If you're like me, you spent last week ooh-ing and aah-ing over the latest runway looks at Paris Couture Fashion Week. Sure, there were a few SMH moments, like the Cindy-Lou Who updos at Alexis Mabille (see, below) but otherwise, I was smitten. Here's the thing: Those avant garde looks may seem over-the-top, but they really forecast what's going to be huge in beauty come autumn. You just…  

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Cinya Burton

Tags: Hair, Makeup, Nails, Summer

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I have a love-hate relationship with summer beauty. I love the neon nail polish colors, the yummy smell of Hawaiian Tropic sunscreen, and that it's perfectly acceptable to apply copious amounts of bronzer. I hate that the warm weather turns my curls into a frizzy pouf of epic mushroom-shaped proportions. While some women gush over the fact that summertime is the season of…  

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Cinya Burton

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I was a bride once. It was a sunny, lovely backyard ceremony in Montecito, Calif. But the pink dress I'd settled on (much like the groom himself) turned out not to have been the best choice. And, when I'm totally honest about it, looking back, lots of things were "wrong" with that day; my newly colored hair was too stark in the sunshine, the style too-sprayed and I went way too trendy with…  

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Virginia Pelley

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They say bigger is better, and when it comes to ballerina buns, I would have to agree. It's not that I don't love the trendy topknots celebrities have been flaunting it's just that I need the voluminous structure in a BIG bun to even out my slightly smaller head. Pinhead aside, is there anything more elegant than a thick, glossy bun? You know the kind that makes it look like you have tons of…  

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Cinya Burton

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I am un-coordinated. This fact is old hat to regular readers of this column but, in the interest of making any new kids on the block feel right at home, I thought I'd self-flagellate a bit. Yes, it's true that when god was doling out thumbs, I got five. But just because I'm not the most adroit gal at the beauty counter doesn't mean I don't like to try my hand at certain "getting…  

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Audrey Fine

Tags: Hair, Summer

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