Holiday Gifts on Shine

Mean-Spirited Beauty Gifts You Really Shouldn't Give this Holiday

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OK, so beauty products like these can be great, easy gifts. But that doesn't mean everything in Sephora is fair game. A few things you should never buy for someone else:

1. Blatant anti-aging products. Anti-wrinkle serums just say: "You look old."

2. Acne-fighting products. Same deal. Now you've made her paranoid that everyone's staring at the zit on her forehead -- nice.

3. Elaborate skin care kits for a non-metrosexual man. He'll never use it, end of story.

All I want for Christmas is...a Planned Parenthood gift certificate?

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I am not sure whether to let out a giddy little laugh or raise a woman power fist in the air at the news that Planned Parenthood of Indiana will be offering gift certificates for sale as holiday gifts.

The (shocking?) rules on tipping this holiday season

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Unless you're MacGyver-ing at-home pedicures or highlighting your own hair (see video), sometime within the next three weeks you have to tip your favorite stylist/manicurist/colorist/brow shaper-ist. But how much do they expect?

At the holidays, tip the full price of a service instead of...