I used Vaseline Jelly for decades: as eye makeup remover, lip balm, cuticle cream, fly-away tamer, whatever. As my beauty routine evolved, I came to prefer those so-called natural products, trading my do-it-all jar of Vaseline for Trader Joe's virgin unrefined coconut oil. That said, coconut oil is the worst lip balm. I'll use it in a pinch, but it makes me look like I just made out with a hamburger patty -- all the grease, none of the skin-softening moisture I need.

I'm hitting the petroleum jelly jar again, thanks to Vaseline Lip Therapy Rosy Lips. I sample a stupid number of lip balms and lip oils at Total Beauty, but no other product can touch Vaseline's game. Metaphorically speaking, this rose-scented, pink-tinted iteration of the original jelly took my favorite tube of natural beeswax lip balm and drop-kicked it into outer space. I still love my coco oil, but Lip Therapy's teeny-weeny jar means there's plenty of room for both in my medicine cabinet. --Katie McCarthy

I'm rather spartan/lazy (take your pick) when it comes to my skin care: the fewer products I have to use, the better. As such, adding an extra step -- even one as simple as a weekly at-home mask -- makes me cringe.

Then Fresh Créme Ancienne Ultimate Nourishing Honey Mask hit my desk. Now, I'm a believer. It's so luxurious: The consistency is like warm caramel and feels surprisingly nonsticky and amazing on my skin. In every jar are 2 1/2 tablespoons of French artisanal honey, which saturates skin with non-greasy, non-breakout-causing moisture. It makes my skin softer than any night cream, let alone a mask.

Also packed into the jar: a nourishing blend of sea buckthorn oil, vitamin E, meadowfoam seed oil and echinacea extract. It's officially worked its way into my lazy, er, highly curated routine. --Allie Flinn

When it comes to splurging on beauty, I can quickly justify the jaw-dropping price of long-lasting products like masks and exfoliators -- even if I regret it a few weeks later when the rent is due. A daily necessity like dry shampoo, however? I turn into a penny pincher.

Yes, the sophisticated fragrances of prestige brands are tempting, but when you have fine hair that gets flat and oily 12 hours after washing, a 20-something dollar bottle of dry shampoo is just not happening. Batiste Dry Shampoo, $7.99, blasts my hair with a fresh scent while soaking up all of the unwanted oil that wrecks a good hair day -- and it doesn't leave my brown hair looking gray.

The dry shampoo in blush comes in a pretty pink can, and has a light floral scent that leaves my hair smelling as clean as it looks. I shake the can and spray it in sections at my roots, let it sit for a minute, then ruffle it through my hair with my fingers and I'm good to go for the rest of the day. --Marissa DeSantis

I have about 10 hairs per eyebrow. I'm guilty of over-plucking, tweezing every bit of hair that I spot in my magnifying mirror and obsessively monitoring my brow growth. So when Cara Delevingne hit the scene with her gloriously thick brows, you can say I had a case of eyebrow regret.

While eyebrow pencils and powders help immensely in filling out brows, powders take far too long for me to apply, and most pencils are just too thick to mimic natural hairs. Then I found Elizabeth Arden Beautiful Color Natural Eye Brow Pencil, $22. The ultra-fine tip lets me create precise, realistic looking strokes that don't fade throughout the day or smudge when I start leaning my face in my hands during a midday lull. And get this -- I've actually received compliments on my "full brows." No one knows my secret is really this pencil (until now.) --Hayley Mason

I love the concept of cleansing conditioner: one simple step to clean, bouncy hair, without using harsh, stripping ingredients. But as a person with very fine, slightly wavy hair, many cleansing conditioners are too heavy, making it look like I forgot to rinse after doing a DIY coconut oil hair mask.

Then Unwash Bio-Cleansing Conditioner made its way into my shower -- and my heart. Besides smelling amazing (a mix of floral and watermelon that isn't cloyingly sweet), the creamy formula lightly lathers for a glorious hair-washing experience even my shower-hating self can appreciate. It manages to make my hair look squeaky clean without making it dry and frizzy, but that's not even the best part.

The moisturizing cream somehow manages to smooth the rat's nest that is my tangle-prone hair, so I no longer dread post-shower brushing. The smoothing effect lasts days beyond the initial wash, a necessity for those of us in the anti-hair-washing camp. My hair looks healthier, shinier and -- dare I say -- bouncier than ever. --Allie Flinn