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Your 12 Biggest Beauty Disasters -- Solved!

Self-tanning trauma? Bad dye job? Zit flare up? Check out these beauty tips to turn your purse into your beauty crisis survival kit

by Molly Roemer

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The Disaster: Chipped or Smudged Nails The scenario: You splurge on a spa manicure and your nails look fab -- until you smudge them while putting on your seatbelt to drive home. Or maybe you make it past the smudge-window, but then get a chip like two days later.

The solution: Manicurist Fricke says the best solution is to have the polish with you (so BYO bottle to the nail salon next time). That way you can place a dot of polish on the smudged or chipped area, let it dry, then apply another coat over the entire nail to even it out.

If you don't have your polish but you do have a nail file, you can make a chip slightly less noticeable by filing away the chipped part of your nail (or at least some of it) and then even out the rest of your fingers.

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Older comments

mhh, even though i want to look good, i have much more other things to worry about than a chipped nail or a zit that only i can see

by AstridB Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 03:31AM Report as inappropriate

yikes Lindsay

by LittleBunny Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 09:58AM Report as inappropriate

Thanks

by EricaC123 Monday, December 31, 2012 at 02:01PM Report as inappropriate

Funny how famous people are used for this article. I have better things to do then spend my time wondering if someone has chipped polish on their toes.... please! Everyone knows that chipped polish is a "disaster". I feel sorry for those people in the limelight whose bad hair days and no time to get to the salon are put out there for everyone to see.

by flirtygirl214 Monday, September 24, 2012 at 04:52PM Report as inappropriate

Love the umpa loompa orange tans...Not!!!

by Only1KimmieD Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 12:58PM Report as inappropriate

Oh yeah, because in the first slide you could totally tell that she had a \'big\' zit on her chin. NOT. If your pimple is that small no one is going to notice or care

by rachaellh13 Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 03:33PM Report as inappropriate

love the idea of using the foundation at the top of the cap for a concealer.

by michellefuentes Friday, August 24, 2012 at 06:26PM Report as inappropriate

For the last couple of years I've brought my own nail polish to the salon.

by asiagirl4ever Monday, July 16, 2012 at 08:00PM Report as inappropriate

this is SO helpful! i never know what to do when i take out my ponytail and there's a huge bump!

by liliofthevalley Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 06:01PM Report as inappropriate

Very helpful article!! I've found Guerlain Meteorites to be VERY helpful at disguising my very ladylike hangovers (I don't have time for the routine they list in the article--I eat breakfast at work!).

by tallredamanda Friday, April 13, 2012 at 08:30AM Report as inappropriate