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This issue of M-Teen is brimming over with new and excitingfeatures!

Heather organized two fabulous makeovers with stylists at Ella David Salon, reviewed the latest gadgets in "Gadgets Galore" and announced the launch of our first-ever book club, TheChick Lit Clique.

M-Teen staffers covered the Miss Cordova Pageant, Macy'sTeen Board Fashion Show, Justine Magazine Model Search

and Christyn's Sweet 16 Party.

We are also proud to announce a new monthly feature, M-Teen's Stellar Star, sponsored by Southeast Urology Network, which will regularly highlight the accomplishmentsof a local talented teen.One of my favorite quotes comes from this month's "Stellar Star," Brittany Flaherty. When asked, "What has been your

biggest career accomplishment so far?" Brittany answered, "I would have to say my biggest accomplishment is having so

many opportunities to perform and grow as an artist. Having atrophy or a title doesn't matter. You will get what you deserve

if you put hard work and determination into your craft."

Love it, Brittany.....you go!

The Intern Diaries Meet M-Teen's newest intern, Rhodes College freshman Elle Linebarier! Elle will be dishing on all ofher latest thoughts, experiences and advice in each issue. Stay tuned for next month's installment!The days are getting shorter, the teachers are getting harder and football is in full swing...this couldonly mean one thing--FALL IS OFFICIALLY HERE! I can still remember planning "spirited" outfits forevery football game, making weekend plans on Monday morning and spending countless hours"studying" during my free periods last year and (hard to believe) I kind of miss those days!I am now a freshman in college and it is tough work! Don't get me wrong, it is just what I expected,

but the hours I used to spend socializing, shopping and hanging out are now spent in the library of allplaces! Although my time is now consumed in a place that I have come to call the 'Lib,' I am still ableto find time to go out and enjoy the adventures of college life. I, like all of my fellow freshmanclassmates, am furiously trying to adapt to this new lifestyle of no sleep, constant work and sevenday weekends, which the upper classmen are miraculously able to juggle. I seriously have no cluehow they do it! This Friday is our first home football game, and I look forward to attending andexperiencing my first official athletic event as a college student.For those of you who are new to high school or just about to graduate, I urge you to make the most of

your time spent there, because you will never be able to experience anything remotely close to itagain. As you all know, college does in fact entail more freedom, but always remember that with morefreedom comes more responsibility! Have a wonderful year and a fabulous FALL BREAK! By Elle Linebarier

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Whats Inside...hats Inside...Letter from the Editor/Shout-Outs! .............. ..3Macys Teen Board.........................................4M-Teens Stellar Star.....................................5Teens About Town..... .............. .............. ......... 6YoungMind - Da Star of Da City......................7Nutrition/The Chatterbox...............................8Best of Beauty...............................................9Miss Cordova Pageant........................... 10-11

Ella David Salon Makeover...........................12Justine Model Search..................................13Christyns Sweet 16 Party..................... 14-15Shop For A Cause.........................................16R.L. Stines Mostly Ghostly...........................17Gadgets Galore!...............................18Accidentally Fabulous..................................19Paulas Skincare .............. ............ 20Fashionistas: Crazy Beautiful ........... 21M-Teen Faves...............................................22

Whats Inside...Letter from the Editor/Shout-Outs! ................3Macys Teen Board.........................................4M-Teen s Stellar Star.....................................5Teens About Town..........................................6YoungMind - Da Star of Da City ......................7Nutrition/The Chatterbox...............................8Best of Beauty...............................................9Miss Cordova Pageant ........................... 10-11

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Or am I talking myself into being hungry?"In times of stress, sadness, happiness and even boredom, we can reach for food to fill

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Once again,M-Teen's Team Beauty had

the tough task o sorting throughdozens o drool-worthy blushes, shadows,bronzers, mascaras and glosses galore todish about which pretty products they just couldn't live without.

By Heather Holm

More M-Teen Picks:Be Scent-sational! Just one whif o these abulousragrances will have you hooked.

Prescriptives Fall DimensionsEye Color Quad $45, prescriptives.com

"These slightly shimmery colors look sosumptuous!"

