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• Weatherproof Beauty

  Look your best in rain, snow, heat and even hurricanes with these tips from The Weather Channel's Stephanie Abrams.

• Shampoo Secrets

  How you're lathering up may be the cause of your good -- or bad -- hair days. Wash beauty right into your hair with these steps.

• 5 Habits of Women With Gorgeous Shiny Hair

  From choosing the right products to being savvy about how they use hot tools, women with gleaming tresses swear by these rituals day in and day out.

• Get Beautiful in Your Sleep

  Beauty routines don't have to take a lot of time or effort. In fact, you can give your hair and skin a gorgeous boost while you're sleeping.

• Hot New Haircut: The Lob

  The long bob is an easy-to-manage style that looks good on everyone. Just ask celebs like Emily Blunt, Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks!

• Beauty Essential: Concealer

  Used correctly, concealer can mask under-eye circles better than sunglasses can. We’ll share everything from picking the right color to the hair tone that can also help hide tired eyes.

• The Costume Hater’s Guide to Halloween

  Do you hide behind closed doors on October 31? With these simple makeup and no-costume-required dress-up tips, we take the “boo” out of Halloween.

• Post-summer Hair Repair

  Months of sun, salt water and chlorine can leave tresses fried and frayed. Here's how to get your hair healthy, shiny and gorgeous.

• The Beauty Rules of Order

  If you’ve invested in all the get-gorgeous products, such as serums, sunscreen, foundation and concealer, here’s how to layer them to get an all-over glow.

• Know Your Hair Type: The Secret to Healthy Hair!

  Fine or thick? Frizz-prone or apt to flop? Knowing what type of hair you have is key to picking the products that are right for you. The payoff? Beautiful hair that stays polished longer.

• Custom-blended Perfume Scents

  Want to create a perfume of your very own? Here’s a simple step-by-step guide.

• From Damaged Hair to Dazzling Hair

  Do you have over-processed, frizzy and damaged hair? Nurse it back to gorgeous health in six simple steps.

• Pluck Your Brows Like a Pro

  Well-shaped eyebrows make your eyes look bigger and brighter, add lift to dropping lids, even give your hair color more zing! Here's a do-it-yourself guide.

• 6 Solutions for Stress-free Hair

  Do you want to banish bad hair days? We thought so. From a fast way to revive limp locks to a polished look in a flash, follow these simple steps for gorgeous, healthy hair.

• Your Beauty Toolbox

  The difference between a long-lasting polished look and one that quits midday? It's all about the brushes you use.

• 7 Simple Ways to Go Green in Your Beauty Routine

  From multitasking products to water-conserving ways to shower and de-stress, here’s how to make your beauty regimen planet-friendly.

• Health, Beauty and Earth Benefits of Vegetables

  Giving up meat once a week isn’t just good for your health -- and your looks -- it’s good for the planet too. Just ask Gwyneth Paltrow.

• Secrets to Getting Gorgeous Hair

  Styling cream, gel, pomade, paste, mousse, wax, serum -- oh, my! Stylists decode 10 top products and explain which will help you get to-die-for hair.

• Top 7 Beauty Resolutions

  Make 2012 a gorgeous year with these small tweaks to your skin- and hair-care regimens.

• Beauty Below the Chin

  If you think your face should hog all the skin care glory, think again. Here's how to get all-over gorgeous!

• Keep Your Long Hair Healthy and Beautiful

  You've patiently grown your hair long -- an enviable feat. We've got the secrets on maintaining luster and tip-top condition.

• The Romantic Bride: Long, Loose and Shiny Hair

  Kate Middleton proved that wearing your hair down on your wedding day can be gorgeous, modern and elegant. Here’s how to get your tresses in tip-top shape for those soft, princess-like waves.

• The Safe Way to Get Straight, Silky Hair

  Experts are warning that salon keratin-smoothing treatments may be hazardous to your health. Here’s how to get beautiful, glossy hair -- safely.

• Put an End to Split Ends

  Banish dull, fraying ends with these five simple steps. Hello, smooth and gorgeous!

• Tame It!

  Tresses misbehaving? Show your hair who's boss with these tips from celebrity stylists.

• Michelle Obama’s Hair Care Secrets Unclassified

  From her classic updos at state dinners to the slicked-back ponytail she sports on family vacations, Michelle Obama always shows off hair that is perfect for the occasion. Pros share how the first lady pulls this off.

• Can Your Favorite Beauty Products Stop Working?

  Do skin and hair care products really lose their effectiveness over time? We talk to the pros about how and when to adjust your beauty routine to maintain your skin and hair at its healthiest and most beautiful.

• Hair Care Products: Do You Need His-and-hers?

  Sharing hair products and styling tools with your man seems like the smart thing to do: an eco-friendly, economical and clear-the-bathroom-clutter choice. But is it? Here’s what you need to know about partner hair care.

• New Hair Trends for Spring

  It’s not too early to start thinking about a new ’do for spring. Our stylist forecasters clue you in on the hair trends for the warm months ahead.

• Top Hairstyles to Do With a Curling Iron

  You’ve mastered the flat iron and can’t live without your blow-dryer. Now, add a curling iron to your repertory and never fall into a hair rut again.

• Makeup Bag Makeover

  What’s hiding in your makeup bag may actually be hurting -- not helping -- your beauty routine. Like yogurt and eggs, cosmetics have a “best by” date. Here’s when to toss everything from mascara to bronzer.

• The Top 7 Multitasking Beauty Products

  Want to save time, space, money … and the planet? These seven highly versatile beauty products will help you multitask.

• How to Tame Your Textured Hair

  Curly, wavy, frizzy and otherwise texture-challenged hair is finally getting the attention and products that it deserves.

