Some products in
It’s About Your Husband

Bobbi Brown Number Four 
(Scroll down the page to “Lip Color,” then look for the shade “Brown.”)

Benetint


Madame Paulette
Professional Stain Removal Kit


toe covers


Neutrogena
Anti-Residue Shampoo

city-girl secrets

Iris Hedge, the heroine of It's All About Your Husband, moves to Manhattan and finds herself with a host of new problems—from large and daunting (unemployment) to small and annoying (blisters on her feet from all the extra walking). As she starts to befriend the locals, she learns some surprising solutions to at least a few of the small dilemmas.

It's true that New York women seem to possess more arcane fashion and beauty knowledge than do women in other cities. Here are more city girl-tested tricks:

Sharpie Hair Color
This just in, courtesy of Elle: It seems if you have a stray gray hair or two, you can use a Sharpie permanent marker to color the strand to match the rest of your hair. (Sharpies come in lots of different colors, not just black.) It's this sort of wacky beauty tip that makes my day.

Plastic Pedicure
Say "fake nails" to a fashionable Manhattanite and she'll recoil in
horror. But this emergency use is quietly accepted: You're running around SoHo in your sandals when you stumble on a cobblestone and stub your big toe. If you're lucky you'll just be hurt and humiliated. If your karma is particularly bad, you'll also—sorry, this is gory—rip off part of your toenail. This guarantees you three months of closed-toe shoes until it grows back, unless you head to the nearest nail salon. For a few dollars they'll fashion you fake toenail (with silk wrap and that mysterious powder made of who-knows-what toxic chemicals) that will look almost exactly like the real thing and grow out gracefully over time. No one will be the wiser, as long as you don't get carried away and ask the nail technician to airbrush a design on it.

Cheater's Shampoo
It sounds disgusting, but out-clubbing-till-the-wee-hours Downtown divas and exhausted Upper West Side moms alike occasionally use this trick when they've slept late. Rub a tiny bit of Johnson's Baby Powder into your roots, one small section of hair at a time. Then brush it in completely so no one will mistake you for a white-haired old lady. The powder won't stave off a real shampoo for longer than a day but will absorb oil and nasty smells and make your hair fluffy again.

You’ll find more tricks in It’s About Your Husband...