Looking Good in D.C.

How Washingtoniennes got gorgeous in 2012

Hey, good looking. You didn’t get that pretty on your own. It’s time to recognize the most exciting beauty and fashion discoveries of the year.

Pretty Smart: Updated Smoky Eye Look

An easy tutorial to make your holidays prettier.

Pretty Smart: DIY Brightening Daisy Facial

A recipe for healthy skin from Mimi Dakar Berry

Spend the night face down in a bowl of eggnog? The vice president of Sonya Dakar Skin Clinic (and daughter of Sonya Dakar) shows you how to use flowers to erase the damage.

Pretty Smart: Hot Roller Tutorial

Hot rollers aren’t just for Golden Girls. In this easy-to-follow tutorial, stylist Julie Dickson shows us the proper way to work them.

Drybar Is a Knockout

Blowouts and styling in Georgetown and Bethesda

Hair routine got you against the ropes? Book a 40-minute session at one of the area’s two new blowout bars and emerge a total knockout.

Karma by Erwin Gomez Opens

A return to (brow) form

It’s a fine — er, thick? — line between Brooke Shields and Frida Kahlo. Avoid going full uni with help from our favorite shape shifter.

In It to Win It

Meet DailyCandy's Start Small, Go Big winners

Be it underground clubs or Amish-inspired street wear, we pride ourselves on uncovering the next big thing. And now it’s time to meet this year’s winners.