Amazon.com Product Description
Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover is the most exciting new way to experiment with your own look! It's easy to use. One click and you're a blonde, a redhead, or a brunette. Feeling adventurous? Then change your hairstyle or reshape your lips and brows. Even change the color of your eyes--and much more!
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Grab the gals and the virtual curlers for hours of makeover fun. The only problem? You'll be spending much of that time waiting for the disc to catch up.
With this disc, finding a new you isn't the gamble it used to be. Just scan your picture (or have the local photo hut put it on a disc), and let the revelry begin. Choose from 150 hair styles and the whole family of skin paints: lipstick, lip liner, blush, eyeshadow, cover-up, and eyebrow shaper. Add different colored contact lenses, to boot. Men: You can bring your blow-dryer, too - there are male hair types as well.
But cleaning up your mug on the computer could put wrinkles on your real face. Long, long loading times leave you fearing the computer has crashed. (Sometimes, it has.) And a mediocre navigation system will likely take the perkiness out of any future blond.
The Last Words:
Mark: It's lots of fun in a paper cut-out doll kinda way. But I have to knock it down a notch for instability and poor responsiveness. It could be a fun diversion if they'd only fix the thing.
Judy: It left me wondering whether the system had crashed or was simply taking its sweet time. When it became clear it was bombing, no amount of cover-up could make me feel better.
Joe: It's a nifty idea that's long overdue. Unfortunately, the waits aren't. And the way-too-obvious plugs for Cover Girl left me with a not-so-fresh feeling.
Rating:2/4
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