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Chub Rub Be Gone: How To Prevent Inner-Thigh Chafing

“Hey, can you come look at this? It’s killing me!”    I kicked my legs up in the air and spread them wide to give my husband full access to the horror between them. He confirmed it: I had developed,...

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I Literally Dreamed Up This Sexy Summer Makeup Look

I tend to get a lot of wacky ideas in my dreams. Usually, they seem great when I'm half-conscious, and then I wake up and realize that they make no sense at all. (The logistics of that doll-factory...

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3 DIY Honey Masks For Not-So-Sweet Days

Like most teens, I had bad skin for part of high school, and it sucked. Like, Angela Chase getting dumped by Jordan Catalano sucked.   But every time I put on one of my mom’s weirdly colored mud masks,...

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Quick Question: Have You Ever Done An Accent Nail?

Think Annie and I laze about all day in bathtubs full of unopened makeup palettes? THINK AGAIN. Sometimes we actually do, like, corporate stuff. For example, she and I recently went to an agency event...

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Ombré Lips In Just 3 Easy Steps

A few weeks ago, I was messing around on Instagram and I started noticing that all the super cool girls were doing something different with their lipstick. Something that, up until this point, I’d only...

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Who Needs A Big Booty When You've Got Shapely Brows?

Being that I’m half Puerto Rican, there’s this devastating (and racist) expectation that I should have a fat ass and big tits. Or at least one of the two. I have neither.   It is a seriously sensitive...

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Easiest DIY Ever: The Banana Hair Mask

I was born in the '80s, so I grew up surrounded by big hair. Jem, Barbie, Smurfette--even my favorite dolls and cartoons were in on-trend. Meanwhile, my thin, limp hair has always been a bit on the...

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If I Were A Terrible Person, This Article Would Be Called 'In Da Hood: Makeup...

Hooded eyes. I have them. If you’re reading this, there's a decent chance you have them. They’re also called bedroom eyes, which I always thought meant they made you look like you wanted to go to the...

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Inappropriate Beauty Muse: Sissy Spacek In Badlands

I’ve been on a bit of Terrence Malick kick since some dude in my science-fiction class did a comparison between 2001: A Space Odyssey and Tree of Life. So, of course, this included a rewatch of the...

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The Best Way To Apply Purple Eyeshadow, According To Me

Did you know 70% of the world’s population has brown eyes, and the remaining 30% is divided amongst blue, green, hazel, and gray? I found that out through Yahoo! Answers. I referenced these types of...

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Look To Try This Weekend: Barbie's Slutty Friend

I love "going out." That's a widely accepted betch colloquialism for socializing, right? But I think we use the term "going out" because what we really enjoy is the act of "going," like as in putting...

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Black & White Beauty Muse: Jean Seberg In Breathless

When picking a classic Hollywood icon to obsess over, most women tend to gravitate towards Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn, probably because they have the best quotes to hang up in the form of a...

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Dotty: Nail Art Inspired By Yayoi Kusama

I love Yayoi Kusama so much. She’s like a wise, eccentric grandma who is obsessed with cross-stitch. Except Yayoi Kusama doesn’t cross-stitch; she makes amazing contemporary art.   She’s been part of...

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Look To Try This Weekend: Disco Bitch

Is Anjelica Huston not the sexiest in this photo? Or just in general? Shot by Ara Gallant, 1976.  I DIE for disco, as you may already know. Not necessarily the music, but just the idea that it used to...

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6 Short-Hair Updos For When Your Hair Isn't Quite Short Enough To Keep You...

I’m a head sweater. I’m not talking about a couple delicate beads dripping down the back of my neck or a slight glistening on my dome; I’m talking full-on-like-an-NFL-linebacker sweating.   How do more...

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Wearing A Niqab Helped Me Perfect My Eyeliner Skills

Waterlines are a weird thing. They can be baffling to actually color in. The lined waterline is a look that has interested me, but has also seemed like something that I can’t wear; it closes up my...

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Sick of Ponytails? Here Are 3 Other Easy Ways To Wear Your Hair Up

So I had this clever intro about how it’s been hotter than balls lately, and how miserable everyone with long hair probably is, but then... it hasn’t been all that hot. I suspect it’s going to roll in...

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Get That Nasty Gal Model (AKA Slept-In Sex) Hair

So yesterday’s post really got me weighing my cut options. Thanks for all of your wise remarks. One in particular really stuck me in my soft heart tissue.    I won’t abandon you yet, fellow mer-hoes....

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How I'm Winning My Battle Against Blackheads

Cue my girl, A.M. Thank you pore strips, thank you Ziana, thank you disillusionment (about my black heads ever fully going away. I’m fine I with it promise). Thank you magnifying mirrors, thank you...

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In Honor Of The Mad Men Finale, Megan Draper Is Your Look To Try This Weekend

When Shannon came into the office a few weeks ago, I totally pulled one of the, "Has anybody ever told you that you look exactly like..." For me, this is either annoying or really, really awesome. When...

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