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They LIKE Me, They Really LIKE Me
By Lisa Barr I remember when I was desperately trying to get pregnant, after having lost three back-to-back pregnancies, and I would see pregnant women everywhere. When I was getting divorced, I...
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Perfect Beauty? I’ll Take A ‘Good Flaw’ Any Day
By Arden Edelcup (aka: The Beauty Babe) I devote countless hours doing exhaustive research on the subject of beauty (Marie Claire, Vogue and In-Style magazines) at my research laboratory (a.k.a. my...
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Lipgloss Wars: How to Diffuse the “Mom/Daughter-Makeup” Battle
By Arden Edelcup (aka: The Beauty Babe) “I like laugh lines. It means you’ve had a good life.” – Aerin Lauder/Cosmetics Mogul Last week, while I was working at my store’s cosmetics counter, one of my...
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Mirror, Mirror on YOUR Wall: Here’s How To Combat YOUR Worst Critic — YOU
By Arden Edelcup (aka: “The Beauty Babe”) “Cherish forever what makes you unique, because you are really a yawn if it goes.” — Bette Midler My all-time favorite hobby involves the critical...
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Sun Goddess Alert: 5 Summer Skin-Care Commandments Thou Shalt Obey
By Arden Edelcup (aka: The Beauty Babe) ”EVEN I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford” — Cindy Crawford Remember way back when … those of us who were raised in the ’70s and ’80s … “Fun in the...
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Who Do We REALLY Dress to Impress?
By Arden Edelcup (The “Beauty Babe”) In the last few years, Thursday nights have become a ritual of “Girls Night Out” among my group of friends looking to gloss it up and sip some fruity martinis at...
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Genetics Lottery: Are We Destined to Age Like Our Mothers?
By Arden Edelcup (aka: The Beauty Babe) “And the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows.” –Audrey Hepburn I am hardly making an original observation when I suggest that we live in a...
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MOTORCYCLE MAMA: 4 Top Fall Fashion Items You MUST Have
By Arden Edelcup “Beauty to Me is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a Kick-Ass Red Lipstick” – Gwyneth Paltrow It seems like only yesterday that we greeted the warm weather with a...
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Reality Injection: Top 5 Skincare Beauty Myths (aka: Beauty Bullshit)
By Arden Edelcup “Nothing ages worse than a beautiful woman’s ego” — Paulina Porizkova I have an embarrassing confession. On more than one occasion, I have become mesmerized by 3 a.m. infomercials...
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UN-MASKED: What Women Around-the-World Can Teach US About Beauty
By Arden Edelcup “Beautiful Young People are accidents by nature, but Beautiful Old People are works of art” – Eleanor Roosevelt Every single morning begins with the same masochistic ritual that I now...
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Past vs. Present: Are We Destined to Stay ’13′ Forever?
By Arden Edelcup “Normally I am pretty Zen about my looks, but I have my days.” — Julia Roberts Earl Sklare’s bar-mitzvah on June 21, 1977 was the date that I decided that I truly hated my ginormous,...
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LOVE THIS: Style Shack
Hey GIRLillas — If you are from Chi-Town and need a “Teacher Gift or Something Unique for THAT Someone Special” — head into one of our faves – Style Shack (1839 Second Street, Highland Park, IL 60035)...
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GIRLilla Warfare’s 2014 IN & OUT List
By Arden Edelcup In the end, only three things matter; how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. — Buddha Hello 2014!! Aren’t we all just a...
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Memory-Maker: Plan THE Coolest Summer Experience NOW For Your Kids
By GIRLilla Warfare Staff Are you unsure which overnight camp may be right for your kid? Is your high-schooler looking to build his or her resume for college by having a summer service-oriented...
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Men & Aging: Do They REALLY Accept It — Or Is This An Illusion?
By Arden Edelcup “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ― Franz Kafka My husband just turned 50, which means that I...
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Lollapalooza? Move Over. Make Way for LULUpalooza
Photograph by Robin Subar By Lisa Barr I kid you not. If God Forbid there were an emergency in my house and it needed to be evacuated — my daughters would save the dogs, their phones, and their Lulu...
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SUN Of A Bitch: 4 Steps To A SEXY (and Safe) Summer
By Arden Edelcup (aka: GIRLilla Warfare’s “Beauty Babe”) “If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: Who Cares?” ― Tina Fey, Bossypants How gleeful are we...
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Mean Girls, Mean Media: Attacking Renée Zellweger IS Middle-School Bullying...
By Lisa Barr Here’s what is headlining the news this week: ISIS, Ebola, and Renée Zellweger’s face. The first two are crises; the latter – seriously? Leave the woman alone. In a Botox-obsessed nation,...
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Injection Intervention: How Far SHOULD We Go For Ageless Beauty?
By Arden Edelecup (aka: The Beauty Babe) I turned 50 last month, and my friend Karyn turned 40. Now here is the shocking part of this statement: Despite our heroic efforts to defy the hands of time,...
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Shop ’til You Drop? Fuhgetabout It. Kick Start Your Fab Finds At ‘Loree’s...
By Loree Wasserman, owner of Loree’s Closet In case you had not noticed the subtle red, green, and gold decorations that have been adorning every store since before Halloween, the holidays are coming!...
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