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7 Bad Beauty Habits You Need to Break

You probably don’t even realize that these common practices are ruining your face and hair—and making you look older

By Jene Luciani
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Using a Straw Too Often

While it’s smart to sip coffee, soda, and tea through a straw to avoid staining your pearly whites, serious slurping could—get this—cause wrinkles if you do it too frequently. Working your muscles is usually a (really) good thing, but repeatedly flexing the orbicularis oris around your mouth tightly enough to create a vacuum in a straw can lead to “smoker’s lines” around your kisser, says David E. Bank, M.D., a dermatologist in Mount Kisco, NY.

Break it: Stick to the straw, Dr. Krant says, but gently place your lips more to the side instead of the center and don’t pucker up.

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