While we're mourning the end of summer (sniffle, sniffle), we might as well prepare for dry-skin season. I'm pulling my sweaters out of storage, and stocking up on Curel Rough Skin Rescue, $7.99. Unlike other lotions that simply coat your skin with moisturizing ingredients, this one contains AHAs to exfoliate dry skin while hydrating the new skin underneath. It's just as good at preventing dryness as it is at correcting it. Start using it now, and you may be able to hold onto your summer skin for months to come.

Speaking of holding onto summer … Klorane Mango Butter Shampoo, $19.50, smells like a delicious tropical cocktail, makes hair unbelievably silky and is packed with fatty acids for long-term hydration. I used it once, and it completely hid the fact that I'm about four months overdue for a haircut.

My love of eyeliner markers knows no bounds, and I obsessively try every new one that comes to market. While the entire Charlotte Tilbury makeup collection is flat-out gorgeous, I fell hard for the Charlotte Tilbury Feline Flick Pen, $29, a sharp, inky, extremely precise and practically indelible eyeliner marker. Tilbury modeled it after a Japanese calligraphy pen, and it shows in the way this baby glides.

As soon as someone tells me a serum is designed for an older consumer, I want to slather it all over my face. My thinking: If it can fight serious wrinkles, it will work wonders on my fine lines. Jurlique Nutri-Define Superior Retexturizing Facial Serum, $120, is the latest product to get my attention. It contains horseradish for firmness and elasticity, mulberry root and rosemary leaf extract for antioxidant protection, peppermint leaf extract to improve texture … the list goes on (artichoke, alfalfa seed, ginseng, licorice, oat kernel …). It's a virtual cornucopia of botanical ingredients, and they all work together to improve skin. In clinical studies, 71 percent of women saw a visible reduction in the appearance of wrinkles in 28 days -- and that's fast.

I went through a phase in 2007 when I wanted to dye my hair red. The inkling quickly passed when I met my now-husband (funny how that happens), but I still think about it and wonder how it would have turned out. It probably wouldn't have looked as good as if I were to color it now, in 2014 -- there's much better technology available. Clairol Professional Flare Collection, $5.99, is exceptionally vibrant, and it's packed with oils that impart shine while it works. If red isn't your thing, don't worry -- it comes in 26 shades. And they're all exclusive to Sally Beauty.