My colleague at About, Jen Adkins, has a great article on 5 Tips for Younger Looking Hands. Most of us worry about our faces when it comes to aging, but it's actually our hands that show signs of aging first.

How funny is this picture of the lady at the spa with cucumbers splayed across her face? Back in the 50s the average housewife concocted her own homemade face masks and scrubs to keep her skin dewy and soft.

Women today are going back to basics and making up their own homemade face masks using simple ingredients found in the refrigerator and pantry, such as olive oil, brown sugar, table salt, eggs, avocado, honey and yogurt. Homemade face masks are not only fresh and devoid of processing (and testing on animals), they are also economical. After all, my beloved jar of Fresh Sugar Face Polish cost me $30. God knows I love it, but I love the effect my own homemade sugar scrub has on my skin. And my recipe costs me mere pennies.

One of my most popular articles of all time is Make Your Own Homemade Face Masks & Scrubs, which includes 25 recipes for 6 different skin types. Because literally 1000s of people have tried these recipes over the years, they tend to rate them as well, so you can see which ones were beloved and others which, well, weren't so much.

Also check out:

• Hair Mask Recipes
• How To Do The Basic At-Home Facial
• Best Store-bought Face Masks

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Rihanna's done it again. The 23-year-old singer has a new bleached blonde weave and tweeted this picture to the world to show it off, tweeting it's "Bleach + weave."

About.com's Guide to Skin Care, Jen Adkins, shared this amazing YouTube video on her Facebook page and I loved it so much, I had to tell you all about it.

The young woman featured in this YouTube video has pin-straight hair. I mean super-straight hair. Straighter than even mine, but when she goes at it with her curling iron using a method she developed, she's left with luscious, bouncy waves -- the kind you see on the red carpet. And she swears her curls last for hours.

I can't really explain her method to you, you'll just have to watch the video for yourself. See it here. I think a great curling iron is key, because a handful of her viewers reported trying this method and it didn't work, while many others raved about their results.