20 Amazing and Unconventional Beauty Tips to Make Your Life Easier

1. Brighten up your eyes with white eyeliner. 

White eyeliner is the new black. Makeup artist Alice Lane used it at the spring 2014 Tibi show because it instantly makes you look awake. Want a more subtle look than this model's? Line your inner, lower lash line only.

2. Tie a scarf around your neck to create a cool-girl bend in your hair. 

It looks like something straight out of 50 Shades of Gray, but it's actually the latest and greatest in making hair waves. "We're wrapping these scarves around the models' necks to create a slight lived-in bend in the girls' hair," says Guido, the hairstylist at Marc by Marc Jacobs. Tie the scarf around your neck while you're doing your makeup, and then untie it right before you head out. 

3. Before painting your nails, roll the polish in between your hands to avoid air bubbles. 

"Right before you're about to paint your nails, instead of shaking the bottle to mix it up, take it between your two hands and roll it back and forth," nail expert Miss Pop said backstage at Emerson. "Shaking the polish creates air bubbles in it, which makes the paint go on less smoothly." 

4. Use a fluffy eye shadow brush to apply your lipstick for a slight ombre effect. 

"Using a fluffy eyeshadow brush to apply your lip color gives it that diffused effect around the edges," says makeup artist Val Garland at Monique Lhuillier. She then suggests intensifying the color in the center of your lips, giving that I-just-ate-a-popsicle finish, by picking up a flat brush, swiping it over the lipstick, and pushing the color onto the middle of your mouth only.  

5. Use a fan brush to apply mascara to avoid clumpy lashes. 

"Instead of coating your lashes with the brush your mascara came with, load up a tiny fan brush with the formula and paint it over your lashes from root to tip," explained Garland at BCBG. "This allows you to really get close to the root and make the lash line look full, while completely coating each lash. But don't worry, it won't leave you lashes looking like Tammy Faye Baker when you're done, since the fan brush helps control the amount of mascara being transferred onto your lash."

6. Hold your curling iron parallel to your head rather than perpendicular for natural-looking curls. 

"To end up with a more natural curl, turn the curling iron parallel to your hair rather than perpendicular," advises Laurent Philippon, the hairstylist backstage at BCBG. "Wrapping it around the barrel this way helps elongate the curl as well."

7. Create horizontal nail stripes with a striper brush and rolling your finger from one side to the other. 

A striper brush is a long, skinny brush you can pick up at any art supply store. (Alternatively, you can try a clean liquid eyeliner brush.) "Anytime you're drawing horizontal stripes on your nails, turn your finger on its side and then with your other hand, hold a thin striper brush straight out and parallel to the nail you're painting," explains nail pro Deborah Lippman backstage at Kate Spade. "Then, keep the brush still and, keeping your finger in place, roll the nail you're painting away from the striper brush. Doing this will automatically help you draw a straight, not shaky, line." 

8. Change up your look by opting for a matte, instead of shiny, finish when it comes to your hair. 

Shiny hair is always gorgeous, but matte hair is the new hotness. To tone down your sheen, "use dry shampoo as your last step," said hairstylist Guido backstage at Alexander Wang. Just be sure to get one that's clear so that it doesn't leave residue behind. 

9. Contour your cheeks quickly by sucking in and applying bronzer in the center. 

Makeup artist Katie Jane Hughes suggests using a cream bronzer. "Then, buff it out slightly with a soft blush brush to diffuse the edges." 

10. Make your braid stand out by weaving the sections under, not over one another. 

This hairstyle looks daunting, but it's actually easy. Braids usually blend in with your hair, but to get yours to "pop" off of your head, like the model's above, part the hair and start braiding from the hairline down, weaving the three sections under themselves rather than overtop of one another, advised hairstylist Esther Langham at the Kenneth Cole show.

11. Leave your liner disconnected to make your eyes look bigger. 

"When you're applying black eyeliner, don't connect the top and bottom lines because it closes off the eye," said Kabuki, the makeup artist behind the look at Zac Posen. Where the lashes begin and end is where the liner should start and stop. 

12. Try a French mani that uses two shades in the same color family to avoid looking like you're straight out of Clueless. 

