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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

How to Trim Your Own Hair | If you're looking for step-by-step instructions to help you learn how to cut hair at home, this post has 14 tips and tutorials to help! Whether you're trying to get rid of split ends at home, cut a pixie cut, bob, or lob, trim long hair with layers, or cut your own bangs, we've curated the best hair cutting tools, products, and techniques to help. Learn how to keep your hair even, how to cut the back of your own hair, and how to cut curly hair like a pro!

How to Trim Your Own Hair: 14 Tips and Tutorials to Help

How to Look Better on Zoom and FaceTime | If you're looking for tips and tricks to make you look camera ready on video calls on even your most disheveled days, we've got you covered! From makeup tips and hairstyles to make your face look slimmer, to clothes that compliment your best features and outfits that flatter, to figuring out what colors make your best features pop instead of washing you out, to knowing the best poses and camera angles, these ideas work!

How to Look Better on Zoom and FaceTime: 17 Tips

How to Grow Out a Pixie Haircut | If you're looking for tips to help you grow out a pixie haircut fast, as well as stylish in-between hairstyles to combat that dreaded awkward hair length stage, we're sharing our favorite hair growth hacks, styling products, and hairstyle tutorials to help! Learn how to get through the process of growing out your hair with style so you can look and feel your best every single day!

How to Grow Out a Pixie Haircut: 10 Tips and Hairstyles to Stay Stylish

How to Wax Your Own Eyebrows at Home | If you're looking for the best at home products and at home tutorials to help you learn how to shape your eyebrows and wax unwanted hairs yourself, we've curated all the tips you need! Whether you want to wax your brows with strips or with an at home natural DIY sugar wax, we're sharing brow shaping tips, videos, and tutorials to ensure your brows are always on fleek - even when you can't get to the salon!

How to Wax Your Own Eyebrows at Home: 11 Tips and Tricks

5 DIY Manicure Tutorials | If you're looking for tips and tricks and the best step by step tutorials to teach you how to get a professional looking manicure at home, this post is for you! Whether you're looking for an easy manicure for short nails, want to know how to do a French manicure on your own nails, how to give yourself the perfect gel nail polish job, or you're looking for some nail art inspiration, these manicure hacks and videos are full of ideas for a beautiful manicure that lasts!

How to Give Yourself a Manicure at Home: 5 DIY Manicure Tutorials

How to Cut Men's Hair at Home | If you're looking for step by step tutorials to teach you how to cut your son's, boyfriend's, or husband's hair, this post has everything you need to know. We're sharing the best tips from barbers plus video tutorials with step by step instructions, including the scissor over comb technique, how to fade hair with clippers, how to blend hair on the sides, and how to cut long hair on top with scissors.

How to Cut Men’s Hair at Home: 10 Tips and Step-by-Step Tutorials

21 Retro Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths | The 60s, 70s, 80s, and even the 90s each had their own iconic hairstyles that are all coming back into style. Whether you need a gorgeous retro glam wave for a wedding, or want to rock vintage-inspired hairstyles on the day to day, we've included options for short, medium, and for long hair. From soft retro waves, to retro pin-up girl hairstyles, to retro Hollywood waves, wear these with a bandana and accessories for extra style!

Throwback Thursday! 21 Retro Hairstyles for All Hair Lengths