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The Lipstick League - Week of 3.7.16

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SOTD: Monday, 14th March, 2016

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*Scent of the Day Thread for Monday, 14th March, 2016 * *Useful Links* * SOTD for yesterday, Sunday, 13th March, 2016 (FFD)...

SOTD: Monday, 14th March, 2016

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*Scent of the Day Thread for Monday, 14th March, 2016 * *Useful Links* * SOTD for yesterday, Sunday, 13th March, 2016 (FFD)...

Every Single Beauty Product You Need to Look Like Priyanka Chopra

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Priyanka Chopra must have her sights set on global domination. While she could have slowed down after winning the Miss World competition in 2000, that only seemed to motivate her more. After becoming a Bollywood triple threat, she moved on to the music industry, and now, thanks to her hit ABC show, Quantico, she's become a Hollywood superstar.

Besides her gorgeous voice and powerful acting skills, we are completely mesmerized by her beauty. (That glossy hair! Those full lips!) But for months now, we've been even more curious about Priyanka - what products does she use to keep her skin so clear and radiant? Which bright lipsticks does she rock on the regular? Luckily, in a story with The New York Times, she revealed most of her beauty routine, as well as a few of her personal tips and tricks. She even explains how she utilizes turmeric for an all-natural complexion healer!

We've rounded up all her favorite products so you can not only ogle them but also purchase each one and add them to your own regimen. Read on and prepare to be even more obsessed with Priyanka!

Jane Sanders Says Bernie Has Always 'Been On The Right Side' Of Immigration

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Jane Sanders, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), said Sunday that opponents are distorting the facts when they say her husband came late to the issue of immigration.


"That's not true," she said in a phone interview from Phoenix. "Everything that Congress has been involved in, he's been on the right side of the issue. And immigrants are dealing with the same kinds of economic difficulties that everybody has been dealing with."


She traveled to Arizona on Friday ahead of its March 22 Democratic primary, and on Monday plans to meet with undocumented families and visit the infamous tent city jail run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is ardently against unauthorized immigrants and has endorsed GOP front-runner Donald Trump.


Immigration has become central to the 2016 primaries, both on the right, as Republicans fight over who will crack down hardest on the undocumented population, and on the left, where Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are battling over who is more pro-immigrant.


The issue is especially important in Arizona, where polling has put Clinton in the lead. Latino voters make up nearly 22 percent of the electorate in Arizona -- more than in any state but New Mexico, Texas and California.


Clinton and her supporters have argued that she is a longtime advocate for undocumented immigrants and that Sanders largely stayed out of the issue or even impeded progress -- including by voting against a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2007. He later voted for reform in 2013 and includes it as part of his platform.


"I think the criticism from the other side has been consistently distorted on every issue," Jane Sanders said. "If I were to answer every time that they said 'Bernie wasn't there,' we would be spending all our time doing that."


She pointed out that Clinton said in 2014 that children coming to the U.S. from Central America "should be sent back" while Sanders was advocating for them to stay. (Clinton argues she was only saying asylum law should be followed.) Both candidates promised at a debate on Wednesday that they would not deport children or undocumented immigrants who were not criminals or security threats.


Along with meetings related to immigration, Jane Sanders planned to visit Oak Flat -- Apache land that her husband is aiming to protect from mining interests -- later Sunday. On Saturday, she visited Native Americans on the Hopi Reservation and the Navajo Nation. She said she spoke with them about problems with access to health care, grocery stores and education.


Sanders said she expects the campaign will do well in Arizona generally and with Latino and Native American voters, who she said were very interested "in hearing about real solutions."


"They take their responsibility as citizens very, very seriously," she said. "And we really respect that, and are pleased that we had the opportunity to meet with various groups and actually have real discussions about how to improve the quality of life for the average person, instead of focusing on just the top one percent."

