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Beauty

Minks in March

March 1, 2010

Admission: I’m a little late to the party with my love for this polish.  I’m also a little late to the whole Twilight saga, which I just started reading a month ago after a few years of resistance.
I’ve admired Essie’s Mink Muffs polish on friends and strangers countless times and finally got around to getting [...]

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Buffed to Perfection

February 11, 2010

Moisturizing alone can do only so much for one’s skin in the depths of winter blizzards.  As amazing as our favorite body moisturizer is, we still need to give our skin a good scrubbing a couple of times a week to let our lotion do its magic.
Enter Buffy, an amazing body butter from Lush.  Unlike [...]

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Believe the Hype

January 13, 2010

Armani’s liquid foundation really is as awesome as everyone says it is.
I mulled/obsessed over this foundation for nearly four years (I guess long, drawn out obsessions are a habit of mine).  The Armani foundation gets an insane amount of press from celebrities and makeup artists and wins countless best beauty picks in magazines (including InStyle’s [...]

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Buttery Soft Skin Awaits

January 5, 2010

It happens every winter: the combination of the freezing cold weather outside and the heat inside inevitably leads to dry, tight skin.  Woof.
My longtime solution for beating the winter skin blues?  Kiehl’s Creme de Corps all-over body moisturizer.  Believe me, if your skin gets super dry in the winter like mine does, you need this [...]

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Vampin’ Around the Christmas Tree

December 23, 2009

Only two days until Christmas and so much left to do – wrapping, baking, cleaning, catching up on MTV’s new series “Teen Mom” (a spinoff of the addictive “16 and Pregnant”) – the pressure is almost too much to handle.  Getting a manicure tops HCG’s pre-holiday to do list.  Today I was able to sneak [...]

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Gift Guide: All Tressed Up

December 8, 2009

Today begins the first installment of the HCG Gift Guide 2009!  We’ve had many requests for gift suggestions, and we are making good on our promise to deliver.  Unlike all the other gift guides out there, we aren’t categorizing the gifts by recipient (you know how gift guides go – “for the fashionista”, “for the [...]

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