For a true savvy girl, the New Year isn’t about throwing the baby out with the bathwater and hauling oneself into an unreasonable fitness, health or weight goal. It’s all about working with what you’ve got, keeping efforts simple, small and manageable which will set the stage for helping you look and feel your best. Here are some of our favorite ways to look younger, without looking like we’re trying too hard, too desperately or too unrealistically to achieve the unachievable. Just simple, savvy beauty, made easy.

Making your own shimmer lotion for getting that dewy, apres-ski winter glow is a simple one-two punch, using products you may already have on hand.  It's also a good case study for hanging onto those products you've grown tired of, but haven't had the courage to chuck...it just takes a little creativity to breath new life into them. Take a good look in your bottom drawer, or wherever you're harboring half-used supplies, and see if you might have partial "empties" at the ready you can put to good use.

It could be allergies to your indoor heater, a minor insomniac episode or better yet, the morning after a rollicking good holiday-related night on the town (who, me?)...whatever the case may be, with all the extra holiday-themed running around we do, sometimes we wake up with that 'not so fresh' feeling. In the eyes.

When you're struggling to apply eyeliner to a puffy lid, you're definitely overdue for our quickie three-pronged Emergency Puffy Eye Reduction Measures. Give these fast, free remedies a try and you'll be out the door fresh-faced before you know it.

The next time you feel like a holiday goody nosh-fest, nibble on these holiday scented beauty goods instead for a savvy trade off that won't add bulk where you don't want it. Cinnamon, clove, cherry, cocoa and sugar plums are all flavors and scents of the season, but you'll never feel the slightest twinge of guilt indulging in these beauties.