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How to Grow Out Your Bangs | If you're looking for tips and hairstyles to make the process of growing out bangs less painful (and fast!), this post is for you! Whether you have short hair, shoulder length to medium hair, or long hair, there are tons of hair hacks and styles to ensure you look stylish in the in-between stages of growing out your bangs. Learn if you should opt for a side or middle part, which updos you should try, and other hair tips to make the process more manageable.

How to Grow Out Your Bangs & Still Look Stylish: 11 Tips and Hairstyles

9 Best Haircuts and Hairstyles for Heart Shaped Faces | If you want to know what the best heart shaped face hairstyles are, this post is for you! Whether you have short, medium, or long hair, we've got all the tips and hacks you need to ensure your hairdo accentuates your best features. Should you get a bob or lob? Do blunt bangs work? Should you add layers to your hair? Does straight hair look best, or is wavy or curly better? Click to find out!

Simple and Stylish: 9 Best Haircuts and Hairstyles for Heart Shaped Faces

8 Braided Ponytail Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths | Perfect for a casual day with friends, for work, for prom, for a wedding, and even for sports, this collection of braided hairstyles is easy and stylish! With simple step by step braid tutorials for short, medium, and long hair, these looks are easy and stylish - even for kids! Click to learn how to upgrade your ponytail in minutes!

Stylish & Practical: 8 Braided Ponytail Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths

10 Flattering Haircuts and Hairstyles for Oval Face Shapes | If you have an oval face shape and want to know the best cuts and styles to help accentuate your best features, this post has everything you need to know! Whether you have short, medium, or long hair, we're sharing all our tips and secrets. Should you get blunt bangs or side swept bangs? Long layers or a pixie cut? A bob or a lob? We're sharing all this plus step by step hair tutorials to teach you how to add style to your locks!

10 Flattering Haircuts and Hairstyles for Oval Face Shapes

10 Hairstyles for Plus Sized Women | If you're looking for the best flattering hairstyles for round faces that will hide a double chin and highlight your best features, we've got you covered! Whether you're in your 20s, 30, 40s, or over 50, we're sharing the best haircuts and hairstyles for plus size women, with options for short, medium, and long hair. Find out if you should sport a pixie cut, bob, lob (long bob), if layers are in, and how to style your curly hair to flatter your face!

Hairstyles for Plus Sized Women: 10 Cuts and Styles for a Slimmer Face

12 Tips and Hacks for the Perfect DIY At Home Pedicure | If you want to know how to do the perfect pedicure at home, this post has everything you need! From the best foot soaks, to supplies and essentials to help restore dry, cracked heels and shape your toenails perfectly, to step-by-step pedicure videos and tutorials to teach you how to pain your nails like a boss, we'll teach you all the steps you need to take to get beautiful, smooth feet!

12 Tips and Hacks for the Perfect DIY At Home Pedicure

7 Rosacea Remedies that Work | If you want to know how to get rid of rosacea, this post will help! We're sharing the symptoms and causes of rosacea, the best DIY natural remedies and skincare products for rosacea, and beauty tips and step by step makeup tutorials to teach you how to hide rosacea. If you have rosacea on your nose, cheeks, neck, or all over your face, these tips and ideas will teach you how to treat it, how to prevent it from getting worse, and how to cover it up!

How to Get Rid of Rosacea: 7 Rosacea Remedies That Work

9 Best Hairstyles for Big Noses for Women | If you have a large nose and want to know which haircuts and hairstyles can help draw attention to your other features, this post is for you! Whether you have short, medium length, or long hair, we're sharing our best tips along with cute, easy, flattering, and stylish hairstyles for school, work, prom, and even for the bride to be that you can re-create in minutes at home. Should you get a bob, lob, or cut bangs? Read the post to find out!

Stylish & Sexy: 9 Best Women’s Hairstyles for Big Noses

How to Give Yourself a Facial | If you want to know how to give yourself an at home facial, this post is a great place to start. We've included the best budget-friendly facial products and tools to invest in (think: steaming, masks, scrubs, peels, and more) as well as a breakdown of all the steps you need to take to make your DIY facial a success. Facials should be part of your regular skin care routine, and if you can't make it to a spa, these ideas will help you create your own home spa!

Self-Care Sunday: Give Yourself an At Home Facial in 6 Easy Steps

51 Hairstyles for Straight Hair | Contrary to popular belief, straight hair doesn't have to be boring. Whether you have short, medium, or long hair, we've curated tons of ideas to get you through all the seasons - summer, fall, winter, and spring! These ideas are simple, cute, and easy to re-create at home. From casual half up half down looks for school, to braided hairstyles for work, to formal updos for prom, weddings, and more, we've included step by step hair tutorials for each look!

Hairstyles for Straight Hair: 51 Tutorials for Every Hair Length

How to Take a Good Selfie | Trying to step up your Instagram game? Need photography tips and hacks to teach you how to take better selfies on your iPhone, Android, or other mobile phone? From poses and angles, to lighting and backgrounds, to choosing the right outfits, and more, we'll teach you how to take self-portraits like a pro! Whether you're taking a full body selfie using a mirror, laying down for a sexy face pose, or something in between, we've got you covered!

