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• 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.

• Vegetarian Proteins for Gorgeous Hair and Skin

  Looking for easy, delicious and inexpensive ways to add healthy proteins to your diet? Get beautiful and help the planet.

• Best Indoor Winter Workouts

  Try these new fitness classes and at-home workouts, and keep your new year’s resolution to get in shape.

• Recessionista Party Tips

  A tight budget needn't stifle your style as a hostess. Here are tips from the pros on how to dazzle on a dime.
  

• 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.

• Suspension Workouts

  Want a stronger, tighter and more flexible body? A new fitness trend that involves swinging can get you these results.

• How Feng Shui Can Improve Your Life

  Rearrange your stuff according to this ancient Chinese art of balance and harmony, and you just might have better luck and a happier love life!

• The Foolproof Guide to Gardening

  Even beginners and apartment dwellers can enjoy their own garden with this easy advice and some great new products. Bonus: You can even make your own beauty products straight from the garden.

• Health and Wellness With Dr. Oz

  Women of all ages look to Dr. Mehmet Oz for sound medical advice, so we caught up with America’s Doctor to get the latest scoop on losing weight and staying fit.

• New Ideas for Holiday Entertaining

  Want to be a locavore hostess? Fill your holiday table with fresh homemade and close-to-home foods.

• Gift Ideas From the Garden

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

• Eat, Pray, Love: Creating Your Own Journey of Discovery

  You’ve read the book and seen the movie. Now, bring lessons from Italy, India and Bali into your own life … without leaving home.

• Your Man’s Grooming

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

• 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.

• The New Meals on Wheels

  Food trucks and carts are dishing out some remarkable -- and remarkably cheap -- cuisine.

• 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.

• Newest Southern California Getaways

  Whether you're visiting Los Angeles or live here, these four new resorts are a great reason to pack up the car for a road trip.

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• How to Rock a Tank Top

  We love tank tops: they’re cheap, they come in a zillion colors, they always fit just right, and we can dress ‘em up or dress ‘em down.

• 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!

• 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.

• 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?

• Healthy Cocktails for Outdoor Entertaining

• What’s in My Makeup Bag?

• Holiday Workouts: Try Interval Training

• Makeup Trends From Fall’s Runway

• Stress and Your Skin

• The Well-balanced Fashion Diet

• Tweak Your Home Decor for Summer

• Romantic Dinner for Two

• The Yearly Edit

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

• Would You Let Your Man Wear Shapewear?

• Botox Competitor Enters the Wrinkle Wars