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First Nighter: George Bernard Shaw's Little-Seen "Widowers' House" Viewed Smartly Now

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When George Bernard Shaw, who had strong opinions about what constituted potent theater, wrote his first play, Widowers' Houses, in 1892, he came out swinging. David Staller's TACT production, at the Beckett, doesn't duck those punches, either, although on Brian Prather's light-hearted gray-and-white set with its five filigree arches, the dramedy doesn't look as if it's intended for hunting bear. Or should that be it doesn't look as if it's hunting bear or bull markets.

At first blush--through act one of the tidy three-act work--it merely looks as if crusading Fabian-Society activist Shaw wants to send up his fellow Brits when they're vacationing. Testy pals Dr. Harry Trench (Jeremy Beck) and William de Burgh Cokane (Jonathan Hadley) are relaxing on the terrace of a Rhine-side German Hotel when businessman Sartorius (Terry Layman) and his ostensibly demure daughter Blanche (Talene Monahon) arrive.

Harry and Blanche have already eyed one another (and more) on the ship that brought them to this idyll and are raring to pledge themselves to each other. Which they quickly do. They even receive Sartorius's blessing, making it look as if the path of true love is about to run smoothly for a change.

That's until they're back at the Sartorius's Bedford Square home in London and their burgeoning bliss is interrupted by an agent called Lickcheese (John Plumpis), who's been inveigling overdue rents from the occupants of Sartorius's buildings but shows up to complain about his just having been fired.

So incensed is this obsequious Lickcheese (notice that the names Shaw assigns his characters have meaning) that he fills Harry in on the shady family dealings. This makes Harry balk when he lets Blanche know he expects the two of them to live on his annual 700 pounds.

Blanche, who instantly indicates she never blanches, refuses to exist at any level lower than the one to which she's become accustomed. No longer the retiring young miss but instead an obdurate termagant, she shoves the upstanding Harry out of her life--just about physically (no fight director credited in the program)--until he decides whether he can choose to be a bit less pure.

In that manner, Blanche brings the audience around to Shaw's cynical viewpoint. The budding dramatist wants to see how long it takes Harry--whom director Staller introduces at the start of action in an isolating spotlight--to determine whether he will remain true to his principles or abandon them in favor of a real estate scam that will fill his pockets. Not incidentally, no one else on stage is plugging for Harry's rectitude, including the spineless Cokane (pronounced co-can, not cocaine).

Since this is Shaw doing the intoning, Harry's scruples can be assumed at risk, but what won't be detailed here is whether he adjusts his attitude to reunite with the ruthless Blanche, no matter how dainty she appears in the day outfit that costumer Barbara A. Bell picks out for her.

What anyone needs to know about this should-see offering of a rarely staged Shaw work--Staller, who's devoting his career to perpetuating Shaw via his Gingold Theatrical Group, makes the ideal purveyor--is that before Harry commits to his decision, there's a good deal of chat about real estate financing that has to have been more familiar to late19th-century Brits than to 21st-century Americans. This attentive listener grasped enough of it to follow the plot and figures most patrons will do the same.

Unsurprisingly, the themes Shaw persisted in presenting over his career are already on his mind. The socialist leanings he favored are most prominent in the figure of Lickcheese. He's initially seen in act two as a hat-in-hand bloke proclaiming, "I'm poor!" When he resurfaces in act three (there's only one intermission in Staller's take), he's top-hat-on-head, having cleaned up in a real estate scam of his own and now being enthusiastically welcomed by the previously dismissive Sartorius and daughter.

In Pygmalion Shaw does something similar with Alfred P. Doolittle, a working-class man who also comes into money. But Doolittle comes into the fortune to his dismay. That, of course, is the radical difference between Lickcheese and Doolittle. All the same, they could share their newly acquired formal wear.

Aside from a German beer hall frau (Hanna Cheek, who's decidedly cheeky) and a Sartorius household staffer (Cheek again and less cheeky), Shaw's people are ultimately serious connivers. The cast members play them as gleefully corruptible, if not already corrupted. Okay, Beck's Harry does wrestle with his conscience nicely for a while.

