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Nick Gordon Breaks Silence Following Bobbi Kristina Autopsy

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Nick Gordon still says he was trying to save Bobbi Kristina Brown the day she was found submerged in her Atlanta bathroom. Her actual death was never determined, but an autopsy released last week revealed that drugs and drowning were to blame. Bobbi’s boyfriend, Nick maintains that he found her in the tub and had […]

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Iggy Azalea Announces New Release Date For ‘Team’

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Iggy Azalea has good news—her single ‘Team’ will be debuting her soon! The rapper took to Twitter to dish to her fans, “Hiiiiiiiiiiii! I have a small droplet of good news, Def Jam has decided to move my single date FORWARD (only a few days but yay) to March 18.” She later added, “I finished […]

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Mariah Carey Says She Still ‘Doesn’t Know’ Jennifer Lopez!

Urban Decay UD XX 20 Years of Beauty With an Edge Vault Back In Stock!

Lucky 8: Sephora Names Picks for Sephora Accelerate

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Mix of beauty brands and tech entrepreneurs.

NEW e.l.f. Limited Edition Aqua Beauty Collection & Free Shipping Promo

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Ayorma Fairness & Cell Renew Night Cream

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KL Homme (spray only) and vintage Tuscany Pour Homme EDT (spray only)

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I would like to purchase or propose a swap. I have for swap: Bleu de Chanel EDP 3.4 OZ 99% full with cap and box Diptyque 34 Boulevard St....

See Karlie Kloss Rock Blue Hair . . . While It Lasts

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mermaid vibes on set 💁🏼

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It looks like Karlie Kloss is the newest celebrity to rock the rainbow hair color trend . . . but not for too long. The 23-year-old model shared a photo of her turquoise-accented strands on Instagram captioned, "mermaid vibes on set." While that means that she'll probably go back to being a blonde after her shoot (those blue pieces look like clip-ins!), we're currently obsessing over how good she looks with the quirky color. She's giving off aquatic-goddess vibes!

jeanne arthes? limited spirit/energy/sport/joe sorrento?? sexy boy? rocky man? any good??

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looking at these cheapies but wonder if any stand out.. thanx

You've Never Seen Rainbow Hair Look This Chic Before

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When rainbow hair hit the runways during Fashion Month, we knew it was a sign that colorful coifs were evolving. Mermaid-like underlights and funky fringes are fun, but they seem more appropriate for a festival than everyday life.

Colorists are transforming the trend to something more fashion-forward, making it so truly chic women would want to wear vibrant strands. We've got proof: the creative geniuses at hair brand Aveda have forecasted three new looks that are head-turning yet elegant. Even better, the styles are ideal on shorter manes (which are quite fashionable for 2016).

Read on! Ian Michael Black, Aveda global artistic director for hair color, broke down three of the hottest Spring color trends for us and explained what to ask your colorist for to get the results you want at the salon.

Bobbi Brown Retouching Face Pencil

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No matter how good my foundation is, I cannot keep it on every part of my face all day long, especially on extended days. I do (for the most part) keep my hands off my face, but there's my Kleenex...

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I Hired an On-Demand Wedding Beauty Service - and the Unthinkable Happened

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"Keep it simple. Keep it simple." That was the mantra, my then-fiancé and I kept repeating while planning our Brooklyn wedding last May. Since we are in our 30s, most of our friends already were married, and we had heard tons of stories of the stress and complications that come with producing a one-day affair that is supposed to be, according to nearly everyone, "the most important day of your life."

I bet you can tell where this is going. It wasn't simple. Or stress-free. But we really did try to make it manageable: we kept the guest list down to just 50 people, and stuck to our budget by renting a city garden for the ceremony and booking a local restaurant for the reception. We did a lot of things ourselves, including making teacup candle favors.

A couple months before the big day, a friend asked me who was doing my hair and makeup. Right. Hair and makeup. I hadn't thought of that. I'm someone whose makeup routine consists of wearing eyeliner and mascara about twice a week, and maybe a little blush if I really want to dress up. "Doing my hair" means remembering to brush it in the morning. So while booking hair and makeup is often at the forefront of most bride's wedding lists, it had somehow slipped my mind.