White tips are so over and have been for a while. But nail pro Gina Edwards recreated the old look at Zac Posen. "Pick two shades in the same color family — a light and a dark one — and paint the darker color on as your main shade. Then, grab the lighter shade and apply it to your tips using a tiny sponge. Roll the sponge back and forth to give it that gradated effect, and then add topcoat." Gorgeous.

13. Apply glitter to the center of your eyelid using a wet brush to keep it from falling all over your face. 

I love the look of a fully glittered eye. However, if you want to add just a little gold glitter to your upper lid, "apply it only to the center of the lid using a wet brush," said Diane Kendal, who did the makeup at Jason Wu's show. "This helps the glitter stick to the brush, allowing you to apply it exactly where you want, but it also keeps it from going all over your face."

14. Properly part your hair using your nose as a guide. 

Here's a quick way to part your hair perfectly in the center: "Run your pinky finger up the bridge of your nose and create the part exactly in line with it — even if your nose is a little crooked, it will be centered for you," said hairstylist Odile Gilbert, who created this look at Jason Wu.

15. Get a second-day "didn't try" makeup look by applying eye makeup and then wiping it off. 

You love what second day hair looks like, right? But what about second day makeup? "You look better the day after you've worn a lot of makeup," says Gucci Westman, the makeup artist at Rag & Bone. To create this look, she suggests this trick: Apply whatever eye makeup you were planning on wearing (at Rag & Bone Gucci applied brown and grey shadow on the lids and mascara and liquid liner), dab Elizabeth Eight Hour Cream all over your lids, and then wipe it off with a makeup wipe. "It just leaves a little remnants behind, giving you that lived-in look." 

16. Get bushy brows by topping them with mascara. 

For a look like Lily Collins's, apply a brown mascara to brows with a tiny fan brush, says Tom Pecheux, the makeup artist at Peter Som. "This tints any baby hairs that sit around your true brow, building your brow shape in the most natural way. It's also a great way to color grays along the hairline and part."

17. Perfect the messy hair look with a cocktail of dry shampoo and a lot of hairspray. 

While creating the look at Zac Posen, Gilbert suggested to go for “fucked-up texture." The key is to "curl all of your hair, then use a lot of dry shampoo, a lot of hairspray, and then mix it all together on top of the head, and secure it with hair pins everywhere. And if you want a romantic finish, add silk flowers everywhere with pins."

18. Create an ombre nail look by purposely messing up polish with your fingers. 

"Paint your nail using a base color (at Nicole Miller, manicurist Katie Jane Hughes used a gold glitter called The 444 from Butter London) and let it dry," says Hughes. "Next, trace the tip of your nail with black polish (like The Black Knight), as if you were doing a French manicure. Then, take your thumb and immediately pull the color downward, creating a gradated effect. Repeat that step again to deepen the black and that's it!"

19. Create the illusion of healthy hair with a hair wax and dry shampoo combo. 

Make the damaged ends of your hair look thicker and healthier with this trick that Philippon used on the models at Lacoste: "Apply a light layer of wax to the ends, followed by hair powder." (He used Bumble and Bumble SemiSumo Wax and the brand's Pret-a-Powder.) The wax helps hold the powder onto the hair, and the powder expands on the ends creating the look of thicker hair.

20. Use your heat protectant product as shine spray. 

"Apply it as a finisher instead," says Paul Hanlon, the hairstylist at 3.1. Phillip Lim. "The oil-based texture adds the perfect amount of shine." Now, you don't have to douse your hair like he did to this model's hair below, but to add a subtle shine, one or two spritzes will do.

You're welcome.

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Kate Middleton Looks Ridiculously Amazing One Month After Giving Birth

Yes, it's hardly news that Kate Middleton is absurdly gorgeous, and that even at her very-most-pregnant she never looked like she gained that much weight, and her recently-revealed family portraits with William and His Royal Highness Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge (I love saying that full name) showed off that she was looking fantastic, but even so. Even so!

Today marked the Duchess of Cambridge's first official appearance since giving birth just over a month ago, and she looks absolutely phenomenal. Slim! Trim! She's wearing black skinny jeans, for God's sake! With a forest green tailored Ralph Lauren blazer! She looks like a runway model! And it's been one month. Only one.

Sigh. I guess there's a reason that some people are royalty and the rest of us are mere mortals. Just look at the ladies in the background of this photo and their expressions. If you could assign a speech bubble to the brunette on the left, it would say, "I hate her so much because she's so pretty but I also love her because she's Kate Middleton. What does she eat? I'm literally obsessed with her." (Or something to that effect. I'm not psychic.)

