Beauty & Style
Sweat It Out
How to prevent excess sweating on important — and hot and humid — days.
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How to Repair Smashed Shadow
Dear Amalah, I just returned home from a LOVELY tropical vacation (wait, scratch that, I should be courting your sympathy here)…uh, a very long and taxing journey. And while unpacking I discovered that two of my favorite eyeshadows shattered in my luggage. The compacts are…
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How to Camouflage a Farmer’s Tan
Dear all-knowing Amalah, I promise that this is not another SPF question. It just requires some SPF talk. For several years, I lived up north. The summers were short, hot, humid, and hazy. I used Neutrogena’s Dry-Touch Sunblock (SPF 55) every morning and found it…
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Makeup Bases for the Makeupless
Hi Amy! I’ve been sitting here trying to think of a just brilliant opening line to catch your eye and entice you to answer my question…but whatever, I give up. I couldn’t think of anything scintillating enough. ooo, but “scintillating”, that is a good word….
Price Tag Cage Match: Drugstore vs. Speciality Bronzers
A couple people have politely (really! nicely even! why are you people always in such a damn fine mood? it’s kind of annoying, actually) pointed out that a lot of my recommendations fall a little too squarely into the pasty white girl category, and you…