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How-To: Blow-Dry Perfect Bangs

So I'm not gonna lie: bangs are tricky. Or at least they are on my hair: as I suspected would happen, I wake up looking far more like Alfalfa than Audrey. Kendrick thinks this is funny (I disagree).

But what Karmela told me when I was getting them cut is true: if you can manage to make your bangs look decent, that's really all you need to do with your hair - if you're in a hurry you can just twist the rest up onto the top of your head and look respectably done. And while at John Sahag Workshop last weekend, I learned how to do just that (the results of my tutorial are pictured above).

HOW-TO: BLOW-DRY PERFECT BANGS

1. Start with wet hair, and dry your bangs first (counterintuitive maybe, but they get a lot tougher to wrangle if they're left to their own devices for even a few minutes).

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Help! My Chocolate Chip Cookies Are Disastrous

Q. Hey Jordan, 

I love your blog and thought you may be able to provide some insight into why my chocolate chip cookies always LOOK HORRIBLE! They taste good...but I can never get a nice little fluffy cookie that doesn't crumble apart.

I follow the recipe on the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip bag exactly, and yet my cookies always spread out and wind up flat and crispy.

I'm a good cook so I don't know why I'm having such a problem with chocolate chip cookies!

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For Those On Your “Naughty” List

We're (mostly) all grownups here, and sometimes you just want to give (or get) a grownup gift, yes?

After the jump, some of my favorite gift picks from female-friendly adult site Eden Fantasys, which would like to offer RG readers 20% off of any purchase (except for sale items) through 2/15 using code ramshackle.

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Zig-Zag Lust

My Missoni for Target throw came.

It's everything I dreamed it would be. (Holy comfortable, and very much worth more than $39.99.)

Oh, and here's something I didn't know and wish I had known when I ordered: