the look.

I agree that this magazine boasts designer clothing with extremely high prices that most people cannot afford, but may people be aware that this magazine is called "Teen Vogue" and obviously will follow in it's big sister's footsteps.
"Vogue" does not feature clothes from Walmart, and so "Teen Vogue" will not either.
This magazine does not necessarily cater to only rich people. who says that a person should only buy a magazine when she is going to get the exact clothes featured in it? I am definitely no millionaire. I'm 16 years old and still in High school, but I enjoy this magazine immensely.Of course I dont slip out to Marc Jacobs when i'm done reading and get myself the shirt on page 79, but I do look at the styles so i can understand the new trends and just inspire myself some. magazines dont always have to be realistic. fashion is about pursuing beauty and covetting beauty, and if all magazines only featured "affordable clothes' from Walmart and Old Navy, well.. I really wouldnt know what that would be like.
"Teen Vogue" is a pure fashion magazine. it isnt an all-round magazine for young girls. it's only fashion. and it does a great job at what it strives for. the fashion is great and the taste is great, the shoots are amazing. a former reviewer reccomended "Seventeen" and I want to note that "Seventeen" is a different type of magazine entirely. Seventeen is extremely mainstream bubblegum and is not very fashion orientated. personally i do not like that magazine but i'm not going to condemn it here.
"Teen Vogue" is classy, stylish, and lives up to it's name. you dont have to be a rich kid to read this magazine. but it's the only teen magazine out there which is dedicated souly to high fashion and yes, features the best fashion. people who are not interested in fashion will probably hate this magazine, and that is probably why it has recieved so much criticism. I, on the other hand, love this magazine. the only reason i didnt give it five stars is because the reviews above deemed the stuff in it affordable for young girls and that does strike me as ridiculous.
otherwise, look to this magazine for some fantastic fashion inspiration.

I've been receiving this magazine for almost 4 years now. It hasn't changed much since I started receiving it... and I pretty much still think of it as THE worst teen magazine that's still in business. I'm 16 now and haven't liked it anymore as I've gotten older. The strangest part about this magazine to me is the fact that they just keep sending it to me! I mean, I barely even remember when I was first subscribed to it (it was some kind of deal where you can get certain magazines for like 6 months or something, and I didn't have many choices so I picked this one). Eventually the other magazines stopped coming. But this one continued to come. And still does! I would have thought it might be nice if a company made an accidental error or something and continued to send me a magazine. I would have been thrilled if that happened with any other magazine (I actually don't mind Seventeen, Allure, CosmoGirl, TeenPeople occasionally, or even Teen Magazine.). But this one just makes me wonder if these people are downright stupid... the least they could have done is "accidentally" send it to someone who likes their magazine! If that person exists?

I think I read a fairly broad variety of teen magazines these days, so I'll try to discuss my dislikes about it in relation to those.
So this is a comparison of this one versus: Seventeen, Cosmogirl, Ellegirl (I suspect it recently went out of print however), Teen Magazine, Teen People Magazine, Allure, Cosmopolitan, and Jane magazines.

1. Overall Value
Conclusion:
Teen Vogue= Very low value and overpriced.

SMALLER SIZE
First off, one of the easiest things to see about this magazine when its on the shelf is the fact that it's SMALLER then the others. All of my magazines are about the same size. Except for this one; which is maybe as much as 2 inches shorter in height and 1 inch smaller in width. I don't know why the magazine makers decided to do this. In my opinion, it only draws more attention to the fact that while it is around the same price as the other magazines... they had to cut out at least something to make it smaller. Sounds like a RIP OFF to me. (...but I'm getting it for free for some reason, so I guess that's hardly my biggest concern. It may be yours though).

COST COMPARED TO CONTENT
Magazine prices can be a little missleading at first glance. It's easy to find a thicker magazine and assume that MORE PAGES = BETTER VALUE? But that's not the case.
The abundance of ads in a magazine can lead you to that conclusion, but there's a good chance you'll be disappointed when there are hardly any articles in between ad after ad after ad.

