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Thanks to advances in technology, hair transplant procedures are sprouting up all over. Doctors can harvest and replant hair follicles into eyebrows, mustaches,  beards and beyond. Click on picture for full story

For aesthetician Mindy McGinty, eyebrows aren’t just sculpted arches framing her face — they’re a walking billboard for her business. So when she lost her eyebrows after a “bad experience with permanent makeup,” she was completely distraught.

“I wanted to give the illusion of a fuller brow so I got them tattooed,” says the 53-year-old from Gilbertsville, Pa. “But over time, the dye changed color and my eyebrows literally turned salmon orange. I had no choice but to get the tattoo removed with laser and the laser destroyed all my hair follicles.”

McGinty tried to make do with “fauxbrows” — powdering them on, penciling them in, even gluing on strips of hair which “came off every time I made a face.” But after several years, she’d had enough.  After months of research, she decided it was time to “borrow” eyebrows from the back of her head — via a hair transplant.

Within the endless streams of bite-size personal updates and random thoughts that populate the Twitter-sphere, now you also can find recipes for dinner, including from pros like Martha Stewart and Chicago chef Rick Bayless.

LWBG says: As if following a recipe was not difficult enough! Although phrases like:  3t sug + 2c H20 sim 10m are semi-understandable the rest is plain gibberish: 4c ch apr +2 t cin m&c/ MH 30m (???)

In short: a recipe that can successfully summarized in 140 characters is probably a simple one, something simple, simple SIMPLE, like  garlic toast .  So please, if you are looking for a recipe for duck a la orange… consult   a full length  recipe either in a cookbook or online!  If it has pictures or video EVEN BETTER!

The weak economy and a sour housing marketing have meant that many more people in this ordinarily footloose nation are staying put. It’s a trend that reverses a decades-old pattern. Click on the picture for the full story

Mary Uhazi is drowning in a sea of debt that she built up slowly over more than two decades of easy credit, but now worries she won’t be able to pay off because of the recession.

Mary Uhazi has more than $60,000 in credit card debt and, by her own account, “nothing to show for it.”

“You have some clothes, you have some dinner, you have a handbag, you have whatever, but it’s not $11,000 worth or it’s not $60,000 worth,” Uhazi said.

Uhazi is drowning in a sea of debt. And, like millions of other Americans, it is a debt load that she built up slowly over more than two decades of easy credit that made it all too simple to spend. Now she worries she won’t be able to pay it off because of the recession, which has led to a reduction in her salary and an increase in her credit card bills. …Click on picture for full story

Judging from the broadcast’s first hour or so, he was a solid choice to help bring needed new life to what’s all-too-routinely billed as “Hollywood’s biggest night.” So how did the sexiest man alive fair? Click on picture for full story

Penelope Cruz won the supporting-actress Academy Award on Sunday for the Spanish romance “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” while the blockbuster robot romance “WALL-E” made off with the prize for feature-length animation.

Salma Hayek wed French magnate Francois-Henri Pinault in a civil ceremony on Valentines Day at the City Hall in Paris’ chic 6th arrondissement, according to an official there.

PARIS – Salma Hayek picked a most romantic time and place to get married: Valentine’s Day in Paris. The Mexican-born actress wed French magnate Francois-Henri Pinault in a civil ceremony Saturday at the City Hall in Paris’ chic 6th arrondissement, according to an official there.

The wedding was a small affair, said the official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, in accordance with policy.

Hayek’s spokeswoman, Cari Ross, confirmed in an e-mail Monday that the marriage had taken place in Paris Saturday. No further details were provided. Click on picture for full story.

The singer who recently lost his wife had the judges on their feet. Alexis Grace also managed to stand out of the “American Idol” pack.

Changes abound on “American Idol.” Because there are 36 semifinalists instead of 24 this season, only the top three vote-getters of each of three semifinal rounds advance. The other nine either go home or wait for the wild-card round that decides the last three spots.