I used one box and people commented six months later about how white my teeth looked.

I also liked them because they covered the whole front surface of the teeth, and they are flimsy enough that you could wear them while commuting, toss them out and rinse with a sip of water.

They did make my teeth feel really sensitive though. I had to cut down to using them every-other day.

These did not work well for me, especially for the cost. ($30-$40 for 7 days worth)

They made my teeth VERY sensitive, more than Crest, MUCH more than Rembrandt. I noticed a lot more white spots than usual, not that I care about those, because I know they will go away.

Disgustingly, the gel floats out of the (cheap, flimsy) trays and around in my mouth in little blobs, causing me to have to keep a spit-cup nearby while I am using them. Makes me question the effectiveness, if the gel can’t stay in the trays.

But most troubling, the strips only whitened the bottom half of my upper teeth. If you can’t whiten the whole tooth, then you’re useless. The tye-dye look is not for me.

I recommend Rembrandt strips. They are more “obvious” than Crest strips, but they seem to whiten the best of the three, and they stay in place.

I bought this “10 pack” (5 upper, 5 lower) at Big Lots for $10. After three days (two more to go), I have seen the kinds of results I was looking for.

I have tried several different whitening products. They all produce some sensitivity in my teeth. They also all produce some white spots which do go away after a few days of finishing treatment. The experience with these Rembrandt strips has been better than all the previous products I have tried. Less sensitivity, etc.

The strips are thick, like waxy sticks of chewing gum. You fold them onto your teeth and they hold tight. The instructions say to leave them on for 30 minutes. They are VERY sticky when removing them, but this means they do NOT slide around like Crest strips. They also do NOT ooze blobs of peroxide gel like Aquafresh trays—and they whiten the whole front surface of the tooth from the gumline down (Aquafresh trays only whitened the edge of my teeth due to the way the gel sits in the trays).

I still spit when I’m using these (something I started doing because of Aquafresh trays) because I don’t want to swallow the peroxide stuff, but I have found there is a LOT LESS peroxide flavor floating around inside my mouth with these.

They are not subtle, and when you remove them you have to do more than just rinse your mouth to get the residue off—I brush with a soft toothbrush.

However, they are very effective. They are what I will choose in the future for regular whitening.

The only other thing I could ask for is something to whiten the teeth in the back of my mouth.

I wish they hadn’t written Cary Elwes’ name in the credits at the beginning of the movie; I kept waiting for hours for him to turn out to be evil.

Kind of weird tasting, but I guess if you can tolerate the flavor of acai juice, then this is pretty much more of the same.

So far the best part of the movie has been the one-second shot of the Rosedale Diner.

So far, this movie is such a vast improvement upon the terrible book. It’s not that they’ve changed much, but the text was intolerable.

If I’d seen it on its own, I probably wouldn’t have appreciated it at all. This is not the kind of movie I would see in theatres.

But anyway, if someone recommends this to you, stick to the video, not the book.

A lot of the author patting herself on the back for being ‘creative’ enough to come up with the title “Ya-Ya Sisterhood”. Ugh.

Interested by the way he links together several different anecdotes/studies to come out with his own idea. Also how I could immediately apply some of these concepts to the world around me.

The day after I finished I was talking with friends who are trying to quit smoking and suffer mental illness, discussing the parts about Zyban, nicotine, norephedrine and dopamine. I like it when I can immediately apply new information like that.

I could’ve sworn I’d read about the Micronesian suicide epidemic earlier, but maybe just in the press following this book’s initial release

Effing ridiculous. Terrible, simplistic writing style. Totally one-dimensional characters. I can’t believe I read the whole thing.

There were a couple of interesting situations that probably would work better in the movie when not dragged down by this awful, awful writing.

Allow me to echo this sentiment I read elsewhere: “It’s formulaic, even for chick lit.”

I will never again read anything else by this author