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Hair at Behnaz Sarafpour

Backstage at New York Fashion Week

Pretty, natural-looking curls — not ringlets — were the look at Behnaz Sarafpour’s fall/winter 2011 show. In this video, Bumble and Bumble stylist Laurent Philippon demonstrates his technique for getting the hairstyle just right.

For more beauty tips, watch our backstage videos on hair and makeup at Marc Jacobs and nails at Alexander Wang.

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Introducing DailyCandy Designer Collaborations

Check out what we made

Without further ado, we present DailyCandy Collaborations, a collection of limited-edition must-haves created by some of the designers and artists we love most. In this video, chief correspondent SuChin Pak shows off the goods.

For more information and to buy what you saw, go to dailycandy.com/collaborations.

Next Video: Easy Does It: Toned Arms in Ten Minutes (a Day)

Behind the Scenes with GlossyBox

CEO Susan Naci shows our editor her favorites from our collaboration

In this video, GlossyBox CEO Susan Naci highlights her favorite things from our special, limited-edition box — from black eyeliner that doesn’t pull your lid off when you put it on to a silky bronzer from France.

To buy the GlossyBox, go to dailycandy.com/collaborations.

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Easy Does It: Toned Arms in Ten Minutes (a Day)

Simple movements from Andie Hecker at Ballet Bodies

You know in Center Stage when Jody likes Cooper, but Cooper’s all, “Ew, girl, get away,” and Charlie’s like, “Hey, I’m here, and I’m hot, too”?

We wouldn’t mind being part of a love triangle like that. The first step: looking the part. We asked Andie Hecker, former professional dancer with NYC Ballet and founder of Ballet Bodies in L.A., to demo the moves.

In today’s three videos, she shows (rhythmically challenged) editor Lauren Lumsden how to get svelte arms (above), tone her butt and thighs with high kicks, and do a full-body cardio workout — your calves will hurt for days.

And you’ll surely be riding a motorcycle on stage in no time.

For more information on Ballet Bodies, go to balletbodies.com. Want to keep working out? Here are dozens of ways to show the lingering holiday blub who’s boss.

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Easy Does It: Intense Cardio Burn

Andie Hecker from Ballet Bodies makes you hop to it

There’s a reason dancers have calves of steel: frequent and constant jumping. In this video, Andie Hecker, founder of Ballet Bodies in L.A., gives our editor the workout of her life — seriously, she had trouble going up and down steps for a week — with petit allegro (the proper term for tiny jumps).

For more information on Ballet Bodies, go to balletbodies.com.

Next Video: Inside Story: Heather Crosby's Fridge

Easy Does It: Get Your Rear in Gear

Andie Hecker from Ballet Bodies kicks your butt into shape

We like everything to have a little kick to it. So why not our fitness routine? In this video, Andie Hecker of Ballet Bodies in L.A. shows our editor how to tone her thighs and butt with a series of high kicks. Feel free to laugh at her kicks compared to Hecker’s.

For more information on Ballet Bodies, go to balletbodies.com.

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Inside Story: Heather Crosby's Fridge

The plant-based chef shows us what she eats

Your fridge is kind of like a graveyard: smelly and riddled with ghosts of meals past.

Resuscitate it (and your well-being) with today’s video: a peek into plant-based expert Heather Crosby’s fridge.

When not creating healthy recipes for her website, YumUniverse, Crosby can be found planting, sprouting, and engaging in otherwise enviable activities.

What she stores in the old icebox? Plenty of kale and homemade almond milk, to start.

It’s incentive enough to change your habits.

So you can R.I.P.

For more recipes and tips on plant-based nutrition, go to yumuniverse.com. Save up to 50 percent on YumUniverse meal plans at deals.dailycandy.com.

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Pretty Smart: Winter Skin Tips from Joanna Vargas

Five ways to revive your outer layer

Old Man Winter doesn’t care about popularity; he prefers to sit alone at the lunch table.

Aesthetician Joanna Vargas isn’t fazed by his cold shoulder (pun intended). In today’s Pretty Smart video, she provides five crucial tips for getting rid of and preventing dry, flaky skin.

Use her tried-and-true methods to repair perpetually chapped lips and keep hands from looking twenty years older than the rest of you. She even shares a recipe for an exfoliating sugar scrub you can make in one minute flat.

She’s our nominee for prom queen.

For more information on Vargas, go to joannavargas.com.

Next Video: Inside Story: Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle's Vitamin Cabinet

Dinner Is Served

Dedicated Video: Fresh Dish

Family dinner means treasured conversations, valuable teaching moments, and the dulcet glow of togetherness and love.

Too bad you haven’t actually experienced it since you wore a scrunchie around your wrist.

Fresh Dish acts as a prep cook, helping you get supper from zero to table in 30 minutes flat — so you can sit down and enjoy your meal like a normal family (circa 1955).

