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Counter Confidential: Sick Days
The sneezing, coughing, and hacking season is back, and there’s nothing worse than being sick. Our Undercover Agent gives some advice about visiting the beauty counter if you’re a little under the weather.
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Brown Girl Beauty Icon: Jody Watley
Inspired by brown girl divas like Jody Watley, Beautylish contributing editor Dre Brown loves to strut her stuff, singing and dancing as the star of a soulful solo act—in her apartment. Here, Dre sits down with the fabulous Ms. Watley herself to discuss what it's like to be a brown girl beauty icon.
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Counter Confidential: Global Beauty
Ever feel insecure about your features? In some cultures, they may be considered beautiful. Our Undercover Beauty Agent dishes about her international clients.
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Counter Confidential: Halloween at the Makeup Counter
Halloween is right around the corner, but what happens at the beauty counter when clients want crazy looks? They come to me, of course!
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Brown Girl Beauty: Back To The Future And Beyond
Dre Brown is back to discuss how the brown girl beauty aesthetic is shifting right now to a more natural look with pastel eyelids and lips. Do you agree with her picks for the beauty icons of today?
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Body By Kit: The Sickest Part of Being Sick
This week, health and fitness expert Kit Rich tackles the issue of illness-related weight loss and asks why women are so obsessed with slimming down that they'll even envy the skinny that comes as a side effect of being sick.
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Brown and Fabulous
Dre Brown muses on the increasing presence of brown girl beauties in the mainstream media. From supermodel Chanel Iman to VH1's Basketball Wives, which new faces are changing your definition of what's beautiful?
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Social Experiment: High Fashion Goes Street
Fashion Week may be over in Europe, but Beautylish’s Jasmine takes her favorite spring 2012 Fashion Week look from the runway to the streets of San Francisco. Keep reading to see how people reacted to her throughout her day.
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A Brown Girl Beauty Retrospective
Who are your personal beauty icons? Dre Brown is back to discuss her childhood obsession with long hair (complete with homemade extensions) and the famous faces that shaped her concept of beauty.
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Hair
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Girl, You Need to Relax!
In the latest installment of "Brown Girl Beauty Myths," Dre Brown tackles chemical hair relaxers, Brazilian straightening, Japanese thermal reconditioning, and training your natural hair to behave without any harsh treatments. Keep reading to find out how you can wean yourself off the "creamy crack."
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Counter Confidential: Blow By Blow
Like makeup products, your blow-dryer is multifunctional. Our Undercover Beauty Agent tells us all about a customer who borrowed a blow-dryer for something a bit different.
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Counter Confidential: Body Language
Beautylish's Undercover Beauty Agent gives us some tips on how to read body language to best help clients.
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Counter Confidential: The Danger of Glitter
It may look sparkly and innocent, but don’t be fooled. Glitter can be dangerous, and our Undercover Beauty Agent tells us why!
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Body By Kit: A Crappy Situation
In a new Beautylish series, "Body By Kit," fitness expert Kit Rich gives us the skinny on weight loss treatments. In this installment, Kit tests a Chinese herbal diet tea to slim down before a big date. Keep reading for Kit's blow-by-blow details, as well as her recommendations for what really works to curb your appetite (in a healthy way!).
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Counter Confidential: Transformation at the Beauty Counter
Some people make the most interesting requests at the makeup counter. Beautylish's Undercover Beauty Agent shares her story of giving a customer a full transformation. Keep reading to find out more about her most creative makeover ever!
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Counter Confidential: Trend Revival
Undercover Beauty Agent has a blast from the past and gets inspired by hair and makeup trends from the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Keep reading to find out how to translate these retro looks into modern beauty ideas.
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Lipstick
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The Lipstick Diaries: New York Fashion Week
Beautylish’s Ning test drove a new lipstick for each day of New York Fashion Week. From demure nudes to bold browns and hot pinks, here’s how she wore it and other people’s reactions.
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Brown Girl Beauty Myths: No Botox, Boob Jobs, or Butt Lifts?
Dre Brown is back to bust more beauty myths with her partner in crime, celebrity makeup artist Sam Fine. This week, Dre and Sam tackle cosmetic surgery and ponder just how natural brown girls really are.
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Hair
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Attainable Luxury at Blow-Dry Bars
Blow-dry bars are sweeping the nation with a simple concept: Pick one thing and do it really well.
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Stories
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Ning's New York Fashion Week Daily Lipstick Pick
New York Fashion Week is finally here! Follow Beautylish's Beauty Director Ning with her daily lipstick tweets @nylaning and @beautylish.
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