Throughout the past few years, our very own CC Beauty Live vlogger Caitlin, has been bringing us the best college beauty DIY tips out there. From teaching us how to correctly apply mascara to helping us master the art of braiding your own hair to showing us how to pull off the smoky eye — she’s covered it all!

And now, as we approach her 100th episode of CC Beauty Live, we’d like to look back at her five most popular episodes ever.

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If you’ve got a copy of Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Student and Teacher edition on your hands (or on your computer), you better open up a blank project right this instant. Simply convey your passions, inspirations and artistic visions into one creation and enter it in the Adobe Imagination Challenge.

There are 5 chances to win $10,000 and 36 chances to win $550 from August 21 through October 15. To get all the entry dates, view others’ entries and snag more details on the contest, visit the Adobe Imagination Challenge website.

[Everyone’s got a vice, a bad habit, something they know they need to change. Unfortunately, everyone also has a million excuses why they just can’t do it. Not anymore. Every month we will be following a different CollegeCandy writer as she takes on a personal challenge. Last month Charlotte tried to stop biting her nails. This month, Tiffany is going to attempt to conquer Outward Bound. Can she do it!? Could you?]

Before rock climbing another challenge was thrown at me: SOLO. During solo, the whole crew is separated and we each spend 3 days in the woods by ourselves. Solo always takes place a little after the halfway mark of the trip, so around day 16-18. The three days are meant to give time for reflection, rest, and to test your skills (we each make our own shelter). Oh, and we basically get no food, so a lot a people choose to fast during the time. At the beginning of the trip, solo was another thing I was terrified of doing.  But as it neared I got more excited; I mean, this trip is soo strenuous I was just ready for the opportunity to rest. And that’s exactly what I did. I’d like to say that I had some great spiritual experience like others in my group, but mostly I just slept and talked to myself (I got lonely). And I was hungry. Eating only 3 ounces of trail mix and an apple barely made a dent in my hunger, so I like to think fasted anyway. And even though I don’t like pancakes, it was the best meal I’d ever tasted after 63 hours in the woods. Now from one challenge to the next, it’s on to rock climbing.

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Are you like, totally obsessed with us? (Sorry, do we sound cocky?) Did you know that there are 8 ways to stay in touch with us?! EIGHT. If you’re obsessed with the latest trends in fashion, relationships, and everything college-related, then here are 8 ways to stock up on CollegeCandy! But in all seriousness…we’re not responsible if you overdose on us. If that’s even possible.

1. Twitter

At CollegeCandy, we’re always tweeting our latest stories and random thoughts like. “Boys I like should not be allowed to have privacy controls on their Facebook profiles.” So true, right? We know you girls because we are girls. For the latest and quickest updates, definitely check our twitter! Click here to follow us! (or here if you’re a sorority girl, here to get an inside peek at CC intern life and here if you go to Mizzou. Yep we LOVE Twitter!)

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Hey!

You don’t know me – well, not yet – but I’m you, now. And you’re my 10-year-old self. Yeah, this conversation is actually happening, because we have a LOT to discuss.

First of all, you’re ten! Congratulations on hitting the double digits! You’ve just completed the first decade of your life and even though you probably don’t remember the first half of it, you probably feel pretty grown up and ready to stare down any sassy 4^th graders. But honestly, stop growing up so fast and smell the bubblegum ice cream! Savor all those carbs you can chew without feeling guilty! Paint your fingernails electric blue, put in purple feather extensions, wear creative clothing and run around on the playground. Trust me, when your homework gets harder and your waist gets a little bigger, you’ll wish you took advantage of your high energy and amazing metabolism.

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’90s parents all over the globe were distraught about their little girls being influenced by the Spice Girls. But almost fourteen years later, I still value the life lessons that I learned from their British Invasion. Their die-hard chanting of “girl power” ironically accompanied by their iconic minidresses is an attitude that I still channel to this day. We’ll have to forgive them for their slip-up with the whole “if you wanna be my lover you gotta get with my friends” thing, because these are five essential do’s and don’ts of being a woman as taught by Baby, Scary, Ginger, Sporty, and Posh.

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[This post and contest come hot off the Internet presses from our friends at CollegeFashion!]

School is on everyone’s mind as we approach the final weeks of August. One of my favorite school-themed movies is The Breakfast Club, and it’s the perfect source of fashion inspiration for back-to-school. In case you’ve been living under a rock, here’s the basic plot: five high schoolers are held captive in detention one Saturday, and throughout the course of the day, their struggles and similarities are revealed. This film is as iconic to the eighties as Madonna and hair bands, and is today’s go-to source for back to school fashion ideas.

The Breakfast Club takes place during the winter, so I tweaked the outfits a bit to work for a college campus during the fall. Ready for some fresh inspiration? Read on over at CollegeFashion!

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The myth behind the faked orgasm

Which couple are back on?

Get Jennifer Aniston’s cute travel look for less

Brad Pitt gets a sandwich named after him

Let the Kardashian bridezilla wars begin

Most memorable movie dudes

Lesson 36 – You don’t have to give up your peep-toes be a guy’s girl.

My first serious boyfriend lived in a house with four other guys, where pizza night was every night, Miller Light was considered the nectar of gods and the closest thing to window treatments were posters of Anna Kournikova. After two years of being the only girlfriend who stuck around, while my boyfriend’s four roommates’ brought by virtually every Ashley, Chelsea and Lindsey within county lines, I couldn’t take it anymore. I finally asked my boyfriend to tell me what these poor girls were doing wrong or if his friends were just womanizing douchebags. He laughed and he said, “Mostly my friends are just jerks, but then again the girls who walk in and out of here don’t really make an effort to fit in, they sit here in their mini-skirts and high heels and laugh nervously and smile the whole time, you can tell they’re not comfortable.” Ever since then I haven’t been able to shake this whole concept of being a guy’s girl.

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