- This week, our favorite celebrity gossip blog introduced us to the self-proclaimed #1 Male Barbie of Scotland and his amazing beauty tips ("Orange or darker is one of the best skin colors you can have!"). (Dlisted)

- Sad: bargain drugstore brand Jane Cosmetics has filed for bankruptcy. (The Cut)

- Perpetually pink-streaked singer Avril Lavigne recently signed a "major deal" with beauty industry giant Proctor & Gamble: her debut fragrance, Black Star, launches first. (MSN)

- Celebrity hair genius Ted Gibson—who once told Vanity Fair that working with Angelina Jolie for five years changed his life—has a new line of clip-in hair extensions.(Hot Beauty Health)

- A new study says women can get away with taking "European" showers (sorry, but it's in the dictionary!) instead of actual soap-and-water ones. Men—not so much. (San Francisco Examiner)

- And without further ado, here's the Bellasugar armpit shaving tutorial. (Bellasugar)

If Britney Spears is actually coming out with her own line of hair extensions,A I DIE. In advance.

According to this website, my favorite celebrity on the planet is consulting with Los Angeles weave master Kim Vo on a 2009 launch. Please please please let this be true. I will wear them every day, even if they're terrible and my boss threatens to fire me for representing the Lucky beauty department looking like Kim Zolciak from The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Will you wear the Britney hair extension line?

*As creepy Sam Lutfi once explained, "When the pink wig comes on, it's getting bad."

—Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor

For the holidays, my mother bought me a hairbrush from Frederic Fekkai. (Her gifts are usually suggestive. In this case, her motive was quite clear.) The brush is made from natural boar bristles and somehow manages to get rid of all the static in my hair. It gets the knots out in one swift brush stroke, cutting the duration of my detangling routine down by several minutes! Spray on your favorite detangler and start from the ends of your hair, working your way up to the scalp. I'm not sure if it's the type of bristles or the way they are arranged on the brush, but the results are quite astounding.

—Rachel Siegel, fashion assistant

You can go weeks and weeks without highlights, looking just fine, until suddenly you're brunette down to your ears. For me, the jig is always up right around the holidays: One moment, I'm canceling my salon appointment in favor of wrapping presents and packing for vacation; the next, I'm staring in the mirror in my mother's guest bath, wondering why I didn't think this all through. Things looked particularly dire this year, so I tried a trick from colorist Kathleen Flynn-Hui of Salon AKS in New York. Her very funny and knowing novel, Beyond the Blonde, is worth reading for the first chapter alone. Here it is: Buy some Jolen Creme Bleach (the kind typically used to lighten facial hair) and, using a Q-Tip or clean toothbrush, place a few highlights just around your hairline and along the part. Leave the bleach on for five to six minutes tops, wash it out and there you have it: a pretty, face-brightening, utterly cheap-chic effect to tide you over before you can get home and bolt to the salon for the good stuff.

This trick works ONLY on naturally dark blonde hair—if your roots are truly dark, you run the risk of going orange. Suggestions? Anyone??

—Jennifer Scruby, contributing beauty editor

Knocking feralchildren.com—a database of kids raised by wolves (it still happens!)-from the #1 spot on my list of creepy websites: longhaircommunity.com: the homepage for those who dream of someday being able to sit on their own hair, then brag about it on the internet.

There's dozens of sites like it, all bursting with fervor. Not unlike showoff-y, Facebook-loving Disney stars, members named "OhNoTangles!" and "WiccaVixen" post saucy photos of their glorious splint-end-free manes (their word, not mine!). Gothy makeup is popular. Flatirons are not. Everyone is on suspicious-sounding "Hairtopia Vitamins", and there are DIY-conditioner recipes involving castor oil and organic bananas.

Members are a mixed bunch: whimsical ("I feel like a mermaid and I love braiding my hair like a medieval goddess"), poignant ("It was growing by itself and I didn't notice it at first, but then people started telling me 'your hair is getting longer' and then I knew my hair was growing"), even male ("EAT LOTS OF PROTEIN AND BEWARE OF RAT'S NESTS KNOTS LOL").

Admittedly, however, there were excellent tips for getting long hair:

1) Avoid hot tools and super-hot showers as much as possible.
2) Trim regularly (split ends are the enemy).
3) Don't brush hair while wet, and detangle only with your fingers.
4) Deep condition; sometimes switch it up with a hot oil treatment.
5) Sleep with on satin pillowcase with your hair a velvet scrunchie topknot (awesome).
6) Attend the Renaissance Fair annually to meet up with your online posse for Medieval role-playing games and a Wiccan moon ritual. (JOKING! I have no idea where they hang out.)

You can also buy these products by a company called "Long Hair Lovers", if so inclined.

Do YOU have any hair-growth tips?

—Cat Marnell, associate beauty editor

I write about hair, but am hideously terrible at styling my own. My blowouts are poofy; I singe my ears with flatirons; and I simply cannot use a curling iron. Needless to say, I rock a lot of ponytails.

But the other night, I tried something new: I combed mousse (Tresemm??) through my hair, blowdried just the roots for two minutes, and then braided my still-damp hair into 10 little braids (I bore a temporary striking resemblance to popular mid-'90s rapper Coolio, but it was worth it in the end).

The next morning I unraveled and had the most crazy-awesome wildly wavy hair EVER! It almost looked crimped—in a good way—and it lasted for two days in a row (I'm convinced this is because of the mousse).

—Cat Marnell, beauty assistant