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By August, you've endured two months of climactic schizophrenia and your lips are a chappy mess. So why are we recommending a product by Cargo, whose deceptively wet-looking glosses (you know them: happy-looking color duos in those cute, giant metal tins) have dehydrated the best of us? Because all sinners deserve a second chance—especially when they put out Hydratint, a grown-up little range of tinted balms with conditioning chamomile, aloe and avocado. Available in the usual, tasteful spectrum (nude-rose-red-berry-chocolate), these new sticks have color oomph, too. All is forgiven. $18 at www.sephora.com
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Once you're properly conditioned, time to get a little more creative. Slutty makeup isn't the only former impossibility Beauty Duty empowers you all to achieve; there's also slutty hair, courtesy of Kusco-Murphy's new Tart Hair. We don't need to remind you how hard it is to get a good coiffe this time of year. All the more reason to love this lemony-smelling "sculpting clay," which somewhat miraculously imparts long-lasting volume and texture without feeling hard or sticky. (Um, your hair, that is.) And it's aptly named, since the morning after, hair loaded with this stuff looks even better than it did the day before. $20.95 at www.monsterhair.com
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An alternative alternative to those tired black nylon travel kits flogged by every major cosmetics company is this hippie-chic kit from Sundari, the treatment line brought to you by guru-in-training Christy Turlington. Included inside the quilted Indian fabric bag are starter portions of three products; the combination skin trio we sampled includes the rich but very effective Neem and Burdock Cleansing Gel (recommended for healing skin aggravations), an ylang-ylang-infused nourishing oil and a lovely Neem and Avocado Balancing Moisturizer which leaves skin feeling plump and soft but not greasy. Gone is the strict adherence to incomprehensible ayurvedic strictures—a relief since they're as easy to self-diagnose as a Scientology personality test. Thank God. To us, "downward facing dog" is still just code for "our last boyfriend." $46 at www.sundari.com
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