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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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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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Perfecting the Polish-to-Brush Ratio
You're a brilliant artist and your nails are your canvas, so getting just the right amount of polish on the brush before you apply it is absolutely crucial. (Never mind the fact that it takes you a few hours to complete your manicures.)

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BY ROSE CURIEL | SEP 25, 2015 | SHARES
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