How to Take a Good Selfie: 15 Tips Every Girl Needs to Know

6 Nail Art Design Tutorials for Beginners | If you're looking for easy step-by-step videos to teach you how to create cute and fun free hand designs on your nails, we've curated 6 ideas to inspire you! Whether you have short plain nails, beautiful gel nails, or long acrylic nails, these nail art designs are perfect for every season - for spring, summer, fall, and for winter. We've included a list of tools you need to create these looks at home plus simple hacks for beautiful nails every time!

6 Easy Step-by-Step Nail Art Design Tutorials for Beginners

5 Step-by-Step Editorial Makeup Looks To Try | Bold meets beautiful with these fashion forward editorial makeup trends! If you love creative makeup styles, these step by step makeup tutorials are for you. You'll learn new makeup application techniques, including how to apply floating eyeliner, neon eyeshadow, and all over gloss for a dewy makeup look. And let's not forget about adding pops of glitter! Get ready to rock blue, pink, red, green, and yellow makeup with a hint of gold and silver!

Bold and Beautiful: 5 Step-by-Step Editorial Makeup Looks We Love

12 Hairstyles for Big Foreheads | Whether you have short, medium, or long hair, hiding a big forehead is surprisingly simple and easy. From side swept bangs with a deep side part, to wispy bangs and voluminous layers, to bumper bangs and victory rolls, to a loose ponytail with a side part, we're sharing tons of hair hacks and trendy styles for all face shapes that will take the emphasis off your forehead, making you feel confident and ready to take on the world!

Fashionable and Stylish: 12 Hairstyles for Big Foreheads to Try

How to Get Rid of Large Pores on Your Face | If you're looking for beauty tips, DIY natural remedies, and store bought products you can use to minimize the appearance of pores on your face fast, this post has tons of great ideas! If you have large pores on your face - whether it's on your nose, cheeks, forehead, or all over - we'll teach you how to reduce their appearance naturally. We've also included drugstore skin care products you can use for faster results!

How to Get Rid of Large Pores on Your Face: 9 Tips and Products

6 Hollywood Waves Tutorials for All Hair Lengths | If you want to know how to do classic vintage waves on your own hair, these tips and tutorials are for you! Whether you have short, medium, or long hair, retro waves are the perfect way to add a little glamour to your look. If you're looking for wedding hairstyles for the bride (or bridal party), need an easy 'do for a formal event, or just want to add a little style for a date night, these step-by-step tutorials are for you!

Classy & Chic: 6 Hollywood Waves Tutorials for All Hair Lengths

How to Get Rid of Back Acne | If you want to know what causes back acne, how to prevent it, how to treat it, and the best back acne remedies to try, this post is for you! Why there aren't any DIY natural treatments that work overnight (at least not that we know of!), these tips and products work fast. Whether you have occasional hormonal acne, or chronic cystic chest and back acne, it is possible to treat it at home so you can look and feel your best year-round!

How to Get Rid of Back Acne: 11 Tips and Remedies that Work

11 Pin Up Hairstyles For All Hair Lengths | If you love 1940s vintage hairstyles, these step by step pin up hair tutorials will not disappoint! From pin curls for short hair, to 1940s headscarf hairstyles, to vintage waves for medium length hair, to pin up hairstyles with a bandana, to victory rolls for long hair, you'll learn how to do pin up hairstyles like a boss! Some of these styles are simple and quick, while others take some some time, but all of them are retro and gorgeous!

1940s Hairstyles: 11 Pin Up Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths

10 Hairstyles That Make You Look Younger | While anti aging products can help with wrinkles and fine lines, did you know that the cut and color of your hair can knock 10 years (or more) off your look? Perfect for gals over 50 - and even older women - these hairstyles will make you look and feel younger! Should you go with bangs? Long layers? Curly hair? A bob? A lob? We've got all the secrets, along with the best hair colors to hide wrinkles and make your skin glow!

Middle Age & Fabulous: 10 Hairstyles That Make You Look Younger

Makeup for Fair Skin and Freckles | If you're looking for tips on how to apply makeup for freckled skin, we've got you covered! With 14 application tips, products, videos, and step by step tutorials, we're sharing the best ideas for blondes and red heads with light skin tones. From the best foundation recos to enhance or hide freckles, to eye makeup ideas for fair skinned gals with green or blue eyes, to makeup tips to hide redness and blotchiness, don't miss these simple tricks and hacks!

Makeup for Fair Skin and Freckles: 14 Tips and Tutorials

35 Lazy Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths | If you're looking for quick hairstyles that are cute and easy to re-create on days you're running late, these styles will inspire you! Perfect for school, for work, and everything in between, learn how to upgrade a basic ponytail and messy bun with these simple and chic updos. Whether you have straight or curly hair, we have styles for short hair, for medium hair, and for long hair we're sure you'll love!

Messy Hair, Don’t Care! 35 Lazy Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths