Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 2003 Deluxe Suite

Amazon.com Product Description:
Create stellar looks using Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover 2003 Deluxe Suite. With just a click of your mouse, you can visualize yourself in more than 600 hairstyles, experiment with 800 colors and accessories, and even see how you would look on the cover of Cosmo--all from your desktop. Just load your photo into the makeover mirror tool and, with help from the style-savvy experts at Cosmo, determine the makeup colors and hairstyles that look best on you. Rounding out this deluxe suite is Cosmopolitan Fashion Makeover Deluxe. Load the software and then try on hundreds of outfits and discover the styles that work best for you.

Watch out!:
I bought 5 copies to use in my high school Family and Consumer Sciences course dealing with personal style. (The school district purchased around 50) The students were able to apply measuring skills as well as design principles due to its feature of preparing a virtual model. This was very helpful until the virtual model (based on the student's measurements) shed all of her clothes. She was anatomically correct with all of the features of a nude adult female . The males in the class suddenly became very motivated to assist their female classmates while the females turned their screens to the wall, thinking this was a standard part of the software. Many had put their pictures on the model to further personalize the model. I was especially shocked when the manufacturer was clueless regarding this surprise feature. Watch out!

Worst software of all time:
My experience is very similar to the person from NM: I had the first version a long time ago, wasn't happy with its sluggish performance and silly interface. But the 2003 version was on sale -- "free" after rebate -- so I said what the heck. I was still appalled by its poor design and implementation. Installation actually gave an error and crashed the first time! I restarted my PC and the second time it installed. But the program is just as slow as the first version. Things just aren't responsive. Help is no help. Really bad program.

Worthless:
I bought this for my wife. She wanted to see herself with different(shorter)hairstyles. She said she would have been better off with a photograph and a crayon. Parts of the program didn't work at all. Some of the features didn't work at all. The web site doesn't work.

Not as bad as people make it out to be:
I bought this program for my girlfriend who loves to do makeovers. Functionally, it is great. She loves it, except for the fact that the "downloads" portion of the software does not work due to discontinuation. It looks like it never worked. I think that is very misleading and the programmers should follow through with their promise. But, all of the complaints about - this didnt work or that didnt work or I got this error - a majority of the problems are probably with their pc's and something they have loaded conflicting. It happens, I am a computer tech, so I see it all the time. This was installed on my laptop for her and her desktop with not 1 problem at all. I highly recommend.

It works great for me!:
I didn't have any problem installing the software and using it. I must say I am thrilled with all the features it has, especially for haircuts. And also - the fashion makeover is a remarkable plus as compared with other versions. I don't know why for other people it didn't work, it may have been an incompatibility with their platform.