I'm a huge sucker for a gorgeous lip balm, and this one is really, really good. Luxurious packaging, crazy-beautiful color (but very sheer on lips), lightweight texture. Also expensive, but a nice little indulgence if you're in the mood (and if you're not, pick up some of this stuff).

PS. The hot-pink is my favorite shade, but it also comes in bunches of other colors (including the light pink, orange and grape shades pictured above), FYI.

(Click here for a DIY lip scrub if your lips are feeling less-than-lovely lately.)

Having a baby isn't all that dissimilar from going through a breakup, in that both of these life events frequently result in haircuts. (Usually not especially well-advised ones, but that's beside the point.)

Last time I had a baby, I got bangs. This was actually a less terrible idea than one might think, because the cool thing about bangs is that if you just take five seconds to blow-dry them and pull up the rest of the hair, you look pretty "done," so they're actually a good solution for the time-strapped. I've let them grow out since, but ever since Goldie was born I've been feeling the need for something new.

And then, a couple of days ago, I was paging through People and saw this photo of Emma Stone, and thought: OOH. See, I've always wanted to try out being a redhead, but never got up the courage to make the switch. Except…it's just hair. Change is good and change is fun and fall is a good time for a change, no?

But I still wasn't sure what, exactly, I'd be getting into. So I went home, and used InStyle's Virtual Makeover Tool to see what I would look like as Emma Stone.

Over the course of my years writing about beauty products, I've tried some weird ones. Décolletage masks. Hairy gels. Oils of all kinds.

This one is the weirdest.

You should probably see it for yourself.

I love bright lips, but I do not love applying lipstick only to have it disappear moments later. In this episode for Allure Insiders: how to make your red lipstick last.

(Click here for lots more of my Allure segments, including how to make your own beach hair spray, how to make your summer tan stick around, and bloopers aplenty.)

I'm not a huge runner; we know this. But this weather…it makes me want to at least pretend to be. Right down the street from our house is a woody trail that wraps around a lake, and it's so beautiful and peaceful at this time of year that I actually crave getting out there with a pair of sneakers, a pair of headphones, and perhaps Virgil (Lucy, as you can probably imagine, isn't exactly the athletic type).

This is very weird for me. But it feels so good.

Now, full disclosure, lest you think I've gone and replaced Jordan with some kind of Exercise Bot: When it comes to running, I max out at about 20 minutes and usually don't even hit that…but it's not really the length of time that I spend running that matters to me; it's how even a short jog makes me feel.