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The writer, wearing her favorite Tarte eyeliner. Photo: Lori Keong As a person with monolids — meaning the skin over my eyes lacks a visible crease — finding the perfect black eyeliner has been my beauty white whale for close to a decade. A winged cat-eye will always pop, but oily eyelids, a common monolid problem, have subjected me to an embarrassing degree of smudging and smearing over the years (in public! At events where people are looking directly at my face!).

Photo: Courtesy of Eero A former tech columnist at Yahoo, Scientific American, and the New York Times, David Pogue will write occasionally for the Strategist about things he has bought for himself and loves. Whenever someone complains to me about Wi-Fi dead spots, I roll my eyes (mentally, of course). Life has plenty of challenges, but that is a solved problem.

Photo: Courtesy of Anna Konkle If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked Anna Konkle, co-creator and star of Hulu’s PEN15 about the weighted blanket, ballpoint pen, and cheddar cheese she can’t live without. Quility Premium Adult Weighted Blanket & Removable Cover, 15 lbs.