• Your Man’s Grooming

  Want to help your mate step up his shaving and hair routines … without wrecking your romance?

• DIY Pretty Feet

  Put your best foot forward in summer’s open-toed sandals with these do-it-yourself tips and the six essentials of a professional pedicure.

• At-home Hair Color

  Here’s to-dye-for advice from the pros on how to achieve head-turning, salonlike color at home.

• The Most Gorgeous Hair in Sports

  On and off the court, the women of tennis keep their hair long, beautiful and healthy.

• How to Be a Red Carpet Beauty

  'Dancing with the Stars' judge Carrie Ann Inaba gives the 411 on getting ready to cover the Oscars.

• Make Your Own Spa This Valentine's Day

  The most romantic way to celebrate the holiday of love is also the least expensive: Stay home and indulge in a feast of touch, taste and scent.

• Hairstyle Classics: How to Keep That Do From Looking Dated

  The shag, the bob, the pixie, long and sleek -- here's expert advice on tweaking these timeless styles for today.

• Hair Myth or Magic?

  We reveal the truth behind eight old-school tricks for maintaining shiny, healthy tresses.

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• Six Tricks for Shiny Hair

  Getting a glossy, mega-watt mane doesn’t need to take a village to accomplish. Here are a few easy tricks to give your hair mirror-like shine, just in time for summer.

• 5 Quick Volume Boosters

  Big hair is ba-aack!

• Top 4 Beauty Tips

  In the four years I’ve been writing about beauty, I’ve picked up countless tips and tricks from the best hairstylists, makeup artists and aestheticians in the business.

• Foundation Rules

• Facials 101

• Makeup Inspiration From the Emmys!

  Need to jazz up your makeup routine this fall? Look no further than the stars who graced the Emmys.

• What Your Skin Is Telling You

  Your skin is the largest organ in the body, and in many ways, it’s a barometer for what's happening internally and externally to you every day.

• Avoid the Most Common Skin Care Mistakes

  Everyone asks me the same question: How can I get clear, glowing skin? It’s not as hard as it may seem, even for those who have “problem” skin. Fixing a few common skin care mistakes will transform your complexion immediately!

• An At-home Pedicure in 5 Steps

  Getting gorgeous feet doesn’t have to mean a trip to the salon. Here are five steps to getting a professional-quality pedi within your own four walls.

• How to Get Celebrity Skin

• 5 Steps to a Perfect Faux Tan

  By midsummer, it’s tempting to skip the sunscreen and get a tan the old-fashioned way (read: damaging from a health and aging standpoint).

• Do-it-yourself Sunburn Remedies

  It happens to the best of us: We’re madly scrambling to get out the door and forget to apply SPF 30.

• Top 4 Celebrity Hair Transformations

  While we don’t necessarily recommend digging up your old photos and making a trip down embarrassing hairstyle lane, take a look at how these celebs have transformed their style.

• The Best Lighting for Makeup Application

  All set and out the door. At the stoplight, I check my hair and what! Why is my makeup a complete striped-cheek mess?

• Give Your Man a Style Makeover

  Sure your man is adorable, but what guy couldn’t use a woman’s touch when it comes to his style?

• The Perfect Face for Special Events

  Circled days in your calendar are typically the special events you buy that new dress for and plan what shoes you’ll wear a week in advance.

• Spa Treatments From Your Kitchen

  Citrus, honey, vodka and sugar. While the mention of these tasty treats might have you daydreaming of your favorite cocktail, they are also the core ingredients in my favorite body care recipes.

• How to Extend the Life of Your Hairstyle

  Wouldn’t it be great if we could copy and paste a good hair day on demand?

• Mature Makeup Makeovers!

  The questions women ask me most often aren’t the trend-of-the-season kind. They’re the corrective kind related to skin issues.

• Skin Care Essentials

• What’s in My Makeup Bag?

• The Science of Curls

• Great Hollywood Hair

• Makeup Substitution Smarts

• Alternative Makeup Tools

• Healthy Hair on Vacation

• Stress and Your Skin

• Beauty Tweaks

• What to Do With an Over-groomed Man

• Control Your Curls

• 5 Ways to Tell a Friend She Needs a Hair and Makeup Makeover

• Add Shine to Your Hair

• Modern Holiday Makeup

  There’s no more perfect occasion to wear bright makeup colors or glitter than the festive party-filled holiday season.

• Top Makeup Tips From New York Fashion Week

• Hair Chic

  I’m no stranger to fashionable cities, having lived in Paris, Milan, Monte Carlo and Manhattan, where I’ve styled the hair of some of the world’s most glamorous women. So it almost pains me to admit that the most trend-setting women in the world live in Tokyo

• Your Guide to Face Primers

  I live for collaborating with an artist who has a vision and allows you to create within that but also add your own input.

• Get a Short ’Do -- or Try One Virtually

  With all the adorable hair accessories on the market right now, this is a great time to try out a short, sassy ’do.

• Summer Hair Tips

  Summer is all about low-key beauty...

• Easy Tips for Sexy Summer Hair

  After a long, cold winter and a very cool spring, along comes summer, and the living gets easier.

• How to Talk to Your Hairdresser

  One of the most important things we teach our assistants is how to consult with a client.

• Spring Hair!

  Spring: warmer weather with daffodils peeking their little yellow heads out of the soil. What can we do to bring spring to its fullest in our own beauty regime?

• How to Get Salon Results at Home

• The Yearly Edit

  My husband and I move around what seems to be too often.

• Hair That Keeps Turning Heads

• Holiday Hair

• What’s Tops in Hair: Texture

• Would You Let Your Man Wear Shapewear?

• Botox Competitor Enters the Wrinkle Wars