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Nine 90s Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths | From butterfly clips and claw clips, to mom jeans and overalls, to cargo pants and doc martens, 90s trends are making a comeback in a BIG way. If hairstyles are your jam, there are tons of easy ways to add a little 90s flare to your locks, and we've curated 9 of the best! Whether you're looking for 90s styles for short hair, for medium hair, or for long hair, this post has step-by-step hair tutorials to teach you how to recreate these looks from home!

Nine 90s Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths That Are The Bomb

6 Spring Nail Art Ideas | Can't make it to the salon? Want to give yourself a DIY manicure at home? This post has everything you need! We're sharing 9 home manicure essentials and products, plus 6 step-by-step nail art tutorials that are perfect for spring! From monochrome nails, to an easy French manicure for beginners, to geometric nails, to cherry nail designs, these nail art videos are equal parts easy and gorgeous!

Nails Before Males: 6 DIY Spring Nail Art Ideas We Love

18 Easy 5-Minute School Hairstyles for Kids | Whether your child has short, shoulder length, medium, or long hair, one thing is for certain: you need no fuss, quick hairstyles to simplify your morning routine! If you're constantly running late (like us!), don't stress. We've curated tons of cute hairstyles for school, with step-by-step tutorials and videos that are simple and easy to follow. Choose from braided hairstyles, half up half down looks, upgraded ponytails, messy buns, and more!

Rise and Shine! 18 Easy 5-Minute School Hairstyles for Kids

How to Remove Acrylic Nails at Home | Very few things feel as wonderful as getting a fresh new set of acrylics. They're perfect if you need to make your short nails longer for a big event, and you can choose a bold color and/or add nail art for added glam. Sadly, removing fake nails isn't as fun or glamorous. It's expensive and time consuming! If you can't get to the salon, this post has all the products, tips, and DIY hacks you need to remove acrylics without damaging your natural nails!

DIY Manicure: How to Remove Acrylic Nails At Home

How to Look Different | If you want to change your look for school, for work, or just for fun while you're hanging out at home, these tips and ideas will inspire you! Learn some of the best beauty hacks that can completely transform your look with a glow up, with makeup, and small changes to your hair. It really is amazing what these subtle updates can do to our faces! If you're bored with your everyday look, give some of these beauty tips a try - they can completely transform your image!

How to Look Different: 15 Ways to Change Your Look

79 5-Minute Hairstyles for School | If you're perpetually running late in the mornings like we are, and you need quick and simple hairstyles for school, these step by step videos and tutorials will inspire you! Whether you have short hair, medium hair, or long hair, thick or thin hair, straight or curly hair, these hairstyles are easy and trendy, and will help simplify your morning routine!

79 5-Minute Hairstyles for School for All Ages and Hair Lengths

How to Look Attractive | If you want to know how to look your best on the daily - even when you're feeling your worst - this post will teach you how to instantly elevate your game. With tons of simple ways to look and feel put together, we're sharing our best tips, hacks, tricks, and things to do to love who you are, both inside and out! Learn how to look good without makeup, with glasses on, when you're running late, and so much more!

How to Look Attractive: 12 Tips to Make You Feel Your Best

How to Grow Longer Eyelashes | If you want to know how to make your lashes thicker and more voluminous without falsies or extensions, this post is for you! You'll learn how to naturally grow your lashes, along with natural DIY growth remedies made using ingredients you already have at home, like vaseline and coconut oil. Not into home remedies? No worries! We've also linked to the best store-bought eyelash serums to elevate your lashes and make your eyes pop!

How to Grow Longer Eyelashes: 12 Tips for Beautiful Lashes

How to Look Put Together All The Time | If you want to know how to look your best for school, for work, at home, and when you're in full-on mom mode, we're sharing our best skincare routine ideas, beauty tips, fashion tricks, makeup hacks, and hair products and styles to help you look and feel like your best self every single day. From choosing the right outfit, to learning how to look good without makeup, to 5-minute second day hairstyles, and more, we'll teach you how to look good everyday!

How to Look Put Together: 13 Easy Ways to Look Good Everyday

How to Tighten Skin on Your Face | If you're in need of tips and tricks to help tighten the skin on your face after weight loss, this post has lots of helpful ideas for firmer skin and a youthful glow! Whether you want to tighten the skin around your eyes, under your eyes, on your cheeks, under your chin, or on your neck, we're sharing a list of habits to avoid, facial exercise that work, skin care products to invest in, and makeup tips to hide saggy skin fast!

How to Tighten Skin on Your Face: 12 Anti-Aging Tips and Tricks

How to Go Gray Gracefully | Whether you're only just starting to notice gray hairs and thinking of embracing the change and going gray naturally, or you're stuck at home with no ability to get to the salon for your usual highlights or hair dye and need to do SOMETHING to improve the state of your roots, this post has tons of great tips and products to teach you how to go gray quickly while still looking and feeling your best!

