How to Fix Broken Cosmetics

How to Fix Broken Cosmetics

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Beauty products are expensive, and it’s frustrating when a lipstick breaks, an eyeshadow shatters or nail polish tops just won’t come undone. So if you have butterfingers and dropped a pressed powder eye shadow or blush on the tile, listen up. Don’t throw out the compact. Grab a plastic sandwich…

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Take on the Menswear Trend

Take on the Menswear Trend

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

This season, one trend is a take on the Aerosmith song “Dude Looks Like a Lady” – only in reverse. It’s haute these days to look like a guy when it comes to fashion. But we’re not talking about wearing clothes expressly made for men. A sleek, tailored look is…

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The Best Hair Accessories

The Best Hair Accessories

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Bad hair days were made for ponytails, braids and whatever other bad-hair-concealing hairdos that are fast and easy. But instead of just throwing your hair up in a blah ‘do, give it a little pizzazz and ward off those bad-hair blues with a few tricks and pretty accessories. If the…

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Makeup Brands for Women of Color

Makeup Brands for Women of Color

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

For Asian, Latina and black women – and any other shade in between – it can be a challenge to find the perfect shade of makeup to match skin tone. Other challenges might include controlling shine and oil or concealing darker pigmented areas. Luckily, many cosmetic companies have cropped up…

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Oat What a Feeling! Oatmeal Facial Mask

Oat What a Feeling! Oatmeal Facial Mask

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Everybody knows that oatmeal is a superfood. The fiber-rich food is a source of vitamin E, zinc, magnesium, iron, copper, selenium and protein. Because it’s rich in soluble and insoluble fiber, it can fight cancer, heart disease and other deadly ailments. What most people fail to realize is that oatmeal…

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Spa Treatments with A-Peel

Spa Treatments with A-Peel

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Regardless of your age, you may have heard the buzz about facial peels and microdermabrasion. It sounds painful, but what’s the real story behind these spa mainstays? And is it safe? There are two ways to undergo the processes: at home or administered by a certified esthetician in a spa,…

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Making Scents: How to Apply

Making Scents: How to Apply

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Does yours have trouble lasting long enough? Coming on too strong? No, we’re not talking about men – we’re talking about the tendency for perfume to have a mind of its own. So if you’re dousing on a pricey potion or don’t think yours goes the distance, listen up. First…

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Homemade Body Scrubs

Homemade Body Scrubs

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

You don’t have to be a beauty expert to realize the benefits of exfoliating. Sloughing away dead skin is a necessity. What most people fail to realize is that you don’t have to spend an arm and a leg on costly beauty products, especially when you can make your very…

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