Ages 13 & up:

HANSONthe Official Book by Jarrod Gollihare. Billboard Books, NY. Pretty book with tons of pictures & information on the group Hanson. $10.95 most places it can leave you feeling a bit cheated. The font/text is like a size 13 & brakes abound.... if you love them & must have everything marked with the Hansonopoly logo get it... otherwise pass. You can get more info. from kiddie websites!

Cindy Crawford's Basic FaceBroadway Books, NY. Very pretty & interestingly bound book... it's simple... it's fun... it tells you nothing that you don't already know about make-up... but hey.. it's by Cindy! You'll scream over the price of $25.00 & so will your parents. I noticed that the books were piled up on bookstore shelves even though it got press in Allue Magazine & others. It's a nice first time make-up book for clueless girls :-)

Beyond Beauty - girls speak out on looks, style & stereotypes. by Jane Fratt. Clarkson Potter/Publishers, NY. A very BIG, very v i b r a n t , very expensive ($30.00 usa $40.00 CAN) book that is a bit lost. Is it a book on make-up...? kinda, is it a book on grrl hood...? kinda... hummm... some of the stars include Filippa the model, Marlina Hingis, etc. & "who?" ppl like a girl who had an eating disorder Heather Todd. The teen testers did not like the book in the way that the author seemed to imply by saying that Christina Ricci could be one minut smoaking with her friends & the doing something mature... smaoking was fine. This is stupid & I found this disturbing as well. If you saw the athour & rest of the ppl who made the book... you'd probably ask yourself how the heck they came up with beauty as a topic.

Hot Music: Robyn is Here CD by robyn or Robin (really).
The whole CD is really not worth the mony.... this is one of those CD's where every song sounds the same. The songs also have the same slow beat which get's boring. Robyn is however a superb singer that perhaps will do a bit better on her next album... if that should come. Don't pass her music up completly.. go out $ buy a $3.00 single!

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Other Neat Stuff

Discover America An American Board Game. This I must say won a ton of respect from our teen testers. We played with ourselves, we played with younger kids, we played with adults & parents. It's a bit complicated & I have a feeling we were all playing it wrong most of the time but who cares... we had fun & learned kawl stuff. For more information on buying the game though the mail e-mail them here: second@discoveramer.com or go to their web-site here: www.discoveramer.com. The game runs about $40.00 usa

Puka Creations What's a Puka Creation you ask? Well, find out more at: www.pukacreations.com We got a chance to check out their world famous Rice Necklaces & man how COOL! Can you imagine a grain of rice with your name on it suspended in colored liquid inside a glass charm? They make all sorts of other Mac things too like Evil Eye & charm necklaces/braclets/key-chains etc. Real low prices too! I think it's $1.00 for a catalog which you can get from: P.O. Box 5965 Berkeley, CA 94705-0965

D'ARCY Original Drying Lotion When you look at the pink goop which is separated from a clear liquid (kinda like oil & water) it dosen't look like much of a help for acne. The truth is that it dose help dry the skin which can git rid of brake-outs. It's a bit pricey but this is your looks were talking about! Call this # to buy it for around $29.00 (us funds) for 1oz. 1-800-589-5980.

Go to "Clubbed in the Head" HERE to see our review of hair add-ons for girls. Also other articles on grrl-e stuff!