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    Lauren Valenti

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    Beauty Editor

    Lauren Valenti is Vogue’s former senior beauty editor. Her work has also appeared on ELLE.com, MarieClaire.com, and in In Style. She graduated with a liberal arts degree from Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, with a concentration on Culture and Media Studies and a minor in Journalism.

    Latest articles by Lauren Valenti

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    This Telebeauty Technology Will Help You Fake an Entire Face of Makeup When You WFH

    Because we can't be bothered.

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      Hair "Shadowing" Is the Best Thing That's Happened to Fall Dye Jobs

      Buying Guide Take it from Gigi and J.Law.

      By Lauren Valenti

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      Lorelai Gilmore's "Vicious Trollop" Lip Color Can Now Be Yours

      At long last.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      Why #CelluliteSaturday Is the Best Thing That's Happened on Instagram in a While

      👏👏👏

      By Lauren Valenti

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      7 Things I Learned from Dressing Up as David Bowie for Halloween

      How To *Never looks at makeup the same way again*

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      The One Trick Every Beauty Vlogger Used for Their Halloween Makeup

      How To You won't believe the transformation.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      How to Bake Your Face Like Marilyn Monroe

      Features Kim Kardashian's makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic gives us the breakdown.

      By Lauren Valenti

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      The Nail Biter's Trick to Having Reasonable-Looking Nails

      Ladies, it's time.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Nails
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      5 Super-Easy Ways to Feel Better During Your Period

      How To Treat. Yo. Self.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      What. Is. This. Magic. Behold the *Genuinely* Life-Changing Cat-Eye Stamp

      Features Wait for it, wait for iiiiit—yes, you just witnessed everything change.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      Test Drive: Tarte's Quick-Dry Lip Colors Will Blow Your Mind in 10 Seconds or Less

      Watch out, Kylie.

      Beauty
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      I Tried Kate Middleton's Hairnet Look and It Holds Up Through *Everything*

      How To She's onto something.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Hairstyles, Haircuts, and Hair Colors
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      8 Ways To Make Your Halloween Wig Look Real AF

      How To Your costume depends on it.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      Ariel Winter on Body-Shaming, Clapping Back, and Donald Trump's "Nasty Woman" Comment

      She's just not having it 👊.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      The 8 Coolest Things That Happened at the Kenzo x HM Show

      Um, best fashion event ever.

      By Lauren Valenti

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      15 Reasons Winter Vacations Are Better Than Tropical Ones

      Features FWIW: They're just as Instagrammable.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Travel
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      I.C.E.: 6 Face Mask Pods You Should Have on You at All Times

      Buying Guide Your skin will thank you.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      Confirmed: The Labia Puffing Trend Is Just as Crazy as It Sounds

      Ouch. But also, more power to any woman that goes there.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      I Got a Diamond Facial and It Changed My Face

      💎💎💎.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      The Fascinating History of the Female Mullet

      It's come a long way.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Makeup
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      Every It Girl Is Wearing Clip-In Bangs...and We've Got the Receipts to Prove it

      Because real or not, fringe is a game-changer.

      Beauty
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      Everything You Need to Know About MAC's New Nutcracker Sweet Collection

      Holiday beauty porn at its finest.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      Everything You Need to Know About Tyra Banks' Life-Changing New Skincare Line

      Features AKA the secret to why she looks exactly the same as she did 13 years ago.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Skincare
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      The Future Is Now: Smashbox Is Selling a 3D-Printed Lipstick You Can Customize

      Pucker up.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Makeup
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      Because We Should Have Seen This Coming: "Boob Masking" Is Officially a Thing

      The thirst is real.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Skincare
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      Brace Yourself: Urban Decay Is Releasing the Rainbow Palette of Your Dreams

      ::clears room on vanity::

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      The YOLO Guide to Tuscany

      Features Life is short. Rent the villa.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Travel
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      The Inevitable Has Happened: Glitter Nipples Are Now a Thing

      And it's all thanks to Saint Laurent.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      The Crystal Lips Trend Is About to Blow Your Mind

      Your amethyst bookends just became #inspo.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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      These New Magnetic Face Masks Will Declog Every Pore and Blow Your Mind All at Once

      It's the Cleopatra effect.

      By Lauren Valenti

      Beauty
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