10 Brilliant Beauty Tips to Hide Your Seasonal Affective Disorder

Nobody needs to know that you spend your nights drinking red wine and crying while you watch This is Us. If you are prone to puffy undereye bags, RUN! Don't Walk! to your computer and order the Instantly Ageless vials. I am not quite sure what magical ingredients are in this cream but you pat your eye bag with it and it virtually disappears. It just tighten ups and disappears . . . like magic.

Jeunesse Instantly Ageless ($40 for 25)

After you diminish the puffs and the bags, there may still remain a dark circle of doom under your eyes. This can be from lack of sleep due to your propensity for binge-watching shows into the wee hours of the morning, or it might just be hereditary. Either way — if you use this product your life will be changed forever. I cannot stress enough how amazing this product is. It conceals everything, is anti-aging and . . . it's WATERPROOF, so it won't crease or look cakey. It will only make you look like you slept for a week.

IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye ($24)

While we are discussing the eye area — let's be sure that we are taking the proper steps to make ourselves look alive and happy. Nothing says "I want to die" more than eyeliner running down your face. This is an easy fix that many women cannot seem to figure out. If your eyeliner smudges and creates blueish-gray tones around your eye area — it creates a look that suggests that you are tired and more depressed than you actually are (if that's possible). Get a waterproof eyeliner and your makeup will stay crisp and clean for the day.

Urban Decay 24/7 Glide on Eye Pencil ($20)

First things first — most women have dry, flaky skin this time of year. No amount of moisturizer will help when your face is made of sandpaper. The dead skin needs to come off. The best product to accomplish this is the m-61 Peel Pad. Swipe this bad boy on at night (it takes one minute), and you will wake up with radiant, beautiful skin! This one-step exfoliating peel resurfaces, clarifies, firms, and reduces pore size and lines. What more could you want?

m-61 Power Glow Peel ($62)

Face oils are the latest trend in skin care and it is not just hype. Adding these oils into your routine will hydrate, soothe, repair, and plump the skin. La Mer's Renewal Oil is the queen of the face oil. An important ingredient here is the La Mer famous "Miracle Broth" which will basically infuse your face with youth. Collagen production improves, and your skin will magically be softer and tighter for a mere $240.

La Mer The Renewal Oil ($240)

Many of us use retinols and glycolics and other products in a search for wrinkle-less skin. Cleansers have the habit of stripping the youthful oils from our skin and leaving our faces tight and dry. It doesn't hurt to occasionally use a hydrating water spray that will nourish and help our skin to rejuvenate itself. The Avène product claims to heal every skin condition under the sun. I spray myself and whatever weird skin ailment my children have with this water, and we then appear very hydrated and happy to the world.

Avène Thermal Spring Water ($14)

Even if you are making an effort to exfoliate and add face oil to your routine, a little "fake" glow doesn't hurt. Whenever I wear my Laura Mercier highlighter my clients beg me to know what I am using to make my skin look so dewy and young. Little do they know, I drink approximately one glass of water a day. This highlighter is so perfect and dreamy that it will fool the masses. The light will bounce off of your cheekbones. Those very cheekbones that had tears streaming down them a few hours before, when you weighed yourself, are now transformed into glistening beauties.

Laura Mercier Face Illuminator in Shade Indiscretion ($44)

So maybe you spent your Friday night binge-watching shows on Netflix under a blanket — nobody actually needs to know about that. This award winner is a no-brainer for faking a warm glow that makes you look like you just spent the weekend in St. Tropez. The shade works for almost everyone, and it creates a beautiful bronze look. Use this product in the hollow of the cheek and where the sun would naturally give you touch of a sun — and you will be instantly transformed from a depressed New England housewife into a bronze goddess who loves her life.

NARS Bronzer in Laguna ($40)

So your face isn't the only dry unsightly thing to worry about. Your lips — as a result of cold, snowy air could quite possibly look a little crispy. Nobody wants to kiss those lips. Scrub that stuff off! And don't tell me you use chapstick. No chapstick can penetrate those alligator lips. Scrub, people.

Sara Happ Lip Scrub ($24)

Once you have scrubbed all of the dead skin off of your lips — please do not put on a matte lip product. No lip paint or liquid lipstick. You need a long-last gloss. It indicates youth and signals to people of the opposite sex that you are kissable. The Clinique gloss is so amazing — it lasts forever and there are 26 shades to choose from.

Clinique Long-Last Glosswear ($17)