50 Best Beauty Secrets

Get gorgeous, glowing and glamorous with this collection of the best kept beauty secrets.
Want more where these came from? Here are Quick Makeup Tricks and Easy Beauty Rules to live by.

1. Play up your pout - it reminds people you're no pushover - with a deep, dramatic lipstick. Use your finger for a personally stamped finish. Want a fuller effect? Highlight the area above your bow with a brush of gold eyeshadow. From your eyes to your cheeks, pick a feature to play up and take it to the extreme.

2. When you're strapped for time, do the T-zone blow-dry: down your part and around your hairline only. "As long as the front and top of your hair looks finished," says makeup artist Eva Scrivo, "so will you."
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3. Here's a secret for super-smooth, quenched lips: Use your richest eye cream on your lips! Note: Be sure it's a "hydrating" formula, not "firming" - which is code for drying. Have painfully chapped lips? Try this to get them back in tip-top, kissable shape.

4. To sop up oil and refresh makeup, lightly mist your face with toner, then pat with a tissue, says Eva Scrivo, makeup artist and owner of the eponymous New York City salon. Finish with a dusting of loose powder. You can refresh product-loaded hair too - all you need is this one product.

5. Trying to look well-rested when you aren't? Avoid piling on the foundation. Use a tinted moisturizer instead, followed by a beige eye pencil - it counteracts any redness around your eyes. Wake up the rest of your face - our expert shows you how.

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