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"When I was about four-years-old, I remember watching my older sister glide on her lipstick, tap on a bit of blush and fluff a fresh coating of face powder before getting ready for a night out with the girls. After &amp;quot;pretty, pretty please&amp;quot;-ing my way into getting her to dab a pale pink lip gloss on me (I&amp;#39;m pretty sure it was probably just lip balm but oh, did it look so shiny), I felt like a MILLION bucks! However, my next childhood beauty experiment wasn&amp;#39;t so cute:\nWhen I was around the same age, I took it upon myself to experiment with a new beauty look--&amp;quot;highlights.&amp;quot; However, instead of bleaching and dyeing my &amp;#39;do, my version of highlights involved painting nail polish on my hair and hiding under a table with a pair of scissors and going completely Edward Scissorhands-style on my own &amp;#39;do:\nPinterestFacebookMe, age 4, post-DIY haircut. Check out those crazy bangs!\nAs I grew older, I jumped from one beauty shenanigan to another. In middle school I was obsessed with a three-shades-too-dark Lip Smacker balm from Bonne Belle and totally thought I rocked a severely high ponytail doused in Herbal Essences hairspray. High school was no better. I sort of cringe when I see this curly poodle head situation I let my stylist convince myself was &amp;quot;the latest trend&amp;quot; for my junior year prom:\nPinterestFacebookAnd that orange glow that my skin is radiating? Compliments of a one-time failed fake bake test by yours truly.\nWhile I still haven&amp;#39;t lost that thrill of experimenting with anything and everything beauty-related, trust me, nowadays I&amp;#39;m a little more familiar with the dos and don&amp;#39;ts of beauty. My name is Christa Lee. I grew up in Edison, New Jersey and I still live there (Sorry folks, I don&amp;#39;t fist pump every time I commute back from New York City despite what you might see on the Jersey Shore). And as demonstrated by my ahem, hair and makeup enthusiasm, I always knew I would end up working in the beauty world. While the fabulous Petra is on maternity leave, I&amp;#39;ll be sharing all my beauty insider tips, road tests, trends, products I love--you name it!\nI can&amp;#39;t think of a better way to introduce myself than with some of the beauty loot I&amp;#39;m kind of eerily obsessed with:\nMore Lancome...\nDo we share any of the same faves?\nI&amp;#39;m so excited to get to know you TGBD readers! Now that you&amp;#39;ve read about my first stabs at makeup and hair, let&amp;#39;s take a stroll down (beauty) memory lane: Do you remember your first beauty observation or test drive? Did it end up with a chop of horrors like mine or was it fairly innocent? What age did you start wearing makeup in public? Do you have any hair mishaps from your prom days? (Or at least please say you did and make me feel better about mine!)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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