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All the fashion news you missed this week.

Someone finally dared to redesign the nail polish brush.

I get to try out a lot of high-tech beauty gadgets and fancy potions, but sometimes it's the simple things that wow me. Exhibit A: The konjac sponge, aka the poor man's Clarisonic.

It's almost that most wonderful time of the year, when it's socially acceptable -- nay, encouraged -- for grown women to wear over-the-top glitter n

Skin care, despite the recent popularity of multi-tasking BB and CC creams which claim to do everything, is still pretty specialized. It's not hard to end up with an eight-step skin care routine these days. And now the beauty industry is applying that same personalized approach to nail care.

The "of-the-month" subscription model is nothing new, but the beauty industry has taken it to a new level in the last few years, most notably with beauty sample subscription boxes. Now there's a new package vying for room in your mailbox. The latest in beauty subscriptions is nail polish-only models.