Monahon's Blanche certainly doesn't. While all of the characterizations are adroitly handled, Monahon's is the most demanding, the most mercurial. She doesn't hold back from depicting any of Blanche's darker inclinations. Her throwing Harry around is quite the opposite: It's fury in fashionable dress.

Shaw followers don't get the opportunity to take in Widowers' House often, but that's not the only reason for racing to this one. An even more incentive for raising a foaming beer stein to it is that it's so well and so forthrightly done. Director Staller's belief in its being presented pays off handsomely.

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Turning to Ohio, Trump cuts into Kasich

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West Chester, Ohio (CNN)Donald Trump is training his sights on Ohio Gov. John Kasich ahead of Tuesday's winner-take-all Ohio primary.

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10 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR BOYFRIEND TO FEEL CLOSER

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10 Questions to ask your boyfriend to feel closer In this world of instant communication, we think are more connected, because we text and get an instant reply, we can post our feelings on Facebook, and we can Tweet about how we feel, but to make a deep and meaningful

Election 2016: Nightmare or Daybreak?

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Here is a scenario that should keep Democrats awake at night.

Bernie Sanders keeps doing well in the big Northern and Midwestern states. On Tuesday, he wins Ohio, maybe Illinois and Missouri, which sets him up to be competitive in the big, late primaries, notably New York and California.

Those wins may not be quite enough to deny Hillary Clinton the nomination, but the momentum is clearly with Sanders. The contest goes all the way to the convention. If Sanders is denied nomination, there will be a lot of deflated and disappointed Democrats.

Clinton supporters may hope they will turn out in force in November, if only to stop Donald Trump. But there has to be more to it than that. A lot of the independents who went for Sanders could stay home, or even switch to Trump. Somehow, she needs to discover her inner progressive.

Meanwhile, on the Republican side, the stakes this Tuesday are equally high. If Trump wins both Florida and Ohio, he is very likely the nominee. If Governor John Kasich can beat him in his home state of Ohio, the race drags on a while longer; and maybe Trump's very real liabilities finally start catching up with him.

But the likelihood is that Trump will continue to do well in the very states where Hillary does badly. And that's why a Trump-Clinton race would be so ominous for Democrats.

Ted Cruz, speaking at the unusually mannered Republican debate last Thursday argued that Trump would be the easiest for Clinton to beat. But Cruz, Trump's closest rival, was whistling Dixie. Cruz doesn't travel well, and Trump does.

In fact, Karl Rove, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece trying to argue Trump's weakness against Clinton ended up demonstrating Trump's strength.

Trump polled worse against Clinton in much of the country, Rove pointed out, except for a few states ... Like, uh, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, where he out-polls her. Oh, only those -- the very toss-up states that will decide the election!

So let us count the possible scenarios:

One is that Sanders keeps gaining on Clinton, but falls just short. A rather battered Hillary Clinton is the nominee. At that point, there is not much for Democrats to do except to keep pointing out all that is crazy about Trump, and to try to find a running mate who will bring along some of the Sanders energy. Sanders himself? Elizabeth Warren (which would give a senate seat to the Republicans)? It's not a long list.

Trump would know just how to go after Clinton's weaknesses. Jim Sleeper, writing in Salon, quotes Nathan J. Robinson, imagining how Trump would savage Clinton in the general election:

Everything she says is a lie.... She made up a story about how she was ducking sniper fire! There was no sniper fire. She made it up! How do you forget a thing like that? She said she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, the guy who climbed Mount Everest. He hadn't even climbed it when she was born! Total lie! She lied about the emails, of course, as we all know, and is probably going to be indicted. You know she said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq! It was a lie! Thousands of American soldiers are dead because of her. Not only does she lie, her lies kill people. ....Check the polls, nobody trusts her. Yuge liar.


