In fact, Jennifer and Living Proof will be solving the hair problems of one very lucky lady with a contest revolving around the brand’s new web series, “Good Hair Day.” The series features the tress obsessions and confessions of women everywhere, plus insightful commentary from longtime mane man to Aniston (and creator of the “Rachel” haircut), Chris McMillan. Living Proof is encouraging you to share your own bad hair day obsessions, confessions and lessons (and who doesn’t have any or all of the above?) on livingproof.com/goodhairday for a chance to win a meet-and-greet with Jennifer and get a haircut from McMillan! The deadline to upload your pics and videos is May 24.

In the meantime, I chatted with the down-to-earth actress about her monster hair moments and missteps, because, like all of us, she cops to having bad hair days.

When you’re not in the stylist’s chair, what do you do to your hair?

“I will blow-dry it; and I don’t always blow it completely straight because I have naturally wavy hair. But the good thing about the discovery of Living Proof products is that it makes it so much easier to handle the frizzy aspect of my hair. It’s got its kinks, and those ‘natural’ highlights that start to grow in. (Laughs.) With rapid speed!”

Who is your beauty inspiration?

“I always love Kate Moss; she’s just classic. Giselle Bundchen—she has beautiful hair. Those two always get it.”

Did you ever bring a picture of a celebrity to the salon and say, “I want this?”

“I’ve been that person who brought in a picture [of a celebrity] to salon. I know what that’s like, when you see a photograph of what you want; it’s your easy go-to, rather than describing it [to the stylist]. Mine was Valerie Bertinelli from One Day at a Time. I know exactly what she was wearing. I think it was from People magazine… She had that great, full Farrah Fawcett-esque hair. I didn’t come out with that—not even close.”

When was the first time you had good hair?

“I should have known better; I had great hair as a kid, and my mom said, ‘You’re not allowed to touch your hair until you’re 13,’ and she was right. The first thing I did was cut it all off, and realized, ‘Wow, I’ve never had it do this.’ I learned that my hair was not long and cute, but wide and unmanageable—kind of a pain in the butt. I learned all my lessons in my younger years of what not to do.”

(Jennifer and her mane man, Chris McMillan)

Do you get the itch to change your hair drastically?

“I do and then I’m talked out of it. Because somebody else knows better. I usually just get a trim.”

If you could, though, would you?

“I’ve always thought about going back to brunette. But I do think it’s fun to play with hair in movies.”

People often reference the “Rachel” as you big hair moment. But do you have a favorite hair look from your past?

“I loved my Along Came Polly hair. It was long and all natural, so I could let my blonde grow out. It was really dirty and whimsical; I just liked it. You always get hair in a movie that you could never get in real life. Like I had bangs in Marley and Me, but if I cut bangs on myself, they won’t look like that.”

Do you have a fantasy hair product? One that doesn’t exist yet?

“It’s so funny you say that. I’ll be chatting about it with Living Proof. But…I can’t talk about it yet. It’s so exciting to get in there and solve all those hair problems that all women have.”

Check out the first two videos from the Living Proof web series, “Good Hair Day.”

Ready to confess your tress addictions and afflictions? Go to livingproof.com/goodhairday and upload your pictures and video for a chance to meet Jennifer Aniston and a hair makeover with Chris McMillan. Who knows? Maybe you’ll boast the next “Rachel”!

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This time, I actually tasked myself with dreaming up the nail art design using my Fearless Beauty collection, and now Dermelect and I want YOU to put polish to nail and recreate the nail art for a chance to win!

Welcome to the final of three Dermelect ME Fearless Beauty Nail Art Challenges! The third task: “Dash Graphic” nail art.

First – Here’s how to enter:

1. Recreate this “Dash Graphic” nail art look using pink, yellow, green and blue polishes. You can either recreate this nail art design EXACTLY or you can create your own design, but you must use the “repeated dash” element seen in this nail art somewhere in your design as well as the same color scheme (pink, blue, green and yellow).

2. Take a picture of your nail art design. LIKE Dermelect’s Facebook page, and upload your design to the Facebook page.

3. Spread the word! Reblog, Instagram, tweet or share your Facebook post with hashtag #Fearlessbeauty, and follow Dermelect on Twitter or Pinterest. The more ways you follow/share, the more entries you get!

