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Editor’s picks: 5 things to fix your super-dry skin (and only one is a moisturizer!)

Editor's Picks

Posted on Thursday, February 7/2013

All dry skin needs is more moisturizer. True or false? Ding ding ding! That would be false. Yes, moisturizer is important—but there’s more to it than that. You need to exfoliate to get... > continue reading

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Josie Maran Moroccan Scented Oil Trio

Gift Guide 2012: For the natural beauty buff

New Products

Posted on Thursday, December 6/2012

Shopping for someone who wants to go green? You don’t even need to set foot in a health food store. (Hooray!) Natural and organic beauty products have finally hit the mainstream, with gloriously... > continue reading

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Peel, mask, moisturize: Maybe you should make this your new skincare mantra

Tips & Tricks

Posted on Monday, June 11/2012

Okay, so I’ve jumped on to a new skincare bandwagon. (Happens every week, NBD.) This time I got inspired by my aesthetician, Anna, at Concepts Salon & Spa in Toronto. She does my... > continue reading

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George Pimentel

This week in beauty: LC goes peach, I get Beautylicious and the Victoria’s Secret Angels give my self-esteem a blow…

News

Posted on Friday, October 21/2011

There’s so much going on in beauty these days that it’s hard to keep up! Do you ever feel completely, totally overwhelmed when you step inside a Sephora or a Shoppers Drug Mart?... > continue reading

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Required reading: Here are 5 of my favourite beauty books—you need them in your library, stat!

Editor's Picks

Posted on Friday, October 14/2011

I love beauty (obvi). And I love to read (I’m a total book nerd). So you won’t need much explanation when I say that I get super-psyched about beauty books. Yep, even though... > continue reading

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Should you use a mineral sunscreen? Here’s why you might consider it—and 7 beauty editor-approved prodz to choose from!

New Products

Posted on Wednesday, June 15/2011

There are two annual topics that every women’s magazine always runs, but which beauty editors always kind of dread. One is the typical winter skincare story (which I attempted to cover in this... > continue reading

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sunglasses-girl

Reader question: If I’m supposed to re-apply sunscreen every two hours (eeks!), how do I dewit without mucking up my makeup?

Reader Questions

Posted on Thursday, June 2/2011

Yesterday, I announced the official arrival of Self-Tanner Time. (As well as Hammer Time, but that’s neither here nor there.) And y’all know what comes hand in hand with faux tanning: a liberal... > continue reading

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The average woman schleps $407 worth of makeup in her handbag. Does that sound high to you? (Maybe not if you’re a beauty editor…)

News

Posted on Monday, February 7/2011

Let’s put aside for a moment the fact that someone in the UK actually thought it would be a worthwhile use of time and money to commission a study on how many different... > continue reading

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happy-woman

Okay, peoples: It's time to stuff stockings and I've got 15 awesome, beauty editor-approved ideas—for under $10 each!

Editor's Picks

Posted on Wednesday, December 22/2010

You know, I am the first to admit that I have expensive tastes. Ironically so—because even though editors’ salaries might be described (as Nadine Jolie infamously quipped) as janitorial, I’ve been spoiled by... > continue reading

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hangover-woman1

Got a hangover? Keep these sweet beauty prodz on hand to hide the telltale signs (splotchy skin, bleary eyes, hair that smells like FastFriedGreasies…)

Tips & Tricks

Posted on Monday, December 13/2010

Talk about greedy. A very nice company sent me a bottle of Veuve the other day and instead of saving it for a special occasion, or at least New Year’s Eve, a girlfriend... > continue reading

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