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Summer Bronze: Your Guide to Bronzers, Part 3

Summer Bronze: Your Guide to Bronzers, Part 3

If you're living in a naturally warmer climate (cough, California!), it's easy to confuse spring with the beginning of summer as blue skies dominate and the sun shimmers down. But whether you're jonesing for a touch of summer in your life or are already breaking out your booty shorts, bronzers are...

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Summer Bronze: Your Guide to Bronzers, Part 2

Summer Bronze: Your Guide to Bronzers, Part 2

If you're living in a naturally warmer climate (cough, California!), it's easy to confuse spring with the beginning of summer as blue skies dominate and the sun shimmers down. But whether you're jonesing for a touch of summer in your life or are already breaking out your booty shorts, bronzers are...

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Summer Bronze: Your Guide to Bronzers, Part 1

Summer Bronze: Your Guide to Bronzers, Part 1

If you're living in a naturally warmer climate (cough, California!), it's easy to confuse spring with the beginning of summer as blue skies dominate and the sun shimmers down.  But whether you're jonesing for a touch of summer in your life or are already breaking out your booty shorts, bronzers are...

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Get Ready: Tanning -- Self-tanners, Part 3 Maintaining

Get Ready: Tanning -- Self-tanners, Part 3 Maintaining

Looking for product recommendations? Expect several reviews of self-tanning options from sprays to creams to gradual to intense over the coming weeks!

Maintain It | So you spend all this time and energy on creating the perfect faux tan, but how are you going to keep it looking good? Unfortunately,...

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Get Ready: Tanning -- Self-tanners, Part 2 The Application

Get Ready: Tanning -- Self-tanners, Part 2 The Application

Looking for product recommendations? Expect several reviews of self-tanning options from sprays to creams to gradual to intense over the coming weeks!

Applying Your Tan | After you've properly prepared you body to take on a self-tan, you're eager to get to the tanning part, right? I want to preface...

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Get Ready: Tanning -- Self Tanners, Part 1

Get Ready: Tanning -- Self Tanners, Part 1

First, this guide is not about tanning beds, booths, nor laying out in the sun. This is a guide to self-tanners, which are proven to be much safer and less harmful than the aforementioned areas not covered in this guide. If you must tan, please take all the precautions you can, including use some sort...

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Summer Sun Care - Introduction to UVA, UVB, UVC and Fitzpatrick Classification

Summer Sun Care - Introduction to UVA, UVB, UVC and Fitzpatrick Classification

As spring fades away and summer starts to roll in, we want you to have fun and take care of yourself with the additional sun exposure. Over the next several weeks, we will be giving you the low down on sunscreens, self-tanners, and after-sun products from Shiseido to Olay. Today, I want to...

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The Ingredients Guide - Comedogenic, Irritating Ingredients To Watch For

The Ingredients Guide - Comedogenic, Irritating Ingredients To Watch For

Last week, I asked how many of you paid attention to the ingredients list on your beauty products--what was the majority answer? No, not at all; it is not a concern for you. As a beauty junkie, I have (and probably will not any time soon) not become an ingredient wizkid, simply because all of...

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MAC Cosmetics: Guide For the Newly Addicted

MAC Cosmetics: Guide For the Newly Addicted

New to MAC? Did you miss an installment from our ten part Guide to MAC? We designed a ten part guide to help introduce you to MAC Cosmetics and give you a leg up on all that is MAC.

Here's your guide... to the guide!

Part One: What is MAC? The who, the what, the where!

Part Two: What is MAC PRO? ...

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MAC Cosmetics: Guide For The Newly Addicted, Part 10 -- Readers Q&A

MAC Cosmetics: Guide For The Newly Addicted, Part 10 -- Readers Q&A

MAC Cosmetics: Guide For The Newly Addicted, Part 10

This is the final installment of the guide, and I asked readers to share their questions about what I didn't cover and should, and here are the answers.  Please feel free to suggest more topics in the comments!

Finish Descriptions -- Tekoa

Eyeshadow...

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