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Special Feature: Health and Beauty Online The best sites for makeup and more.
You're probably at the point where you buy music, clothes and even books online for the convenience factor. Why not try purchasing your health and beauty products online as well? There's no need for you to leave your room to stock up on goodies like makeup, shampoo and hair
accessories when you can browse online, pick up a few tips from the experts and maybe even save a few dollars.
The warehouse sites for health and beauty are drugstore.com and DrugEmporium.com—they're exactly what they sound like—Internet drug stores with everything you'd expect to find in their brick and mortar
counterparts. Drugstore.com has an extensive makeup section with products from the usual suspects such as Revlon
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and Maybelline, and a few from more obscure lines like Black Opal and Garden Botanika. The site has regular specials and markdowns on everything from eyelash curlers to tub teas. Another way drugstore.com and other online
your own cosmetics, fragrance, hair care and skin care products, right down to the name of the product and the shape of the container. The well-designed site will walk you through the customization process and the products, priced along the lines of department store brands, come with an unconditional
For more exclusive makeup and fragrance lines, go to www.sephora.com.
pharmacies can make your life a lot easier is by filling, and then delivering, your prescription drugs.
This slick site is easily navigable: search by brand, color, price or category. Sephora has special sections such as Editor's Picks, a rotating list of their favorite products, hair accessories and gifts. If you want truly exclusive health and beauty products, there's only one place to go: Reflect.com. By answering a series of targeted questions you can design
money-back guarantee. If you're not in the market for $17
There's no need for you to leave your room to stock up on goodies like make-up, shampoo and hair accessories
lipsticks, there are a ton of bargains out there: try the old faithfuls like Target.com, where you can browse basic—and affordable—offerings for everything from makeup to hot rollers. Also worth a glance is American Beauty Discount Supply. adiscount
beauty.com, where you'll find cheap hair care products from companies like
American Crew and Bain de Terre. They carry discounted products for everything from head to toe, so check it out to see if your favorites are on the list.
If you're interested in natural products, there are plenty of green sites on the
web. Try Back2Nature.net for all-natural herbal cosmetics, hair and skin care products, and remedies for everything that ails you.
Standard shipping at most of these
sites runs from $3-$5,but you can often get free shipping if you order above a certain amount. Remember to check out return policies before you buy—most sites will accept returned products with no questions, but you don't want to get stuck with a $20 magenta lipstick because of an ordering mistake.
ACADEMIC
The Infomine
informine.ucr.edu/Main.html
Practically every academic subject can be found in the INFOMINE, a research-oriented search engine and web directory. Built by librarians for the University of California system, INFOMINE is a virtual library with links to databases, electronic journals and books, bulletins, listservs, articles and much more. From agricultural science to government documents online, if you need to research it, chances are you'll find it here. Content: A Usability: B
The Perseus Digital Library www.perseus.tufts.edu
One of the oldest and best resources for classical studies and history majors, the Perseus library allows you to search through masses of ancient Greek and Roman texts, images and other scholarly materials. There are also collections online for American history and the English Renaissance, including a scanned first folio of Shakespeare.
Content: A- Usability: B+
Archaeology on the Net www.serve.com/archaeology
This page has compiled all of the archaeological resources on the web into one handy site. There are dozens of journals you can access, links to academic departments so you can start researching your grad school, and loads of information ranging from anthropology to rock art. Unfortunately the site is not searchable, but it is reasonably well organized. Content: A- Usability: B-
Latin World
latinworld.com
Latin World aims to promote Latin America, its people and its cultures. A bilingual informational resource, the site contains discussion forums, opinion articles, and even online radio stations from Mexico and Brazil.A great feature of the site is its profiles of individual countries, highlighting their economies, arts and traditions. Latin World can be a valuable tool in understanding Latino cultures. Content: B Usability:B
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