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"  At Cosmo, we are constantly gabbing to beauty experts about the newest, never-before-heard tips. But sometimes, it&amp;#039;s the simplest, easiest-to-blow-off advice that makes the biggest difference to your hair, nails and skin...at least that&amp;#039;s what I&amp;#039;ve experienced in the last few weeks: ADVICE I&amp;#039;VE BEEN IGNORING: Blowdry your hair on medium (or low). In my race to get gorge each morning, I blast my just-washed strands with the highest heat setting of my blow-dryer...the reason my hair stylist had to chop off about five inches of split, desert-dry ends last month. His advice (which, I admit I&amp;#039;ve heard, even written about before): Back the eff off the heat! Apparently only those with super-coarse hair need the high setting, which just singes the rest of us. This past Sunday, I dried my &amp;#039;do on medium, went to bed...and woke up to shinier, way-bouncier hair.  ADVICE I&amp;#039;VE BEEN IGNORING: Apply oil daily to prevent hangnails. I&amp;#039;m a devout hand cream user (there&amp;#039;s always a bottle of Lubriderm on my desk). But for years, I&amp;#039;ve skipped the oil\u2014the most-often-recommended product by manicurists. (Why? It more deeply penetrates and moisturizes skin than lotion.) So a few months ago, I swiped a bottle of CND SolarOil from Cosmo&amp;#039;s beauty closet and decided to keep it on my desk in my direct line of sight. Now when I&amp;#039;m having a case of writer&amp;#039;s block or just catching up on the latest Tweets, I oil up my cuticles, seal it in with a little Lubriderm, then get back to work. Truth: my hands are way less hangnail-y than usual. And when there&amp;#039;s no time to cut my raggedy cuticles (or get a real mani), the oil conceals their chapped look so I don&amp;#039;t feel (or look) like a total slacker. ADVICE I&amp;#039;VE BEEN IGNORING: Moisturize your bod when it&amp;#039;s damp. Each winter (usually around February) I get a horrible case of itchy shins...and anytime I complain to a derm, he or she tells me I need to start moisturizing &amp;quot;as soon as I get out of the shower.&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s when skin is softest and best able to soak up hydration\u2014the same way a damp sponge absorbs a spill better than a bone-dry one. This winter, I have been doing just that (my lotion of choice: Jergen&amp;#039;s Overnight Repair) and have been 100 percent itch-free. ADVICE I&amp;#039;VE BEEN IGNORING: Eye cream is a must for every woman. Yes I&amp;#039;m admitting to skipping eye cream for the greater part of my 20s (beauty blasphemy, no doubt). But before my wedding last October, makeup artist Napoleon Perdis told me I must-must-must start using it. He suggested alternating a thick one at night (Ella Bache&amp;#039;s is his\u2014and now, my\u2014fave) with a lighter one in the morning (I love La Prairie Cellular Eye Contour Cream)...but, FYI, any thick-thin combo will do. The extra jolt of hydration has definitely helped fill in those little crow&amp;#039;s feet (oh mama, they&amp;#039;re starting!), and really brightens the area so it doesn&amp;#039;t look so dull as it once did. [* As a side note, I&amp;#039;m currently testing the Clarisonic Opal\u2014a high-tech, at-home tool that uses sonic vibrations to &amp;quot;push&amp;quot; eye cream deep into your skin\u2014and will report back on that soon!] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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