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perfect 10

Finding a compact-sized palette that houses the essentials is easy; finding one with personality is the hard part. The search need not take long with Benefit's 10 palette, a collection that gives new meaning to the phrase "perfect 10." This palette, fashioned to look like a belt buckle, offers shades for your eyes, lips and cheeks and comes complete with application brushes and a built-in mirror, making it a perfect traveling companion. Benefit 10 palette, $28, Macy's

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risk free

If the Brazillian Hair Straightening system seems like a drastic tress-taming measure, that's because it is. Not only does fermaldahyde accompany the treatment, but your locks will have about as much body as an Olsen twin once you're done. For a happy medium, consider the Rusk Radical AntiCurl. Perfectly safe, this system de-frizzes and relaxes the hair without completely robbing it of volume. You can easily bounce back and forth between stick straight and bold body with this one. Rusk Radical AntiCurl, $125 per hour with a free consultation, Euphoria at Boca Park

how bazaar

Find out whether your style is more classicist or maverick with Harper's Bazaar's new book, "Great Style: Best Ways to Update Your Look." If you identify more with Jennifer Aniston and Elle Macpherson and the toned-down colors and subtle nods to trends they wear, you're probably more of a classicist. Mavericks, including Madonna and Cate Blanchett, go for unexpected and unusual colors. Much like the magazine, the book also moves through the age decades beginning with actresses in their 20s such as Ashley Olsen and Kirsten Dunst who dress playful, lighthearted, sweet and sexy. It culminates with women in their 70s and above such as Barbara Walters and Mary Tyler Moore. And as fashion pros are wont to do, the editors offer tips on what to wear for work, cocktails and red carpet. "Great Style: Best Ways to Update Your Look," $24.95, Barnes & Noble

sign of the times

Age has a strange way of creeping up on you. You can help halt the signs of aging with the Dermalogica Age Smart Starter Kit, a one-month introduction to the new line. The kit includes a cleanser, mask, mist, anti-aging cream, moisturizer with SPF 25, eye cream and lip cream. You may not stop time, but you can at least fight it for a month. Dermalogica Age Smart Starter Kit, $52, Omni Chemist at Fashion Show mall

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