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Maybelline The Colossal Volum'Express mascara $6,

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MAC Pro LongwearLustre Lipcolour $20 maccosmetics.com

"Two colors on thisdouble-ended, smudge-

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Jillian Dempsey orAVON Retro Rouge $10,

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For your erceinner- ower child:Daisy Marc Jacobs $72,daisymarcjacobs.com

For the hopelessromantic:Clinique Happy He$38.50 & up,clinique.com

For the royal treatmenVera Wang Princess $and up,verawangprincess.co

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October is National Breast CancerAwareness Month, so what better wayto show your support than by pickingproducts that give back? Each o thesefnds donates a percentage o the

proft to worthy organizationsdedicated to fnding a cure andhelping those living with the disease.

By Heather Holmes

Pantene Pro-V Beautiful Lengthscollection $5 each,drugstores

This silky, strand-savingormula donates a portion o the proceeds to PanteneBeauti ul Lengths, a programthat creates real hair wigs or

women battling cancer.

Sephora Pocket Brush Set in Metallic Pink $15, sephora.com

Keep your entire slew obeauty tools organized icute, compact kit. $1 rosale o each travel-sizedwill be donated to The BCancer Research Founda

Philosophy "Shower for the Cure" $20, philosophy.com

100% o the proceeds rom the sale o this luxe body quencher go directly tothe Women's Cancer Research Fund.

Master Lock pink padlock $5.49,amazon.com

Keep your valuables under lock and key(literally!) with this pretty pink lock romMaster Lock, who is doing their part bydonating $10,000 to the Breast CancerResearch Foundation.

C.O. Bigelow Cancer Vixen Kit $29.50,bathandbodyworks.com

C. O. Bigelow is donating $250,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in additionto providing this decadent kit, which contains goodies like lemon-scented body creamsand washes, pink mint lip gloss, and moisture-packed hand and oot creams.

DVDs for the Cure $15, stores nationwide

Pop in one o these eel-good icks and do yourpart to fght breast cancer at the same time! 50cents rom the sale o each specially-markedDVD (there are 15 titles this year!) will bedonated to the Susan G. Komen or the CureFoundation on behal o Twentieth Century FoxHome Entertainment.

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Cellular South Blackberry Curve 8330 about $200, cellularsouth.com Everyone wants to get their hands on one of the incredibly popular Blackberry Curves! Cellular South has upped the "it" factor of a variety oftheir phones by adding new Pic Sender technology to the mix, which allows you to automatically save each photo you take to your personalcomputer, email and fave online albums.

Panasonic LUMIX FS3 $180, panasonic.com This chic, compact camera comes in an array of hues and packs a ton of great features. In addition to the 8.1megapixels, it has special Face Detection technology that detects up to 15 faces anywhere in the frame andautomatically adjusts to the best settings to make your pics come out perfectly clear.

T-Mobile Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone, t-mobile.com If you're addicted to listening to your favorite music at all times, then this cell is for youit features up to 20 hours of playback. It's almost hard tobelieve that so much tune-age could be packed into one super-slim phone, but this is one gadget that is denitely worth the dough. Want more? Italso has a built-in digital camera and a 2-inch display screen.

Casio ELIXIM EX-S10 $250, casiousa.com For such a small, thin digital camera that you could easily tote in your pocket, this model sure scores a lot of points!With 10.1 megapixels, a crystal-clear LCD and a super-wide range of view, you'll feel like a professional photographer

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when the September Voguecharacters, because I'm really a mom living in the suburbs.

Working with so many celebs must be amazing. Do you ever feel star struck?I have met a lot o people, bu t I think it is on a diferent level. You get sort o jad ed when you are working in theentertainment industry, and you learn ast. It is really hard work in a ast-paced environment with people relyingon you to do a goo d job. You start to realize that celebrities are really ju st humans. However, I'm de nitely in aweo talent.

Do you have any writing rituals?I'm not crazy or kooky, but I'm a di sciplined writer. I will wake up early (I'm more inspired and resh in the morning)and read everything. I read the gossip magazines, toothey are my guilty pleasure! I'm usually blasting my musicreally loud in my earphonesit gets me psyched. Then, I turn of everything, sit at my computer, and write.

What about writer's block?It can be scary look ing at a blank computer screen. You're thinking, "What do I write?" "What's the bestscene?" There are so many choices when you are a writer. So I get stumped sometimes, but not reallywriter's block. There is so much or [my characters] to say and do, so I try to get into their heads a nd get itall out.