Now, Trump happens to be the bigger phony by a country mile, but how do you campaign against that without degenerating into the same kind of playground food-fight that Trump used to savage the rest of the Republican field?

I recently got a fundraising appeal from an old friend who is an enthusiastic Clinton supporter. His letter said in part, speaking of Sanders:

"So, he is not going to be the nominee; he will not be President; and, if the skies opened and he was elected he would be surrounded by an impossible Congress."

This is the standard Clinton line -- she is inevitable, so get with the program.

Sorry, pal, this doesn't do it. A front-runner who keeps under-performing expectations cannot run and win on her presumed inevitability. She has to make a better case than that.

Alternatively, suppose Sanders runs the table in the remaining primaries, persuades the super-delegates that he has the momentum against Clinton, and would be the stronger nominee in November. This really is a revolution.

Would centrist Democrats, worried about their own seats, support Sanders? Would the surge of enthusiasm on the part of the young make up for losses elsewhere? How would Sanders fare when subjected to serious red-baiting? Would Michael Bloomberg, as a business-oriented Democrat decide to run after all? A Sanders nomination is not all sunshine, either.

On the Republican side, the stakes are just as high. The recent entente among all the non-Trump candidates suggests that if they can keep Trump from getting an absolute delegate majority before the convention, he just might be stopped. Kasich could be the one with some momentum, now that most of the Southern primaries are behind us.

Can we imagine, say, a Kasich-Cruz ticket? That would be tougher for Democrats to beat than the opposite.

For all of the populist ferment on both sides, the general election could end up being an establishment Democrat (Clinton) against an establishment Republican (Kasich), and then where would the populist rage go? And would Trump run as an independent on the grounds that the GOP convention did not respect the fact that he came into the convention with the most delegates? In a three-way, would he carry a few states, possibly throwing the election into the House and President Paul Ryan?

For more than three decades, there has been a great deal of downward mobility in America, even as life has become sweeter and sweeter for the elite. As recently as 2008, there was no place for it to go in our political system. For many white working class male voters, the disaffection was compounded by partial gains of demographic groups whose aspirations had been even more suppressed -- blacks, women, people with disabilities, "despised minorities" in Louis Brandeis' phrase, such as gays and lesbians, and the symbolism of an African-American president.

By 2010, some of that rage had found a home in the Tea Party movement, much to the dismay of silk stocking Republicans. Today the pocketbook frustrations can either go right, with Trump, or left, with Sanders. They are not going away,

For progressives, the true nightmare scenario is that Hillary Clinton narrowly wins the nomination but the momentum keeps getting away from her; and on the Republican side, as much as the party elite loathes Donald Trump, a lot of Republicans hold their noses and rally behind him.

He keeps talking populism, but at the end of the day he's a businessman. He will say what he needs to say to rally the disaffection, but do we really think he will increase taxes or regulation on big business? Let him scapegoat foreigners, or Muslims or African-Americans, as long as he keeps the anger away from Wall Street.

Is Trump that much of a cynic? Is the Republican elite? Are you kidding?

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Robert Kuttner is co-editor of The American Prospect and professor at Brandeis University's Heller School. His latest book is Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility.

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This Woman Re-Created Every Beauty-Lover's Favorite Snapchat Filter

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Snapchat has offered some pretty wild filters before, like the famous rainbow puke and hilarious facial contortions. But the platform's most recent offering is probably its most intricately detailed by far, which every beauty-lover can definitely appreciate. Admit it - once you saw Snapchat's new heavy-makeup filter, you started to slay the camera with snaps immediately.

Now you can replicate the look (#nofilter) thanks to YouTube user mayratouchofglam. Spoiler: the results are spot on. The tutorial does involve applying a glue stick onto your eyebrows, but trust us, you won't regret trying out this look for yourself. So give it a go - and be prepared to work that selfie.

Starcrushed Minerals’ Sunset Kiss

Trump's America

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I wasn't able to get to the University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday to "greet" Donald Trump, because I was stuck taking a deposition that had been scheduled weeks earlier.

