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  • A woman in a white robe getting a manicure from a woman wearing pink gloves. (Photo: Spabielenda/Pixabay)

    Polish Optional

    With the right tools and care, you can get salon-like results at home, and save some money. What experts recommend for nails that look healthy and polished.Read More
    25 Oct 2024
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  • Beauty School

    Covering up under-eye circles involves some creative problem-solving. We turned to three experts who manage to look bright-eyed despite challenging schedules.Read More
    30 Sep 2024
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    A Flowing Mane

    5 Simple Tips to Get Long Healthy Hair Growing long and healthy hair requires time, effort and patience.   The health of your hair is affected by so many different things, like the productsRead More
    31 Mar 2020
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  • African American woman washing her face with a towel wrapped around her hair. (Photo: Getty Images)

    Skin First Aid

    Beauty Mistakes That Cause Your Dry Skin Underneath all the glitz and glam of the holiday season often looms the threat of dry, flaky, itchy skin. It is like a little secret we are allRead More
    24 Mar 2020
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  • High-voltage masscara shined at Altuzarra's Paris show (left) and on Ashish's runway in London. (Photos: Getty Images)

    Runway Beauty

    Beauty Trends from F/W 20 Fashion Month Seen on the N.Y, London, Milan & Paris Runways Fashion month has officially come to a close, and what a whirlwind it was. Weeks and weeks ofRead More
    10 Mar 2020
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Take Care is filled with plants and surrounded by white walls, which creates a sense of calm when entering the shop. (Photo: Emma Blancovich/DC on Heels)

Take Care

15 Aug 2017
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bath salts, Be Clean, facial serums, georgetown, independend brands, Lavender Deodorant Cream, made in the USA, May Lindstrom, Meow Meow Tweet, natural, Salt Scrub, Smoke Artison, Smoke Artistan Salt Scrub, Take Care, Take Care Shop DC, The Youth Dew, vegan
Care for Your Skin with Independent Brands Take Care, formerly Be Clean Shop, recently opened its new location in Georgetown at 1338 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The store offers products from makeup to haircare to even clothing. All the products are natural and independent brands. Also,
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Don't scrub your eyes hard when removing makeup or your skin will start to sting. (Photo: Lifezen.com)

Clean Eyes

08 Aug 2017
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clean eyes, clean face, cotton ball, eye liner, eye makeup remover, eyes, eyeshadow, face, facial cleanser, Makeup, Mascara, micellar cleansing water, moisturizer, nighttime face washing, Original Makeup Eraser, removing eye makeup, Sephora, toner, Triple Action Cleansin Water
Four Easy Steps to Remove Eye Makeup After a night out, I come home and wash my face, but I am always too tired to make sure all of my eye makeup comes off. If only there was an easier way than standing there for 5 minutes making sure all of the mascara and eye liner is off so
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Faded Face

01 Aug 2017
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beauty, blonde hair, brown, brunette, eyeliner, faded face, glowing, healthy, jaundice, Makeup, Naked 3 Pallett, NARS, olive skin tone, pink, smokey eye, Urban Decay
Don’t Let Makeup Wash Out Your Skin Tone Do blondes have more fun? I never really understood where that statement came from, but I do know that blondes can look faded out. By that I mean their skin tone ends up blending with their shade of blonde and their makeup blends in
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Vitamin D is often referred to as the sunshine vitamin. (Photo: Stutterstock)

Healthy Outlook

25 Jul 2017
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aches, clinical depression, energy, food, frizzy hair, hair loss, hairloss, Instavit, iron, Jatin Joshi, oral vitamin sprays, perception, sunlight, sunsine vitamine, symptoms, vitamin d, vitamins
Take Vitamin D for Your Beauty and Health Living in the DMV, debate is not foreign to this area. So when my lawyer boyfriend tried to debate me on whether I should get a medical exam to make sure all my vitamin and iron levels were at the appropriate amounts, he unsurprisingly
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Blonde Bombshell

18 Jul 2017
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auburn highlights, Bed Head, black, blonde, Blonde Life Brightening Shampoo, brassiness, breakage, brunette, burning scalp, conditioner, dark brown, dark hair, deeply moisturize, Dumb Blond Reconstructor, frizz, golden blonde, Joico, platinum blonde, pool water, shampoo, sun damage, tangle-free, TIGI, trim
Go from Dark Hair to Blonde Hair Safely I finally had to go full blonde to take the brassiness out of my hair from all the pool water and sun damage. Apparently, to get rid of the copper tone in my hair, I had to go a lot lighter or all dark. I have not had jet black hair since
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Do not give into scratching your bug bites, or you can create scars on your skin. (Photo: ginasanders/123rf.com)

Summer Stings

12 Jul 2017
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Aqua Allegoria Herba Fresca, bug repellant, calamine lotion, deodorant, floral, Guerlain, Hydrocortisone cream, itch, lavendar, lemon, mosquito bites, peppermint, perfume, scar, welt
How to Avoid and Treat Summer Bug Bites Being outside or around swimming pools this summer will surely bring mosquito bites. I always seem to get a lot of bites because the flowers and trees hang over my uncle’s pool. Even though I spray bug repellant on every part of my
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