What is the most interesting feedback/review you have received?I take reviews with a grain o salt. What really gets to me is reader eedback. I have a readersite, and I love it when I get responses like "My best riend and I are just like Evie andImogene." One girl told me that a ter reading my books, her and her best riend startedtheir own design company! As a writer, you put yoursel out there or bad and good reviews, butwhen your stories make someone take a positive step in their lives, that is amaz ing!

What advice do you have for aspiring teen writers?There are so many amazing teen writers out there who don't even know how great they are. My advice isto ollow your heart and ollow your passion. Always carry a journali something pops into your head,pull out your journal and write it down, even i you don' t know where it is going to go o r how everything isgoing to come together yet. Just keep a journal and go to it o ten. Who knows? An event in your li e, adiscussion with a girl riend, a piece o gossipit could end up becoming your rst book.

Have you started working on your next book yet?There are a couple o ideas I have, and I am just now writing a synopsis or each o them. They are bothcompeting with themselves, so whichever one shows itsel rst is the one I am going with!

Tell us how you became involved in the wonderful world of writing.I actually started out working as a Fashion Forecasting Editor on Seventh

Avenue in New York City. My job meant being responsible or writing a wholelot o things, so I sort o didn't even realize that I was becoming a writer.

From there, I wound up working in the entertainment industry, readingmaterial or Robert DeNiro. This was around the time he decided hewanted to develop and work on his own material rather than being anactor or hire. Then, a riend o mine came to me with an idea or a motionpicture, so we worked on it together and signed a movie deal with aproduction company. With all o these experiences, I began to developideas and a backstory or these charactersand the rest is history!

Do you share any personality similarities with your characters?Imogene is besotted is obsessed with anything ashion-yI was like that

when the September Vogue hit my doorstep! I live vicariously through mycharacters, because I'm really a mom living in the suburbs.

Working with so many celebs must be amazing. Do you ever feel star struck?I have met a lot o people, but I think it is on a diferent level. You get sort o jaded when you are working in theentertainment industry, and you learn ast. It is really hard work in a ast-paced environment with people relyingon you to do a good job. You start to realize that celebrities are really just humans. However, I'm de nitely in aweo talent.

Do you have any writing rituals?I'm not crazy or kooky, but I'm a disciplined writer. I will wake up early (I'm more inspired and resh in the morning)and read everything. I read the gossip magazines, toothey are my guilty pleasure! I'm usually blasting my musicreally loud in my earphonesit gets me psyched. Then, I turn of everything, sit at my computer, and write.

What about writer's block?It can be scary looking at a blank computer screen. You're thinking, "What do I write?" "What's the bestscene?" There are so many choices when you are a writer. So I get stumped sometimes, but not reallywriter's block. There is so much or [my characters] to say and do, so I try to get into their heads and get itall out.

What is the most interesting feedback/review you have received?I take reviews with a grain o salt. What really gets to me is reader eedback. I have a readersite, and I love it when I get responses like "My best riend and I are just like Evie andImogene." One girl told me that a ter reading my books, her and her best riend startedtheir own design company! As a writer, you put yoursel out there or bad and good reviews, butwhen your stories make someone take a positive step in their lives, that is amazing!

What advice do you have for aspiring teen writers? There are so many amazing teen writers out there who don't even know how great they are. My advice isto ollow your heart and ollow your passion. Always carry a journali something pops into your head,pull out your journal and write it down, even i you don't know where it is going to go or how everything isgoing to come together yet. Just keep a journal and go to it o ten. Who knows? An event in your li e, adiscussion with a girl riend, a piece o gossipit could end up becoming your rst book.

Have you started working on your next book yet?There are a couple o ideas I have, and I am just now writing a synopsis or each o them. They are bothcompeting with themselves, so whichever one shows itsel rst is the one I am going with!

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Dear Paula,Every time I look in the mirror I see more and more tiny black dots on my nose and cheek. Theyre really

gross and they wont wash of no matter what I try. My riend told me these dots are called blackheads,which sounds totally disgusting. How do I get rid o these blackheads, and ast?

