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Beauty Tips: Choosing Sunglasses To Fit Your Face Shape

How to find sunglasses with the best look and fit for the shape of your face, whether it’s oval, square, triangle, heart shaped or diamond shaped. Learn about the styles and colors that best suit your features.

Sunglasses are practical. They help you protect your eyes from the sun. But they’re so much more than eyewear. Sunglasses are stylish and an all around great fashion accessory. There are many colors and styles to choose from.

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Make-up Tips: Buying The Right Colors For Your Skin Tone

The key to choosing the perfect make-up to enhance your natural beauty is to find the best shades for your skin tone.

With so many products available for so many millions of women, it would make sense that choosing the right make-up color would be easy. However, this is not the case. Instead, we repeatedly buy foundations, eye shadows, and lipsticks that looked great in the store but dreadful on our faces.

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Personal Health Questions: Is Chapstick Really Addictive?

Lip balms and chapsticks may protect our lips from the elements, but could these products actually become addictive?

Several years ago, a 100 year old product called Carmex became the unwitting subject of an urban legend. Sales of the lip balm were astronomical, despite a lack of traditional advertising or promotion. Inevitably, rumors began to spread about the ‘real’ source of Carmex’s success. One unfounded allegation was that the manufacturers actually contaminated their own product with ground glass in order to perpetuate its use.

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At Home Spa: The Benefits of a Milk Bath

Describes the reasons why a milk bath is beneficial for the skin. Lists necessary ingredients as well as optional ones.

Milk has never been something you just pour on cereal, although it seems many of us have forgotten that. Milk has been used to clean and nourish skin for centuries. It is believed that Cleopatra used to bathe herself in camel’s milk quite frequently.

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Beauty Tips: Using Blotters To Control Shine

Controlling shine can be easy and inexpensive. Blotters offer shine control without the coverage that make up gives. Small and portable, blotters make controlling shine accessible throughout the day.

Cosmetic manufacturers offer a variety of products to control shine. Whether one’s skin is naturally oily or one suffers from a midday shine, controlling it is important. One can choose from oil controlling cream or liquid foundation. This will also even out the skin tone’s appearance. For a lighter coverage still inclusive of oil control, one may use a powder. But what if one wants no coverage, only shine control? Blotters are the answer.

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