By the time I made it home, I was able to catch the tail-end of the UIC event on CNN. I was happy to see that thousands of my fellow Chicagoans had turned out to let Trump know that his hate-filled rhetoric wasn't going to fly in this city.

An hour later, I began recording a Trump song, which I had started writing earlier in the week. My good buddy and longtime music compadre Steve Doyle took time out of his busy Saturday morning to lay down his electric guitar track, and by Saturday afternoon our song and video were ready to go.

The spark for this tune came from Trump's tired slogan -- recycled from a Reagan campaign -- "Make America Great Again."

Whenever I hear that line, I ask myself what period of "greatness" Trump wants us to revisit? The Ozzie & Harriet years? The Reagan era? The Dred Scott days?

Depending on one's skin color, gender, ethnicity and/or sexual orientation, those were tough times for a lot of Americans. But what the hell, every candidate needs a slogan.

And Trump now has a song to go along with that slogan.



Trump's America
(M. Farmer)

In a Trump t-shirt and a bright red hat
He stopped me outside of the laundromat
And said, "Howdy, brother, would you like to join our fight?"

He said, "We need to take this country back
From those godless gays and the brown and the black,
Can you help Mr. Trump as he tries to make things right?

"He's gonna build our nation a great big wall
And get Mexico to pay for it all
'Cause he's a businessman who knows how to get things done

"He'll keep out the drugs and Mexican rapists
ISIS thugs and no-'count papists
And make America safe for everyone"

And then that man in the red hat looked me straight in the eye and said, "Are you with us, brother? Will you help Mr. Trump make America great again?"

Well, I could barely contain myself, but I paused, took a deep breath, gathered my thoughts . . . and then I asked him a couple of questions . . .

Before you make America great again
Can you take a moment and remind me when
That greatness stretched from sea to shining sea?

'Cause I know all about the Jim Crow years,
The Stonewall raid, and the Trail of Tears
And the strange fruit hanging from a poplar tree

Was our country really at its best
When internment camps filled the Great Northwest
Or when old man Daley busted heads back in '68?

This nation's always worked well for some
But it'll never be great for everyone
If it's run by a man who encourages fear and hate

Well, that threw him for a loop
But truth be told, I was just getting started . . .


I said your man's a bully and a carnival barker
Peddlin' fear of folks whose skin's a bit darker
Than that crazy shade of orange that he likes to wear

Sellin' Trump University class online
Along with steak, water, and vanity wine
And Lord don't even get me started on that yellow hair

And I won't even bother tryin' to hide my scorn
About his crazy claim that there's a Kenyan-born
Man in the office the he's now tryin' to win

So if two Corinthians ever walk in a bar
And ask how our nation has fallen so far
Tell 'em President Trump was the guy who did us in

Before you make America great again
Can you take a moment and remind me when
That greatness stretched from sea to shining sea?

'Cause I know all about Hoover's FBI
COINTELPRO and the need to spy
On folks who fought and died just to be free

Was our country really at its best
When you paid a poll tax and had to pass a test
If you were black and wanted to vote in a Southern state?

This nation's always worked well for some
But it'll never be great for everyone
If it's run by a man who encourages fear and hate

So go vote for someone else before it's too late

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5 Kitchen Remedies For Toe Wax

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Toe wax, one of the many disgusting smells our body produces can be prevented and treated with immediately. Since this is the beginning of summer, the hot weather invites sweat to crawl in different places of our body. It is during

Beauty Find - L’Occitane Immortelle Precious Cleansing Foam

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It's been a while since I've tried a good cleansing foam, and L'Occitane Immortelle Precious Cleansing Foam has everything you'll want it one.


If you have oily or combination skin, this is a perfect cleanser with a relaxing scent that cleanses gently without over drying skin.  L'Occitane Immortelle Precious Cleansing Foamis enriched with refreshing immortelle floral water and citrus fruit peel to brighten the complexion.. 


