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Mini-masochist: Shu Uemura Tokyo Lash Bar

As alleged beauty experts, we probably shouldn’t admit that, until yesterday, we’d never tried false lashes. But it’s true. We’ d swiped every mascara known […]

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Bostonista Loves: Blowout Class!

My typical hair-doing routine is exhausting, and the results are lackluster at best. It involves a half-dozen products, a half-hour of haphazard brushing beneath a […]

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First Look: Cosmoholic Cosmetics

Growing up in Swampscott, Jody Cohen didn’t have to smuggle makeup past her mother. There were no covert eyeliner applications in the junior high bathroom, […]

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First Look: MiniLuxe on Newbury Street

Since it launched last year, MiniLuxe‘s premise of quick, affordable, sanitary nail service in a sleek setting has been super attractive. However, its Newton Centre […]

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This Just Open: Kiehl’s, Burlington

Faithful Bostonistas-in-training know the quickest way to a new and improved look is a fresh-faced, rosy hue. And though a few of us differ on […]

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Beauty Woes: They Say Orange Is the Color of the Season, Right?

As my coworkers can (and will) attest, my ankles—especially the back side of them along my Achilles tendon—take on an orange hue around this time […]

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Victoria’s Best Kept Secret

Until last week, we hadn’t set foot in Victoria’s Secret for quite some time. The whole “lack-of-restraint” concept embarrasses us (or, rather, makes us embarrassed […]

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Mini-masochist: The $200 blowdryer

Our unrelenting quest for self improvement took a hair raising turn this week when, after two years of trusty service, our ionic Vidal Sassoon short […]

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Beauty and the Budget

It’s been a rough week, but now that our taxes are finally filed, it’s time to spend that refund on a little relaxing, renewing, and […]

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WWJD: Move it! Move it!

I spent the weekend packing up my apartment, kicking up dust and pet hair that’s lived between books and behind furniture for three years, and […]

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Solutions for a Head-Scratcher

Our new dark Jil Sander suit has met its nemesis. No, it’s not static. Or even sweat stains. Much worse: Dandruff. Giving fashion-conscious Bostonians the […]

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Warning: Nudity Inside

During an otherwise slow news day (death, pestilence, bank buyouts) I was completely charmed by a brand-new fragrance that promises to “wash away the sins […]

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Intern Adventures: Beauty School Guinea-Pigging

As a Bostonista intern, one never knows what a day at work will hold. Wrangling puppies for one photo shoot? Outfitting sweaty rock stars for […]

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Salon Ambiguity, Round Two: Tips on Tipping

If responses to our annoyance at blowout ambiguity are any indication, most well-coiffed Newbury salon patrons believe extra blow-dry charges are criminal. Case closed. But […]

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Bostonista Gripes: Blowout Ambiguity

Forget the credit card or Comcast gripes—we think the worst hidden costs are buried in the recesses of Newbury Street salons. Bostonista was reminded just […]