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From the humble mascara to the ingenius concealer, at some point we've ALL encountered a miraculous beauty product (or three!) which has made life infinitely more pleasurable! Or, you know, at the very least, one that's ensured that the morning primping routine is extraordinarily easier/interesting/less-torturous!

Presenting: the top three beauty tools that have undoubtedly changed my life (in a strictly non-late-night-informerial kind of way!)

1. The Professional Brow Shaper/Specialist

Once upon a time, I had eyebrows. Boy, did I have eyebrows!

Actually, they weren't so much eyebrows as they were enormous, hairy, catepillar-esque extravaganzas. And then one day they met a shiny little character by the name of Tweezers, and bam! Just like that, they began to disappear. Rapidly. Yes, they got along a little too merrily, going out dancing, swapping dresses and plucking away like there was no tomorrow, and all of a sudden, there was no tomorrow. Why? Because there was nothing left to pluck! Witness:

Oh, what a mess! I'm not sure why or how I woke up one morning and decided that the travesty above my eyes was really looking like quite the disasterpiece, but I did and realised that Tweezers was a friend that I would have to stop seeing so regularly, and that Professional Eyebrow Shaper was one that I would definitely have to start making time for. 

And I did! And while I'm not expecting any cakes (although, a piece of vanilla sponge would be nice right about now), medals or CNN reporters covering a breaking news story on amazing eyebrows to come flooding through my door any time soon, I can't help but observe that it is nice to look as though I have eyebrows once more.

2. The Hair Straightener

This photo is not being used to illustrate what a woman who is stupidly, spectacularly drunk looks like. (Well, not intentionally, anyway!) Nor is it an advertisement for the obviously super-modern identity-concealing technology that has been implemented to protect the less-intoxicated person to the right of me. It is being used to point out the brown, frizzy horror that is on my head (apparently it's called ''hair''), which is what I sported for many, many years (I am sixteen in this photo - wait. I mean, uh, the legal drinking age, of course! Yes! Eighteen, it is) before discovering the wonder that is the magnificent hair straightener! Yes! The hair straightener! I love them so very much. They make it impossible to have bad hair days (after all, how could I when I can just straighten the heck out of it and it will look at least ten times better than the mop that I woke up with?!), and in addition to all that straightening jazz, you can use them to curl your hair, too! (Very confusing for men folk: ''what are you doing?'' ''Just curling my hair with my hair straightener.'' ''Oh, okay. Wait - WHAT?!'')

3. The Foundation Bottle

And what would a list of my all-time favourite, life-changing beauty tools be without a mention of foundation?! I like foundation. (More specifically, Maybelline's mineral number.) Sure, I don't hang out with it all that much when I'm walking the dog or fluffing around the house or anything, but when I do, it makes me smile: it's sort of comforting to know that on mornings where I feel anything but, I can look all ''alive'' with a simple swipe of the stuff!

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Crimping devices? Stick-on tattoos? The hair dryer?! Which are the beauty tools that have changed YOUR life, and why?

xoxo

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