• Source: 4 Quick Ways to Make Your Eyes Appear Larger

    Whether you're in a constant battle with your eye shape or just trying to look more alert without that third cup of coffee, larger, wider eyes can be yours. Even if you weren't blessed with eyes like Zooey Deschanel, there are a few easy tricks you can pull out to make your peepers pop. Embrace your makeup, brush up on your colors, and look more alert with these simple steps:

    • Try white eyeliner: Lining your water line with a white eyeliner, like Shu Uemura Eye Light Pencil in White ($19), will make the whites of your eyes appear larger. This illusion will actually make your eyes appear larger, too.
    • Curl your lashes: This may seem like an unnecessary step, but curling your lashes opens up your eyes. Add two coats of a volume-boosting mascara, like Rimmel London Lash Accelerator ($10), for an extra pop.
    • Ease up on black liner: If you have especially small eyes, make sure to not use a heavy hand when applying
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  • BellaSugarSource: 4 Steps to Getting Rid of Hat Hair - For Good

    Matted, limp, lifeless hair is the downside of donning a cute chapeau this Winter, right? Not necessarily. Reviving your locks posthat is easier than you'd think. Follow these tips, and kiss lackluster, frizzy hat hair goodbye.

    • Consider the material: The fabric of your hat has a lot to do with whether or not you'll fall victim to matted hair. Avoid synthetics, and reach for a cap made from natural fibers: wool, cashmere, and cotton are best for avoiding frizz. Also, make sure your hair sits loosely against your head - skull caps and the like press your hair against your scalp, causing perspiration and matted locks.
    • Prestyle your hair: A hat warms your head, and warm hair holds whatever style it's in. So putting a hat over hair that's already set in place will help ensure you'll have the style you want when it's time to take off your hat. Long hair can be twisted into a bun and secured with either a fabric hair tie or
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  • Source: Beauty Resolution: Nail Biting Begone

    If you're like me, you've decided to make 2013 the year that you finally quit biting your nails. Unfortunately, keeping this resolution can prove to be harder than keeping your gym membership past February. Nail biting is a notoriously difficult habit to break, and if you feel like you've tried everything to win the war on nibbling, it can be doubly frustrating. But take a deep breath. Learn nail biting prevention that goes beyond that nasty-tasting polish, or wearing a rubber band around your wrist, when you keep reading.

    1. Be aware of your nail biting: It's tough to quit nibbling on your nails when you don't even realize you're doing it - and absent-minded biting is a big component in a nail biter's habit. Take the time to really focus on when and why you bite: are you stressed out or bored? Identifying your triggers is the first step in winning the battle of the bite.
    2. Carry a nail file: If you find that your need to nibble has a lot

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  • By Wendy Rodewald, Daily Makeover



    Who says you have to splurge to look good? Tons of genius new drugstore beauty products are hitting stores this month.



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  • This is 40: What It's Really like to Be in Your 40sThis is 40: What It's Really like to Be in Your 40sI've been thinking about aging lately. When I saw the movie This is 40 I wondered if everyone is as freaked by turning 40 as Leslie Mann's character who was so horrified she couldn't even let anyone including her kids say she was 40; she just kept emphatically insisting she was 38. Is this relatable?

    Well I'm 46 and I have no trouble announcing it to anyone who asks or even doesn't ask. I've never felt better. I've done a lot, I've seen a lot, I've felt a lot and I'm finally in acceptance of who I am.

    I work out because I love to sweat, because I want to be healthy for my kids and because working out is God's mood stabilizer. I work out because I want to be stronger and live longer but not because I'm desperate to lose five pounds. In fact, forget about the five pounds.

    I've finally accepted that I have a bigger butt but it doesn't define me like it did in high school and for too many years beyond -- years where if I was naked with a man I would do a ridiculous sideways saunter out

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  • Shannon Ray, Allure magazine

    Shannon Ray was the winner of the 2012 Allure Beauty Blogger Awards and is now contributing to the Daily Beauty Reporter.

