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A Five-Minute Makeup Touch-up

Birchbox's Mollie Chen's Holiday Makeup Tips

’Tis the season for fug sweaters, awkward hometown encounters with high school chums, and office-party faux pas.

When all else fails, we can at least make sure our makeup looks good.

Done. In today’s video, Birchbox’s brilliant Mollie Chen shows us a few ways to touch up and brighten our face postwork, preparty — all in less than five minutes. From her favorite eyeliners and gloss to why it’s better to wear a brightening powder than a translucent one, Chen knows her stuff.

While we had the Birchbox ladies in our office, we also asked co-founder Katia Beauchamp (whose hair always looks amazing) to show us how to create a cool cocktail party-ready updo. All it takes is a few minutes, dry shampoo, some pins, and elastic.

You know, the same thing we’ll need around our waistline after tomorrow.

To subscribe to Birchbox or purchase any of the products mentioned in the video, go to birchbox.com. For more beauty tips, watch our videos on how to do the perfect cat eye and the right way to tweeze your brows.

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A Condensed Guide to the Most Popular Sport on the Planet

One look at Ronaldo, Donovan, Kaká, or Drogba, and it’s easy to see why you should follow soccer. (If you don’t get it, do some Google image searches immediately.)

Hot guys aside, soccer is the most popular sport on Earth (except here, for some puzzling reason), and the World Cup starts June 11, meaning the sports bars will be filled with people shouting “Ole!” To help you understand that, and other soccer-specific things, we asked three fútbol nerd friends to give us a quick but comprehensive overview (emphasis on quick).

If this whets your appetite, visit FIFA’s website for player interviews, game schedules, and news. You’ll be saying things like “Maradona should’ve kept Zanetti on the roster” in no time.

Want to take these facts on the road? We made you a handy cheat sheet. If you’re in New York, check out our gallery of the best places to watch the games.

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On the Road with Band of Horses

Band of Horses "Laredo" Video

Before you take off for the long weekend, get inspired by this photo-album-turned-music-video Band of Horses made for their song “Laredo.” They’re playing on Memorial Day at the Sasquatch Music Festival right outside of Seattle (we’ll have coverage of that next week).

For more information and tour dates, go to bandofhorses.com. To download “Laredo,” click here.

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Why Didn't He Call Me?

Ask the Office Guy No. 9

The scenario is all too familiar: meet a guy at a bar, chat for an hour, exchange numbers, then he vanishes, never to be heard from again. What gives? In this video, Dan explains the great male disappearing act.

Got a question for our office guy? E-mail him at theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.

Photo: H is for Home / Flickr

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Yoga Moves That'll Help You Sleep and Wake Up

Tips from Instructor Tara Stiles

Insomnia is a killer. You can’t get to sleep. Then you can’t wake up. Then you need too much coffee. Which is really the last thing you need.

Cut down on the tossing/turning with help from Deepak Chopra’s personal yoga instructor, Tara Stiles. In today’s video, she demonstrates simple moves to help get your body relaxed and ready for bed, followed by a few to get you out of it the next day.

If you want to see more of Stiles, check out our video of yoga you can do in a taxi. And now that you’re all limber and rested, head to her new studio, Strala Yoga, where classes are only $10 (!). The 7:30 a.m. session has your name on it.

Strala Yoga, 623 Broadway, between Bleecker and Houston Streets, fourth floor (917-488-7195 or stralayoga.com).

Special thanks to: Crosby Street Hotel

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Yoga Moves You Can Do in a Taxi

Tips from Instructor Tara Stiles

Sitting in a taxi when you’re in a hurry is torture. Instead of yelling at your driver (it’s not his fault there’s a naked cowboy in the road), channel your frustration into something positive: yoga. In this video, Strala Yoga founder Tara Stiles demonstrates moves that’ll get you to your destination with your sanity intact.

Strala Yoga, 623 Broadway, between Bleecker and Houston Streets, fourth floor (917-488-7195 or stralayoga.com).

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Ask the Office Guy No. 8

When it comes to finding a decent date, classified ads have a spotty record. But maybe Craigslist is different. In this video, Dan shares his opinion.

Got a question for our office guy? E-mail him at theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.

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How to Wash Your Delicates

Laundry Tips from The Laundress

In the immortal words of Linda the Bra Lady, the last thing anybody wants is a “dead bra.” And what’s the killer? Machine washing, that’s what.

Give your skivvies a longer, happier life by watching today’s Easy Does It video starring The Laundress cofounder Lindsey Wieber Boyd. As in so many areas of life, correct undie washing involves gentle agitation and careful pressure.

We demonstrate on a bra here, but the techniques work on all delicates. As a bonus, we also have a video that teaches you how to wash your favorite silk dress — get this — in a machine (yes, really). Swish away.

For more tips from The Laundress, check out its blog. To buy any of the products mentioned in the video, go to thelaundress.com. Enter DCVIDEO at checkout for a 20 percent discount.

