There are plenty of ways to identify a beauty junkie: She always sports a flawless face, holds an encyclopedic knowledge of every brand and changes her hair and makeup look up as often as her clothes.
But behind all those layers of perfectly applied beauty products lie some seriously quirky behaviors that many makeup-obsessed gals will not only recognize, but wholeheartedly endorse.
From their department store-like makeup organization standards to their bizarre fascination with pimple-popping, we take a look at the reasonable, peculiar and downright neurotic behaviors that compel many a beauty junkie.
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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.
