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The first step to buying an item duty free is to locate a duty-free store. Duty-free stores can typically be found at any location that caters to or serves international travelers. Common locations for duty-free stores include international airports, towns and cities along an international border, cruise ships, ports, and on board certain international flights. Some of the discounts you get at a duty-free store make it well worth your time and effort to make a purchase. However, other items may not be sold at a very good rate. For many items, you may be able to get a better deal by simply looking for those products on sale at a regular retailer. The duty-free rate also depends on the country whose products you are attempting to import. For example, in the U.S., certain items imported from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the Ukraine are subject to a 100% rate of duty.  Alcohol and tobacco are generally the best discounts you'll find at a duty-free store. Cameras and electronic products are usually not a very good deal. Retail items like cosmetics, clothing, and perfume can be hit or miss in terms of their value. If an item wouldn't normally be on sale at a regular retailer, you may get a deal, but otherwise it might be cheaper to look for these items on sale at a regular retail outlet. Candy and other confections are usually worth purchasing duty free if they are imported. However, regular candy that you can purchase at a supermarket is usually not a very good deal, and may actually be sold at an inflated price if you're buying at an airport duty-free store. Duty/tax breaks are only applicable on products that will not be consumed or used while in that country. You generally have to take your purchases with you into the country you're visiting in order to ensure that you do not consume/use your purchases domestically.  Many duty-free shops deliver your purchases to you as you physically leave the country. Your items may be delivered to you as you board a plane or as you drive or walk across an international border.

summary: Find a duty-free store. Determine if it's worth buying duty free. Bring your purchases with you.


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Immediately before you apply a TCA peel, you need to completely clean your skin. If you are applying the TCA peel to your face, you should remove all of your make up. Washing your face will help to remove any surface oils allowing the TCA solution to peel away a layer of skin. Some TCA peels will come with a prep solution that should be applied to your skin prior to administering the peel. These solutions help to fully dry out your skin and remove any lingering surface oils. If you did not purchase a prep solution, you can apply witch hazel or diluted rubbing alcohol to your skin using gauze. If you are applying a TCA peel to your face, you want to protect some sensitive areas from the acid. In order to do this, use a cotton swab to apply a bit of petroleum jelly to your lips, and the skin around your eyes and nostrils. This will prevent the acid from damaging these sensitive areas. You may want to wear safety goggles to prevent any TCA solution from dripping into your eyes. You will still have to apply petroleum jelly to your nose and mouth, however. While working with the TCA solution, you want to be careful that the acid does not touch other areas of skin. As a result, you should always wear latex gloves to protect your hands from the acid. This is especially important if you are applying the TCA using gauze because it will likely come into contact with your fingers. Place a small dish on your counter and pour some of the TCA solution into the dish. This will make it easy for you to dip your brush or gauze into the solution while you are applying the TCA to your skin. Dip a piece of gauze into the TCA solution. Then squeeze the gauze gently. You want the gauze to be wet, but not dripping. This will prevent the solution from running into your eyes. Then apply a thin layer of TCA to the desired area of skin. If you are applying the TCA to your face, you may want to divide the area into sections.  For example, start by applying the TCA solution to the right side of your face, then the left side, and do the forehead last. This will help prevent you from overlapping the solution. You can also apply TCA using a makeup brush, but a brush is more likely to cause dripping. Once the solution has been applied to your skin, you should wait approximately two to five minutes. The time will vary depending on the strength of the solution, the number of peels you have performed, and your own skin type. It is normal for your skin to turn red and sting a bit while the peel is on your face.  If your skin begins to frost (i.e. turn white) or sting uncomfortably, you should begin neutralizing immediately by washing the solution off with water. This is more likely to occur when using a stronger TCA of 15% or higher.

summary: Cleanse your skin. Remove surface oils using a prep solution. Apply petroleum jelly around the eyes, mouth, and nose. Put on latex gloves. Pour the TCA solution into a small dish. Use gauze to apply TCA to your skin. Wait 2-5 minutes.


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Remember the secret: they don't know that you are leading their ideas your way on purpose. Even if you decide whether or not you want to end the relationship (friendships only—not in a romantic relationship). Perhaps watching a loved one squirm is all you need to realize that you actually do love them deep, deep down. Really deep down.  Tell them that something does not look good on them when it doesn't. It's not your fault that you don't have the best tact. Avoid finishing off their favorite snacks when you meet up with them; so that they have to go buy more. If s/he's hosting a party, keep helping, giving seconds and filling the empty serving dishes, glasses, plates, (whatever) so that they do not have to keep running back and forth. Be "distant" friends with all the guys (or girls) they hang out with. Once their guy friends are a little lusty over you, a girl is never going to be happy; so avoid that. Ladies, this means never flirting with her boyfriend or the guy she's been crushing on for forever—it's too obvious and downright catty. Jealousy, also, can arise in relationships between two guy friends when the girls flock towards one of them. Don't say things that you know will upset them, i.e.: not to the point that they'll confront you about it. For example, if your friend is country, why talk about how much you wish that they would just chop down all the trees in front of the road signs. Remember, they have to be things that you actually believe. If you also love living out in the country, you'd obviously seem a liar who's trying to irritate people, if you get too much into upsetting them. Listen to music they know and sing the words in the car. Or listen to music they don't really like much, but only if they've listened to them before. If they only like "I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry, but don't like any of the other songs, then if you play the rest of them, singing all the words, insist that you thought they might learn to like her, if you were asked to turn it off. Become friends with their friends, better than they expect. This is possible, if you try to win over their friends because your friend will be aware that you are angling a little more than usual lately and will most likely have talked to them about it. But, if you have mutual friends, don't just invite the mutual friends to go to movies when you know your roommate/relative can't go—or apologize, and if you know that they don't want to see it, but you and the mutual friends do.
summary: Avoid being passive aggressive towards someone who knows you well; also, you don't start to act strangely out of the blue.