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Beauty Tips and Product Reviews
11 Homemade Face Masks
11 homemade face mask recipes to unleash the DIY goddess within and create natural and cheap beauty recipes - all in the comfort of your own little kitchen.
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Epilator deathmatch!
Health and beauty: Our intrepid journalists try out two of the latest epilators - one girl a seasoned veteran, the other an epilator virgin. So... who's going to win?
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How to get pale skin
Beauty tips: Her dark hair shimmered in the moonlight - and it struck her admirer that her skin reflected the colour of that pale orb so perfectly as to seem almost bloodless.
Not pale yet, but want the illusion of pallor? Well, all beauty's an illusion. So here's to cheating...
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Self tanning tips
Tanning vs. pale skin has changed through history. If you wish to cast a tanned glamour on yourself (let's not forget the dark evil fairy origin of the word 'glamour'!) our tanning tips may help.
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Summer pale skin
DIY skin bleach: How to get pale skin and maintain it in the summer months. We offer you a DIY pale skin recipe for a lemon oats and milk bath... and a simple, quick and easy pale skin cream recipe to make in your kitchen!
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Nourkrin super hair putter backer
If there are any Mookychicks out there who regularly use hair extensions & weaves, you may have noticed... bald patches. You're not alone. Time to ditch the hair extensions and take up a decent hair loss supplement...
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HOW TO HAVE A DIY ACID SKIN PEEL
Spending loads of dosh to get an acid skin peel may not be dangerous but it is silly. Amanda Prouten tells you how to get the same effect in your kitchen. It involves pineapples and rum... how could it possibly go wrong?
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Urban Decay makeup - latest
Urban Decay: We source some of the latest makeup from Urban Decay and come up with some favourite makeup colours, ideas and products.
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Vaseline beauty tips
Beauty tips: If there's one unsung hero in the makeup department, it's humble petroleum jelly (Brand name: Vaseline). You won't see it in glossy beauty mags, but Vaseline is a great addition to your make up bag...
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False eyelashes tutorial
Beauty: Nothing epitomises fun and flirtatiousness more than the fluttering of huge sooty sixties-style eyelashes, curled like provocative question marks. Get your false eyelashes right - and they will become your secret weapon for day AND night!
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Villainess soaps
Beauty products: Villainess soaps are hell-bent on ethical luxury. Their catchphrase is 'redefining bad'. They redefine the way skincare is formulated, manufactured and marketed. They love gentle, environmentally-conscious and animal-friendly components as much as anyone. But they're not interested in helping perpetuate false dichotomies or marketing ploys...
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How to apply false nails
Beauty tips: Do you have something or someone you want to get your claws into? The most effective way to do it is with a pair of fabulous false nails. They have evolved over the last century as styles change, so whatever era you are into, there will be a way for you to carry off a set of talons.
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Lily Lolo mineral makeup tutorial for tired skin
Beauty tips: In your 30s? You may wake up with a yelp to discover tired, mature pale skin with tiny wrinkles AND spots. On your face, sadly, not a boyfriend's lower nose. So unfair! Emma explains how to apply Lily Lolo mineral makeup to improve tired skin for genuinely healthy radiance.
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Haydria perfume - Scent of a bygone era
Perfumed world: The Haydria Perfumery is a glittering, jewel-encrusted, pin-up perfumery run by a very lovely lady named, funnily enough, Haydria. She loves the pin-up lifestyle and aims to use scent to take girls back to the fifties and sixties; to the age of happy-go-lucky pastel shades and rhinestones a-go-go...
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Natural beauty makeup tips
Makeup tips:With summer around the corner, natural beauty wants to come out and play. These beauty tips for natural makeup will tell you how to apply (less) makeup for a natural look. Not every girl needs to be Barbie GaGa - and not everyday. Sometimes, natural (or even no) makeup lights the way.
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What exactly IS natural and organic beauty?
Alternative beauty: Manufacturers often market so-called 'organic' beauty products with synthetic formulations because what we think of as 'natural' and 'organic' isn't what appears in the dictionary...
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How to get new feet
Foot treatment: Our feet carry us through the world. Literally. This gorgeous intensive foot treatment will make you feel like you just brought a new pair of feet to match the shoes.
