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Your Million-Dollar Smile

Photo: Getty Images |
Photo: Getty Images |
Do you have a perfect smile? Or do you always feel compelled to cover your mouth when you laugh? Do you hate to smile for pictures? Ever wished you’d been born with great teeth?
| by Diana Pemberton |

Join the crowd. The truth is, few people are born with perfect smiles. Those million dollar mouths you see plastered all over magazines and television are often the result of many trips to the dentist or orthodontist, and can be yours for a few thousand dollars and some time in a dental chair.

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Fashion

Chanel Iman Covers Prestige Magazine

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Photo: Getty Images |
Chanel Iman cuts a sexy figure in a red silk Marchesa dress on the December 2009 cover of lifestyle magazine, Prestige.
| by Linda J. | Nov. 09 |

Other pictures include the 19-year-old model with her boyfriend Chris Smith earlier this month at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in NYC and after-party.

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Fashion

How to Wear Jeans with Style

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Photo: Getty Images |
Wondering about how to wear jeans that look modern, flattering, and stylish? Check out these tips on how to navigate your way through some of the leading denim trends.
| by Johneen Manning | Nov. 09 |

Dangerous Skinny Jeans & Tapered Jeans

Tapered denim styles draw attention to and accentuate your bottom, stomach and hips, and have the tendency to leave your legs looking like spindly, shapeless sticks. If that wasn’t enough, they also create an awkward juncture when meeting shoes.

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Lifestyle

Getting to Know DC’s Own Tsehaitua “Tubi” Retta

Tsehaitua |
Tsehaitua |
When Tsehaitu “Tubi” Retta was growing up in Columbia, MD, she had dreams of becoming the nation’s first Black female President. “People used to laugh at me and I would get so frustrated. In my head, I’d be like, okay, watch.
| by Jan F. Lee | Nov. 09 |

You’ll see,” she recalls-and we just might. Driven with a passion for policy and justice, this Fall Tubi (pronounced “Too-bee”) will be studying Law at the University of Maryland. She currently works for the NAACP’s National Director of the Youth and College Division. “Pretty much this whole summer I’ve been helping to plan the [NAACP] Annual Convention in New York.