*Glynis*
Gooner Geek
I subscribe to Nails, Professional Nails, Scratch and Guild. I enjoy all of them and look forward to them coming. However, I am getting bored!!
Obviously there is only so much that happens each month within the industry, so they all tend to cover the same things. Obviously there are only so many new products out each month, so again they all cover them. I understand that there is bound to be repetition if you get more than one mag.
Why can't we have one mag that is sticks its head out of the water and gives us real product information i.e. marks out of 10 for products. For instance I know what quick drying top coats are available, but which ones actually dry the fastest? Which ones are best value for money? Which ones give a longer lasting finish? Which ones go "gloopy" quickly etc. etc.
I assume that these magazines depend on advertisers for some of their revenue, so perhaps they are concerned not to upset any particular manufacturer. But surely they make some of their money from subscribers. I would prefer to pay more for an unbias product review type magazine with no advertising. Products could be reviewed and scored by a team of nail techs from around the country. The identity of the products could be concealed from the review panel to ensure unbias opinions.
Various women's magazines have been doing this sort of thing for years and it doesn't appear to affect their advertising revenue.
All manufacturers who have faith in their products would have nothing to fear.
Interested to hear if anyone else out there thinks we would benefit from being able to choose products that have been tried and rated. Looking at the amount of stuff on Ebay and other places, it looks like loads of us make costly trial and error mistakes.
Obviously there is only so much that happens each month within the industry, so they all tend to cover the same things. Obviously there are only so many new products out each month, so again they all cover them. I understand that there is bound to be repetition if you get more than one mag.
Why can't we have one mag that is sticks its head out of the water and gives us real product information i.e. marks out of 10 for products. For instance I know what quick drying top coats are available, but which ones actually dry the fastest? Which ones are best value for money? Which ones give a longer lasting finish? Which ones go "gloopy" quickly etc. etc.
I assume that these magazines depend on advertisers for some of their revenue, so perhaps they are concerned not to upset any particular manufacturer. But surely they make some of their money from subscribers. I would prefer to pay more for an unbias product review type magazine with no advertising. Products could be reviewed and scored by a team of nail techs from around the country. The identity of the products could be concealed from the review panel to ensure unbias opinions.
Various women's magazines have been doing this sort of thing for years and it doesn't appear to affect their advertising revenue.
All manufacturers who have faith in their products would have nothing to fear.
Interested to hear if anyone else out there thinks we would benefit from being able to choose products that have been tried and rated. Looking at the amount of stuff on Ebay and other places, it looks like loads of us make costly trial and error mistakes.