I realized I needed help. "Fear not," my sweet friend said. "I'll just book you an appointment with a great online service I've used before. Hair and makeup stylists come to your apartment and take care of it." My friend took care of the bill, which was around $125, as a gift. (I have great friends, I really do).

And just like that, I crossed hair and makeup off of my to-do list.

Source: Karim Hajj

Let's fast-forward through the drama of cutting notable family members from the guest list, discovering our preferred reception restaurant was already booked, and waiting until the last minute to find a wedding dress. Every wedding has its share of planning stress.

The night before, I double checked everything: taxi reservations, safe rings' storage, and the photographer and beauty stylists' arrival times. The latter was particularly important, as I'd planned a morning wedding that would start promptly at 9 a.m.

I had given myself a 6:30 a.m. wakeup call so I'd be ready on time. Not that I slept. I was up all night with a racing heart - jitters is putting it mildly. At some point around 3 a.m. I even Googled "tricks for falling asleep fast," and they didn't work.

So I stumbled dazed and confused out of my bedroom and announced to my best girlfriends that I was a little frazzled, and that I just wanted the morning to be peaceful.

I put on my undergarments and tried to eat a bagel, waiting for the hairstylist and makeup artist to show up at their 7 a.m. call time. But the hour rolled around and they were nowhere in sight. "No biggie," I thought. "Anyone living in NYC knows that the trains are unpredictable."

But by 7:15 a.m., I started to freak out a little bit. I went back to my email to make sure the reservation was correct, and that's when I saw what had happened. My sweet friend had made a little mistake with my street address! Instead of writing "Southwest" for my street, she had written "West." That's it. The stylists were somewhere looking for an address that didn't even exist. And I was in full-on panic mode.

I immediately started scanning my confirmation email for the stylists' phone numbers or emails, so I could call and tell them the right address. There was nothing to be found. Nothing, that is, except for a hotline for the company. Frantically I dialed it, only to get their voicemail: "We're sorry, but our offices are closed until Monday..."

All I had was the stylists' first names, so on a whim, I googled one of them. Amazingly, I found her Facebook page, which led me to her website, where I found her email address. It was a Hotmail address. I didn't have much faith it would actually work, but I shot off a quick S.O.S. email as the minutes ticked by.

I was in tears at that point, standing there in my Spanx and wet hair, when my friend offered to do my hair and makeup herself. "OK," I said. I looked at the clock, it was 7:35 a.m. I was supposed to be out the door in an hour. "We don't have much time."

I sat down, and my friend began applying foundation to my tear-stricken face.

"You already look great," she assured me. "I'm just going to make you look a little better."

Source: Karim Hajj

A few minutes later, the doorbell rang. It was the stylists.

They rushed up the stairs, lugging their suitcases full of hair dryers, curlers, eyeliners and powders. They looked as harried as I did.

"I never check my Hotmail account," the hairstylist said, "but something told me to check it this morning. I got your email and we raced over here."

At 7:45 a.m., I sat down again and the ladies went to work. I don't think they'd ever worked that fast before. Luckily for them, I wanted something uncomplicated, so squeezing a one-hour session into 15 minutes wasn't impossible.

The hairstylist began to give me a blowout while the other got to work on my face. The service has a dozen or so "looks" to choose from, and I chose a classic but simple one with some soft curls, pinned up so I could stick a few flowers in the back. For my makeup, I wanted a natural look, but a kind of "natural" that would disguise the fact that I hadn't slept a wink the night before.

The two women were amazing and really made me feel like it was all going to be OK. At a little past 8 a.m., they were done. With a slight change to my makeup (I had her tone down the initial job a little bit around the eyes), my "look" was complete. It was elegant, classic, and natural.

I quickly put on my dress and shoes and walked out the door, into my future as a married woman.

The wedding, by the way, was unforgettable.

If I were to do it all again, I would pay more attention to my wedding hair and makeup appointments. I notified the company about the whole ordeal. They said the reason there was no contact information exchanged was to protect the privacy of both stylist and client. They did, though, say that they'd try to come up with a system so that a similar situation would never happen again. In the end, they felt so bad about the near-wedding disaster that they gave both my friend and I gift certificates to use in the future - which we used, and had great experiences.

So, it all worked out. And I got to get married to my best friend, which was pretty great too.

