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25 Obsessive Behaviors That Every Beauty Junkie Will Understand

From over-grooming to a preoccupation with pimple-popping, we take a look at our most neurotic beauty practices
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Trimming (and Simultaneously Ruining) Your Bangs
Trimming your own bangs always seems like a good -- and economical idea -- until you decide to keep cutting just a little bit more to get them perfectly even. Somehow you still end up with uneven fringe or -- worse -- looking like Jim Carrey's character in "Dumb and Dumber."

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Nonstop Lip Balm Application
Not only do you start and end your day by reaching for your preferred lip balm, but you also reapply just about every chance you get: after your coffee break, before an important meeting, when your phone's dead and you need something to do with your hands. Your friends all think your lips are drier than the Mojave but you can't remember the last time your lips were actually chapped.

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Layering Like Crazy
Serum, moisturizer, sunblock, primer, foundation--on any given day, you layer on enough products that not even the sun, pollution or a nuclear weapon could penetrate your perfectly primed skin.

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Overplucking Your Eyebrows
In a never-ending quest to achieve perfectly symmetrical eyebrows, you can get a bit overzealous and compulsively pluck until there's not much to left to groom.

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Fastidiously Filing
File this behavior under obsessive: You've been known to binge-watch an entire season of your favorite show while attempting to achieve perfectly round-, square- or talon-shaped nails.

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BY ROSE CURIEL | SEP 25, 2015 | SHARES
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