You can find great stuff in the kitchen or at the grocery store. For mere pennies, you can repli­cate very expensive cosmetics and skin care. SKIP THE FANCY PACKAGING. Use powdered milk in your bath to soften your skin. Add brown sugar to your favorite shower gel to create your own body scrub. PARSLEY Get […]

You can save big money and avoid being has­sled or ignored by shopping drugstores for your beauty supplies. The cosmetics at the cosmetic counter are often made with the same technol­ogy as the drugstore brands. Some are even made in the same factories, and owned by the same parent companies. The only differences are packaging, […]

Shop with a list. You need certain things. A list will keep you from getting sidetracked. Compare prices. Try to get the best deal, but don’t buy something just because it’s on sale. If you have to talk yourself into something, then you won’t wear it enough. Use a three-way mirror. You want to look […]

POORLY PLACED BUTTONS When fasteners on a shirt or sweater are too widely spaced above and below the breast area, it will gap unattractively. EXCESS FABRIC It kills the look and fit. In the industry it’s called a "grin" when excess fabric hits the crotch. It’s not a happy look. BAD LINING Look for cheap […]

PLAYING THE SHOPPING GAME It is a game if you’re a bargain hunter like me. It’s relaxing, it’s competitive, and you seem to enjoy it more when you’ve snagged it at a bar­gain price. Don’t let them get you! The stores will do anything and everything to get you to buy. Here’s their game. They […]

Penelope Cruz uses diet Popsicles to fool her sweet tooth. It numbs her tongue and gets rid of that nasty coating. Her favorite flavor is lime. At only ten calories, she lets herself have a treat up to ten times a day. Jessica Alba comes from a family that is heavily overweight. She actually started […]

Think you’re the only one with bad skin, kinky hair, or something worse? Everyone has them, even the most super of models and the sought – after celebrity. Tara Reid minimizes large pores and gets rid of blackheads by using vitamin A powder mixed with her cleanser. It helps prevent her pores from getting clogged. […]

Have you ever wondered how Melanie Griffith has maintained such great hair after so many dos and colors? She relies on almond oil. She just puts a few drops on her fingers and scrunches it into her hair, leaves it on for twenty minutes, and then shampoos and conditions. When Julia Roberts decides to go […]

Gwyneth Paltrow stays slim with yoga. It can be done anywhere, and gives her that lovely, graceful gait. Mariah Carey claims her dancing is strenu­ous exercise, and she gets a great workout on stage. Beyonce Knowles dances for thirty to forty – five minutes each day and does an amazing five Reese Witherspoon relies on […]