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Orissa makeup for dark skin
Beauty products: Makeup for dark skin tones can leave ladies of colour looking a bit chalky or non colour-matched. Two of our intrepid contributors tried Orissa mineral cosmetics for light brown to black skin and were pretty happy with the results.
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Flawless You Forever...?
We are always on the lookout for make-up bases which make our pores smaller and skins airbrushed. With FYF Air Base, we were really quite pleased...
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Satellite 3 - Unearthly cosmetics for Nu Skool spacegirls
Beauty: In a brave new age where cosmetics are serious business, Satellite 3 make-up is a high quality but still playful make-up brand that's stocked in places like Cyberdog. Lippies disguised as recyclable rocket ships? Mookychick finds out more.
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Moisturize spots away with baby bottom butter
Beauty: There are acne-flavoured product brands out there that promise visibly clearer skin in 3 days, and the prevention of spots. They don't always work. People are often told they need to moisturise to help acne go away, but creams often make skin greasy and actually seem to develop spots. Until...
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Winter lip care tips
With harsh winter weather and high central heating indoors, even the softest of lips can soon dry out. There are plenty of cheap and free ways to take care of your lips inside and out. Just don't chew your chapped, flaky lips - it makes a skin baby will grow inside you. Science fact!
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Epilator deathmatch round 2 - the triple disc challenge
Beauty: Remember our initial epilator deathmatch? Well, we've got a new kid on the block - the Panasonic wet/dry epilator. Witness its triple spin discs of death, danger and desire (that's death to hair, danger to any hair thinking of growing out of your hairy body, and desire for less body hair). Hurrah!
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Flawless canvas: Skin care routines made easy
Beauty: In today's society everybody is worried about how they look, but skin care is more important than makeup and doesn't have to take much time or effort. The golden rule is to keep your skin a flawless canvas on which you can unleash your style. Once you've performed these skin care routines a few times they'll become a ten minute ritual that will leave you looking and feeling brisk and special.
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Beauty Top Gear Challenge: Test-driving mineral cosmetics
Beauty: Dispel all thoughts of Jeremy Clarkson in drag. Our intrepid Mookychick beauty contributor was sent a host of Care Free Beauty samples with the provisor she test-drive them to hell and back. Char got behind the beauty wheel and gave them a thorough seeing-to - from the nice lippy and eyeshadow to the bronzer which stole her heart and eloped with her to sunny Mexico...
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Celebrity skin
Now that the sun is (sort of) shining again, it's time to step up your summer skincare routine. The weather is only going to get hotter, meaning trouble in the form of aging UV rays. These quick tips will ensure you look your best all season long!
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Mineral cosmetics - pure makeup for pure people
What's natural, protects your skin from the harsh rays of the sun, great for all skin types, plus gives your complexion a healthy, glowing finish? It's not magic, but mineral makeup; the hottest thirty year old trend to be hailed as the 'new' beauty solution.
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Lip Facercise!
Here are some facercises you can do at home to make your lips firm and plump... Like Molly Ringwald, but better
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The art of bathing
We take hard steamy showers to open pores and get clean, but take long soaks in the tub to revive the spirit... E_Diva suggests curiously exotic products and reveals tricks of the trade to help you explore the art of bathing to its fullest extent.
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Be mine, Valentine... Valentine's gifts with love from you to you xxx
Why, oh why, do we care about Valentine's Day? It's simple, really. We're women, and we adore gifts. So why wait for your beau to figure it out? Why not gift YOURSELF this year? No matter how indie, or trendy, you may be... we are all enamoured with lovely things. We like to look good, feel good, and smell great. So whether you're single or loved up this Valentine's Day, pamper yourself a bit and make the holiday special with these 'self love' gift ideas, created by women, for women.
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High street skincare and cosmetics for eczema and problem skin
Sometimes you can suffer from 3 problems at once: you have delicate problem skin, you're on a tight budget, and there's no health store near you (or you can't be arsed to go to one). If this sums you up, Georgie Hanmer recommends the products that she finds have personally saved both her skin and her social life.
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Beauty product reviews - Mineral makeup for dark skin tones, ethical beauty and more - Mookychick