By the way... for those of you who aren't familiar with teen magazines these days, I hope you realize: THEY ALL HAVE ADS

This is the truth, but I don't see it as a terrible thing personally. When I was 11 and I first found an issue of Teen Magazine at the library, I was shocked at the ad content. But I used to read American Girl magazine (which had no ads) so I thought it was so bizarre. Now I don't mind it. I even save some of the ads because I like photography and looking at different angles of things. I don't think it's fair however, to hate Teen Vogue solely because of the ads though, as all the magazines are going to have ads. The amount of ad content in each one is the main thing that varies; so here's my interpretation...

Seventeen, Cosmogirl - Limited Ad content (They have more ads towards the beginning, and then they're much more spread out. Seventeen is probably my favorite magazine of the bunch and they manage to get by with one ad opposite of an article for a few pages and then a stop the ads for a few pages or so before they do it again. I find it highly tolerable)
Teen Magazine - Even less Ad content. (I think they've really decreased the amount of ads over the years actually. They probably have the least ads of all my magazines)
Teen People, Ellegirl, Jane - More than Seventeen and Cosmogirl but not terrible.
Allure and Cosmopolitan = High ad content. (I almost put them seperately, but they are similar. They have a lot of ads I think, but for the most part, I don't mind. They manage to balance most of it out with enough articles and pictures to make buying the magazine worth while. The main difference I see is just in the choice of ads. Cosmopolitan puts in so many ads for sex related things and has many more vulgar ads. Allure I like more anyway. And I guess Cosmopolitan as a magazine focuses a whole lot more on sex already, so many teen moms may not appreciate their daughter reading it in the first place.)

TEEN VOGUE = HIGH AD CONTENT
I'd say the ad content was very similar to the ad content in Cosmopolitan and Allure. However, the thing that pisses me off, is the fact that there isn't enough content to balance it out! (Maybe I mean "meaningful content" but more on that later...). The saddest part about this magazine is that I save more of the ads then I ever save articles. The ads really are more exciting then the content unfortunately...


2. Articles
Conclusion
TEEN VOGUE = FLUFF FILLED, UNIMPORTANT TO ME

Now, generally, I consider Seventeen to have the best articles (with cosmogirl in a close second) along with maybe Allure although it's addressed to an older crowd.
Reasons why I actually take the time to read the Seventeen articles, although I hardly even bother with the Teen Vogue ones:

A. Seventeen writes about something that actually interests me (ok, ok, so occasionally they have a little stinker. But overall, I think they do a good job.)Teen Vogue... does not.
I'm interested by things I haven't thought of before, or personal accounts of things that I would be unsure how to react to, issues that seem to happen everywhere but with stunning new facts enclosed and statistics to give me a perspective... etc. I could go on. But unfortunately, I don't think teen vogue has managed to intrigue me. Ever. A typical teen vogue article is something like "The Truth about Crystal Meth", "I was being bullied online!", blah blah. I can hardly even think of anything I've ever been interested by.
They have a tendency to focus on things that I already know are bad, things like drugs especially. It makes me feel like I'm being babied... like "Hey, well I bet you didn't know this.... if you do this your liver could turn black and blue and all the colors of the rainbow" and then pile a bunch of tear jerking stories of teens who had "no idea" of the dangers of _____ drug and then something terrible happened. I mean I think it's important that teens see the dangers in doing such things... I just get annoyed rather than enlightened when it seems like such an easy and obvious thing. Particularly when they make a big deal about it being so "unknown" and mysterious like nobody has ever heard of it before, when I know that most of the people I talk to every day do anyway. If I don't take the freaking drug... I won't have to worry about all the problems associated with it, and sometimes it's hard for me to be sympathetic to these girls who screw their lives up (especially when in the article, they make themselves seem like complete idiots!). I'm not anti drug articles though either. When Seventeen did one a while back, for example, it was an article (or maybe more of a chart?) of "Drugs that make you Ugly". Now that I found enlightening and very interesting. It didn't focus on one drug, but instead on one effect that many different drugs cause. Not only do I want to use the drugs less, I also feel like I'm more able to recognize the signs of its use, so I could identify the signs. It's important to me that magazine editors take the time to teach us something new, without beating us over again with the same stuff we hear everywhere else. Teen Vogue just hasn't figured that out yet.


