It’s the first Monday of a new month, and it’s also the unofficial beginning of a new season: Fall. Instead of traipsing through the new month as you just did the last, change with the seasons by replacing your old ways with charms and habits that are creative and new.

Trend Update:

Add tons of texture to your eyes with a graphic eyeliner, and play with plaid or striped patterns on your nails. Let your lips swing from day to dark with two attentive shades of colour.  

Nails: Try alternating vertical and horizontal stripes, like the nails at Victor & Rolf for SS12 from Paris Fashion Week, and like Melissa from Tips Nail Bar did here for FASHION. If stripes aren’t your thing, try polka-dots or colour blocked tips instead.

Lips: Polarize your Fall lipstick rotation with two new colours: nude and deep violet.

You can choose from going full-blown Twiggy, or you can take liner less seriously with a singular line of strong black kohl.

Housekeeping

Declining parallel to the mercury in thermometers is the moisture level in your skin. You may have started to notice dry patches of skin around your mouth or on your cheeks, or dull hair and legs less soft to touch. Start preparing for the worst now by beginning to feed your hair and skin plenty of hydration.

I like Super Sweet Clean Face & Eye Cleanser ($32, www.theshoppingchannel.com) because it removed my makeup by returning all the moisture and nutrients the world has kidnapped from my dermis. Plus, it smells EXACTLY like the purple Flintstone’s Multi-Vitamins I used to chomp on every day.

If you’re showering extra long and hot these days, you owe it to your hair to give it a daily bath in nourishing oils. I find I need very little of L’Oreal Professional‘s Mythic Oil, but I especially like its name.

Finally, don’t forget to throw our your old mascara and replace it with a new, less bacteria-enriched tube. If you’re ever confused about when you’re old one’s gotta go, try sticking to a twice-per-season schedule.

4 seasons x 2 tubes = 8 per year.

Happy Fall, dudes.