The service features recipes like pork chops with mushroom gravy and orzo and oven-roasted salmon with olives, potatoes, and zucchini. Choose your meal, select the number of servings, and Fresh Dish takes care of the rest. It even hooks up DailyCandy readers who purchase one meal with a free one (use code FRESHDAILY).

Once a week, you receive a package with your dinner kit(s) of pre-prepped ingredients (measured and individually packaged) along with an easy-to-follow recipe. That means no planning, grocery shopping, or defrosting — and more time to hear about the epic playground war.

Your family’s fly-by-night meals are history.

DailyCandy readers buy one meal kit and get one free with code FRESHDAILY; go to freshdish.com to learn more. You can also enter to win three months of free meal kits (winner receives two meal kits each month for three months).

This giveaway is limited to people who live in Fresh Dish’s delivery area; go to freshdish.com and click Get Started to see if you live in the delivery area. Those who have made a purchase at Fresh Dish using the DailyCandy promo code will automatically be entered to win and receive five additional entries. Entry is limited to one per person.

Next Video: Have a Ball(oon)

Inside Story: Danielle DuBoise and Whitney Tingle's Vitamin Cabinet

The Sakara Life founders show us their supplements

You drink green juices and eat kale salads. And then pizza, beer, and Ben & Jerry’s take you out in one fell swoop.

For those days when you don’t eat like a glowing goddess, you need a little extra nutrition. In this Inside Story, we explore the vitamin cabinet of Whitney Tingle and Danielle DuBoise, founders of Sakara Life organic meal delivery service in New York.

Though the ladies maintain vitamins are best absorbed from food, they still recommend a magnesium supplement to calm you down, a natural anti-inflammatory, and a “life-changing” probiotic. Plus, they share a mouthwash they’re newly obsessed with.

Because nobody’s perfect.

For more information on Sakara Life, go to sakaralife.com. To learn where to buy these supplements, check out our flipbook. For more help on your resolutions, watch grocery shopping tips from Dr. Frank Lipman and nutritionist Kimberly Snyder’s fridge tour.

Next Video: Inside Story: Gabriela Perezutti's Home

Have a Ball(oon)

A kid-friendly New Year's Eve plan

New Year’s Eve is amateur night in the big city.

Which is why we prefer to party with the kids — our kids.

Turn your living room into a family-friendly Times Square with a bright balloon drop. All you need is fishing net (not fishnets), balloons, craft putty, and a crowd of minis who think staying up past 8 p.m. is worth celebrating.

Use the putty to attach the net to the ceiling, fill with the balloons, and when the time is right (whatever time you decide), release the balloons and step back.

This party is about to pop.

Keep the fun going all winter break long with a DIY mask bar and craft center.

Next Video: Pretty Smart: Updated Smoky Eye Look

Inside Story: Gabriela Perezutti's Home

The Candela designer gives us a glimpse into her world

There’s no place like home for the holidays. Unless it’s someone else’s massive Manhattan townhouse, replete with a huge Christmas tree and 4-year-old twins singing “Jingle Bells.” (Yeah, we’ll take that.)

It belongs to Candela designer Gabriela Perezutti. In today’s Inside Story, she gives us a tour of the space she shares with husband Austin Hearst and daughters Olivia and Mia.

The house is currently decorated for the season, but evidence of Perezutti’s upbringing on a cattle ranch in Uruguay remains. We especially love the black and white photos of her mom on horseback.

They make us happy in a million ways.

For more information on Candela, go to candelanyc.com.

Next Video: In the Kitchen: Gail Simmons's Latkes

Pretty Smart: Updated Smoky Eye Look

Betsy Branca from Arch Apothecary's easy steps

Your daytime look (terry cloth, mostly) doesn’t jibe with your nighttime holiday-party-hopping schedule.

Match your mood with a makeup how-to from Arch Apothecary’s Betsy Branca. In today’s Pretty Smart video (Chicago’s first!), she’ll take your peepers from sleepy to smoky in mere minutes. It’s easy (we promise).

All you need is a brush, liner, shadow, and mascara — items you likely hoard — and a steady hand. So put down the Stoli. You’ve got prepping to do.

For more information on Arch Apothecary or to buy any of the products mentioned in the video, go to archapothecary.com.

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In the Kitchen: Gail Simmons's Latkes

The "Top Chef" judge shares her mom's recipe

Does life get any better than fried starch?

The answer is no, which is why we asked author and Top Chef judge Gail Simmons to make her mom’s latkes for today’s In the Kitchen video.

Simmons uses everything you’d expect (shredded potatoes, eggs, oil), but there’s a secret ingredient (hint: Marcus Samuelsson also loves it) that’ll make you ask, “Why do we make these only at Hanukkah?”

