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1 How to create celebrity-style beach waves at home
Effortlessly rumpled, zigzaggy beach waves are the look du jour for Hollywood starlets such as Blake Lively, Jessica Biel and Kate Hudson. Now you too can achieve a similarly dishevelled, straight-off-Venice-beach...
2 Secrets to getting gorgeous hair
“Any time someone finds out I’m a hairstylist, I end up surrounded by women with questions about products,” says Lisa Chiccine, owner of the Lisa Chiccine Salon in New York City. Here,...
3 Five easy steps to Cheryl Cole’s lush lashes
Fake lashes have returned with a vengeance, with Cheryl Cole as the poster girl – she’s never seen without a pair to maximise those big brown eyes. But they’re still a mystery to many...
4 How to recreate this summer's must have 'natural' look as worn by Kate
The trend for natural-looking make-up started with Kate Winslet at a screening for Away We Go in New York and gathered pace at the Glamour Awards. There, fresh-faced beauties from Joanna Page...
5 How to… combat cellulite
Despite being a perfectly natural feature of the female form – you can see dimpled flesh in many Renaissance portraits – cellulite has only recently become an apparent ‘problem’...
6 How to… make small lips look fuller
1. Exaggerate Make your lips look larger than they are by slightly extending the natural lip line. Use a lip pencil to create a new line just outside the real one, but stick fairly close – within 2mm...
7 How to… make small eyes appear bigger
Cassie reckons you can't make small eyes look big, but you can accentuate them so they become a more prominent feature within your face as as a whole, which draws attention away from their actual size....
8 How to… correct a prominent nose
Clever contouring with darker shades of base and powder can make a wide nose appear slimmer… 1 Back to base To play down a wide or prominent nose, contour using a darker shade of foundation down...
9 A-list hair in an instant
The Baftas television awards are coming up and celebrities across the land will be already preparing their red-carpet outfits. But there are simple tricks red-carpet experts use that we can all steal....
10 It's all height on the night
What a difference an awards night makes. At the Brits, gong winners and guests went for glam hair worn in cascades of voluminous waves around the shoulders. Change the setting from music to the movies,...