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05.16.2006

Because Babies & Purses Are Pretty Much the Only Things I Know Stuff About

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07.04.2006

Because Every Woman Deserves to Look Like Audrey Hepburn

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07.11.2006

Because I Was Just Feeling Particularly Talky

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08.01.2006

Because My Laptop Battery is About to Die ThisVerySecondWhoops

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08.16.2006

Because Nobody Else Wants to Discuss Your Hair As Much As I Do

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08.29.2006

Because I Have Been Just WAITING For the Chance to Whip Out Some Wedding Pictures

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09.12.2006

Because I Earned My Degree From Google University

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10.04.2006

Because I'm Not the Only Person Here Who Knows a Thing or Four

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10.11.2006

Because I Am Ready For My Close-Up, Mr. DeMille

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10.17.2006

Because...Blow Out!

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10.25.2006

Because Who Doesn't Love Free Stuff?

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11.01.2006

Because Anna Wintour Would Probably Sue

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11.02.2006

Because I Think it's Time For the Return of the Earmuff

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11.08.2006

Because I Updon't

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11.27.2006

Because It Pays to be a Shampoo Snob

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12.22.2006

The Beach Girls

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01.03.2007

The Things We Do To Our Hair For Love

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01.08.2007

Chop Chop

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01.19.2007

Kooky Things, Argh

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01.29.2007

Sleep Rocks

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03.07.2007

Various Issues of the Head Area

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04.13.2007

Curling Irons 101

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04.16.2007

O, That Way Madness Lies

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04.30.2007

Price Tag Cage Match: Root Boosters

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05.04.2007

To Bee or Not to Bee

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05.18.2007

Ponytails 101

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06.03.2007

Beauty on a Budget: I Was Told There Would Be No Math

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06.22.2007

How To Clean a Hairbrush?

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07.02.2007

Price Tag Cage Match: Drugstore vs. Salon Shampoos

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07.09.2007

Hair to Dye For

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07.20.2007

Mom Hair Styles: Advice

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07.23.2007

Smack Me Down: the Epilogue

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07.27.2007

The Uncolor

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07.29.2007

Five Hair Mistakes You Are Probably Making. Right Now! OMG! Stop!

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08.13.2007

Help My Husband's Hair!

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08.27.2007

The Salon Trap: Is My Stylist Ripping Me Off?

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08.31.2007

Flashback Friday: Psssssst Instant Spray Shampoo

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09.17.2007

Taming Wild Horses and Flyaway Hair

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10.03.2007

The Smackdown Checklist

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10.14.2007

Hope for Heat-Damaged Hair

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10.17.2007

Green for a Day: Homemade Beauty Treatments

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10.19.2007

"Damaging" Hair to Make it Better?

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10.24.2007

Mystery Meat: Deciphering Cosmetic Ingredients

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11.04.2007

Haircut for a Cause: Are Hair Donations Really Worth It?

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11.16.2007

Bedhead: Is it OK to Sleep With Wet Hair ?

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12.07.2007

Beauty Detox: Caring for Neglected Hair & Skin

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12.09.2007

Advice Smackdown Bat Signal: Hair Help in Houston

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02.01.2008

Wella Color Preserve: a Reasonably-Priced Salon Shampoo That WORKS? Yes!

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02.15.2008

Help for the Dry, Flaky Scalp of Mystery

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02.18.2008

When Everybody Hates Your Hair...and You Love It!

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02.25.2008

Growing Out the Baby Bangs

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03.10.2008

Exxon Valdez Head: Oily Hair That Just Won't Get Clean

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03.24.2008

Styling the Alpha Alpha Mom: Hairstyles for Grey Hair

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04.03.2008

What's That Smell: Does Shampoo Go Bad?

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04.07.2008

Beauty 101: the Blow Out

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