As beauty writers, we're always trying to bring you the beauty tips, hairstyle trends, makeup how-tos and the like. That means interviewing boatloads of beauty experts. These fine men and women are celebrity hairstylists, makeup artists, skin care aficionados and doctors that lend their industry know-how to our stories by sharing beauty secrets -- the tips and tricks they have learned on the job and have found to be the most useful.

To be honest though, we hear so many beauty tips through our constant interviewing and testing of tools and products, that some fall by the wayside or never make it into a story. That’s fine for the lackluster tips (i.e. wash your face twice a day), but it is not fine for the really smart tips. The beauty tips that are so great, they deserve to be mined out and brought to their proper light -- those diamond-in-the-rough type beauty tips.

Some of these tips are classic and have been imparted upon us from generations of women past, friends, and even through the celebrity grapevine. Though many are from the glorious beauty experts mentioned above, and some are even tried and true things we have learned ourselves over the many years of primping and prodding our way through our own beauty careers (some spanning more than 10 years). They come from being on the front lines of it all (well, of the runway and red carpet, that is). They are the ah-ha tricks we swear by.