How to Go Gray Gracefully: 14 Tips and Tricks for Women

12 Fishtail Braid Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths | If you're looking for step by step tutorials to teach you how to do a fishtail braid, this post is for you! We've included a mix of ideas for short, medium, and long hair, including side, half-up, French, and Dutch fishtail braids. The step by step videos are easy to follow, and these looks are perfect for second day hair and make great prom and wedding hairstyles! They work for school and for work, and we've included fishtail braids for kids!

Simply Stylish: 12 Fishtail Braid Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths

How to Dye Your Own Hair | Trying to save money? Can't make it to the salon? Terrified of dyeing your own hair? Don't worry! This post has everything you need, from products and supplies, to hair dyeing tips and hacks, to step-by-step tutorials from hair pros! Whether you're bleaching your hair, touching up your blonde roots, going bold and brown, or getting creative with an ombre hair color, figuring out the best way to get the look you want is key. We're sharing all of this - and more!

How to Dye Your Own Hair: 10 Tips and Tutorials That Help

How to Cut Your Own Bangs | If you're looking for step-by-step instructions to help you learn how to cut bangs at home, this post has XX tips and tutorials to help! Whether you want to trim your own bangs in between haircuts, or you're cutting bangs for the first time, this post has everything you need to know. From layered bangs, to blunt bangs, to side swept bangs, to face-framing bangs, to layered bangs, we've curated the best hair cutting tools, products, and techniques to help!

How to Cut Your Own Bangs: 10 Tips and Tutorials

How To Look Older Than You Are | While most of us want to know how to look younger, there are tons of great makeup application techniques, hairstyle looks, and fashion tips for tweens and gals in their early 20s who want to look older than they really are. If you have a baby face and want to know how to look older naturally with makeup, with hair, and with clothes, this post has all the beauty secrets and lifestyle hacks you need to know!

How to Look Older: 15 Beauty Tips and Tricks That Work

45 Stylish Bandana Hairstyles | If you love retro hair ideas, bandanas, headscarves, and head wraps are a great way to dress up your look, with the added bonus of hiding greasy, second-day hair! If you want to skip the shampoo but still look cute and put together, we've curated the best step-by-step bandana hairstyle tutorials for short, medium length, and long hair. Whether you like to wear your down, in a ponytail, in braids, in an updo, have bangs...there's a style here for you!

Skip the Shampoo! 45 Stylish Bandana Hairstyles We Love

16 Ways to Look Younger Naturally | If you want to knock 10 years off your look, this post is for you! We're sharing everything from makeup application tips, to skincare essentials, to haircuts and hairstyles, to outfits and fashion hacks, to nutrition and exercise ideas to help you look younger both with makeup and without! Whether you're in your 30s or 40s, or your looking for tips you can use after 50 years of age, this post will teach you important dos and don'ts for a youthful appearance!

Forty and Fabulous! 16 Ways to Look Younger Naturally

How to Look Good without Makeup | If you're looking for tips and hacks to help you look good on mornings you don't have time to apply a full face of makeup, this post is for you! If you want to go au naturale but still look and feel your best everyday, these no makeup makeup routine tips will give you tons of things to consider, from your skincare routine, to your skincare products, to simple essentials to elevate your natural look, and lifestyle hacks for glowing skin!

How to Look Good Without Makeup: 12 Tips and Hacks Every Girl Needs

16 Clear Skin Tips and Products Every Girl Needs to Know | Whether you experience occasional blemishes and breakouts due to hormonal changes and oily skin, or you suffer from full blown adult acne, this post has tons of skin care tips and product recommendations for teenagers and women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond! If you want to know how to get beautiful skin, these beauty secrets will teach you how to keep breakouts at bay for a glowing complexion year-round!

Adult Acne? 16 Clear Skin Tips and Products Every Girl Needs to Know

How to Lose Face Fat | Whether you have chubby cheeks, a double chin, loose skin due to quick weight loss, or you just feel self-conscious about your round face shape, we're sharing 13 face slimming tips and exercises to teach you how to get rid of face fat. While these tips and facial exercises won't slim your face in a day or even in a week, we've included makeup hacks and fashion tips that will make your face look thinner overnight!

How to Lose Face Fat: 13 Tips and Exercises for a Slimmer Face

7 Halloween Nail Art Designs to Try | Halloween nail art is such a fun and simple way to add a little excitement in the days and weeks leading up to Halloween. Whether you have gel or acrylic nails, long coffin or stiletto nails, or short plain nails, these step-by-step nail art tutorials will give your hands a serious upgrade this October! Grab your black, orange, and purple polish, and give some of these at home manicure ideas a try.

Halloween Nail Art: 7 DIY Halloween Nail Designs to Try