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• Drink warm lemon water early in the morning. This will help clear your complexion and keep your throat moist.
  
  
• For makeup, wear all matte colors. Since there will be bright lights all around you, avoiding bronzer, eye shadow and lip gloss that have any sort of shimmer or shine is key.
  
  
• Wear shapewear like Spanx under your dress or suit. Not only does this smooth out any bumps or that dreaded muffin top, but it also forces you to sit up straight (and not worry about remembering to suck in your stomach!)
  
  
• Wear your hair down. The camera angle tends to switch around and pulled up hair from one angle can look good, but from another look like you chopped your locks.
  
  
• If sitting during your segment, lean forward. This not only prevents you from looking slouchy, but makes you look thinner.
  
  
• Use anti-frizz hair care products. HD will pick up every strand that's out of place otherwise.
  
  
• Wear solid colors for your clothing. Prints and patterns can be too distracting for television.
   
• Go minimal, but fun on the accessories. I personally like to wear statement jewelry, but toned it down so as to keep the focus on me and the message I was trying to relay and not my bling.
  
  
• Only go slightly more with makeup. You're not on stage and you're under hot lights, so layering up on the makeup is unnecessary.
  
  
• Keep in mind getting hot or cold when nervous. If you clam up when you're nervous, wear less layers; if you tend to get cold, wear more.
  
  
• Wear heels. This is a no brainer if you want to give the illusion of a long silhouette.

Beauty and fashion tips aside, it's also best to have key points memorized that you also relay to your hosts in advance. I did this today and it worked out perfectly as the hosts were able to lead me into questions and I felt less nervous trying to remember each thing I wanted to say.

Have any other tips to add? Please be sure to leave them in the comments!