Anyway, the two were in Holyhead, Wales, kicking off the Ring O'Fire Anglesey Coastal Ultra Marathon, and I don't know exactly what that is but it sounds pretty cool, and the tabloids are reporting that "the pounds are just falling off" her figure, so take solace in the fact that Kate Middleton's life is still really amazing and perfect. The End.

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Flashback Friday! 3 Amazing Things Inside Cosmo's July 1987 Issue

Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we dig through our ridiculously cool archive of vintage Cosmos to separate what’s hilariously old from what still holds up. February 1987, you're like a virgin.

There is probably no better poster child for the late ‘80s than Madonna, who at the time of this cover was a major star—her first three albums had sold millions—in the midst of a marriage to Sean Penn. Her interview with writer Chris Chase (who called her “tough but fascinating”) focuses on her love life, but only as a side note to the career success she’d built for herself, portraying Madonna as the take-charge badass we know her as today. For example, on her work ethic, she tells Cosmo:

“The musicians yell at me because when they take a meal break, I’m looking at my watch the whole time. ‘Okay, thirty minutes is up, get back in the room.’ I hate taking breaks, people come back lethargic, the energy’s down. I mean, I bring my soy milk and my apple and my rice chips to the studio, and I just want to keep working straight through.”

I mean…that quote is basically the word-equivalent of a power suit. And on that note! Let’s take a look back at more big-haired vintage finds:

LOL to this rainbow-colored power suit special:

“How To Win the Confidence Game” is basically the ‘80s predecessor to Lean In:

Also…this, which seems neither from the past nor the future, presented without further comment:

But as much fun as it is to peep the WTF fashion, there’s very little of it in this feature-heavy issue, which includes articles like “Working Girls’ Budgets,” “The Women of the White House Press Corps,” and a quiz on “How Would You Handle a Position of Authority?” There’s also a question from a reader asking about the risk of contracting AIDS from oral sex, and a scary ad for Lifestyle condoms that says, “I’ll do a lot for love, but I’m not ready to die for it.”

The cover might say that 1987 is about Madonna, but the inside pages do not shy away from the decade’s less dazzling struggles: the urgent need to gain power professionally, and the hushed, omnipresent sense of powerlessness in the bedroom.

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"Stop Being A Goddamn C*ck Block For Our Chapter:" The Most Amazing Sorority Email Of All Time

Greek life lost me when, as a freshman, I heard a rumor about sorority pledges having to sort Froot Loops for their pledgemasters all night long. In the dark. (I've also heard wayyy worse, but I don't want to scar anyone.) It's always seemed to me, like Scientology or Burning Man, a cult for the lost, the lonely or the drunk. On the other hand, a good friend of mine swears by the friends she made at her school's chapter of DPhiE.

Regardless of where you stand on sororities, we've all heard the nightmarish stories of Pledge Week. And this email from a chair of a "lower tier, very awkard" sorority (now disclosed as Delta Gamma's Beta Sigma chapter) at the University of Maryland, paired with Sigma Nu, "a pretty good frat," during Greek Week, confirms all of our worst suspicions. Below, a young woman leading the sorority Hulks out on her compatriots with the wrath of a million snakes in a mouse hole and the language of a character in a Tarantino movie. I'd be impressed if I wasn't so busy peeing myself with fear. Deadspin got their hands on the email in its entirety. Here are the most important points.

1) She loves her sisters like family.

I do not give a flying f*ck, and Sigma Nu does not give a flying f*ck, about how much you f*cking love to talk to your sisters. You have 361 days out of the f*cking year to talk to sisters, and this week is NOT, I f*cking repeat NOT ONE OF THEM. This week is about fostering relationships in the Greek community, and that's not f*cking possible if you're going to stand around and talk to each other and not our matchup. Newsflash you stupid c*cks: FRATS DON'T LIKE BORING SORORITIES. Oh wait, DOUBLE F*CKING NEWSFLASH: SIGMA NU IS NOT GOING TO WANT TO HANG OUT WITH US IF WE F*CKING SUCK, which by the way in case you're an idiot and need it spelled out for you, WE F*CKING SUCK SO FAR.

