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10 Winter Beauty Trends Men Love [PHOTOS]
Beauty trends men can't resist.

10 Winter Beauty Trends Men Love [PHOTOS]

Hair, makeup, nails and more to make you Valentine's Day-date ready.

Looking for some fun beauty ideas, just in time for Valentine's Day? We've rounded up a list of tips, tricks and trends to make you date-ready.

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Can a new hairstyle really help you move on from an ex?

Can A Post-Breakup Haircut Help Heal A Broken Heart? [EXPERT]

One Expert tackles the question: can changing your appearance help you get over your ex?

Many pop culture examples point to the external "breakovers" women engage in following a breakup. Is there really something to this? Can cutting our hair or buying a new outfit help us get to a place of being "over" an ex?

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It's 11/11/11!

11 Things A Good Boyfriend Would Never Ask You To Do

Just in time for 11/11/11.

We've all been in relationships where, at times, we've felt more like a mom or a secretary than a significant other. While we understand that healthy relationships require compromises, we've compiled a list of favors that good boyfriends know better than to consistently request. If you're constantly taking on any of the items on this list (especially with any hint of resentment), it's time to get your guy to lend a hand.

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Why don't we love our locks more?

Love & Beauty Links: Only 7% Of Women Love Their Hair?

Plus, 10 beauty "flaws" to love.

It's self-esteem month here at YourTango. Isn't it time to love yourself a little more, knotty hair and all? According to a new Dove survey, only 7% of women love their hair, and 20% have skipped a social function because of a bad hair day. Wha?!

Michelle Williams Confirms Straight Men Don't Like Short Hair
Michelle Williams Confirms Straight Men Don't Like Short Hair

Michelle Williams Confirms Straight Men Don't Like Short Hair

The actress reveals that women and gay men love her cropped hair; straight men, not so much.

For the past few years, 31-year-old actress Michelle Williams—of Brokeback Mountain and Blue Valentine fame—has been rocking a Mia Farrow-esque bob. While she knows her girlfriends and gay men in general love her hair, she recently told British Elle magazine (via The Telegraph) that men of the heterosexual variety do not like her short crop!

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Love & Beauty: One-Third Of Obese Women Were Sexually Abused

Plus, why you shouldn't trust men who love big boobs, and why hairy armpits are sexy.

Obese women are more likely to be sexually abused. Promiscuous men like big-breasted women. Why hairy armpits can be sexy. Natural hair. Secret eating. More health benefits of chocolate. Giving back for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Love Bytes: Your Divorce May Cost You Your Hair

Love Bytes: Your Divorce May Cost You Your Hair

Plus, the real reasons you're still single.

Women may lose their hair when they get divorced. Four things that are NOT making you single. How to help your guy dress like an adult. Adele thinks you can be friends with an ex. Tips for making cohabiting work. Empowered ladies have less sex.

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Study Says Gentlemen Prefer Brunettes

Men surveyed across the globe reveal that they prefer a curvy brunette to a skinny blonde.

As a curvier brunette with very dark brown hair—maybe even light black—I find that, when it comes to men, I lose to blondes…a lot. That might sound ridiculous to you, but I bet it makes perfect sense to the blonde girl that, er, distracted a guy I was having a fling with my senior year of college. But who's bitter? (I am. I so, so am.)

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My Marriage Caused Me To Break Up With My Waxist

How marriage and the porn industry has a woman frantically yearning for her long-lost esthetician.

Recently I've been coping with the aftermath of a breakup—not a separation from my significant other, mind you, but from my waxist. Our split was not for lack of compatibility. She works at an athletic club where my husband and I discontinued our membership for budgetary concerns. I knew I would miss my go-to gal, but I frankly I didn't realize quite how much. And I suspect my husband, ahem, misses her too.