19 bizarre beauty trends

You may remember a problem that once plagued college students, involving a persistent itching in the crotch that cropped up after random sexual encounters and wouldn’t go away except after an embarrassing trip to the drugstore. Yes, pubic lice — or crabs. Well, according to an insect specialist in Britain, the onetime campus scourge is fast disappearing thanks to the prevalence of Brazilian and other wax jobs.

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People have always gone to great lengths for shiny, healthy hair. But a salon in Santa Monica, Calif., just might take the cake. TheBroot, a hair-treatment bar that specializes in all-natural hair masks, told us they've got a new, miracle ingredient for healing damaged strands. It's so crazy, they're not even putting it on the menu.

If you ask for any treatment "animal style," they'll mix a shot of bull-testicle broth into your hair mask.

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The biggest news to hit since first lady Michelle Obama’s stylish new bangs is the makeup look created by Pat McGrath for the Christian Dior Spring 2013 Couture show. In keeping with her vision for Spring 2013, McGrath used crystals to bedazzle models' lips.

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While I have yet to visit a tanning booth or get a spray tan, if I ever did, I'd like to think I wouldn't commit this cardinal cosmetic sin that Kathy Griffin recently did.
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Ladies, would you experiment with a face cream that claims to take years off your mug using ancient ingredients from space?
Sure, we’ve heard about caviar face cream and other bizarre concoctions, but this one caught us off guard — face cream made from meteorites. 

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2012 was jam-packed with what-the-heck-is-going-on-here red-carpet beauty moments that made our jaws hit the floor -- or just really confused us. Here are the 10 craziest celebrity beauty looks of 2012, in no particular order.

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There's a difference between regular beauty trends and Internet beauty trends; the latter are often better suited to pretty Pinterest photos than offline life. How many of the following six huge Internet beauty trends did you actually try?

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Source: weeknightwandering.com via Petra on Pinterest

Don’t get us wrong — we love pizza. We love everything about it: the gooey cheese, the buttery crust, the naughty meat-centric toppings -- bring on the pepperoni. We love the smell of freshly delivered pizza as fills the air, and when we walk past our local corner pizza joint, we get sucked in many times just because of that irresistible smell. But do we want to smell like a pizza ourselves?

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Now we’ve seen everything. The obsession with manicures and nails seems to be increasing by the day, and we further confirmed the mani madness with the discovery of a nail polish line themed after — wait for it — your derriere. 

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Yes, we have an obsession with shoes, no doubt. And we love wearing high heels, no matter how painful they are. But some women are taking the art of wearing the stiletto even further, opting to get surgery on their feet just to fit in their favorite shoes. 

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