4. Leave a comment with your uploaded picture, including details of how you shared this post (if relevant).

This THIRD of THREE nail art contests will run midnight Monday May 13, 2013 and ending 11:59pm Sunday May 19, 2013. Entrants must be from the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).

You can enter as many times as you like; however, you can only win once.

Winners will be announced shortly after each contest ends on FearNoBeauty.com and Dermelect’s Facebook page.

(Here’s the design in daylight; the colors look much truer here than in my step-by-step below. I opted to vary the color positions from nail to nail, and even changed up the way they swerve to give the look a more chaotic feel.)

1. Start with a base-coated nail. Apply one coat of blue polish. Allow to dry.

2. Using a striping brush or detail brush and pink polish, and starting at the center of the nail at the cuticle area, draw a dash. Continue to draw dashes up the nail in a diagonal line, with each dash getting a little smaller. (One thing I should note about the Dermelect ME polishes: I didn’t have to go back over the dashes with a second coat of color; they were extremely vibrant on the first stroke. That’s a lot of pigment!)

3. Using the same technique, draw a curved line of dashes using yellow polish.

4. Finish your design with the same technique and green polish.

5. Allow all nails to dry and seal with high-shine top coat.

Now, you try this design, or a version of this design, and upload your creation to Dermelect’s Facebook page, as well as Tweet and Instagram the look with the tag #FearlessBeauty, and you could be the winner of the Fearless Beauty collection plus Makeover Ridge Filler.

We’re so excited to see what you come up with! Good luck!

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The good news: Dermatologists believe that the new labeling requirements will take the guesswork out of choosing an effective sunscreen with the best sun protection.

Sunscreen labels now are required to provide consumers with information about whether a sunscreen will protect against skin cancer in addition to sunburn. New labels will also indicate whether or not the product is water-resistant. And sunscreen isn’t the only product affected: Makeup and moisturizers containing sunscreen that meets the FDA’s testing standards also will include this new information on their labels. All sunscreen products that do not pass the new FDA testing requirements will include warning labels specifying their sun-protective limitations.

“Sunscreen has always been an important tool in the fight against skin cancer, and these new regulations will greatly improve the consumer’s ability to make smart decisions—at a glance—about a product’s effectiveness simply by reading the label,” says board-certified dermatologist Zoe D. Draelos, MD, FAAD, consulting professor at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N.C. “Everyone, regardless of skin color, can get skin cancer, which is why it is important for people to properly protect themselves from the sun’s harmful rays.”

On the label, you’ll see whether the sunscreen:

+ Is Broad Spectrum, which means the sunscreen protects against UVB and UVA rays and helps prevent skin cancer and sunburn.

+ Has a Sun Protection Factor (SPF) of 30 or higher. While SPF 15 is the FDA’s minimum recommendation for protection against skin cancer and sunburn, the American Academy of Dermatology recommends choosing a sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30.

+ Has a Skin Cancer/Skin Aging Alert in the Drug Facts section of the label, which means the sunscreen will only prevent sunburn and will not reduce the risk of skin cancer and early skin aging.

+ Is Water-Resistant for up to 40 minutes or 80 minutes, which means the sunscreen provides protection while swimming or sweating up to the time listed on the label. (P.S.: As part of the new guidelines, sunscreen manufacturers now are banned from claiming that a sunscreen is “waterproof” or “sweat proof,” as the FDA has determined that those terms are misleading. Truth. How many times did you get an “accidental” burn because you thought your sunscreen was waterproof? Raises hand…)

With the new regulations, the FDA has clearly defined the testing required for a sunscreen to be labeled as “broad-spectrum.” For a sunscreen to carry the claim that it can help prevent skin cancer and early skin aging in addition to sunburn, it must offer both broad-spectrum coverage and an SPF of 15 or higher. If not, the label will carry the Skin Cancer/Skin Aging Alert.

Learn more about what SPF really means and how it works!

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(Information and infograph courtesy of the American Academy of Dermatology, ADD)

What’s at stake: Winning my nail polish collaboration with Dermelect, Fearless Beauty, a collection of four creamy colors—Buzz-worthy yellow, Fearless cerulean, Moxie pink and Renegade jade—plus Dermelect Runway Ready Luxury Foot Treatment (a complete retail value of $81).

So, here’s the deal: A-list manicurist Elle crafted this nail art design using my Fearless Beauty collection, and now we want YOU to put polish to nail and recreate the nail art for a chance to win!

