My hair has always needed the one-two punch of conditioner in the shower and a leave-in once I’m out. This new leave-in cream from Act + Acre comes in the coolest-looking pump, compensating for the less-glamorous landscape of my bathroom sink (Sonicare, toothpaste, et al.). It dispenses a dime-size amount of hair-silkifying nourishment; I smooth it between my hands into a thin film, then scrunch my ends with it first, moving upward toward the crown and adding more if I need it. (It’s also brilliant on dry hair if you need to fix a cowlick or a curl turned the wrong way.)

With my hair fully conditioned, I detangle using this fabulous new brush (only once: Brush and comb as little as you can to avoid frizz). It’s so remarkably lightweight—those who do blow-dry will so appreciate it. Yet somehow it goes right through even very thick hair to massage your scalp with flexible but firm bristles. (Typically, a brush that detangles well doesn’t feel exactly pleasant on the scalp, and one that feels good requires multiple brushings—this one solves the problem once and for all.)

My friend Sophie is one of those unfrilly cool girls who backpack, never check a suitcase (“We get, like, no time off for vacation in America—why I’d spend time standing around a conveyor belt at an airport…” she says), and go winter camping. You couldn’t pay me to shiver the night away in a tent in the trees, but I’ve figured out how to (glamorously) travel light. Instead of my usual thousand-pound load of essentials—cleanser, face cream, body oil, hair oil—I bring along this single brilliant multitasking oil. It leaves my skin supple, my body gleamy, and my curls looking their beachiest. It smells out of this world (night-blooming tuberose flowers are soaked in an intensely moisturizing cold-pressed coconut oil base), melts in beautifully, is incredible at taming frizz when I smooth it through my ends and edges, and also works as massage oil and even perfume. It sails past TSA at 3.38 ounces and frees me up to stuff even more clothes into my bag (will tackle that tendency next). The name Idan means “magic” in Yoruba—the founders wanted to honor their Nigerian roots—which is just so spot-on.

I have a pretty robust makeup routine—concealer, tinted moisturizer, highlighter, bronzer, blush, lip color, brow gel, mascara, the works. So when I discovered I had forgotten my makeup bag on a birthday trip to Edinburgh, I was in panic mode. But luckily, before I ran to the first makeup counter I could find, I discovered that I’d stashed three new pencils in my skin-care bag, two from Tower 28 and one from Ami Cole. I’d never tried multiuse pencils before, but now was the moment: I used the chocolate-brown Draw Me as eyeliner and then sculpted a bit with it under my cheekbones. The rosy-nude Fill Me In went onto my lips and cheeks—the perfect flush of color. Last, I used the spooley side of the retractable brow pencil to brush and fluff my brows and the pencil side to shade and define (I have light eyebrows with sparse patches, so this was essential). My brows in particular had never looked better, but the whole effect was incredibly flattering and amazingly close to the look I get with my full routine. Moreover, it lasted beautifully—from a misty, overcast walking tour of the city to a champagne-filled lunch at the Balmoral Hotel’s Brasserie Prince.

When I was in middle school, I desperately wanted glass-straight hair. When my mom refused to get me a flatiron, I used an actual iron and completely fried my hair, leaving it stringy with lots of breakage. I’ve since upgraded. I’ve been obsessed with top hairstylist Harry Josh’s best-in-class straightener and curling iron—and now he’s made them cordless. Try them and you’ll never go back to being tethered to an electrical outlet. You can get them as an ingenious set—you get the cordless straightener with silkifying ceramic plates, the cordless curling iron with a silver tourmaline barrel that heats up to 400 degrees lightning-fast, two rechargeable batteries, and a chic stand/container/charging port (which charges both batteries or both tools at once, so you never run out of power). A full charge lasts approximately an hour or, if you’ve got fine hair and live for a loose, beachy wave like me, a full week’s worth of curling your entire head, plus touch-ups. I can also now do my hair anywhere—it has universal voltage, so it’s great for international travel. Speaking of travel, Josh has also made an adorable, sleek, totally heat-resistant travel pouch that fits both tools, along with a heat-resistant mat to set the tools on in the absence of the charging port—brilliant.