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Beauty Bets founder Elizabeth Dehn, aka Bets, is an editor, lifestyle writer, and beauty enthusiast who worked for Aveda, Kiehl’s, Target and several magazines before launching the blog in 2009. When not schmearing on face masks or battling her new body wave, she covers the beauty, food, and travel beats for Minnesota Monthly, Sotheby’s Artful Living magazine, the Star Tribune, BettyCrocker.com, Fox Morning Buzz and Twin Cities Live television. Her work has also appeared in Fashion Weekly, Everyday with Rachael Ray, and Glamour.

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The editor-in-chief of all things cheap at Beauty Bets, Meghan McAndrews spends her free time scouring vintage shops and drugstore aisles. A magazine editor by day and the voice of High Plains Thrifter by night, she’s also been known to snap photos of herself wearing $3 turbans. Her BEAUTY THRIFTER column appears every Wednesday.
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Newly married to an Air Force man, Hannah Kuhary is making the most of their station in not-so-sunny North Dakota by writing for the local newspaper. Equally passionate about clean living and Chanel lip glosses, she’s planning to get her esthetician’s license in the next big city. Her NATURAL BEAUTY column appears every other Friday.
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An admitted girly-girl and Bare Escentuals fanatic, publishing darling Danielle Bruflodt talks about the latest from the cult-favorite brand in her column, BE GIRL. Dani also adores Moscato, a good dose of retail therapy, and anything with lace. For a daily dose of her witty musings, visit Life’s a Journal.
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Karen “CoCo” Daly has her well-manicured finger on the pulse of practically every beauty trend. Like the Carrie Bradshaw of Chicago, the real estate mogul and ANNE M CRAMER communication director knows what’s chic without taking it all too seriously. Her COCO SAYS column appears whenever she has something beauty-related to say.