Welcome to the second of three Dermelect ME Fearless Beauty Nail Art Challenges! The second task: “Fun Floral” nail art.

First – Here’s how to enter:

1. Recreate this “Fun Floral” nail art look using pink, yellow and blue polishes. You can either recreate this nail art design EXACTLY or you can create your own design, but you must use the “floral” element seen in this nail art somewhere in your design as well as the same color scheme (pink, blue and yellow).

2. Take a picture of your nail art design. LIKE Dermelect’s Facebook page, and upload your design to the Facebook page.

3. Spread the word! Reblog, Instagram, tweet or share your Facebook post with hashtag #Fearlessbeauty, and follow Dermelect on Twitter or Pinterest. The more ways you follow/share, the more entries you get!

4. Leave a comment with your uploaded picture, including details of how you shared this post (if relevant).

This SECOND of THREE nail art contests will run midnight Monday May 5, 2013 and ending 11:59pm Sunday May 12, 2013. Entrants must be from the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).

You can enter as many times as you like; however, you can only win once.

Winners will be announced shortly after each contest ends on FearNoBeauty.com and Dermelect’s Facebook page.

(Here’s my first attempt at this nail art look; not too shabby! Now, you try!)

1. Start with a base-coated nail. Apply two coats of bubble-gum pink polish. Allow to dry.

2. Using a large dotting tool, create your blue flowers by placing three dots of blue polish together in a triangle formation. Repeat this several times on the nail, but keep your placement random. “There should be no rhyme or reason to your placement,” says Elle. “In fact, make sure to do them as ‘partial’ flowers on the edges of the nails so it looks even more imperfect, as though it’s a print.”

3. Using a small dotting tool, dot the middle of each flower with yellow polish.

4. Allow all nails to dry and seal with high-shine top coat.

Now, you try this design, or a version of this design, and upload your creation to Dermelect’s Facebook page, as well as Tweet and Instagram the look with the tag #FearlessBeauty, and you could be the winner of the Fearless Beauty collection plus Runway Ready Luxury Foot Treatment.

We’re so excited to see what you come up with! Good luck! …and stay tuned for the next nail art challenge, which will post May 13!

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Backstage at the Trina Turk Fall 2013 show, I chatted with celebrity nail tech Gina Eppolito about the nail design. (Side note: I didn’t know Gina by sight, and I asked someone to point her out to me. They pointed me to a woman with a black bob, who I sat and interviewed about the nail look for a good four minutes. She seemed not to know what the hell I was talking about, but she played along. Guess who it was? TRINA Turk. Embarrassing…but “Trina” and “Gina” do sound alike…) The manicure boasted a gorgeous high-gloss shine, which Gina attributed to Julep’s Freedom Polymer Top Coat. “It’s so fast-drying that it’s perfect for backstage—whenever you’re strapped for time,” she said. “It’s what we call ‘gel-like;’ it has to be housed in this black bottle because natural light cures it. Once you put it on the nails, it cures—that’s why it dries super-fast.” The best part? “It’s not invasive to remove; just use non-acetone remover!” she exclaimed.

When I played with it myself, I was shocked at how fast it dried; I was able to bump my nails against whatever I liked (and avoid that dreaded bed-sheet problem I encounter) within minutes of applying it. The directions say it cures in 5 minutes in natural light, but that if you want to speed up the process you can hold your nails up to a 60-watt light bulb for a 2-minute cure. As for the shine? It is pillow-y like a gel, and extremely reflective. Another side benefit I noticed: I had some bubbles form in my polish job (eek!), and when I sealed the design with Freedom, the bubbles disappeared. Weird…but welcome. As far as durability, each time I’ve worn it, I apply only one coat (Gina used two at the Trina Turk show, but I felt that would look too thick on my nails), and it holds up beautifully for a week.

The last key to this glossing product: It removes with non-acetone remover, which any gel-wearer knows is an amazing attribute. So, you can have the gel-like shine without the acetone removal—sign up anyone who loves the sound of that!

Get your Julep Freedom Polymer Top Coat at julep.com.

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It only makes sense that changing your haircolor will effect your skin tone, so you want to choose a red hue that complements your skin, rather than fights against it. “I go by a basic rule of thumb with red selection: If you have olive undertones in your skin, a cool red shade is going to look best. If your skin has a pink undertone, then stick with warm, coppery reds,” says Ammon. “Either way, cool or warm, the reds should look natural and rich—never punk.”