Everything You Need to Know About Super Lice

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This week in "things the internet is freaking out about" we have super lice, a strain of the notorious scalp-dwelling insects that is resistant to the over-the-counter insecticides commonly used to kill them. According to a sudden frenzy of national and local news coverage, the super lice are taking over.

But we say: Everybody relax. Yes, there was a study last year showing that, thanks to gradual gene mutations, lice in at least 25 states have become resistant to pyrethroids, a family of insecticides that includes permethrin, the active ingredient in many drugstore lice remedies like Nix and Rid. However, the study was released last August (at that time triggering the first wave of super-lice hysteria). And similar studies were being done as far back as the '90s. "It's kind of last decade’s news," Los Angeles-based lice expert Amy Goldreyer tells us. "Lice have been resistant to over-the-counter products for at least ten years. It was kind of inevitable, given the way most bugs evolve to withstand stronger and stronger pesticides."

We're not sure where this month's headlines pointing to a new "super lice outbreak" originated (we suspect there was a press release from the FDA-approved device that targets super lice using heat —it's mentioned in many of the articles), but since most link back to that same study, it appears there is no sudden, imminent threat that an army of tiny arthropods will descend on your blowout. And really, since lice in general are evolving to resist insecticides, Goldreyer argues that either they're all "super lice" or there's really no such thing. "I've been hoping to find one with a teeny tiny cape that I could identify as a super louse, but no such luck," she jokes.

Meanwhile, even if super lice are found on a scalp near you (they're transmitted mainly through direct head-to-head contact, thus why kids tend to host them far more frequently), it's not like they're indestructible. In fact, good old-fashioned "nit-picking" is still the most thorough method for getting rid of lice. Supers included. "The best way to get rid of lice is by combing with a product that loosens the glue on the eggs," Goldreyer says. "No lice are resistant to manual removal." (Combing properly requires practice, so the best bet is to get it done at a lice-removal place.) Also, doctors can still prescribe medications that super lice aren't resistant too. For more detail on all the options, here's a new Mayo Clinic video that gives a full, graphic rundown on how to defeat super lice. We hope you never need it.

So while super lice certainly aren't charming to think about, we don't think they're anything to lose sleep over. Except for the fact that you're going to be relentlessly scratching at your scalp for at least 24 hours after reading this. Sorry about that.

Meanwhile, because braiding your hair can help prevent lice from hopping on ...

Dior Sauvage Optical Illusion

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Hey guys, just wanted to share this with you. For those of you owning Dior Sauvage, have you seen that actually if there is some perfume inside,...

Spotted: NEW Revlon Spring 2016 Floating In Love Collection (New Shades)

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Sephora Is Launching Dry Shampoo For Your Makeup Brushes

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I will admit when it comes to cleaning my makeup brushes, I am pretty damn lazy. This is probably not something you want to hear from a beauty editor, who is supposed to be a leader in hygienic grooming habits. So at the top of my Spring cleaning #goals list is developing better habits with my tools. Thankfully, Sephora is launching a product in April that will make this incredibly easier to do. The megachain created a portable two-fluid-ounce Dry Clean Instant Dry Brush Cleaner Spray for bristles.

Let's break down what this magic mist does. You can spray the alcohol-free formula onto your tools and immediately use them after - there's no drying time. That means you can use one product or color and then switch to another within seconds. We tried this with a medley of formulas, including foundation and blush, and were happy with the results. It does feel slightly balmy at first, but if you wipe the bristles off on a clean tissue or the back of your hand and wait about a minute, the brush returns to its original state.

Note that it does have a fruity scent, but that might be necessary for those really old brushes. While you have to wait until next month to snag it for $14, you should get it on your shopping radar now.

Trying to find something similar to Wired by Anchor Blue

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Hello everyone. So here's the story. Back when I was in middle school, there was this fragrance that got me all the ladies. it was called Wired by...

Sundial Brands launches dedicated hair care brand

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Madame C.J. Walker Beauty Culture is a brand that takes its name and inspiration from a women well known as a self-made millionaire in the US—a beauty entrepreneur innovating at the turn of the twentieth century.

Elizabeth Arden appoints new head of global fragrances

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Elizabeth Arden has appointed George Cleary as the new head of global in a move that will aim to prop up flagging sales in some areas of the division.

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