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What Is Your Mom's Best Piece Of Beauty Advice?

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My mother—along with your mom and generations of moms behind us—is crazy. Most of our talks aren’t so much conversations as they are her instructing me to do insane things. “Start a low-carb gift basket company!” “Learn masonry!” “Do a flamenco dance in the face of men!” Last night it was, “You look tired, you should put cold spoons under your eyes.” Huh? How it works, after the jump, then you tell us what your mom swears by!

Backstage Beauty: Makeup Trends for Fall

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From slicked-back hair and berry lips to bowl cuts and fake bottom lashes, which of the fall trends can you pull off? RELATED

Would You Take Beauty Advice from Someone Who Wasn't Beautiful?

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Earlier today, we were pondering a profound (at least, I like to think it was) question: How important is it to practice what you preach? By this, I mean, do you care if the person giving you hair advice is bald? Or the makeup tips you're getting are coming from someone who, frankly, looks a bit disheveled?

I think it, obviously, depends on the situation. I know plenty of bald hairdressers whom I would still listen to because they spend their lives styling other people's hair. On the other hand, there are quite a few YouTube videos out there where women are giving decent advice (check out our faves here), but often they look like they just rolled out of bed or worse.

What do you think? Will you listen to a potentially good makeup tip no matter what state the person giving it is in? Or do you find beauty advice from un-put-together people a bit sketchy?

Get the Longest, Thickest Lashes. Ever. Seriously.

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In case you've never read this blog before, you should know that I freakin' love mascara. So of course I was thrilled when a few of the top makeup artists (Gina Bettelli from MAC, Chad Hayduk from Three Custom Color Specialists, and celebrity makeup artist Fiona Stiles) offered to share their ultimate secrets to getting the longest, thickest lashes ever.

As long as you don't pick up one of these dud mascaras, you'll be able to use their tips to get amazing lashes. Check them out below, and maybe you'll become a mascara-addict like me: