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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

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

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

7 Feathered Eyebrows Tips and Tutorials | If you want to know how to get feathered eyebrows, you're in luck! While microblading and microfeathering can yield beautiful results, you don't need to tattoo your brows to make them look fluffy and full. We're sharing 7 eyebrow hacks for a natural look you'll love. From the best eyebrow and makeup products, to easy application techniques, to step-by-step tutorials, learn how to adopt this trend as your own and keep your eyebrows on fleek!

Eyebrows on Fleek: 7 Feathered Eyebrows Tips and Tutorials

6 Step by Step Colourful Eyeshadow Looks | If you're looking for step-by-step tutorials to teach you how to apply bright eyeshadow, we've got you covered! Perfect for brown eyes, blue eyes, and green eyes, these easy tips and ideas will teach you how to create a subtle daytime pop of color, and how to achieve a bold nighttime look. Grab your Jaclyn Hill Morphe palette and learn the tricks of the trade! #colorfuleyeshadow #brighteyeshadow #howtoapplyeyeshadow

Bold and Beautiful: 6 Step by Step Colorful Eyeshadow Looks

5 Step by Step Natural Eye Shadow Looks | If you're looking for a simple makeup look you can wear on the daily and prefer something a little more subtle and natural, these 'no makeup makeup' tips, products, videos, and tutorials are for you! Learn the best eyeshadow palettes and shades, how to apply eyeshadow to make it look more natural, and more! Perfect for blue, green, and brown eyes, blondes and brunettes, dark and light skin! #naturaleyeshadowlooks #naturaleyeshadow #daytimemakeup

5 Step by Step Natural Eye Shadow Looks for All Eye Colours

How to Look Expensive on a Budget | If you're looking for fashion tips and hair and makeup hacks to make you look rich and classy for cheap, this post is for you! We're sharing 18 simple ideas to help you choose the right clothes and fool the world into thinking you spend thousands of dollars on your outfits. We're also sharing our best beauty hacks to make your hair and makeup look chic using affordable drugstore products that don't break the bank! #lookexpensive #howtolookexpensive

How to Look Expensive on a Budget: 18 Tips Every Girl Needs

15 Eyeliner Hacks for Beginners | Learn how to apply winged eyeliner – and how to apply liquid eyeliner – with this collection of life-changing makeup tricks! You’ve probably already tried the tape, business card, and bobby pin tricks, and we’re excited to share so many other simple yet transformative makeup hacks to help you get the perfect cat eye every single time. Whether you prefer pencil, gel, or liquid liner, these tips are for you! #liquideyeliner #eyelinertutorials #howtoapplyeyeliner

Eyeliner Hacks for Beginners: 15 Makeup Tricks We Love

11 Fall Makeup Trends & Tutorials | I always love seeing the fall makeup looks in Harpers Bazaar, and this year did not disappoint! If you want to know what’s in style in 2019 on the beauty front, we’re sharing the best products, tips, and tutorials to help you look on trend this season. #fallmakeup #fallmakeuptrends #fallmakeuplooks

11 Fall Makeup Trends and Tutorials Every Girl Needs to Know

Makeup Tips for Dark Skin | From selecting the right foundation and contouring products, to learning how to apply bold eyeshadows and filling in your eyebrows, to concealing under eye circles and acne scars, we’re sharing it all - makeup dos and don’ts, step by step tutorials, and the best makeup for dark skin. Whether you prefer a natural glow or a bold look, this post is a great resource for black women and dark-skinned gals! #makeupforblackwomen #makeupfordarkskin

Makeup Tips for Dark Skin: 8 Products and Tutorials

How to Apply Eyeshadow Eyeliner in 8 Easy Steps | Whether you prefer to sport simple or winged eyeliner, opt for natural brown and black eyeliner shades, or gravitate toward bolder looks, these tips and beauty hacks will teach you how to transform your favorite shadows into gorgeous eyeliner that lasts all day. We’re sharing 8 application tips and tricks, and 4 eyeshadow eyeliner tutorials you’ll love. #howtoapplyeyeliner #eyelinerhacks

How to Apply Eyeshadow Eyeliner: 12 Powder Eyeliner Tips and Tutorials

How to Blend Contour: 9 Tips and Products | If you’re looking for step by step tips and tutorials to teach you how to blend contouring like a pro, this post is for you! Whether you prefer to work with brushes or a sponge, a contour stick or powder, have a round or square face, we’ll teach you how to use contour and highlight for a sculpted look you’ll love! #howtocontour #contourmakeup #contour #contouring

Blending 101: How to Blend Contour Correctly for a Sculpted Face

How to Sweat Proof Your Makeup | Sick of your makeup melting off your face at the gym? Need summer makeup hacks to beat humidity? Have an oily face that repels makeup? We’re sharing our best makeup application tips and tutorials to teach you how to sweat proof makeup like a pro. We’ve also included our favorite sweat resistant makeup products to help you beat the heat in style! #sweatproofmakeup #summermakeuphacks

How to Sweat Proof Your Makeup: 9 Tips and Tutorials

14 Eyebrow Hacks Every Girl Should Know | Want to know how to get beautiful brows from the comfort of your home? These step-by-step beauty tricks are for you! We’re sharing growth tips, plucking tricks, shaping hacks, and how to fill in your brows with makeup so they look natural yet full. Click for our fave DIY eyebrow growth tips using basic household products like castor oil as well as the best eyebrow pencil, brushes, and shaping tools! #eyebrows #brows #eyebrowhacks #eyebrowshaping

Brows on Fleek: 14 Eyebrow Hacks Every Girl Should Know