What Is Your Makeup Telling the World?

What Is Your Makeup Telling the World?

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

You never get a second chance to make a first impression, as the saying goes, and it looks like there’s some truth to the claim, particularly for women who wear makeup. Procter & Gamble Beauty and Grooming recently sponsored a Harvard study in which women were rated barefaced and then…

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Tips for Unique Christmas Gifts

Tips for Unique Christmas Gifts

Style & Beauty / Beauty

Is it just me or does it get more and more difficult every year to find those special gifts that stand apart from the traditional mall fodder as unique or original? A candle — even for a candle lover — seems predictable, overdone and just plain blah after so many…

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The Most Requested Celebrity Haircuts

The Most Requested Celebrity Haircuts

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Farrah Fawcett’s feathers, Meg Ryan’s shag, Rachel’s layers…since movies have been made, women have requested their favorite stars’ styles, and not much has changed. Women are still requesting long layers, which is a style that works great on most women. But “the Rachel” has a bit of a twist these…

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Latisse: Does it Work?

Latisse: Does it Work?

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

If you have sparse, short lashes and have tried all the mascaras, falsies and potions on the market to help plump up your puny lashes, then you might be tempted to try Latisse, a medication only available by prescription. Originally developed for glaucoma sufferers, a side effect of the medication…

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At-Home Spa Treatments

At-Home Spa Treatments

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If you want that wonderful spa feeling but don’t want to pay high spa prices, you should consider giving yourself an at-home spa treatment. There are many common and inexpensive products that are probably already in your home that you can use to make your own custom spa treatments, like…

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Cost and Care of a New Tattoo

Cost and Care of a New Tattoo

Style & Beauty / Beauty

There are a lot of things to take into consideration if you are thinking of getting a new tattoo. Two main things to think about are the cost and care of any tattoo. The act of getting a tattoo in and of itself can be very expensive. The bigger ones…

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Super Shoe Storage Ideas

Super Shoe Storage Ideas

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Are your Pumas scratching up your pumps? Flats and flip-flops in a big, messy pile in the closet? If the mountain of Manolos in your closet is getting out of hand, then maybe a little shoe organization is in order. It doesn’t take a lot of cash or a large…

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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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Skincare: Are You Missing a Spot?

Skincare: Are You Missing a Spot?

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

You know by now to apply sunscreen, moisturizer and all those other products that care for your skin and keep it looking beautiful to your face. But are you going beyond the jaw line? The skin on your neck and chest, aka the décolletage and cleavage, tends not to be…

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