Agreed! Although I wanted to photoshop my eyebrows

Lisa Stone — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:52:11 -0500

the last time I mis-plucked them. C'mon who on this site can help me?

smwomen02

smwomen02 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:23:39 -0500

hey this is a great idea. beauty that really works, no bias, no ads, no photoshops, just purely tried and tested by real people in real life! superb idea!

Introducing BEAUTYHACKS: Advice we can trust (yours)

Lisa Stone — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:08:43 -0500

Today BlogHer is proud to introduce a new site within our site: BeautyHacks, beauty for everyone.

Susan Wagner, the BlogHer contributing editor who's leading the effort, describes BlogHer's BeautyHacks event best: "BeautyHacks isn't about an idealized image of what is beautiful; it's not about changing who you are or how you look to meet someone else's fantasy. BeautyHacks is real women dishing about real beauty -- about what they have in their makeup bags and medicine chests and refrigerators. BeautyHacks is about what all of us do to be beautiful, every day, in our own bathrooms. It's about how we navigate our individual beauty needs and desires, and how we find the beauty in ourselves..."

So, experts, will you share with the rest of us? What works to make you feel gorgeous? Does Wet-n-wild's 99-cent lipliner trump Chanel -- or vice versa? Bring it! Toothpaste cures acne? Please, tell us!

You gotta love Susan -- a style writer so disarming that she makes even an excruciatingly self-conscious shopper like moi try new things. She's recruited 13 terrific editors who represent a wonderful spectrum of appearance and hilarious good humor for the task at hand (psst--guess which one of these women has volunteered to test Preparation H on puffy eyes?):

Kristen Seymour, who writes for AisleDash and StyleDash and That's Fit and Jeez-o-Petes (her personal blog)
Heather Barmore, of No Pasa Nada and BlogHer
The eponymous Metalia
Kelly Wickham of Mocha Mama
Say la Vee's Blackbird
BlogHer's Snigdha Sen
Jenny Lauck, who blogs at Three Kid Circus
Jenifer Scharpen of Not Calm (dot com)
Yvonne from Joy Unexpected
Roxanna Sarmiento, of AisleDash and Miguelina
Holly Burns of Nothing But Bonfires
Liz Gumbinner of Mom 101 and Cool Mom Picks
Poppy Buxom of Opiate of the Masses and What Not to Buy
Nina Moon of Charlie and Nina and Kimchi Mamas

and

your name here.

That's right: YOU. Real, authentic BeautyHacks that we can all depend upon are going to require your help, both to recommend hot tips and to test 'em. So let's go: Empty out that purse and let's swap what works! Susan has described her plan of attack. Join us!

See you there...I'll be the one reviewing sunscreens....;)

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Agreed! Although I wanted to photoshop my eyebrows

smwomen02

Introducing BEAUTYHACKS: Advice we can trust (yours)