It's easy to slip into pathological vanity wherever your best feature's concerned. Mine can be found bouncing atop my noggin. The only person on this planet with better hair than me is Kaitlin, and it's a mark of what a precious critter she is that I don't scalp her out of sheer envy.
I have the thickest mane in recorded human history, and it's usually running wild down to the middle of my back because I've had it cut by the same stylist since 1991 and NO ONE ELSE IS ALLOWED NEAR IT WITH ANY CUTTING IMPLEMENT and getting back to Tennessee and into her capable hands is a twice-yearly prospect at best right now. It's not dry, coarse, or frizzy, but it's got some natural curl to it that can be tricky to handle when it's as short as it is right now, and there's so f'ing MUCH of it that I stick with intensive moisturizing products to keep the lot of it weighed down.
By the grace of Redken, I'm able to go six months between cuts without looking like a sawgrass patch from the forehead up. It took lengthy experimentation with three of their product lines before I found a combination that worked for me--look through their fetching rainbow haircare family to find your path to follicular glory. My stylist usually sticks with their Clear Moisture line, depending on how
much damage my hair's sustained in the previous six months, which is
fairly lightweight and works perfectly fine when I've got freshly
trimmed layers to show off, but those layers grow out fast, and after a couple weeks I start to look
like the Jesus-Lion and need something with a little more heft.
Extreme. In looking for a good general regimen, I tried this line first because the bottles are my favorite shade of blue (stay with me here, I promise it gets more science-y). Listen, I'm the first to snort derisively at anything labeled "extreme", especially with an awkwardly placed accent on a random vowel, but they're not kidding here--I have approximately twenty-three pounds of hair on my head and this left it just drenched in moisture. I'd go so far as to say it's a little too extreme. If you've just spent a week at the beach and find your locks have been destroyed by wind and water and stray blobs of sunscreen, maybe stock this for emergencies, but I found using either the shampoo or the conditioner more than once a week to be too much of a good thing.
Smooth Down. Extreme is designated for use on "damaged" hair, so I turned to the next lightest product, designed to control frizz. This line has an alluring spicy scent--and is still too heavy for everyday use. (Which, don't get me wrong, is the best possible problem as far as I'm concerned--any product my hair doesn't immediately soak up with no visible effect is a godsend.) Together, this line is still a little too much for regular applications, but the shampoo has quickly become my carry-on/time-crunch product of choice--one wash and I'm out the door with no need for a separate conditioner (another first).
All Soft. Time to drop down a weight class, and with the addition of All Soft to my day I was nearly completely satisfied. This conditioner is a thing of wonder--shiny, bouncy locks abound without going limp at the 8-hour mark. But the scent is a little too bubblegummy for my liking. My hair hangs in my face all the time and I don't fancy smelling like children's toothpaste.
Solution?
REEEEEEMIXXXXXXX (ix...ix....ix....)
After several months of tweaking, I arrived at a formula that sounds unnecessarily complicated but leaves me with glorious tresses and makes grown heterosexual men sniff the air around my head and excuse their behavior by saying, "I'm sorry, but did you wash your hair four minutes ago, because it smells amazing."* The solution: Little dabs of All Soft conditioner every day just on the ends, and alternating the Smooth Down shampoo with another national treasure of hair care, Therappe from Nexxus (awkwardly unpronounceable name, delicious coconut aroma). If I'm fresh from the beach and need some extra moisture, it's the Therappe shampoo (smells like sunscreen!) plus the hardcore Smooth Down conditioner. I'm fully aware this requires having four bottles of something on hand at all times, but consider your very green lawn--exquisite natural loveliness of this magnitude doesn't just look after itself. It takes devotion and proper tools, and look! I found them for you! You're welcome, internet.
[All these are somehow occasionally available at Target, but the selection's hit or miss, and weirdly expensive. I've been buying it in liter bottles from a hair salon supply store. They'll run you from $20-$25 each, but each bottle will last several months.]
*True story.
The Dutch are killing it these days. On the design front is Tord Boontje, who hit the scene with gorgeous laser-cut and brass clip-on pendant lights that looked like gardens lit from within. And then he came out with the Icarus light, inspired by the mythological Greek god whose homemade wings melted when, carried away by the euphoria of flight, he flew too close to the sun. The lamp is both materially cheeky and visually romantic; made from very modern mylar, Icarus comes in a flat, laser-cut piece which one hooks into a circle to form a long, rustling wing to hang over a light bulb. It's simple, but uncommonly beautiful when lit, with a dreamy quality that makes it a perfect for over a bed (ahem). It's all the sexiness of a shirtless Greek dude in flight, but without all inconvenience of a terrifying death plunge into the sea and the hassle of getting all the melted wax off your floor. 
First, let me start by saying whatever stupid 70-pound bang-ed
hipster it was that decided red lipstick should be de rigueur again
should be shot. Some of us have strawberry blonde hair and
pinkish-white skin with freckles, and unless you've got Carine Roitfeld
assisting in your bathroom every morning, scarlet lips can be tough to
pull off. In my accursed existence as a pastey, I have gone through
more tubes than Terri Schiavo searching for a color that doesn't make
me look like Krusty The Clown after bobbing for cherries in a bowl of
spaghetti sauce, and the intense pigment of red lipsticks usually makes
for a drier formulation and allows a lot less wiggle room for those of
use who can't paint in a straight line. 
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