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Find Your Best Hair Color

Here’s an exciting experiment for you: place a gold swatch and then a silver swatch next to your face. Which suits you more? If gold does, you’re generally a ‘warm’ season. If silver is best, then you’re generally a ‘cool’ season. What is the next step in choosing a hair color? If you look good with gold next to your skin, your haircolor will work in the warm tones — copper reds, auburns, caramel browns, honeys, golden blondes — all the fall and spring shades. If you look good with silver next to your skin, your haircolor will work in the cool tones — true crimson reds, mahoganies, chestnut browns, or platinum or ash blondes — all the bright, clear winter and summer shades.

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How to Make Candy Heart Magnets

Candy hearts are a Valentine’s Day classic, but you can use these tasty treats as more than just a snack. Using resin from your local craft store, you can create candy heart magnets using your favorite candies. Add magnets for a playful addition to your refrigerator or use your candy hearts to make jewelry, barrettes or other accessories. Setting candy into resin works for all sorts of small candies, so you can also make gummi bear magnets, M&M magnets or other crafts.

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How to Convert Garages Into Family Rooms

If you’re getting short on room and are eying the garage, wondering if it’s feasible to turn it in to a family room you’re on the right track. It’s not too difficult a project and can be accomplished with some basic household tools and materials that are available at you local home improvement store. Before you know it you’ll have the extra room you crave, and the best part is, you’ll be able to say, “We did it ourselves.”

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How to Clean Exercise Mats

You’ve started your exercise routine and are getting pretty good at sticking to a schedule. Now you notice that the more you work out, the more your exercise mat seems to get a bit grubbier. Common sense tells you that it’s collecting dust and perspiration, since it lies on the floor and you work out on it. But how do you clean an exercise mat? You should clean your mat on a regular basis to maintain its effectiveness and keep it free of germs and bacteria.