By Kate Sullivan, Allure magazine
Need a last-minute costume? We asked makeup artists to create simple, sexy looks using products already in your makeup bag. Here, Allure staffers test out the simple step-by-step instructions.
By Kate Sullivan, Allure magazine
Need a last-minute costume? We asked makeup artists to create simple, sexy looks using products already in your makeup bag. Here, Allure staffers test out the simple step-by-step instructions.
By Lindsey Unterberger, Glamour magazine
Before dipping your hand into that pumpkin bowl filled with candy, check out our top tricks for making the holiday's tastiest treats a tad less frightening to your waistline.
By Elizabeth Siegal, Allure magazine
Let's face it, there are two main reasons for attending high-school reunions: Seeing former classmates, and looking better than them. So follow these easy anti-aging tips-you'll take years off in a snap.
By Sophia Panych, Allure magazine
They may be neither short nor long, but there's nothing middle of the road about the most-wanted shoulder-length cuts. And there's a variety for every hair type and face shape.
By Sophia Panych, Allure magazine
Get ready to let down your hair: No matter what your face shape and hair texture, one of these flowing celebrity cuts will work for you.
By Shaun Dreisbach, Glamour magazine
You can fix a flat, a martini and a roaring fire in no time. But do you know what to do when you get a burn? Ice? Aloe? Butter? That's exactly the kind of at-a-loss-ness doctors are seeing more of these days. "I have young patients who are completely stumped on health basics," says Michael Roizen, M.D., chief wellness officer of the Cleveland Clinic, chairman of the Cleveland Clinic's Wellness Institute and coauthor (with Mehmet Oz, M.D.) of the best-selling You books. Sound familiar? Then you need the advice here. Here are six times a woman doesn't need a doctor to feel better-and six times she does.
By Megan Gustashaw, Glamour magazine
The trick is to go for something that you would (pretty much) never be able to wear in real life. Here are some options to inspire you, taken straight from (where else?) the runway...
By Kristen Flanagan, Glamour magazine
If you think guys are too transfixed by the candy corn to even notice your Halloween costume, think again.
By Lisa Lillien, Glamour magazine
Packaged foods have gotten a bad, um, wrap. But, says Lisa Lillien, famed Hungry Girl blogger, Cooking Channel host and author of the new Hungry Girl Supermarket Survival, "they've come a long way. Some, like sugar snap peas and broccoli coleslaw, are just fresh foods bagged up!" Consider this your stay-slim shopping list.

By Mindy Kaling, Glamour magazine
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people.
I could rationalize it-oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing-but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal? Am I doing the correct trendy cardio exercises? Am I reading the right books? Is gluten still lame? It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in front of you. I had wasted so much of my life eating stupid old already-ground peanut butter. So, yeah, I highly recommend a little nosiness once in a while.
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Recently I listened in on two attractive thirtyish women talking over brunch. I heard the following:
Girl #1 (pretty girl, Lululemon yoga pants, great body): Jeremy just finished his creative writing program at Columbia. But now he wants to maybe apply to law school.
Girl #2 (tiny girl, sheet of black hair, strangely huge