You don't have to spend a fortune for rich-looking brows.

Nail art--in its over-the-top 3D incarnation, at least--is waning in popularity a bit, and polishes aimed at giving you a nail art-y feel without all the work have been taking its place. We tried tons of the so-called textured polishes--here's what we think.

Welcome to our new nail art column–the Top Coat! Every week we’ll be doing a step-by-step nail art tutorial. We’ve already told you the essentials yo

Slime, spiders and ghouls, oh my!

We’ve managed to amass quite a pile of beauty awesomeness on our desks over the last few weeks, so we sorted through it all and picked out the best of the bunch to share with you. These products have absolutely nothing in common other than: 1) they’re new 2) they’re fabulous. From the top of your head, to the tips of your fingers, there are lots of new things to try this month. Click through to see the treasures we found.

This past January Ning Chao made the jump from magazines to the web, where she is the beauty director at Beautylish. (Welcome to the jungle, Ning!) In the ten years prior to that she's covered beauty for Marie Claire, InStyle, Elle, Vogue, and Glamour. Now she’s putting her expertise to work at Beautylish, a slick site devoted to all things beauty: there are product reviews, makeup tutorials, message boards, and a stellar news section (they scored an exclusive interview with Blake Lively’s hair colorist---it took ten hours to make her a redhead.) Ning shared her current favorite beauty obsessions: