We Try Before You Buy: Victoria's Secret Miraculous Bra, Tide to Go Pen

April 18, 2011 — -- Commercials have only seconds to convince us, so their claims are often dramatic. So we set out to determine whether some popular products deliver on their big promises.

Miraculous Bra

The Victoria's Secret Miraculous Bra claims it will boost your bosom by two full cup sizes. A standard push-up bra gives you anywhere from a half cup to a full cup in lift, so this claim was pretty bold.

To get a baseline bra size, I had Christina Ignacio, a bra fit expert at Bounce.com measure me in a standard bra. I am a 36A.

The next step was to purchase the bra. It cost almost $50 and when I first looked at it, I was amazed by the amount of cushioning and the strategic placement of the padding.

It was seriously stacked on the outside of the cups so it wedged me in tight toward the middle of my chest.

It also had the traditional push-up feel towards the bottom of the cup so I felt like my girls were up on a shelf.

The Miraculous Bra gave me a massive boost that created a significant amount of cleavage. With the Victoria's Secret Miraculous Bra on, I bumped up to a 36C. The Miraculous Bra lived up to its claims of adding two cup sizes in lift.

Tide to Go Pen

The Tide to Go Pen claims to be the ultimate dinner companion - able to remove everything, including sauce, wine and chocolate.

I tried the Tide at an Italian restaurant and the pen did a super job on every stain: wine, pasta sauce, even greasy meatballs.

While it didn't erase stains completely (you could tell the shirt was wet and slightly off color where it had been stained), the Tide to Go pen removed enough of the stain that I could get through dinner without having a huge blotch on my white shirt.

More importantly, when I washed the stained items at home, they all came out perfectly clean.

Tide said, "The Tide To-Go mini helps remove many fresh food and drink stains and is safe to use on most colorfast, machine washable and dry cleanable fabrics."