1. I'm 23, but consistently read as at least 10 years older. Not that there's anything wrong with looking 30-something, but sometimes it's awkward — like when people see me with my dad and assume I'm his girlfriend. My best guess as to why I look older is the thinness of my face, plus a couple small wrinkles on my forehead.

So, do you know any makeup tricks that might make me look my age? I'm a very pale redhead and my everyday make up routine is: matte liquid foundation, pink mousse blush, shimmery white powder to highlight, dark brown mascara, a little dark taupe powder in the crease of my [...]

I am an undergrad — meaning I spend a lot of time drinking, staying up late, being stressed, you know the deal. How can I salvage my face when I am hungover? In a rush? My face gets really bloated and my eyes near slits… it can get pretty ugly.

That sounds so gross. Just kidding, it sounds like you're having a blast! The number one thing you need to do if you want to look okay the day after a party is learn how much you can drink so that you get drunk but not hungover. It doesn't take a team of scientists, just drink less. You know that [...]

Can we talk about perfume?

Hardly! Perfume is pretty difficult (for me) to talk about. Sure, some of you know your tuberose from your otherose-y-sounding-words-that-describe-scents, but most of us just know if something is "like flowers" or "stinks." I am in that latter group of perfume dumb-dumbs, but I still want to talk about perfume, you know? Like, which ones are good? Which ones attract noses that don't belong to us? Which ones aren't gross? Et cetera. So, with the caveat that this is coming from someone who wears a lot of perfume but doesn't possess any of the right vocab words to talk about it, I would like [...]

Weddings are about love, romance, family, and the future. But to a lot of couples, they're also about theater. You know, pomp and circumstance. (Tangent: the best The Internet can come up with for a definition of "pomp and circumstance" is "formal ceremony." What the?) And there are cameras everywhere! If you are the type of person who thinks you always look amazing in person and in photos at the biggest, most important, booze-y parties you've ever hosted, you are a total jerk. Just kidding, you're the best and apparently your parents loved you very much and correctly. None of this will be helpful for you, and in [...]

If you've been missing Jane Videos (or, watching her old tutorials when you feel lonely), or have ever wondered exactly what a small, personal get-together among close friends in Los Angeles looks like, she recently appeared on makeup guru and YouTube master Michelle Phan's Up Close & Personal show, on FAWN (the For All Women Network).

Isn't Jane the coolest, and doesn't she look a little bit like Lady Mary Crawley here? I'm totally embarrassing her, but she's not even awake yet to get mad at me! Related: L.A., man.

In Los Angeles the other week Jane gave me a makeover, which is something I've been dreaming about for as long as she and I have been friends. And we were going to turn it into a beauty-tutorial video, too, except I freaked out and made it weird.

Here's what happened: she got the whole thing ready, with the makeup laid out and the camera set up, but when I sat down I wasn't prepared for the computer's reverse-mirror-image effect, which is that when you look at the screen you see all the facial asymmetry you're normally immune to, and as soon as I started talking I couldn't see anything [...]