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Affordable makeup dupes that deliver real results

Makeup product dupes have slowly redefined the beauty industry by changing the way people shop and view luxury brands. A “dupe” is a drug store beauty product that has a similar formula to a more expensive, well-known brand and sometimes will go as far as having similar packaging. Social media has taken this term and applied it to a number of different makeup and skin care items, causing a dupe-epidemic to occur, but the big question is: what are the products that are worth it?

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MFA candidate brings ecological art to the Broad Art Museum

Hailey Becker is finishing her master's of fine arts by exhibiting her original piece titled “An oracle is useless unless she is poisoned,” in Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum's MFA exhibition. Becker is also pursuing a Ph.D. in forestry and uses her background in science to inform her artistic decisions.