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Why So Many Relationships End After Christmas

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6 Expert-Approved Lip Balms For Healing Chapped Lips In Winter

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Why Those "Butterflies" In Your Stomach May Not Be So Romantic

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24 First Dates That Aren't Dinner & A Movie

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Is Dry Shampoo Damaging Your Hair? Here’s What Experts Think

“We’ve all had that day when we haven’t washed our hair for a few days, and it looks good, so I think that’s where this belief [tha

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31 First Dates That Aren't Dinner & A Movie

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How To Even Out Your Skin Tone Once & For All

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I Took Cold Showers For 30 Days For Better Hair

After recently dyeing my hair back to my natural brown after three gruelling months living as a bleach blonde, my strands were in need of some major TLC. T

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This Is What Happened To My Skin When I Cut Out Dairy

My name is Maria Del Russo, and I hold these truths to be self-evident: A cheese plate is a perfectly respectable meal. A pack of shredded cheese is a grea

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All Your Worst Nail Issues Solved

We'd argue that we take pretty good care of our nails — we certainly love a manicure around these parts. But proper hand-maintenance should go way b

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So You (Eek) Got A Sunburn? Here’s How To Heal It, Fast

Nobody is perfect — not even a beauty editor. We may preach the gospel of SPF and slather on the stuff with fervour, but sometimes we slip up. We openly

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How To Air-Dry Your Hair In Cold Weather

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I Drank A Gallon Of Water A Day For Better Skin — & Here’s ...

I'm a fairly healthy person — I do what I can to feel good, while still enjoying my life. I wake up at the crack of dawn for yoga and eat a fairly b

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I'm Sorry (Not Sorry) I Muted Your Baby

“Did you see the photo I posted of Kelly* at the beach the other day?” my friend asked over coffee one day. I froze. A few weeks earlier, in a

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The Minimalist's Guide To Makeup

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Deleting My Dating Apps Was The Best Decision Ever

My first flirtation with online dating was in early 2011 during my junior year of college. I’d finally broken up with my first (and worst) boyfriend, and

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I Popped Pills For Clearer Skin

I remember certain things about puberty vividly, like shaving my armpits for the first time while my family waited downstairs impatiently before a trip to

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Spot-On: 6 Women Share Why They Love Their Freckles

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In Defence Of Bar Soaps

Bar soaps kinda grossed me out for a while. Maybe it was the look of them, dried and cracked on a soap dish. Maybe it was the fact that every single time I

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I Walked 4 Different Dogs To See How Many Dates They Got Me

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I Changed My Diet For Perfect Skin

My skin and I haven't always been on great terms. It has pimpled, puffed, flaked, and fried countless times in the 25 years I've been around, and

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I Didn't Love Running Until I Couldn't Run Anymore

Even though I spent most of my teenage years training to be a ballet dancer, I'd never use the word “athletic” to describe myself. To me,

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How To Wear Pink Makeup Without Looking Like An 11-Year Old

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Going Completely Grey Was The Best Decision I've Made

This story was originally published on 22nd August 2015. When my dear friend Tara Teschke told me that she was considering embracing the grey hair that sta

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The Cold, Bloody (Kind Of Disgusting) Truth About Vampire Facials

I've done a lot of weird shit in the name of beauty, but having the plasma from my own blood injected into my face with a needle might take the cake.

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Beauty Routines

The Post-Winter Routine Your Skin Needs

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Celebrity Beauty

6 Times People Flipped About Lady Body Hair For No Good Reason

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23 Ways To Break The Ice IRL

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Are You Sabotaging Your Beauty Products?

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I Spent A Week Asking Coupled-Up People Why They're In Relationships

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