I love the thick, creamy foam that comes out in a velvety mousse texture with just one pump.  It was perfect for daily cleansing and after rinsing my skin felt toned, had a nice healthy glow and my oily areas were matter, but my drier areas were not overly stripped.  I generally used L'Occitane Immortelle Precious Cleansing Foam, in the mornings along with my Clarisonic.

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L'Occitane Immortelle Precious Cleansing Foam is a great formula to take to the gym and the
foam
 is so concentrated only pump is needed for average cleansing.  I'll also
keep it on hand for a refreshing cleansing option during during hot, humid summers when my skin
is much more oily and prone to breakouts. - RLB



*This product was provided courtesy of L'Occitane PR for reviewing purposes.

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KIm Kardashian Eau De Parfum Review!

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Kim Kardashian and indeed the whole Kardashian family are quite controversial figures; at this moment in time completely saturate a lot of Western media and seem to have a lot of influence on current trends (particularly for teenagers!).  Love her or hate her, she certainly raises a lot of areas for discussion (like her recent […]

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What's In My Cart?

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I've seen a lot of "What's in my bag?" posts (I've even written one myself), but I thought it'd be fun for you to see what I'm purchasing now, hence the first ever "What's In My Cart?" I'm usually a window shopper, both online and off. I like browsing from time to time for things to inspire me. I usually find ways to DIY it myself instead of purchasing, but there are some days where something grabs my attention and I just have to have it. So, let's take a look at what's in my shopping cart....

ASOS

You can never go wrong with a classic LBD. I really love the asymmetrical shape, it looks great on anyone and adds an element of surprise. This beauty is a must-have for me and hopefully it'll arrive by the end of this week!


Since the weather has been so warm recently, I decided to buy something that screams 'Spring.' That's how I landed on this cute strapless number. From the pink roses to the sweetheart neckline, it not only embodies the essence of spring, but also the essence of femininity. This will be perfect for my friend's wedding coming up in a few months!


Lulu's


FRINGE!! I love it on anything: dresses, shirts, purses and now shoes! Who knew fringe heels could be SO cute and playful? For just $22.50, how can I not snatch these puppies up?! Nude pumps go well with anything, so I know I won't have any issues finding clothes to wear this with. I can already think of the endless outfit combinations I can wear with these heels.

So after that ASOS purchase, I kinda wanted another spring dress. If you don't know already, I'm obsessed with dresses, I love wearing them and I wish it could be a 24/7, 365 kinda thing. I have a few more weddings coming up as well during the next couple of months, so why not? This white lace dress I found is perfect for multiple occasions. It can be for brunch, garden party, wedding, etc. BUT I'm having a hard time pressing the button because of the next dress..


Sammydress


Very similar to the dress above, but in red. I adore the bold red color, it makes a statement compared to the white one. The price on the red is much cheaper too...but Sammydress does take a long time to deliver as well and the purchase is riskier after looking through the product page (if you haven't seen it yet, read my post on How To Buy on Sammydress).

What do you think? Red lace dress or white?


BY THE WAY - I found out the other day one of my fave sites is having a HUGE sale right now. Click on the banner below for more information. You might see more WIMC posts sooner than you think ;)


What's been in your cart recently? Drop a few links below, I'd love to see!
          

Get Rid Of Facial Hair With These Face Packs

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Unwanted hair on areas such as hands, feet, face and back are one of the common problems faced by women. Even though there are various techniques available to do away with facial hair like waxing, laser treatment and threading, the results

Pore Primer…With a Twist

Bag of the Week: Kate Spade Cobble Hill Adrien Tote

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Bag: Kate Spade Cobble Hill Adrien Tote

Price: $428 via Nordstrom

Why It’s the Bag of the Week: A functional shape and colorblocked neutral finish just might make this bag the best all-season work tote you’ll find for less than $500.

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