Even if you don’t celebrate the Festival of Lights, we recommend mixing a batch immediately, since the gentile editors at our shoot pounded them.

No miracle there.

Want to taste them straight from Simmons’s pan? Head to the Latke Sizzle (vodka tastings included), tomorrow at 8:15 p.m., at 92Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, at 92nd Street (212-415-5500 or 92y.org). Enter code DCANDY at checkout for 20 percent off tickets. For more Hanukkah recipes, decorations, and menorahs, check out our flipbook.

Next Video: Pretty Smart: DIY Clarifying Probiotic Scrub

Pretty Smart: Depuffing Face Massage

Mimi Dakar Berry has your new daily ritual

Mom always said don’t touch your face. Mimi Dakar Berry is saying you can, so long as you do it strategically. In this video, she has a two-minute facial massage technique that hydrates, depuffs, and fights aging.

For more information on the Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic, go to sonyadakarskinclinic.com.

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Pretty Smart: DIY Clarifying Probiotic Scrub

Mimi Dakar Berry's easy instructions for prettier skin

Most of us know about taking a daily probiotic for digestion. But how about applying it topically for glowing skin? In this video, Mimi Dakar Berry of Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic shows how to make her tried-and-true face scrub, which rejuvenates your face in less than twenty minutes.

For more information on the Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic, go to sonyadakarskinclinic.com.

Pretty Smart: DIY Brightening Daisy Facial

A recipe for healthy skin from Mimi Dakar Berry

If your skin could talk, it’d ask you to skip the month of December and head straight to January resolutions. (Grinch.)

Introduce your epidermis to Mimi Dakar Berry of the Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic in Beverly Hills (yes, they’re daughter/mother). In today’s Pretty Smart videos, she shares three DIY concoctions to erase the damage of seven eggnogs in one night.

Start with a clarifying probiotic scrub, follow with a brightening daisy-infused face mask (above), and end with a two-minute depuffing massage. Alone or altogether, these steps make your skin look ten times fresher.

And the best part? They’re as easy as (five slices of pecan) pie.

For more information on the Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic, go to sonyadakarskinclinic.com.

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Pass the Gratitude

A family activity for the Thanksgiving table

Parental responsibility No. 425: teaching your kids that Thanksgiving is more than a long weekend bookended by parades and leftover pumpkin pie.

Get the message across with a gratitude jar. Before the turkey is served, gather your pilgrims and ask them what they’re grateful for. Write down each gem on a slip of paper (Mom and Dad, you do it, too) and tuck the notes into a jar.

When setting the table for your fall feast, use the jar as a centerpiece of riches to share with family and friends.

And because not everyone is so fortunate, we’re using our bounty to spread the word about Future Fortified. More than 200 million kids don’t have diets with enough essential nutrients — and Future Fortified wants to change that.

Join us on Twitter this week (#thankfulforthefuture) and share what you’re thankful for.

So we can build a better future for all.

Our friends at Future Fortified have created a message template to help get your family’s gratitude jar started. Find out more about their effort to rid the world of malnutrition at futurefortified.org.

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Pretty Smart: Hot Roller Tutorial

Stylist Julie Dickson's easy instructions

It’s not hard to make the mental leap from hot rollers to Golden Girl Sophia Petrillo running around in a purple bathrobe.

Heed her age-acquired wisdom: They’re better for your hair, simpler to use than a curling iron, and yield just-as-great-if-not-better results when used correctly.

For proof, watch our tutorial with Julie Dickson, founder and head stylist of Fox & Boy salon in New York City. Dickson’s easy steps require only two things: rollers (here are the ones we like best) and hair spray.

You’ll be so amazed by the volume (easily adjustable with a brush) you may want to call Dickson.

And thank her for being a friend.

Want more of Dickson’s tricks? Learn to cut your own bangs, give yourself a salon-quality blowout, or do a messy side bun. For more information on Fox & Boy, go to foxandboy.com.

Next Video: Eli and Max Sussman's Sauteed Kale

Eli and Max Sussman's Sauteed Kale

The brothers share a favorite Thanksgiving side

Don’t get us wrong: We love melted butter and gravy mixed with a spoonful of mashed potatoes and toasted marshmallows garnished with a bit of yams as much as the next American.

But this Thanksgiving we have healthier options, thanks to brothers Eli and Max Sussman, New York-based chefs and authors of the recently published This Is a Cookbook.

In today’s videos, they show us two easy, inexpensive, no-stretchy-pants-necessary recipes: sauteed kale with almonds and raisins (above) and roasted cauliflower with caramelized onions.

It’s possible we ate enough of the vegan-friendly dishes during the shoot to constitute three meals.

But that still beats French’s fried onion rings plus or minus the green beans.

This Is a Cookbook is available at amazon.com or itunes.com (iPad version), $13.