    See more: Top 21 Drugstore Beauty Bargains

    'Tis the season for everyone around you to start dropping like flies. Okay, it's not that dramatic, not dying or anything-I mean getting that cold/SARS/bird or swine or feline flu/whatever that disease was in Contagion. (It's hard to focus on the details when you're honed in on Matt Damon being a sexy ass single dad throwing faux proms for his teenaged daughter.) But odds are, you will be befallen at some time this season with some kind of nastiness. And just because you may be FEELING like complete crap, doesn't mean that you must LOOK like Vada Sultenfuss's dad is totally working you over.

    Bright eyed and bushy tailed. If the eyes are the window to the soul, or whatever, you better lock those nasty I've-been-lying-in-a-sick-bed-made-solely-from-snotty-tissue ghouls up tight.

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  • Catherine Devine, Allure magazine

    I'm really close with my sister. We're two years apart, and we've shared just about everything-clothes, friends, and even a bedroom when we were little. I consider myself a pretty decent sharer, but when it comes to my makeup, I'm not as easygoing. I'm cool if she wants to borrow my bronzer every now and then, but the second she reaches for a mascara, things get serious. It's not a competitive, sibling-rivalry thing, like, "Ugh, this mascara will make her lashes longer and thicker than mine, so she absolutely can't use it." It's a germs thing-no matter how close we are. I wouldn't share my mascara with anyone. (Why, hello there, pinkeye, it's so nice to see you.) People gross me out.

    See more: The 10 Commandments of Mascara

    We recently asked our Facebook fans if they considered themselves beauty-product germaphobes, or if they were open to sharing, and more than half admitted that their makeup bags are completely off limits. Interestingly, 31

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  • Elizabeth Siegel, Allure magazine

    Chances are, you apply mascara the exact same way every day, and it works pretty well for you. But here's a little secret: Top makeup artists almost never open one tube of mascara, swipe the wand a few times, and call it a day. Instead, they mix and match formulas, wands, and even shades to solve the most common mascara mistakes. And you can do the same!

    See more: The 10 Commandments of Mascara

    For lashes that won't droop all day: Makeup artists including Mally Roncal swear that layering a coat of regular mascara over a coat of waterproof mascara is the best way to coax stubborn lashes into holding a curl. Oh, and curl your lashes the right way: Pumping a curler along your lashes gives you a more natural-looking bend than just pressing it right at the base.

    See more: Top 21 Drugstore Beauty Bargains

    For ultranatural eyes: Makeup artists often apply brown mascara to the lower lashes (and the usual black mascara on the upper lashes) to "make

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  • By Emily Orofino, Refinery29

    .We've long been obsessed with lip products and potions around here, so is it any surprise that an unusual launch results in the triumphant slapping-down of a credit card? From glitzy temporary lip tattoos to supposedly weight loss-inducing gloss, we've tried any and all WTF-inducing products we could find - but does this one put them to shame?

    Anna Sui's latest offering, the beautifully packaged Moisture Lip Treatment, seems to be the perfect (albeit bizarro) cure for a winter-worn kisser. The set contains one uber-emollient lip balm (rose-scented, of course!) and - wait for it - moisturizing lip wrap. What is moisturizing lip wrap, you ask? As far as we can tell, it differs very little from that of the Saran variety, but shhh: try first, ask questions later. Slather on the salve and apply one sheet of the wrap…and wait. (The instructions recommend that you plastic up that pout for about three minutes.)

    Our lips were left plump, lineless, and yes,

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  • Alexis Wineman is the current Miss Montana.Autism may soon have a surprising new spokesperson: Alexis Wineman, an 18-year-old Montana woman who hopes to be crowned Miss America on Saturday night.

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    "Most people do not understand what autism is," says Wineman in her video entry for the Miss America online finalist competition. "And 1 in 88 people having some form of autism, this understanding is becoming more and more necessary." To that end, she has made her platform "Normal is Just a Dryer Setting: Living with Autism."

    Wineman, who is the current Miss Montana, is both the youngest Miss America contestant this year and the first ever to have some form of autism. The brunette beauty queen was diagnosed at the age of 11 with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), which puts her on the mild end of the autism spectrum and carries symptoms similar to those of Asperger's Syndrome.

    And it might just make her an ideal candidate for the crown, autism

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