True Blog: Beauty Ideas from the HBO Series True Blood

Sure, your Gran was recently murdered and your boyfriend's a vampire, but that doesn't mean you don't want to look good. Here's how you can steal the beauty styles of the four leading ladies of True Blood: Sookie, Tara, Maryann, and Jessica.

Warning: This post contains spoilers!

Hello, geeks. In honor of Comic-Con and the most vampire-laden summer on record, I am paying homage to the leading ladies of HBO's True Blood. The Alan Ball-created vampire drama has stirred up a cult following, due in part to its strong leading ladies. Week after week, Sookie, Tara, Maryann and Jessica look camera ready despite their other-worldly dilemmas. How do they stay so lovely, even when being chased by monsters, serial killers and who knows what else--in Bon Temps humidity no less?

I've speculated about their beauty regimens and have served you up a few deals to steal their sexy, sinister style.

Sookie (Anna Paquin), is a sunny blonde who will probably be spending a lot more of her time indoors now that her main squeeze is liable to burst into flames when touched by a sun beam. She can keep her healthy summer tan with a self tanner, like Seven Nyne. If she uses this Sephora coupon, she can have one at home and a travel sized one for spontaneous trips to Dallas or to leave at her Vampire boyfriend's plantation. To keep her hair ingénue bouncy, Ms. Stackhouse can use a Hot Tools large barrel curling iron and save $20 off $100 or more with this Folica coupon.

That's one less shift she'll have to work at Merlotte's.

Tara, Sookie's long-suffering best friend (played by Rutina Wesley), has been spending more of her time pool-side this season. She can keep her skin smooth and soft with Sweet Honey Dip Chocolate Brown Sugah Scrub from Carol's Daughter. A nice scrub is also great for unwinding after a rough night bartending, an exorcism or whatever else she might get into. And in case she has to go to any more of MaryAnn's wild parties, she can use this Sephora deal to score a free Clinique lip gloss with her purchase of Lash Power.

Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), the newest and youngest vamp in town, is having a blush of first love. She should try Benefit California Kissin' for a minty fresh pout in a glossy neutral that's appropriate for an eternal seventeen year-old. And to keep that ethereal glow that says "I may look sweet, but I'm actually undead," she can use Benefit Moonbeam to keep that cold skin lit up and dewy.

How about for Maryann (Michelle Forbes), Tara's mysterious benefactor and Bon Temp's resident hostess with the most-est? Well, we don't know much about her, other than that she vibrates...so she might like Lancome Oscillation Mascara. If she buys it at Amazon, she gets a free eye makeup remover, which should come in handy after one of her killer parties. Maryann looks ageless, perhaps because she eats so much fruit. Steal her secret with this Juice Beauty freebie from Sephora. Of course, she could look ageless because she's some kind of mythic monster-type creature.

Unfortunately, I don't have a beauty deal for that...