:: True Love East Africa Magical Makeovers
March 27, 2006

I love magazines. I love the way they make everything look glamorous. In Kenya we don't have many high quality magazines. There's True love and Drum and Eve and Cosmo Kenya... sorry no more Cosmo Kenya. That magazine decided that Kenya is a province of South Africa and would give us 30 pages we would get in Pulse on Friday anyway. Luckily for the 4 pals who were buying Cosmo, there is always Cosmo Unga - for Ugali, or Cosmo plastics for containers... don't despair if you must buy something with the word Cosmo.

True Love on the other hand was destined to succeed from day one. Why, you ask me? Carol Mandi. Nuff said. This lady works hard and there was no way this brand was going to fail. My only beef with the output from this magazine has been the covers. Whenever they feature "real people" they always seem to have them with a kilo of make up trying to make them look glamorous and all. This started from their first edition which had the fashion designers Carole Wahome, Sue Muraya and the other girl on the cover. Boy were they made over. In fact I had started drooling at the thought of me and Carole Wahome and a secluded spot in Malindi. Then I got to the launch and Carole said hi to me and my fantasy was shattered. The lady is good looking but she is no supermodel.

The same can be said of this months cover model Sarah Kamau. She has a very powerful husky voice and is quite a looker but the amount of make up they laid on her... wow. She even looks kidogo baffled (probably thinking "no one will buy this..."). From this I can only imagine what an edition of the magazine featuring say Mama Lucy would look like...

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