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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 conven
ience 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
and Maybelline, and a few
from more obscure lines
like Black Opal and
Carden Botanika. The site
has regular specials and
markdowns on everything
from eyelash curlers to tub
teas. Another way drug
store.com and other online
pharmacies can make your life a lot easi
er is by filling, and then delivering, your
prescription drugs.
For more exclusive makeup and fra
grance lines, go to www.sephora.com.
This slick site is easily navi- _
gable: 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 target
ed questions you can design
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your own cosmetics, fra
grance, hair care and skin
care products, right down to
the name of the product
and the shape of the con
tainer. The well-designed
site will walk you through
the customization process,
and the products, priced
along the lines of depart
ment store brands, come
with an unconditional
money-back guarantee.
If you’re not in the market for $17
sssaLa iss&s
lipsticks, there are a ton of
bargains out there: try the
old faithfuls like
Target.com, where you can
browse basic—and afford
able—offerings for every
thing 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
There's no need for
you to leave your
room to stock up on
goodies like make
up, shampoo and
hair accessories
Terre. They carry discount
ed 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 ship
ping if you order above a cer
tain 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. •
The Infomine
infomine.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, electron
ic 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 classi
cal 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 collec- *
tions 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 infor
mation 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, high
lighting their economies, arts and traditions.
Latin World can be a valuable tool in under
standing Latino cultures.
Content: B Usability: B