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My Favorite Mexican Beauty Products Were At Rite Aid This Whole Time!
You might think moving from Mexico City to New York--the Big Apple, concrete jungle where dreams are made of (English isn’t my first language, but I know that’s terrible grammar, ALICIA)--would mean...
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7 Coachella Beauty Tips Other Websites Aren’t Going To Tell You
It’s time to change up some of my usual products to ones for desert living, because COACHELLA IS THIS WEEKEND! And also NEXT WEEKEND! Yes, I’ll be gathering up a group of some of my most favorite...
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My Sister Dumped Beer On My Hair, And I'm Not Mad At Her
I, Pia, used to hate beer. I thought it was too fizzy, smelled funky, and made me pee way too much. But eventually, I started to appreciate it. Call it a maturing of my taste buds, if maturing...
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An Angel Appeared To Me In The Form Of '90s Sharon Stone And Convinced Me To...
How many times have we heard about the post-breakup haircut? The emotion-driven makeover? Ladies be trippin’ and colorin’ their hair, y’all! Personally, I have never experienced that phenomenon....
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Beauty Products To Steal From Babies, Because What Are They Going To Do About...
I’ve spent a lot of time around babies. I’m in the older generation of a 30-plus cousin family, and I’ve babysat a fair amount in my day. This is EXACTLY what I looked like as a baby, by the way....
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Scalp Facial: The Greatest Oxymoron To Ever Happen To Your Head
Two words that make us feel all kinds of uncomfortable when put together: scalp facial. It makes us shudder and we don’t know why. It seems unnatural, like something out of a creepy movie with a mad...
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Heat Styling: I Quit Cold Turkey
About five months ago, I got the brilliant idea to bleach my own hair. And for some sick, pathological reason, after I started inching over to the blonde side, I kept bleaching more of my hair myself...
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Platinum Blonde: Do It Right Or Don't Do It At All
I've been a blonde for most of my life, save a few accidents where I decided to go dark/strawberry/auburn. I actually went dark red solely to be Jessica Rabbit for last Halloween. It was a smashing...
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Beach Hair: How To Get That Crispy-In-A-Good-Way Style
Summer is almost here, and I don’t know about y’all, but I’m trying to get my beach hair sizzlin'. My actually beach-styled hair. Crispy, white head dangles have been my summer look since 2009,...
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Non-Condescending Beauty Tips For New Moms
I have a ton of friends and relatives who are expecting babies this summer or just had babies. I am also alarmingly invested in the marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (Prince William and...
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Bleach Shampooing: Is It As Gentle And Effective As The Internet Claims?
I put a lot of effort into the stuff I write for xoVain. I LOVE IT. I get to be the writer, hair and makeup department, art director, model, sometimes photographer and do all the post-production...
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Argan Oil: I Jumped On The Bandwagon And Have No Plans To Fall Off
The argan oil revolution has swept me into its army of devotees. My hair really gets run through the ringer. I'm always bouncing from dry to drier to driest environment, with a respite here and there...
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I Went Blonde For The First Time!
I just took a huge risk with my hair, you guys. The kind that gives you a heart attack when you see yourself in the bathroom mirror after you get up to pee in the middle of the night because you’re...
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The Truth About Dreadlocks
It always drives me up the wall when people say elitist crap like “Dreadlocks aren’t a hairstyle, they’re a lifestyle.” Because what they’re really saying is, “If you’re going to have the same...
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You Guys Asked, So Here Are My 6 Secrets For Amazing Hair
I haven’t made a scientific study of it, but I think that my shiny hair has replaced my long nails as the number-one thing people are most likely to compliment me on or ask about in the...
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These 2 Johnson's Baby Products Are Secretly The Best Eye-Makeup Removers
I’m big on makeup removal. I believe it is such an important step in keeping skin clear because I’m so skeptical about the makeup removal claims of practically all facial cleansers with active...
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5 Drugstore Products I've Been Using Since Grade School
My love affair with cosmetics and curling irons has never wavered. Even in my ultra-sporty middle/high school days (roughly 1997 to 2004), I managed to balance geometry homework, volleyball practice...
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How I'm Keeping My Facial Psoriasis Covered
I was born with psoriasis. My dad had it, and I got it, too. THANKS, FAMILY. For those of you who don’t know, psoriasis is a skin condition in which your body produces too many skin cells. So, have...
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The Lush Product That Gives You The Option Of Shaving Or Making Colorful...
I love the look and feel of a freshly shaven leg (like petting a baby dolphin!), but, like, EFFORT, you know? Since I was born blonde, my body hair is translucent, so I can go without shaving way...
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Gameplan For Fine Hair: A Great Haircut, Daily Washing And Styling, And...
I have ultra-fine, thin hair. My ponytail is less than an inch in diameter--that is, before the hair tie starts slowly sliding out of my slippery hair. My hair is also fragile and prone to sun...
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