Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover Deluxe 3.5

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005MNFR
• Item model number: 381135M
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 28, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #14,124 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review
Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 2002 Deluxe makes it easy to create a whole new you in minutes. (Just try not to take it too seriously or expect any life-changing transformations.) Installation is quick and easy and the program's interface is clean and simple to navigate, once you click around a bit. This not a new program, but a bundle of previously released versions of Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover and Cosmopolitan Fashion Makeover Deluxe.

The first thing you need to do after installing Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover is import a headshot of yourself, either from your digital camera or a scanner. The program comes with some standard photos of models you can use, but that's hardly as fun. Getting the photo right is the most difficult part of using this program. You'll need to make sure you're well lit, you're in front of a plain background, your hair is completely pulled back, all your accessories are removed, and the photo is straight on from the front. Any weirdness will potentially make you look freakish.

The best part of this program by far is playing with hairstyles--there are hundreds of styles in just as many colors. While some of the styles are decidedly awful, many are acceptable and even cute. There are some styles that might be suitable for men, but only if the guy wants to look like a member of the Strokes. The makeup section is clunkier to use and slightly less useful--we found it hard to make any of the makeup choices look natural.

The second disc, Cosmopolitan Fashion Makeover Deluxe, lets you input your measurements, import your made-over face from Virtual Makeover, and try on clothes. However, we weren't even able to import our face, because the two programs were incompatible. The clothes are also relatively generic, so we didn't see the point in trying on the "daring new looks" the program touts. It should also be pointed out that most of this program seems to be paid for by sponsors, so your choices for, say, jewelry, are limited to the one company that wanted to pay for placement. Incidentally, the box is loaded with so many coupons, flyers, and ads that you might wonder why you're even paying for the product at all.

Though we had a few doubts, we really enjoyed using Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 2002 Deluxe, and decided that we should never, ever get bangs. Click on "See more pictures" to see how we fared with the software. --Ara Jane Olufson

Amazon.com Product Description
Create a fabulous new look, with just a click. Try on hundreds of new looks, without risk, with Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 2002 Deluxe. With Cosmo and your computer you can create a more beautiful you within minutes of loading your photo into the software. From a new hairstyle to adding a beauty mark--it's that easy.

Featuring beauty advice with a fun, irreverent tone, sit back and visualize that hot new makeover you've been dreaming about, but were always afraid to try. See how you look with more than 600 hairstyles in 30 different shades. Make a 3-D image of yourself and experiment with more than 1,000 colors and accessories. Find clothing styles that show off your figure and improve your fashion sense with tips from the experts at Cosmopolitan. Includes a free set of cosmetic brushes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another box for the same product already in the market, October 31, 2001

By	Lilian Bustamante (Lo Barnechea, Santiago ,Chile) - See all my reviews

I bought this product because in the front page of the box it anounced that it was a Virtual Makeover 2002 version. After installing the product I realized that it was a boundle of Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 3 and the Fashion Makeover Deluxe, (both products from year 2000)that information did not appear in the offering of Amazone nor in the description of the software. After searching if there it was a mistake from the Company I realized that in the back of the box with very tyny letters it was something written about the boundle (Amazone doesn't provide information about the back of the box). I recommend that in the future you could be more careful and make the advice to customers saying that "IF...you have...such product..is the same version".
I`m very dissapointed and I feel they took my money.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Makeover in the world, November 5, 2001

A Kid's Review

This was a really good product as I had been looking for a good one for a long time. It was very easy to use. I loved it!

4.0 out of 5 stars Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover Deluxe, July 13, 2001

By	Karen (Sydney,New South Wales,Australia) - See all my reviews

Cosmopolitan Virtal Makeover Deluxe is a brillant program that allows both women and men to test out different looks by using all the different functions of the enhanced software to try out different make-up and new looks. The software allows you to experiment in a realistic way and is a excellent program because it allows you to see what you really would look like before doing it an regretting it. Such as when you dye your hair and it turns out drastically wrong.