Planar graph has an euler cycle iff its faces can be colored with 2 colors

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Planar graph has an euler cycle iff its faces can be properly colored with 2 colors (such way the colors of two faces that has the common edge are different).

I have an idea to consider the dual graph (turn faces into vertexes and make edge when the two faces have a common edge), but I am stucked with the following proof.

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Hint: The faces of the dual graph have exactly $\deg(v)$ edges, where $v$ is the corresponding vertex in the actual graph.... Use this to conclude that the original graph is Eulerian if and only if all the faces of the dual graph are even cycles.

Hint 2: Prove that a planar graph has an odd cycle if and only if it has a face which is an odd cycle.