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Holiday Gift Guide Part 2 — Glitzy and Posh Finds for Glamour-Loving Gals

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Hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving!

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Holiday Gift Guide Part I — Quirky and Perky Finds for Fun-Loving Gals

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Christmas is coming!

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Sleep to Dream with Estée Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex II

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The only thing I dislike about the Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Synchronized Recovery Complex II ($62 at EsteeLauder.com and Estée Lauder counters) is that, sooner or later, it will run out and, sadly, there will be no free refills.

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Is the VBeauté Eye Never Nourishing Repair Eye Creme a Sight for Sore Eyes?

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What woman doesn’t want to banish crow’s feet, exile those perky little lines to a dungeon somewhere?

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Taste a Vanilla Sky with the New NIVEA Vanilla & Macadamia Kiss Lip Butter

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“Now that’s what I call buttery!”
Those are the words my precocious 9-year-old son uttered enthusiastically when he glided his finger over the smooth surface of the new NIVEA Vanilla & Macadamia Kiss Lip Butter ($3.99 at most food, drug, and mass market retailers).

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Petal Palace — L’Occitane Introduces its “Shea Flowers of Love” Limited Edition Shea Butter Collection

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Every October, L’Occitane reveals a new limited edition collection of shea butter products with distinctive packaging meant to conjure up excitement for the holiday season, lure in long-time fans of the brand’s shea range (like yours truly, who has been known to carry a 100ml tin of shea butter in her always bulging handbag), and attract new and hopefully soon-to-be-undyingly-loyal customers.

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Life In Bloom — Carol’s Daughter Gardenia Bath & Body Collection

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Last time I visited Puerto Rico, my stepmom led me to one of the hedged shrubs in front of the house she’s been sharing with my dad for over a decade now and, dipping her hand into the thicket of leaves, plucked out this gorgeous white blossom and said, “Mira, una gardenia.” I caressed the velvety soft, yellowish white petals and, enthralled, leaned in to smell the tropical blossom, letting the sweet, feminine fragrance fill my nostrils.

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Make “Pore Moves” with the new Murad Pore Reform Line

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It used to be that women obsessed  primarily about acne, cellulite, and tiny lines and wrinkles — laugh lines, crow’s feet, those two vertical lines between the eyebrows that are colloquially dubbed “the elevens,” and so forth.

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Get Some Serious Lip Service With KAPLAN MD’s LIP 20 Collection Of Anti-Aging Pout Products

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We’ve all tried our fair share of face masks — paper ones, mud-based formulas, peel-off types, brightening and exfoliating sorts, and so forth — but have you ever heard of a lip mask?

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Mix It Up With ChapStick’s Mixstix Lip Balms — AND Win All Three Flavors!

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Until recently, the last time I used ChapStick, I was riding shotgun in my dad’s El Camino (which was the color of chewed-up grape bubblegum), wearing the hideous Smurfs-colored plaid skirt, matching vest, and white button-down shirt  required by my Catholic middle school’s uniform code.

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