If you're reading this right now and saying to yourself "But oh em gee [first name redacted], I've been having so much fun with my sisters this week!", then punch yourself in the face right now so that I don't have to f*cking find you on campus to do it myself.

2) She'd like her sisters to show more interests in sporting events.

"But [first name redacted]!", you say in a whiny little b*tch voice to your computer screen as you read this email, "I've been cheering on our teams at all the sports, doesn't that count for something?" NO YOU STUPID F*CKING ASS HATS, IT F*CKING DOESN'T. DO YOU WANNA KNOW F*CKING WHY?!! IT DOESN'T COUNT BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN F*CKING UP AT SOBER F*CKING EVENTS TOO.

Or are you just so fucking dense about what it means to make people like you that you think being a good little supporter of the Greek community is going to make our matchup happy? Well it's time someone told you, NO ONE F*CKING LIKES THAT, ESPECIALLY OUR F*CKING MATCHUP. I will fucking c*nt punt the next person I hear about doing something like that, and I don't give a f*ck if you SOR me, I WILL F*CKING ASSAULT YOU.

3) She would appreciate it if you'd mingle with Sigma Nu more, please. :DDDD

I would rather have 40 girls that are fun, talk to boys, and not f*cking awkward than 80 that are f*cking f*ggots. If you are one of the people that have told me "Oh nooo boo hoo I can't talk to boys I'm too sober", then I pity you because I don't know how you got this far in life, and with that in mind don't f*cking show up unless you're going to stop being a goddamn c*ck block for our chapter.

Here are my thoughts on the matter in their entirety.

UPDATE: From the Delta Gamma Facebook page: Delta Gamma Executive Offices is aware of the email allegedly written by a member of our Beta Sigma chapter that has gone viral... Right now the office staff is investigating the legitimacy of this letter, the alleged author and will take appropriate actions as necessary. EO staff is already in contact with the Beta Sigma chapter.

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"Bow Down" Haters: Beyonce Is Amazing and She Knows It.

Not even Beyonce is immune to the double standards that plague the sexes.

The superstar — emphasis on THE — unveiled her first new song on her Tumblr since her last album, "4", which was released two years ago. Queen Bey has been hanging with her daughter Blue Ivy in the meantime.

And the song, a combo tune of two tracks, entitled "Bow Down/I Been On", seems to reflect just that, with boastful lyrics like: "I took my time to live my life; But don’t think I’m just his little wife. Don’t get it twisted; This is my sh*t," that would even make Beyonce's braggart male counterparts proud.

But not everyone would agree. Audiences are split about some of Beyonce's lines, including the hook: “I know when you were little girls you dreamt of being in my world. Don’t forget it. Respect that. Bow Down b****." The song on her Tumblr was released with a picture of a young Beyonce dressed in pageant garb surrounded in a room filled with ribbons and trophies.

The lyrics aren't any more controversial than Beyonce's own husband's, Jay-Z, or their pal Kanye West, or any other (male) artist of that ilk, who often use a litany of profanity, but fans are taken aback by the harsh language and level of arrogance in Bey's lyrics.

So here's the question: Why has Beyonce ruffled some feathers by proudly stating that she knows JUST how great she is, and peppering it with a few curse words? Here are numerous examples of men who have done the same thing, and not necessarily as good of a job in the process: Nelly ("Number One"), R Kelly ("The World's Greatest"), Eminem ("Without Me"), Kanye West ("Power"), and it was Beyonce's own husband, Jay-Z who rapped "Check it out, I'm too cocky to stop me" in "7 Minute Freestyle." So what's a little respecting of her own talents here and there?

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The Amazing Butterfly

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Erotic Instructions:

The key to taking flight is lining up correctly with your lover. First, find a place where you can lie down and he can stand in front of you. The catch: It's got to be somewhere that puts your pelvis a foot lower than his — maybe your bed (if it's a high one) or a desk, counter, or even the hood of a car. Then lift your legs and rest them on his shoulders. Tilt your pelvis upward so that your back forms a straight line angling up toward him, and your crotches meet. Have him place his hands under your hips, so he can hold your booty at the perfect angle while he thrusts.Why You'll Love It:

The Amazing Butterfly is primo for unequaled ecstasy without high-energy commitment. The pelvic tilt gives his penis full access to your vagina and builds in more fluttery friction for both of you. When done very slowly, it's completely dreamlike. The result? An orgasm that feels like you're flying.

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