Beauty wish granted: For long, dark, thick, voluminous, full lashes (these are some of the lash-ectives readers used to describe their eyelash wishes), we have a few ways to help:
Tip 1: Need a simple boost? Try one of the best mascaras -- ever, to enhance, darken and make the most of your natural lashes.
Tip 2: Need more of a semi-permanent boost? Get a lash tint, which temporarily dyes your eyelashes with a safe, vegetable-based dye. It achieves the look of wearing mascara -- without having to apply it. Plus, you'll look streak-free post-shower and while swimming. Perfect for gals with light colored lashes.
Tip 3: Need even more help? Try an eyelash-growing product. There are tons on the market nowadays, but our readers give high marks to Latisse, $104.99.
Tip 4: Wanna just fake it for a night out? Watch this easy makeup tutorial on how to apply false eyelashes -- without spending a fortune on professional lash extensions.
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Your beauty wish: "Rosy lips."
Beauty wish granted: If you weren't blessed with naturally rosy lips, join the club and carry a lip-tinting device at all times. Lip stains are the best way to achieve "natural" rosy-looking lips -- try Revlon Just Bitten Lip Stain + Balm, $8.99 or cult classic and editor's fave, Benefit Benetint, $20.
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Your beauty wish: "Get down to my ideal weight and stay there."
Beauty wish granted: We got a slew of wishes ranging from "a faster metabolism" to "being thinner" to "no cellulite" to "being more toned" to "having a flat stomach" to "maintaining [the] same weight forever." Short of pumping up your exercise routine, changing your eating habits and/or getting lypo -- try faking a toned bod in the meantime with these tips:
Tip 1: Celeb fitness and lifestyle expert Ashley Borden shares what to eat and drink to quickly de-bloat:
� Eat dark leafy greens and celery; lean proteins like grilled salmon, white fish and chicken (minus the salt); and any fruit that has a high water content, like watermelon, oranges, or grapefruit.
� Drink 100 ounces of water, and add lemon to some of those ounces to flush sodium out of your system.
� Take a digestive enzyme with each meal, to help you digest your food, prevent gas buildup and de-bloat.
Tip 2: Celebrity tanning expert, Jimmy Coco, says having a darker tan is like wearing black -- darker is always more slimming. (Pssst � the last wish granted will show you how to get your best faux tan ever.)
Tip 3: Slim down your face with makeup and hair tricks. The most slimming hair length is one that falls below the collarbone and just above your bra strap, says celebrity hairstylist Kate Seguin. Avoid one-length bobs that fall between the chin and above the collarbone. See more ways to fake weight loss with these makeup and hairstyle tricks.
Beauty wish granted: Skin doctors, celebrity makeup artists and women who have aged gracefully share tips on how to look and feel forever young:
Tip 1: Use peptides regularly. Almost all dermatologists we've consulted about anti-aging products recommend peptides (like those found in the Olay Regenerist Skin Care Starter Trio, $62), which can trick the skin into producing more collagen -- a skin cell protein that makes you look younger. Get more anti-aging secrets from top derms.
Tip 2: Avoid acidic foods. By eating alkalinizing foods such as dark leafy greens, lemons, nuts and olive oil, and cutting out acidic foods like sugar, cola, coffee and animal products, your body's pH level may remain higher, showing fewer signs of aging. And be sure to fill your diet with these vitamins that'll make you look younger.
Tip 3: Use anti-aging makeup. Cream-based foundations, blushes and concealers that contain hydrating ingredients can keep your skin hydrated and protected against aging environmental factors.
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Your beauty wish: "Tanner skin."
Beauty wish granted: If you're not into rocking your paleness, here are expert tips from Fiona Locke, tanning expert to the stars:
Prep: Tip 1: Find the right product (like one of these 9 best self-tanning products), then exfoliate, shave and moisturize.
Tip 2: Always apply your sunless tanner in a cool, dry place in front of a full-length mirror.
Tip 3: Place rag towels on the floor to prevent tanning the bottoms of your feet.
Tip 4: Wear latex gloves to avoid tan palms.
Applying spray formulas: Tip 1: Protect light colored eyebrows and hairlines with moisturizer before spraying and wear a shower cap.
Tip 2: Spray about six inches away from the surface of your skin.
Tip 3: To get your back, spray the air directly behind you in a circular motion and quickly walk backwards into the mist (sounds goofy, but it works).
Recently we posed this question in a blog post: What Three Wishes Would You Ask Your Natural Beauty Genie For? (Well, If One Actually Existed.) We got an overwhelming amount of responses from you. There were surprisingly lots of feet-related wishes (go figure), but unsurprisingly a ton of perfect-skin requests. As we scrolled through the comments, we were nodding and agreeing right along with you. Some actually even made us tear up (OK, we may have been PMSing, but nonetheless), like this one:
"I would just want to be skinny. Everything else, I'm good with. Someone else can have my other two wishes."
While others made us LOL:
1. Unwanted hair
2. Unwanted hair
3. Unwanted hair
The bottom line is that no body is perfect and we all have things (definitely more than three) that we wish we could change. One woman sums it up here by saying:
"Reading this article and the comments makes me feel good because, well, everyone has something they're not happy about. There [are] things I would change and wish for and knowing everyone else feels the same just makes me feel better."
Unfortunately, some of your wishes cannot be fixed short of surgery like "a different nose" or " fuller, bigger, perkier boobs (about a C cup)." But believe it or not, the rest of your wishes you can actually grant yourself -- just by following these expert tips and picking up a few hard-working products.