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Youre right, blackheads are gross, but theyre alsosomething most teens (and many adults) experienceas part o the way your pores and oil glands unction.I understand the rustration o battling blackheads.Simply put, blackheads make skin look mottled andunclean. The truth about blackheads (usually accom-panied by oily skin) is hard to accept. What is thetruth? The truth is they are just hard to get rid o . It ishard to win the battle against clogged pores!However, because there are only a hand ul o optionsor dealing with this annoying skin malady, itsrelatively simple to explain.

Pores that are unctioning normally produce a normalamount o sebum (oil) and easily distribute the oil tothe sur ace o skin. Hormones, almost exclusively,regulate the amount o sebum production. When anormal amount o oil is produced it moves efortlesslythrough the pore and out onto the sur ace o skin,where it melts into an imperceptible lm that orms aprotective barrier over the ace.

Hormones (which surge during the teen years) cancause too much oil to be produced, or skin cells canblock the exit path o the oil, or, when you have poresthat are mal ormed, the oil in the pore can getclogged and then blackheads orm. Making theseconditions even worse is the buildup in the pore o skin-care or makeup productsmixed in with skincells, they can get trapped in the sticky sebum sittingin the pore. When sebum and skin cells sit in a porethat is not covered over by skin, they are exposed toair, which causes the sebum and skin cells to oxidizeand turn black.

Whats behind all this is primarily a genetic predisposi-tion accompanied by the right conditions (mentionedabove) randomly occurring in any one o thethousands o pores we have on our ace. Not tomention unknown reactions to the over 50,000cosmetic ingredients we may come in contact withrom products we use.

To clear up the con usion, the ollowing is my bestsolution to minimize blackheads, because with someefort they can be reduced, and, depending on howyour skin reacts, maybe even be reduced a lot.Other than avoiding products that are too emollient(meaning thick or greasy creams) and not usingmoisturizers when you dont need them, there arereally only our essentials or dealing with blackheads:

1. Gentle, water-solublecleansers (and avoiding barsoap). The ingredients that keep bar soap in its barorm can clog pores, and irritation can cause skin cellsto ake of be ore theyre ready and accumulate in thepore. Its actually getting harder and harder to nd acleanser that isnt gentle. Be care ul o cleansers thatare too emollient and leave a greasy lm on the skin,which can cause urther problems.2. Gentle ex oliantsthat can both remove the excessskin cells on the sur ace o the ace (so they dontbuild up in the pore) and ex oliate inside the pore (toimprove the shape o the pore, allowing a more evenow o oil through it). Ex oliation is essential or bothdry and oily skin when you are trying to eliminateblackheads. The only diference is that someone withdry skin will want an ex oliant that has a moremoisturizing base. The best option or ex oliating skinboth within the pore and on the sur ace o the skin isa salicylic acid (beta hydroxy acidBHA) lotion, gel, orliquid. Salicylic acid can penetrate the pore to helpimprove the shape o the pore lining, allowing anunobstructed path o oil ow.3. Absorbing excess oil.This step is more or those withoily skin. For those with oily skin, clay masks are anoption as long as they dont contain other ingredientsthat are irritating . The hand ul o sili-cone-basedoil-absorbing products meant to be worn undermakeup, romcompanies like Smashbox and Clinique,are worth a try too.4. Improving cellproduction can help the poreunction more normally. Ef ective considerationsor all skin types are tretinoins (Retin-A, Tazorac,Avita,Renova), Diferin, and azelaic acid. These can beused by themselves or witha BHA product. Research has de nitely established

that Retin-A, Renova, and Diferin have positiveefects on how pores unction, and these productsshould be considered or very stubborn cases or whenblackheads are accompanied by breakouts.

Blackheads can be made to seem less noticeable withpore strips, but only when the instructions on the boxare ollowed exactly and they are not overused. Porestrips do not afect pore unction.For all skin types, AHA peels, microdermabrasion, andlaser resur acing can signi cantly afect the appear-ance o blackheads; however, they dont necessarilyimprove pore unctioning (it depends on the depth o

the treatment); rather, they temporarily get rid o thesur ace problem, making your skin look better.

Topical disin ectants (such as benzoyl peroxide) ortopical antibiotics available by prescription areunwarranted and would be wasted in the treatmento blackheads and milia because bacteria are notinvolved in these conditions.

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