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• 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.

• 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.

• Four Ways to Fake Great Legs

  If you're like most women, you need about three months at the gym and two weeks at the pool before your legs are ready for public display. Speed up those results with self-tanners, a strategic choice of fashion, and effective exercises.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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!

• Hair, Makeup and Nail Trends for 2012

  The updo gets a decorative swatch of color, lipstick loses its sheen, and manicures go topsy-turvy. Here’s how to get a jump on next year’s freshest looks.

• Beauty and the Feast: How to get Gorgeous, Smooth Skin from your Diet

  When it comes to getting smooth skin, what you put into your body is even more important than what you slather on it.

• Beauty SOS

  Last-minute zits, blotches and frizzies happen to everyone -- even A-list stars. Celebrity makeup artists and hair pros share the secrets to keeping their clients red-carpet ready.

• Choosing a New Summer Fragrance

  As temperatures soar, why not swap your amber-laden, heavy floral perfume for one that's lighter and fresher? Here's how to sniff out the best scents of the season.

• Beauty Secrets of Tennis Pros

  The world’s top-ranked women tennis players shine on the courts not just because of their skills, but also for their healthy skin and hair. Here’s how they maintain their beauty while competing under the scorching summer sun.

• Simple Steps for Healthy Skin and Hair

  Indoor heating, frigid temperatures and whipping winds can leave every inch of you dry and lackluster. Here’s how to winter-proof your skin, hair and body.

• 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.

• Skin Care Smarts

  It’s time to take a fresh look at your morning and evening skin-care regimens. Here are five surprising ways to perfect your complexion.

• Gift Ideas From the Garden

  Here’s how to turn common kitchen herbs into wonderful handcrafted holiday presents that are inexpensive and eco-friendly.

• The 411 on Facials

  Reality check: You won’t get a face-lift from a facial, but it will certainly boost your mood and leave you closer to the smooth, glowing skin we all want.

• Post-Summer Skin and Hair Rehab

  If your skin is looking lackluster and your hair has lost its shine, you could be suffering from the end-of-summer beauty blues. Here’s your repair guide.

• 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.

• How to Tame Summer’s Bites, Scrapes and Cuts

  Here’s advice from top docs on how to care for the season’s minor maladies and keep scars at a minimum.

• 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.

Blog

• 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!

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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

• 5 Ways to Keep Skin Healthy All Winter

• Alternative Makeup Tools

• Stress and Your Skin

• Beauty Tweaks

• How to Make Your Summer Makeup Last

• Valentine’s Day Makeup Ideas

• Skin Care Resolutions

• My New Winter Manicure

• My Favorite Winter Skin Care Tips

• Botox for Beginners

• Modern Holiday Makeup

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

• 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.

• Stay-put Beauty

  The holidays are coming -- my favorite time of year to eat, drink, be merry and look amazing while doing it all.

• Hanging With the Lohan Girls!

• Botox Competitor Enters the Wrinkle Wars