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How to Apply Makeup to Oily Skin | If you suffer from greasy skin, and need oily skin care routine tips and hacks to help you maintain a dewy, natural glow without a greasy complexion, this post is for you! We're sharing our best beauty hacks to teach you how to apply makeup for your skin type so you can look and feel your best. We've included our favorite budget-friendly drugstore products, application techniques, and skincare tips to ensure your makeup stays put all day long.

How to Apply Makeup to Oily Skin: 11 Tips & Techniques

How to Apply Makeup to Dry Skin | If you have dry and flakey skin and want to know how to apply foundation, how to apply concealer and more without making problem skin worse, this post is for you! We've including the best drugstore dry skin products, as well as makeup application tips and step-by-step tutorials for hydrated, moisturized, and glowing skin. Perfect for those in need of a winter skincare routine as well as those with mature skin, these tips and ideas work!

How to Apply Makeup to Dry Skin: 11 Tips, Tutorials and Products

8 Best Foundations for Combination Skin | If you have a mix of oily skin and dry skin, this list of the best drugstore foundations for combination skin is for you! Whether you prefer a natural looking tinted moisturizer or BB cream, a matte powder foundation, or a full coverage foundation that will hide acne and acne scars, we've curated the best affordable picks. We've also included tips and hacks to teach you how to apply foundation to combination skin for a flawless face!

Dry and Oily: 8 Best Foundations for Combination Skin

8 Best Foundations for Aging Skin | If you're over 40 and on the hunt for the best drugstore foundations for smooth, glowing skin that also hides wrinkles without setting into fine lines, this post is for you. We've curated the best tinted moisturizing products to the best full coverage options, with everything in between. We've also included tips and hacks to teach you how to apply foundation to aging skin for a flawless face that makes you feel and look younger!

How to Look Younger: 8 Best Foundations for Aging Skin

Best Foundations for Dry Skin | If you suffer from dry and flaky skin and need a foundation that will give you full coverage with a natural glow without drawing attention to your wrinkles, this post is for you! While many high end products will do the trick, we're sharing our favorite drugstore foundations for dry skin. Perfect for women over 40, over 50, and even over 60, we've included a range of options - from tinted moisturizers to full coverage foundations and everything in between!

Best Foundations for Dry Skin: 10 Drugstore Products We Love

10 Beginner Tween Makeup Tips and Tutorials | If you (or your child) are in middle school and just getting started with makeup, this post has lots of great information - the best drugstore tween makeup kit essentials, makeup application tips and hacks, and 5 step-by-step tween makeup tutorials with tons of techniques and hacks you'll love. Whether you want simple and natural looks for school, or a more dramatic routine for a wedding or party, this post will teach you how to do it perfectly!

10 Beginner Tween Makeup Kit Essentials and Application Tutorials

10 Genius Concealer Hacks Every Girl Needs to Know | The right concealer can do so much for your makeup routine. It can cover up pimples, acne, dark circles, and under eye bags, reduce redness, and correct makeup mistakes, and if you've spent anytime on TikTok, you've probably seen the 'face lift concealer hack' which helps lift and brighten your face. This post will teach you the best concealer for your skin type, how to apply concealer, and tons of concealer tips and hacks!

10 Genius Concealer Hacks Every Girl Needs to Know

8 Strobing Makeup Tips and Tutorials for Beginners | If you want to know how to master strobing makeup to get flawless, natural-looking, dewy skin, this post is for you. We're sharing the 411 on this makeup technique - what is strobing makeup, the best drugstore strobing makeup products to invest in, tips and application techniques, and 3 step-by-step tutorials with before and after photos to teach you how to get natural skin that glows!

Strobing Makeup for Beginners: 8 Tips and Tutorials to get Started

11 Genius Eyeshadow Hacks for Lazy Gals | Whether you're completely new to the world of makeup and want tips and step by step tutorials to teach you how to apply eyeshadow for beginners, or you're on the hunt for eyeshadow tips to help elevate your look in less time, this post has tons of ideas to help. We're sharing the best drugstore eyeshadow palettes, eyeshadow primer tips, makeup application tips, a quick eyeshadow eyeliner hack, and an easy smokey eye tutorial you'll love!

Look Good in Less Time: 11 Genius Eyeshadow Hacks for Lazy Gals

How to Pluck Your Eyebrows Properly | If you're a beginner to plucking your own eyebrows, look no further! This post has everything you need - the best eyebrow products and where to buy them, eyebrow shaping tips for beginners, the best way to pluck your eyebrows to avoid over-plucking, irritation, etc., and our favorite videos and step by step tutorials that are full of the best DIY eyebrow plucking tips and hacks for perfectly groomed brows that wow!

How to Pluck Your Eyebrows Properly: 14 Tips & Hacks for Perfect Brows

10 Genius Mascara Hacks Every Girl Needs to Know | From learning how to apply mascara, to the best mascaras for fullness and volume, to hacks to prolong your mascara to avoid dried out and clumpy messes, and so much more, this post has tons of makeup hacks to make your eyes pop! Learn how to get beautiful, TikTok worthy, longer lashes without falsies in minutes. We've also included our fave drugstore mascara plus tips for using clear mascara on your brows and for a no makeup makeup look!

10 Genius Mascara Hacks Every Girl Needs to Know

7 Makeup Tips to Slim Your Face | If you want to know how to make your face thinner with makeup, this post has lots of tips to help. You'll learn how to shape your eyebrows, how to fill in your eyebrows, how to contour your face, strobing makeup tips, how to conceal under eye bags, the right way to apply blush...and more! These makeup application techniques and step by step makeup tutorials are perfect for beginners and beyond, and will teach you how to look thinner in photos to boot!

7 Genius Makeup Tips to Slim Your Face and Make You Look Younger

10 Tips and Hacks to Reduce Face Bloat | Why is my face swollen?! If you want to know how to get rid of a puffy face FAST, this post is for you. We sharing everything you need to know - what causes face bloat, how to prevent face bloat, tips to decrease puffiness (including a list of foods to reduce swelling), plus other remedies that work. We've also included makeup tutorials to hide face bloat with makeup so you can look and feel your best every single day!

Puffy Face? 10 Tips and Hacks to Reduce Face Bloat

7 5-Minute Makeup Routine Tutorials To Simplify Your Mornings | If you have a habit of pressing snooze one too many times in the mornings, these step by step makeup videos are for you! Perfect for school, work, and for tired moms over 40 (me!), these simple makeup looks combine natural and glam in the most perfect way. From under eye concealer tips, to eyebrow makeup hacks, to must-know dewy foundation application techniques, learn how to look and feel your best in 5 minutes or less!

7 5-Minute Makeup Routine Tutorials To Simplify Your Mornings

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 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

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

8 Easy Step-By-Step Halloween Makeup Tutorials | Trick or treat?! Perfect for beginners, this collection of Halloween makeup videos will teach you how to create the perfect DIY Halloween costume! Whether you want something creepy and scary, simple and cute, or creative and beautiful, we've got tons of ideas to inspire you, including your favorite Disney characters! We've also included Halloween makeup ideas for kids, teens, and tweens.

Trick or Treat: 8 Easy Step-by-Step Halloween Makeup Tutorials

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

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