He recommends: If you’re seeking box color, try L’Oréal Paris Féria Power Reds. Want warm, copper red? Use R68 (Rich Auburn). Looking for something cooler? Try R37 (Deep Burgundy). But if you don’t trust your own hand to take you to red, visit a salon pro. Ammon points to Matrix COLORINSIDER Precision Permanent Color, an ammonia-free, permanent haircolor that maximizes high-definition color results with minimum stress to the hair’s cuticle, as a great dye to bring you healthy, scarlet strands.

Proof positive that red hair dye likes to skip town on strands? The bottom of my shower curtain, which, when I go redhead, takes on a soft shade of rose. But since you simply can’t stop washing your hair altogether (but, why not? she whines), Ammon advises, “Use cool water when washing your hair, skip days between washes, and always, always, always use a color-safe shampoo and conditioning system. This is most important with reds, as the key to rocking the shade is keeping it vibrant.” True that!

He recommends: Alba Botanica Hawaiian Colorific Plumeria Shampoo and Conditioner, which is free of color-stripping sulfates and drying salts. What they do include: vitamin-rich Plumeria, Pinneapple and Papaya, and the conditioner also has Jojoba, Kukui and Macadamia to nourish over-processed or damaged hair cuticles.

Another way to keep your crimson dye job in the vibrant zone: Use a clear at-home glaze after your color service. The sooner you do it, the better your chances of keeping the intensity of your dye job longer.

He recommends: Oscar Blandi At-Home Salon Glaze, which, when used weekly, prevents color fading and adds moisture, brightens natural and color-treated hair, and protects hair from heat damage.

If washing your hair too much (even with color-safe formulas) will strip your hair of it’s new red hue, what’s a greasy-scalp girl supposed to do? Turn to dry shampoo, of course! And though you may blanch at the idea—after all, doesn’t dry shampoo serve to make your hair look more matte, which is the opposite of vibrant and shiny?—new dry shampoo formulas promise not to dull your strands as they sap away the grease.

He recommends: Drybar Detox Dry Shampoo, which absorbs oils while adding body and lift with no color-dulling residue.

Listen: Red isn’t for everyone, so think your transition through. “If your hair is dark, chances are you’ll need to lighten your hair before you color it, which can be a bit more damaging,” says Ammon. “Minimize the stress by using moisturizing, repairing and hydrating products.” Have light hair? “You’ll likely need what is called a filler, a preliminary deposit of color on your hair that will enable it to hold the final red tone,” he says. “By filling and coloring your hair in one day, you are committing to keeping you hair red (or at least a darker shade) for a while, making regular touch-ups important, too.” Talk through your options with a colorist, and see if you’re ready to make the long-term commitment.

He recommends: MATRIX Total Results Color Care Miracle Treat 12 Lotion Spray, which will help strengthen compromised hair (those who were dark, and chose to pre-lighten their hair for the ensuing red), making it silkier and more manageable. Blondes can keep their roots in check with Oscar Blandi Pronto Colore Root Touch-Up & Highlighting Pen in Warm Reddish Brown, which affords seamless coverage with just a few swipes.

So, are you ready to go red? Now that you’re armed with Ammon’s do’s and don’ts, taking the crimson leap should be a cinch!

Have you recently gone redhead? Share your maintenance tips in the comments!

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So I am delighted by Ciaté’s Chalkboard Manicure kit, which includes everything you need to treat your nails like they’re a chalkboard: four “liquid” chalk pens, a black matte Paint Pot and a matte top coat. The finished effect is much like chalk, so it’s imperfect and child-like by design. Strangely, I’ve seen people gripe (angrily, actually…which is just silly) about the fact that the chalkboard mani looks childish—but that’s the point! It’s fun and irreverent; it’s not to be taken so seriously.

I actually love it; I think the imperfection is what makes it so charming. The kit includes a booklet of doodle designs (think: keyholes, stars, stripes, etc.) you can swipe, but I created my own looks easily. Of course, there is a method to the madness of this kit, and to get the most out of it, you really need to follow the following steps.

What you need:

+ Your Chalkboard Manicure Kit

+ A piece of paper

Step 1: Apply two coats of the provided black Chalkboard Nail Pot polish. You can apply just one coat—there is enough coverage—but I found that two really provided the perfect chalkboard canvas. Allow the polish to dry completely—and this is a must. Because you will be doodling on your nails with pens (hence, applying some pressure), your “chalkboard” foundation must be bone-dry so that you don’t smudge it.

