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• What Smart Beauty Means to Me: Very Careful Tweaks and Additions  

  • By Bryce Gruber

  

  Sometime around when the hormones come rushing in and the training bras are first purchased, there’s a newfound love and devotion to one’s appearance. I know it was around the beginning of middle school for me, and somewhere around eleven and a half years old I suddenly found myself reading Teen magazine, studying the images of who and what was beautiful, and figuring out what it all meant to me. I remember running to one of my older cousins with a ripped out page of some then-starlet and quickly saying “this is exactly how I want you to make my makeup look! And my face. All of me. 

• What Smart Beauty Means to Me 

  • By Aly Walansky

  

  Hi, Smart Beauty Guide readers! 

  I’m really excited to be part of the team here, partially because smart beauty has become an increasingly important part of my life over the last few years. 

• Things You Can Do to PREVENT Wrinkles, Other Than Not Smiling 

  • By Jenny Isenman

  

  I’m not gonna lie, I have had a laugh, cackle, guffaw and chortle cut short recently, because something in my brain reminded me that I was doing something far more significant than giddily enjoying myself and the moment - I was possibly setting my already apparent marionette lines and crow’s feet into a downward spiral of being etched even deeper into my once wrinkle-free face.  

• Getting Ready: Lifestyle Changes and Proper Prep Prior to Surgery 

  • By Mary Cunningham

  

  After months, if not years of looking at yourself in the mirror and tugging on that stubborn pocket of fat, or pulling back loose folds of skin, you may finally feel ready to take the plunge into the world of aesthetic plastic surgery.  

• What Does Smart Beauty Mean to Me? 

  • By Melissa Chapman

  

  If you had asked me for my definition of Smart Beauty when I was 21 years old, I would have immediately responded with, "Flawless skin, a size 2 waist, legs that go on for days, high cheekbones, full lips and a turned up nose." I think back to who that girl was and I want to take her face in my hands and tell her that smart beauty - real beauty starts from deep within you. It emanates from you and it’s a light that can't be extinguished.