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Color Crush Holiday Gift Guide Part 1 — Get Ready For These Red-Hot Gifts!

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It’s officially holiday shopping time and, as usual, we’ll be offering plenty of suggestions via our ongoing gift guide series, which we will roll out in themed installments.

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A Clean Play — Sol de Janeiro Brazilian 4 Play Moisturizing Shower-Cream Gel

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It may have a cheeky name with a clever double entendre, but the new Sol de Janeiro Brazilian 4 Play Moisturizing Shower Cream-Gel isn’t a pleasure-enhancing lubricant — at least not in the customary, keep-in-the-nightstand-drawer sense!

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Not So Minty Fresh — New SheaMoisture African Water Mint & Ginger Collection Review

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It’s been a while since I’ve covered SheaMoisture, and I’ve been missing trying out their products and sharing my thoughts with you readers.

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#WCW TV Style Icon: Empire‘s Cookie Lyon

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Armed with unwavering confidence, a seemingly endless treasure trove of aphorisms and witty comebacks, an enviable musical ear, and the iron-clad will to succeed and to protect her family and its legacy, Cookie Lyon had us craving more from the second she sashayed out of prison and stormed into the Empire offices   and uttered the words, “I’m here to get what’s mine.” Cookie’s self-assurance, her flair for the dramatic, her acceptance of her past and present, and her comfort level with her own sensuality are all conveyed through her fashion choices.

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Best In Belleza: Game-Changing Products Developed by Latino Beauty Gurus

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Hispanic Heritage Month may officially be over, but at Sicka Than Average, we celebrate our Latino roots every day.

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Pretty And Pampered — Discovered The New Dove Purely Pampering Sweet Cream With Peony Nourishing Body Wash

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I often joke that my skin has become a spoiled brat because, after years of trying out high-end body washes and luxurious lotions, it tends to throw a fit whenever I try out a perfectly adequate (and substantially more affordable!) drugstore brand bathing product.

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Rubbing It In — Get Polished With Lavanila’s Vanilla Bean Creamy Body Scrub

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Anyone who’s been reading Sicka Than Average for a while now (thank you!) knows that, when it comes to mechanical exfoliants, I tend to sing “I don’t want no scrubs”`a la TLC and look the other way.

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Enter Our Dove & ban.do Back-To-School Giveaway!

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It’s back-to-school season, which means all those days of sleeping in late, lounging by the pool, and just vegging out on the couch are officially over (but hey, there’s always the weekend!).

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The Apple Of My Thighs — Pevonia Stem Cells Phyto-Elite Intensive Body Corrector

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It’s finally happened: I have stopped being carded whenever I purchase a bottle of wine.

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Like Butter, Baby! — Nubian Heritage Launches New Patchouli & Buriti Collection

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The Tree of Life isn’t just the name of a visually astonishing, conceptually-driven, philosophical and esoteric Terence Malick film — it’s, in fact, the term Baron von Humboldt used to describe the buriti palm tree.

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