Most women have such busy schedules that the idea of a rigorous, time-consuming beauty routine seems impractical. In reality, such routines are also unnecessary. Instead of making big changes and spending big bucks, making smart and precise changes to your daily routine could be just what your skin needs to get healthy. Try out these five great tips for yourself and enjoy the results.

Focus on a Healthy Diet
Many skincare professionals agree that healthy skin is a direct reflection of a healthy inside. Because "we are what we eat," a well-balanced diet is the first step you should take toward achieving healthy skin. Instead of concentrating on a strict menu plan, just put your efforts toward eating a colorful plate of food at every meal. With plenty of fruits and veggies in your daily diet--i.e. lots of colors--you'll get tons of vitamins, antioxidants, and other healthy benefits right away. All of these elements will help to improve your skin's health from the inside out.

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Ever since the now defunct "House and Garden" magazine featured actress Chloe Sevigny's Manhattan apartment in 2007, the idea of a bicycle as fashionable décor item has really taken hold. Apparently, there was a concurrent trend of "beautiful bike girls" as well, according to the New York Observer.

Pretty young (and sometimes not so young) things were seen pedaling above New York City's sewers and subway lines in cute clothes and shoes but without helmets to muss their perfect-looking hair. This trend seems to ride the coattails of the green craze more than a desire for aerobic, sweat inducing, exercise.

Meanwhile, Ms. Sevigny's hip New York apartment captured many an imagination. You could literally hear a whoop emanate from the design blogosphere when the issue hit the newsstands. In particular, it was the front hall which featured a wide-board hardwood floor, Kelly Wearstler's Trellis wallpaper in green and matching bicycle positioned "just so" that stood out. There is no que

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I used to chuckle when I heard moms urge their daughters to eat tomatoes for rosy cheeks. Old wives' tale, so, I thought, and by that logic would I turn greener with kale? I was a little less sure of my dismissiveness when my own palms turned an orangey tint when I went heavy on my carrots, and was totally humbled when I met my first pink flamingoes.

Beauty from the garden's bounty

A new study in the scientific journal PLoS ONE followed 35 students for 6 weeks looking at how fruit and veggie intake affects skin tone, as measured by a spectrophotometer (an instrument that measures the spectrum and photometric intensity of each wavelength present, and in this case of visible light).

The researchers, led by Ross Whitehead, found that measured skin tone correlated with reported changes in the diet: eating more fruits and veggies increased skin redness and yellowness, and these skin color changes where achieved with a relatively modest increase of fruit and veggie intake - a

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