Step 2: Pick one of the four chalk polish pens (my fave is pink Jump Rope). On your piece of paper, press the nib of the pen down repeatedly until the liquid “chalk” flows to the nib. You need to do this to get the color flowing; be patient until you see a good amount of flow.

Step 3: Scribble to your heart’s desire! Just like chalk, this liquid “chalk” pen is very forgiving; if you make a mistake, wet a tissue with water and then “erase” your design. Just like that: You can start over.

Step 4: Once your design is finished, seal it with a layer of the provided Mattnificent clear matte top coat.

Some quirks to note: Sometimes the liquid chalk flows a little too much. I found that my blue came gushing out on my second manicure (I’ve played with this kit twice in one week, that’s how much fun I think it is!); the blue was extremely watery in this instance. The only way to problem-solve this is to be sure that your nib is flowing with a good amount of “thick” color—meaning, if it seems too transparent/watery, keep pushing the nub on your paper until you get the right consistency. Also: Drawing one color over another can be problematic. I found the liquid chalk didn’t really want to stay put when drawn over other liquid chalk. To problem-solve this, apply one color, and if you wish to draw over it with another color, first use the matte top coat, THEN apply the second color. In truth, the liquid chalk grabs the clear matte top coat really well, so it actually has better pigment pay-off if you do this.

And there you have it: a chalkboard manicure! Class dismissed!

Visit sephora.com to pick up your Ciaté Chalkboard Manicure kit.

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What will the prize be? You can win: The complete Fearless Beauty nail polish collection plus Dermelect Timeless Anti-Aging Hand Cream (a $78 value).

Welcome to the first of three Dermelect ME Fearless Beauty Nail Art Challenges! The first task: “Do the Wave” nail art.

First – Here’s how to enter:

1. Recreate this “Do the Wave” nail art look using a yellow polish and a blue polish. You can either recreate this nail art design EXACTLY or you can create your own design, but you must use the “wave” element seen in this nail art somewhere in your design as well as the same color scheme (blue and yellow).

2. Take a picture of your nail art design. LIKE Dermelect’s Facebook page, and upload your design to the Facebook page.

3. Spread the word! Reblog, Instagram, tweet or share your Facebook post with hashtag #Fearlessbeauty, and follow Dermelect on Twitter or Pinterest. The more ways you follow/share, the more entries you get!

4. Leave a comment with your uploaded picture, including details of how you shared this post (if relevant).

This FIRST of THREE nail art contests will run midnight Monday April 29, 2013 and ending 11:59pm Sunday May 5, 2013. Entrants must be from the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii).

You can enter as many times as you like; however, you can only win once.

Winners will be announced shortly after each contest ends on FearNoBeauty.com and Dermelect’s Facebook page.

(Here’s my first attempt at this nail art look; not too shabby! Now, you try!)

Here’s how to recreate the look:

1. Start with a base-coated nail. Paint half of the nail yellow; do on all 10 nails. Allow to dry.

2. Working on one nail at a time, paint the other half of the blue.

3. While the blue is still wet, repaint the yellow half of the nail in yellow.

4. Using a toothpick or dotter tool, lightly drag the tip of the tool back and forth between where the two colors meet. You’ll want to do a zigzag movement.

5. Repeat steps 2-4 on all remaining nails, remembering to work one nail at a time so that your polish remains tacky/wet when you create your “wave” design.

6. Allow all nails to dry and seal with high-shine top coat.

Now, you try this design, or a version of this design, and upload your creation to Dermelect’s Facebook page, as well as Tweet and Instagram the look with the tag #FearlessBeauty, and you could be the winner of the Fearless Beauty collection plus Timeless Anti-Aging Hand Cream.

We’re so excited to see what you come up with! Good luck! …and stay tuned for the next nail art challenge, which will post May 6!

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A sad fact, but I still feel compelled to write about one of my most recent, greatest and most affordable ($6.98) beauty discoveries: Flower Kiss Stick Velvet Lip Color in Flamingo Flower. I was sent it as a sample for possible submission in the May/June 2013 issue of Nail It! magazine; I gave it twirl to see how it performed. Immediately, I fell for it (and featured it, too!). What got me gushing? The texture is amazing; it glides on smooth and velvety, as the name says, and it has a matte finish. But it’s so much more than simply matte and velvety. It has this translucent quality that somewhat allows your natural lip hue to shine through, making it extremely flattering. I don’t know how else to describe it.

