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25 Obsessive Behaviors That Every Beauty Junkie Will Understand

From over-grooming to a preoccupation with pimple-popping, we take a look at our most neurotic beauty practices
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Layering Like Crazy
Serum, moisturizer, sunblock, primer, foundation--on any given day, you layer on enough products that not even the sun, pollution or a nuclear weapon could penetrate your perfectly primed skin.

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Overplucking Your Eyebrows
In a never-ending quest to achieve perfectly symmetrical eyebrows, you can get a bit overzealous and compulsively pluck until there's not much to left to groom.

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Fastidiously Filing
File this behavior under obsessive: You've been known to binge-watch an entire season of your favorite show while attempting to achieve perfectly round-, square- or talon-shaped nails.

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Going to Extremes to Ensure Eyelash Separation
You would rather die than have your eyelashes clump together. Mechanical pencils, safety pins, sewing needles--you've used them all to painstakingly separate each lash one by one. Yep, you'd rather hold a sharp object to your eyeball than step out with clustered lashes.

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Constantly Applying Sunblock
Whether you're at the beach or sitting by an open window, you apply and re-apply your sunblock as if your life depended on it. OK, who are we kidding? You would never take a trip to the beach because you're absolutely terrified of prematurely aging your skin.

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BY ROSE CURIEL | SEP 25, 2015 | SHARES
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