I've written about Orlane's Anti-Fatigue Absolute Radiance Cream before (here), but it deserves another mention because I just can't get over how much I like it, and I've been surprised how seamlessly it made the jump from winter to spring (usually my winter must-haves start feeling too heavy once it warms up a bit).

I use mostly drugstore products in my day-to-day life, but I still try to test out different formulas whenever I can so that I'm relatively well-informed about what's on the market...and this is one of a handful of products that I keep coming back to over and over, whenever my skin feels like it needs some extra TLC. I think it's intended for use as a night cream (it's super-rich), but I also like to apply it in the daytime under my regular SPF-containing moisturizer an average of once a week, just to give my skin an extra boost when I feel like it needs it.

It's delicious. I like it so much I'm all weird and hoarder-y about it, and try to spread out my usage so that it'll last forever.

Highly recommended.

Did you know that it's actually, literally impossible for me to sit still for long enough to allow a manicure to dry properly before getting myself involved in one kind of activity or another that completely destroys it?

I know, you're shocked; go ahead and sit down for a moment if you need to.

Anyway, I've discovered a fantastic little solution for those times when you screw up one or two nails badly enough that you really should just take it all off and start over, but - oops - you don't happen to own the same exact color they used on you at the salon.

At the DKNY shoot last Friday, one of my colleagues had the most beautiful ombre-ish manicure, with the nail on her index finger painted just slightly darker than all the others; a subtler, more elegant version of that ring-finger nail art trend that's been circling around forever and ever now. And so on Saturday, when I decided to splurge on a beautiful pale-grey manicure only to arrive home, tickle my child, and immediately divest my fingernail of every single iota of its former prettiness, I just looked in my drawer, found a slightly darker shade in the same general color family, painted the index finger on both hands, and presto: