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  1. Make Yourself Beautiful on a Budget

    Throughout history, women have tried some bizarre DIY beauty treatments: Geishas applied nightingale droppings; English nobility used mercury and puppy urine; Cleopatra reportedly soaked in sour donkey milk. Today, we still want to keep our complexions radiant, smooth, and firm. Fortunately, there’s

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  2. How Safe and Effective Are Sunscreens?

    July 2, 2009 -- Sunscreens are improving, but three of five brand-name products either don't protect the skin from sun damage sufficiently, contain hazardous chemicals, or both, according to a report by the watchdog organization Environmental Working Group (EWG). "I'd give the industry a C minus," s

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  3. Chemo Drug Cream May Fade Wrinkles

    June 15, 2009 -- The chemotherapy drug fluorouracil, used in a skin cream, may have potential for fading wrinkles. Fluorouracil is already used as a prescription skin treatment for actinic keratoses, which are precancerous lesions caused by sun damage. Patients getting such treatment have also repor

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  4. Botox, Wrinkle Fillers Not Hush-Hush

    June 3, 2009 -- Getting Botox Cosmetic or hyaluronic acid wrinkle fillers isn't something most people keep secret, a new study shows. The survey, which comes from the Aesthetic Surgery Education & Research Foundation, included 687 U.S. patients who got Botox Cosmetic and/or hyaluronic acid dermal fi

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  5. Want a Higher Salary? Get Brains, Beauty

    May 20, 2009 -- Good looks may help people land jobs, but brains also give folks a leg up in climbing the salary ladder, new research shows. “Little is known about why there are income disparities between the good-looking and the not-so-good-looking,” says Timothy Judge, PhD, a management professor

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  6. Body Shaper Buying Tips: Losing Weight off the Rack

    Smoothers. Body shapers. Shapewear. Control-top pantyhose. Support boxers. The Mirdle.  Whatever you call it, these compression undergarments are designed to hold, lift, smooth, and recontour the body's bulges and sags, giving the illusion of a slimmer body and improving the way clothes look. As men

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  7. The Surprising Benefits of Botox

    Ever since the FDA approved Botox for cosmetic use seven years ago, women (and men) have been singing Botox’s praises. The masses aren’t deterred by its short shelf life -- effects last only three to six months -- or the need for ongoing shots costing $300 to $1,000 per injection site or area. Nearl

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  8. Makeup That Does More

    By Beth Janes You spend precious morning minutes putting it on, and another chunk of time taking it off at night, day after day after day....No wonder you want your makeup to deliver even greater benefits! Beauty companies have embraced this multitasking approach. Increasingly, foundations, blushes,

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  9. High-Definition Makeup Not Just for Stars

    Finding a new TV can be daunting enough, but do you really need makeup to go with it? To understand the new wave of HD makeup, it helps to appreciate how this technology affects your must-see programs. Newer, high-definition TV sets can project larger images with 2-5 times the resolution of analog v

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  10. Sunless Tanning: Baking Is Out, Faking Is In

    Not long ago, bronzed beauties paid a hefty price for their burnished glow: prematurely aged skin and skin cancers from lying on the beach or in a tanning bed. But now, there's a smarter, faster, safer route to a golden complexion: getting a fake tan with bronzers and sunless tanners.  In fact, some

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