Healthy-Hair Strategies

(Drafted from lifestyle.msn.com on 22-Dec-2008)
Getting hot locks can be a catch-22: You assault your mane with blow-dryers, brushes, and styling tools to make it look great. But over time, all that primping can leave hair dull and brittle. What’s a girl to do? Follow this advice from our book Cosmo’s Sexiest Beauty Secrets for preventing [...]

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Expert credit crunch beauty tricks

(Drafted from www.khaleejtimes.com on 19-Dec-2008 by Bonnie Siegler)
Get ready to wow your crowd with these simple tweaks to make you beautiful in a blink of the eye.
 
THE HOLIDAYS ARE upon us with Christmas parties and New Year’s bashes. But who’s got the time — and money — to spend on looking party-perfect?  Top Hollywood stylists, [...]

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The pursuit of indulgence

(Drafted from www.theage.com.au on 18-Dec-2008 by Natasha Silva-Jelly)

It wasn’t that long ago that women considered a trip to the hairdressers a special treat. That altruistic generation of our mothers and grandmothers – with their “put up, shut up, no one will be looking at me” mentality – were content to limit their beauty regimen to a [...]

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Interest in natural beauty outpaces sales

(Drafted from www.wtop.com on 16-Dec-2008 By SAMANTHA CRITCHELL, AP Fashion Writer)
Natural beauty products aren’t a young thing, rich thing, crunchy thing or hipster thing.
According to market researcher NPD Group, the interest in beauty items defined as natural, organic, green or socially conscious is reaching across every demographic group, even if sales are not always following.
In a [...]

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Eyelash Extension Craze Sweeps Japan

(Drafted from www.telegraph.co.uk on 9-Dec-2008 By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo)
The eternal quest for beauty is taking Japanese women -­ and their eye lashes -­ to new extremes.
Flocks of women are embracing the eyelash extension, a painstaking specialist salon procedure involving a hair-by-hair attachment of individual synthetic lashes.
Japan famously possesses an insatiable appetite for embracing the quirkiest [...]

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