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Glam it up! Looking for the perfect way to be outrageously gorgeous for the holidays without spending a ton of cash? Take one of your current favorite pieces and add our special touches. They're all under $20!


Go Bold Glam START WITH Your favorite new velvet jacket ADD Long earrings and fabulous fake lashes

GET THE LOOK

ON EYES Form lid to crease, swipe the deep purple shadow from mary-kateandashley Satin Shimmers Creamy Eye Color in Wine & Roses ($4, drugstores). Use the dark pink in the crease.

THE LACHES A defense to an equitable action, that bars recovery by the plaintiff because of the plaintiff's undue delay in seeking relief.

Laches is a defense to a proceeding in which a plaintiff seeks equitable relief.
 Japonesque Luscious Lashes Kit in Purple ($8, japonesque.com) are easy to apply.

ON CHEEKS Dust Bobbi Brown Blush in Pink Clay ($20, department stores) from the apples of cheeks to hairline hair·line
n.
The outline of the growth of hair on the head, especially across the front.
.

ON LIPS Lips look best neutral with GOSH High Shine Lip Cream in Pearl Beige ($11, goshcosmetics.com).

Earrings, $11, 'ZAD, zad.com. Jacket, Soundgirl, soundgirl.com.

Go Retro Glam

START WITH Your favorite cute tee ADD A sweet shrug and lots of pins

GET THE LOOK

ON EYES Update your cateye eye by lining along your top lashes with glittering bronze instead of black (Styli-Style Flat Pencil in Milano, $7, styli-style.com). Highlight rest of eye with Rimmel Metallic Cream Shadow in Portobello por·to·bel·lo   or por·ta·bel·la or por·to·bel·la
n. pl. por·to·bel·los or por·ta·bel·las
A mature, very large cremini mushroom.



[Origin unknown.]
 ($4.25, drugstores).

ON LASHES We used Ardell Elegant Eyes False Lashes in Black ($4, drugstores) and a couple coats of Stila Major Lash Mascara in Black ($9.50, sephora.com).

ON CHEEKS Get a subtle flush from Neutrogena Healthy Skin Blends Sheer Highlighting Blush in Fresh ($13, dructstores).

ON LIPS Red lips are back! Try Bourjois Effect 3D Cosmic Lip Gloss in Rouge Critic ($15, sephora.com).

Shrug $13, mary-kateandashley Wal-mart. Pins, S1 each, Hollywood Mirror, 1-773-404-2044. T-shirt, Soundgirl.

Go Girlie girl·ie also girl·y  
adj. Informal
Featuring minimally clothed or naked women typically in pornographic contexts: girlie magazines.
 Glam

START WITH A black puffer puffer, common name for some tropical marine fish of the family Tetraodontidae. The puffers and their allies, the boxfish, the porcupinefish, and the ocean sunfish or headfish, form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes).  and a necklace ADD A low-slung hair bow, a lucky charm and a full-on frosty eye

GET THE LOOK

ON EYES Eyes pop when you go corner to corner and lash-line to brow with MAC Paints Eye Shadow in Mauvism ($15, maccosmetics.com). Keep lashes light with Neutrogena Weightless Volume Wax-free Mascara ($7, drugstores).

ON CHEEKS Blend Maybelline New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Dream Mousse Blush in Whipped Strawberries ($8, drugstores), and hit cheeks with Benefit Brilliant Glitters High Beam Liquid Highlighter high·light·er  
n.
1. A usually fluorescent marker used to mark important passages of text.

2. A cosmetic for emphasizing areas of the face, such as the eyes or cheekbones.
 ($20, benefitcosmetics.com).

ON LIPS Fill in lips with Lancome Lip Gloss Pencil in Framboise ($14, department stores) and top with Bonne Bell Lip Lites in Vanilla Swirl ($3.50, drugstores).

Clover necklace, $13. and initial pendant necklace, Limoges Jewelry, Iimogesjewelry.com. Barrette, $3, mary-kateandashley, Wal-mart. Vest, Etnies Girls, etniesgirls.com. T-shirt, Soundgirl.

Go Golden Glam

START WITH Your favorite shirt ADD A sequined se·quin  
n.
1. A small shiny ornamental disk, often sewn on cloth; a spangle.

2. A gold coin of the Venetian Republic. Also called zecchino.

tr.v.
 belt, tons of bracelets and metallic makeup

GET THE LOOK

ON EYES Lorac Eye Shadow in Gold ($16, sephora.com) gives off a pretty shimmer.

ON LIPS Look totally fab in Maybelline Shinylicious Lip Gloss in Cola-Float ($6, drugstores).

ON CHEEKS Balance sparkly spark·ly  
adj. spark·li·er, spark·li·est
1.
a. Giving off tiny flashes of light; glittery: a dress with sparkly sequins.

b.
 eyes and shiny lips by keeping your cheeks matte with Rimmel Blush in Bronze ($2.65, drugstores).

ON NAILS We love Essie Polish in Eighteen Carrot ($8, essie.com) on short nails.

Belt, $6, Hollywood Mirror. Beaded bracelets, $9 each, wooden bangle with rhinestones, $14. and wooden bangle with gold leaves, $12, 'ZAD. Shirt, Soundgirl.

Go Bright Glam

START WITH Your coziest thermal Standout beads, a shocking pink headband, a shiny bag and bright makeup

GET THE LOOK

ON EYES We're obsessed ob·sess  
v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es

v.tr.
To preoccupy the mind of excessively.

v.intr.
 with lining our eyes with GOSH Velvet Touch Eyeliner in Magnetic Green ($8, goshcosmetics.com), then swiping MAC Eye Shadow in Bronze ($13.50, maccosmetics.com) across lids.

ON CHEEKS To keep it sheer but still bright, try Pinkie Swear Get Cheeky Cheek Gel ($11, sephora.com).

ON LIPS Go extra-bold with Mally Beauty Life, Love and A Really Great Lipgloss in Life is Fuchsia fuchsia: see evening primrose.
fuchsia

Any of about 100 species of flowering shrubs and trees in the genus Fuchsia (family Onagraceae), native to tropical and subtropical regions of Central and South America and to New Zealand and Tahiti.
 ($20, QVC QVC Quality Value Convenience
QVC Question Valid Command
.com).

Necklace, S17, Limoges Jewelry. Headband, $3, mary-kateandashley, I Wal-mart. Earrings. $5, Hollywood I Mirrors. Bag, $17, Kmart, 1-800-866--I 0086 for stores. Thermal, Soundgirl.

Go '70s Glam

START WITH Just about any top! ADD A fur-trimmed jacket, layers of charms and flipped-out hair

GET THE LOOK

FOR HAIR Wash and condition with a volumizing formula (try Fudge Oomf Shampoo and Conditioner, $19.95 each, fudge.com). Spray Charles Worthington London Big Hair Thick Quick Spray Gel ($6, drugstores) onto roots. Using a round brush, blowdry hair, lifting at roots and rolling front sections around the brush and away from face to flip ends back. Finish with Paul Mitchell Extra-Body Finishing Spray ($14, paulmitchell.com).

Circle necklace, $20, and beaded necklace, $15, 'ZAD. Jacket with removable fur collar, Forever 21. forever21.com. Thermal shirt, Soundgirl. Circle pendant, Limoges Jewelry.
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