Thanks to the annual "Twins Days Festival" in Twinsburg, Ohio, researchers at Case Western Reserve University were able to verify what many health professionals had long theorized -- that smoking cigarettes promotes premature aging of the face.   read more

Good news, chocolate fanatics: Your habit -- be it a bar a day, or simply a Hershey's Kiss before bed -- is actually good for you.   read more

• Could Orlando Bloom be any more amazing (and hot? He's very, very attractive, you know). Speaking to Katie Couric about his separation from supermodel Miranda Kerr after three years of marriage, he said, "We're a family. We're going to be in each other's lives for the rest of our lives. There's no question of that. For the sake of our son and everything else, we're going to support one another and love each other as parents to Flynn." Swoon. Major swoon. [Digital Spy]   read more

Headaches. Poor digestion. Blotchy skin. Just a few of the not-so-fun symptoms of not drinking enough water.   read more

Was your Halloween costume as good as Miley Cyrus as Lil' Kim? Because Miley channeling the Queen Bee at the 1999 VMAs (remember, the one where Diana Ross reached over and touched Kim's pasty-tipped boob?) is pretty good. And Lil' Kim even gave Miley her blessing. "Awwww. Look at my baby @mileycyrus tonight!!! Looking GORGEOUS!!! I wish I was there to squeeze your boob :) :) Love U so much !!!! #mytwin," she tweeted. Ain't life grand? [Styleite]   read more

• As bonafide Pretty Little Liars obsessives, yes, we would like to know the secrets to Lucy Hale's flawless makeup. Her makeup artist Fiona Stiles reports that -- surprise, surprise -- Hale has flawless skin to begin with. "It's this gorgeous olive color but she's very pale, so her features really pop. I started by focusing on her skin, which I think is the most important feature, doing subtle highlighting and contouring (nothing like the Kardashians). I did a soft application of foundation, a soft contour on the cheek, then subtle highlights on the bridge and tip of her nose." Her tips for us regular mortals? "The fairer you are, the lighter you need to go on the highlighting and contouring, but everyone looks great with just a little." Good to know! And just in case you were hoping that someone that pretty was a total jerk or something, nope, no dice. Says Stiles, "Oh my god, working with her is an absolute ray of sunshine. She's so sweet and she's super professional, and she's just got this face that you can do anything with."[Beauty High]   read more

Ahhh, the life of a jetsetter. So glamorous -- in theory.

The Fantasy: Sipping on Champagne in first class, you're delighted to find your seatmate is a.) mildly famous, b.) ridiculously attractive and readily available, or c.) absent, so you can have the row to yourself. Your flight leaves on time and in less time than it takes you to finish that fourth glass of complimentary Champagne, the pilot informs you of an early arrival time, and the temperature at your destination is a genial 75 degrees. *sigh* The perfect beginning to your 10-day vacation.   read more

Beauty is so much in the eye of the beholder, or the owner. Just ask Lisa Kudrow, star of Friends, with one of the most recognizable faces in the world. At 16, admitted Kudrow, she hated the way she looked, and decided to do something about it.   read more

• Plus-size model Robin Lawley just gave us another reason to love her: She penned an op-ed for the Daily Beast about the time she found a photo of her body was used on a "pro-thigh gap" Facebook page. "The truth is I couldn't care less about needing a supposed "thigh gap." It's just another tool of manipulation that other people are trying to use to keep me from loving my body. Why would I want to starve and weaken my natural body size? I'm not saying women who have it naturally are unattractive. But I would have to change my entire frame just to achieve something that seems so trivial." She continues: "I want my thighs to be bigger and stronger. I want to run faster and swim longer. I suppose we all just want different things, but women have enough pressure as it is without the added burden of achieving a 'thigh gap.' The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a 'thigh gap' was necessary to be deemed attractive." [Daily Beast]   read more

There's a lot of things you could say about our girl Miley Cyrus, but one thing you certainly can't accuse her of is having low self-esteem. It's now October and we're still talking about her controversial MTV VMA performance.   read more