Regrettably (for me), I cut the lipstick up and shot it as a “swish” for the magazine and was left with a small nub of it that I have hoarded due to my inability to purchase it online. By the time I went to buy a replacement at Walmart.com (Flower is exclusively sold by Walmart, and, if you didn’t know, is the brainchild of actress Drew Barrymore), it was sold out. I’d actually wanted to buy Get to the Poinsetta as well, which I think is a true red that probably retains the same velvet-translucent-matte quality as the Flamingo Flower. It also was sold out.

The Walmart.com website does list nearby stores where limited quantities are in stock, but I don’t have a car. So I’ll be obsessively checking the website until it comes back in stock…some day. One can hope.

If you’re near a Walmart, get thee there ASAP so you can snap up these hot, hot, hot Flower Kiss Stick Velvet Lip Colors. Trust me, you won’t be disappointed.

Do you have one of the elusive Flower Kiss Stick Velvet Lip Colors? If so, tell me your thoughts on it in the comments!

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Naturally, I’m going to share my gym-bag-o-tricks with you, so that you too can spend most of your gym time working out rather than cleaning up.

(Everything I need to beautify post-workout.)

Don’t be silly: Take off your foundation before you workout. This is a rookie mistake, but I figured that since I’m not prone to breakouts, I’d be OK leaving my makeup on, right? Wrong. After a bad breakout, I started using Burt’s Bees Facial Wipes for Sensitive Skin. These handy little wipes do an excellent job of wiping off dirt and makeup without drying out my skin. I use them before working out and after, but—and this is important—I make sure to leave my eye makeup intact. Which brings me to my next trick…

Save time by leaving on eye makeup. I’ve learned that I don’t have to reapply eye makeup after a good workout or even a shower so long as I use Urban Decay’s Primer Potion before doing my eye makeup in the morning. Seriously: It really does allow whatever makeup mastery you do on your eyes to stick and stay.

After my workout, I take a quick shower in double-time. (It’s amazing how fast you can be when you want to!) If my hair is too sweaty to be recovered, I use travel-sized Organix shampoo and conditioner to bring it back to a smell-good state.

I’ve found that the trick to a successful post-gym but pre-go-anywhere-important shower is to finish with a blast of really cold water to lower the body temperature. Otherwise, your body is still so heated from your workout that you’ll be sweating post-shower as you reapply makeup. And what’s the point of that?

If my hair doesn’t need to be washed, I’m spraying my roots with Kenra Platinum Dry Shampoo as soon as I step out of the shower. This way, the dry shampoo has time to dry while I quickly apply lotion and touch up my makeup.

Two of my favorite gym-bag items are my roll-on perfume/lip gloss combo and my Double Agent Eyes by Secret Agent Beauty eyeliner/mascara combo. They take up less space in my bag, and they make application easier since it’s one less thing to dig around for while in a rush.

After lotioning up, I grab my Benefit Hello Flawless travel-sized foundation and use my fingers to smooth it around my face. I use a makeup-remover Q-Tip by I.D. to swipe off any stray mascara around my eyes, and I touch up my mascara just a tiny bit. I then use my small brush to smooth my hair out of its post-ponytail craziness, and I run the travel-sized Bedhead Groupie straightener through it. This straightener is perfect for the gym because it’s pocket-sized (1/2 inch!) but it still heats up in 30 seconds, so it doesn’t slow me down.

(Here I am prior to the workout: non-sweaty, happy, not in pain from my workout…yet.)

(Here I am directly after the workout, and yes, I know I’m a brave soul for showing anyone this photo. Note the sweat-soaked hair, bundled in a hair knot, which means it will look super-unruly when I take it down.)

(And then, here I am in 20 minutes flat, on my way back to work, looking as though I never once perspired. Note the dry, clean and smooth hair, the sweat-free brow and the eye makeup I barely had to touch. I’d say I might look even a little better than before the gym!)

Now that the Gunnar Challenge is officially over, I have to maintain my fitness routine on my own. Good thing I have the beauty routine figured out already! —Jessyca Dewey

Do you have any post-gym beauty tricks? Share them in the comments!

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