B. I find the good advice in Seventeen meaningful. Teen Vogue... makes me wonder if I should be the one giving them good advice...
I think I was most disappointed with Teen Vogue on this when they did an article that caught my eye about girls who are addicted to tanning. They spent nearly 2 whole pages rambling about different girls and their tanning habits (and general stupidity...). And BARELY even gave the reason why it's not a good idea. I remember reading one of the last sentences in my head over and over again. It was like "Remember to live your life and have fun, but try to be safe". I mean WTF??! You could be talking about anything with that. Cooking, driving, sex... it's so generic that it's stupid. The only thing that I got from that article was a justification that there really are a lot of stupid girls who are damaging their skin to be tan, and have no idea about it. Unfortunately, if these girls read teen vogue, they will probably never know either.

3. Features
Conclusion
TEEN VOGUE = ...are you serious?
Um. I can't find a better word than worthless to describe this magazine's features.
I used to like the "A room of my own" thing that they had at the back of my issue. It was nice to be inspired by the way that other girls kept their rooms based on what they liked. But in the last year... I think they managed to totally kill that part too. The uniquenesses and interesting things that once intrigued me a little have been replaced by more mediocre rooms by other girls (lately they've been somehow connected to a famous person. yeah, how exciting... not) that just don't inspire me at all.
Oh, and one of the second to last pages or so, there's a feature where they find some girl with "Style" and tell her to describe it and what brands she likes... blah blah. Occasionally (well, no, rarely), there will be something that I actually find interesting and want to save to remember. But most of the time it's just a bunch of 13 year olds trying to be trendy by throwing on the coolest things they know... all at the same time.
No thank you.
In most other magazines, I can appreciate a monthly space for something about hair, or makeup, or something related to beauty that I could find useful. Teen Vogue does not do this. But then again, everytime that I have seen them slip something along those lines in, they manage to make me question their intelligence. ("OMIGOD, Mom! Teen Vogue says I should put glittery pink eyeshadow up to my eyebrows so I can be cool. We have to go spend $67 now so that we can have the exact product that they used!" eek.) The makeup is useful... if you want to be a stage artist perhaps? I don't know... I'm still working on that one.

4. The Fashion Focus
Conclusion
TEEN VOGUE = FASHION HELP FOR THE EXTREMELY WEALTHY AND CONFUSED

If you disregard the fact that virtually everything in the magazine is rediculously overpriced and just unpractical... I suppose someone might find their fashion sense useful/inspirational somehow. But I'm afraid I do not.
I remember skimming through one article that answered a question asking "How do I avoid looking like a tourist on vacation?" to which they answered with showing how you can pile on a bunch of random clothing pieces and come off as an idiot instead. How exciting...
They also have a tendency to encourage readers to buy things by showing us models wearing such clothing. I wouldn't be surprised if the plus-size community completely gave up on them, in fact I'm surprised that there is no outrage over this.
Look teen vogue, I know Gemma Ward looks excellent in that (ok, I'm lying... but I can pretend, right?). But you see, me and Gemma, we have some differences. For example... Her thighs are probably less then half the size of mine, she's like half a foot taller then me, she weighs maybe half of what I do, and... well... she's a model that seems to look good in everything. I do not. And I refuse to let you convince me that such a hideous outfit won't look hideous on anyone else.
Actually, I wonder if Gemma Ward could afford the things in their magazine. She's a super model afterall. But maybe after spending $150 on each pair of underwear... things begin to add up, even for her.
Darn...

The Bottom Line:
Don't waste your money on this magazine (in fact, don't even get it accidentally for free like me, it's not worth your time). If you want to buy a teen girl a magazine subscription, try something like Seventeen, Cosmogirl, Teen People etc. Just about anything is better than this.

I have not received the magazine yet and my daughter is pissed!

We gave this to my boyfriend's 12-yr-old niece (who has every imaginable tech toy someone could have!) for Christmas this year and it was the perfect gift! She's just coming into her own now and has lots of curiousity about make-up, clothes, accessories, etc. This mag helps her figure some of that stuff out on her own without the influence of her friends or worse yet, parents---yuck! It's so cute how excited she gets when her mag comes in the mail! She's like a mini-me of an adult getting their People.