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Laundry Tips from The Laundress

With all the money you spend on dry-cleaning silk dresses, you could buy, well, more silk dresses. What the labels don’t tell you: You can clean them in the washing machine. In this video, The Laundress cofounder Lindsey Wieber Boyd shows you how.

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Ask the Office Guy No. 7

Your vast knowledge of figure skating and women’s gymnastics is remarkable — but doesn’t carry much weight with a football fanatic. In this video, Dan tells you one thing to say that’ll score major points.

Got a question for our office guy? E-mail him at theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.

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The Perfect Gin Gimlet

Cocktail Recipes from Employees Only

The Employees Only bartenders have been on the pouring side of more tipsy evenings than we can remember. Literally. And now that they’re selling their own brand of cocktail mixers, you can emulate their best-in-the-biz cocktails at home. Near your bed. Which is good.

In today’s videos, they teach you how to make the perfect gin gimlet (above), tequila daisy, and upgraded Tom Collins — using their new, all-natural lime cordial and/or grenadine.

The mixers are almost tasty enough to guzzle on their own. They’re made with real pomegranate and lime and sweetened with sugar and agave nectar, not high-fructose corn syrup.

We hear more flavors are on the way, but for now they’re keeping ’em an employees-only secret.

Available at Employees Only, 510 Hudson Street, between Christopher and West 10th Streets (212-242-3021 or employeesonlynyc.com). For more great recipes, check out our Drunk Punch Love photo gallery.

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Cocktail Recipes from Employees Only

Who was Tom Collins? We don’t know, but we’re sure he was a great man. To honor him, the guys at Employees Only put together a slight variation of his eponymous drink using their own brand of grenadine. The result: delicious.

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Cocktail Recipes from Employees Only

Nothing gets a party started like tequila. Especially when it’s combined with Employees Only-brand grenadine and lime cordial. In this video, learn how to make a crowd-pleasing tequila daisy.

Mixers available at Employees Only, 510 Hudson Street, between Christopher and West 10th Streets (212-242-3021 or employeesonlynyc.com). Don’t stop here: Learn how to make a gin gimlet, Tom Collins, and more.

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Get Beach Ready with Tracy Anderson

You have the swimsuit. Now you just need the body. Tracy Anderson, the fitness expert responsible for multiple famous physiques (Gwynnie, Madonna), can get you there.

Here are four videos, all featuring an Anderson-designed exercise targeting the perpetually annoying areas: love handles (above), saggy butt, flabby abs, and bat wings.

We won’t lie: The moves are a lot harder than they look, especially when you’re doing 40 reps. But we’re game for anything to make that walk from towel into ocean a little less dreadful.

For more information, go to tracyandersonmethod.com.

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Exercise No. 2: Butt

Get Beach Ready with Tracy Anderson

Put your rear in gear with exercises designed by fitness phenomenon Tracy Anderson. In this video, she uses a bench, but you can also use a chair or couch. And, yes, onlookers were mesmerized.

For more information, go to tracyandersonmethod.com. To get more tips, check out our videos for love handles, bat wings, and flabby abs.

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Exercise No. 3: Abs

Get Beach Ready with Tracy Anderson

Fitness star Tracy Anderson demonstrates exercises to get your abdomen in check. In this video, she uses a tree, but a wall will just as effectively do the trick.

For more information, go to tracyandersonmethod.com. To get more tips, check out our videos for love handles, bat wings, and butt.

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Exercise No. 4: Bat Wings

Get Beach Ready with Tracy Anderson

Don’t fear the tank top. In this video, workout queen Tracy Anderson shows you a few exercises designed to get rid of bat wings (upper-arm flab) — and all you need are some water bottles (or weights).

For more information, go to tracyandersonmethod.com. For more tips, check out our videos for love handles, abs, and butt.

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Going out in groups makes us ladies feel more confident. But how does it make male onlookers feel? Dan’s been there, done that — and in this video, he’s got the scoop.

Got a question for our office guy? E-mail him at theofficeguy@dailycandy.com.

Photo: anatchim / Flickr

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Ask the Office Guy No. 5

You put it on the calendar, sent an e-mail about it, slipped a note in his sock drawer — and he still forgot your anniversary. In this Ask the Office Guy, Dan explains what happened.

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Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes Perform in Their Kitchen

We could hate them for being so perfect — if married musicians Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes weren’t so nice. They had us at “Hello. How about some coffee?” and barely batted an eye when we invaded their adorable Brooklyn apartment to shoot this week’s video.

The low-key, stylish couple — who are about to celebrate their first anniversary — set up a guitar and keyboard in their kitchen and performed “Southern Pacifica.” It’s off Ritter’s album So Runs the World Away, coming out May 4.

Both Ritter and Landes (whose album Sweet Heart Rodeo came out in January) have a folksy, borderline country sound we can’t get enough of. And they both sing about love — in a sweet, noncheesy way — a lot. It must be nice living with your muse.

For more information and tour dates, go to joshritter.com and dawnlandes.com. To buy this song, click here.

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