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How I Lightened Up The Stupid Marks My Acne Left Behind
Before I say anything else can we talk about how much I love you all to death? You all literally and absolutely made my week after being so nice about my return to over-sharing and enthusiasm for face...
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Quick Question: Would You Use Beauty Products Based On A Religion?
Back in college, I got really angry at those "Buddha bead" bracelets that were popular at the time (circa 1999). I was minoring in religion, mostly so I could educate myself about the religions I was...
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DIY Beauty Safety: How To Not Die When You're Making Your Own Cosmetics
Diving headlong into the world of DIY beauty products is kind of like testing a river’s temperature by sticking your leg knee-deep into the rapids: the next thing you know, you’re completely carried...
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How To Get That Green Jewelry Stain Off Of Your Skin
There are lots of things my ghostly pallor just won’t stand for, like direct sunlight, anything orange and cheap jewelry. But I just can’t walk by Forever 21 or H&M without cruising the jewelry...
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Mousse: Why Should Teenage Girls Living In Central New Jersey Circa 1991 Have...
Most days, I wear my hair naturally wavy, flat-ironed, or what I call "enhanced wavy"--wrapping several sections around a curling wand for a few seconds to get smooth, loose curls. But then there...
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Beauty Experiment: I Tried Making Makeup With Beets
If you’ve ever eaten a beet and you’re clumsy like me, your clothes and tablecloth have been reminding you ever since. Red beets spill blood-like juice when first cut, though the juice will...
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Work-Appropriate Eye Makeup That Doesn't Pretend It Isn't There
In theory, there is usually nothing that I hate more than the idea of a beauty trend. Obviously the same thing is always going to be fashionable: looking like a babe. However, I spend a decent...
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How To Trim Your Own Bangs
If there’s been one constant in my life, it’s blunt bangs. No matter how many times my hair colour has changed, I’ve always had a fringe. I'm seven or eight here. Sometimes you just find something...
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The $4 Easy-As-Hell Leg Shine You Didn't Know Was At The Drugstore
I felt like I was always in for a surprise getting into my little red Jetta after school most days. Highland Park High School is one of the few--as in, like, four--American public high schools with a...
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4 Pink Lip Colors That Look Gorgeous On Brown Girls
The Barbies I had when I was a child were all white, blue-eyed and blonde-haired with pink lips. For some reason, Mattel Asia didn’t sell dark-skinned dolls because they don’t sell as well as the...
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Quick Question: Do My Roots Look Gray?
If there's anything that has motivated me to perfect my complexion, it's the fact that I sweat like crazy. See, I wear foundation or BB cream and concealer every day to even out my skin tone, but from...
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6 Pretty Things On The Internet: Messy Sexy Teased Hair With A Mini Braid...
Here are the prettiest things I found on the internet this week. Enjoy! Pin-Ups For Pitbulls, Inc. works to dispell misconceptions about pitbulls and pit-mixes in order to up their chances of finding...
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Everybody Told Me I Looked Really Hot With This Hair
I’m stuck in this weird limbo right now because my hair is way long and logic tells me that I should cut it. And all the crap that it gets caught in tells me I should cut it--I for real just zipped...
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I Wash My Acne-Prone Skin With Castor Oil
Lately, my bathroom counter has started to resemble my kitchen pantry. A bottle of cooking oil over here, some baking soda there, raw honey to the left, some crushed thyme on the right. I’ll admit,...
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Too Dreamy: Makeup Inspired By Twin Peaks' Audrey Horne
In seventh grade, I idolized two women: Helena Christensen in Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” video and Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne in Twin Peaks. Both embodied a classic yet devastating ‘90s brand of...
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Giant Forehead
I'd had bangs for a full 10 years--from age 3 to 13--when I'd finally had enough. I no longer wear fur. My forehead was a minefield of zits; my bangs would flip and part whenever I'd sweat, and they...
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Master The Bold Daytime Lip And You Will Master Your Life
Someone at some point once told me that to be a classy lady, you either show your cleavage or you show your legs but never both. Or maybe I saw it in a film--it doesn’t sound like anything that anyone...
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So I tagged along with Jane while she curated her vintage shop for Nifty Thrifty. Cuuurrated. Sexy! Here's some video I shot at Jane and Charlotte's swank apartment of hair champion Allie Smith...
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Green Eyeliner: How I Wear My Favorite Color On My Face
I love green. I adore green. I own a disproportionate amount of bright green clothes. And jewelry. And everything. Everything except for makeup, because brands don’t seem to share my particular...
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Quick Question: Do You Think Hannah Would Mind If I Took This Lipstick?
Our lovely Hannah lives in Canada, but several times a month, beauty publicists will messenger over stuff addressed to her. We set it aside to either ship to her or, more likely because we're lazy,...
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