Mondays With Meg

Meg here! I am kind of bitter because I blame my lack of cooking skills on my parents. Every year I put "The Easy Bake Oven" on my list and every year it never showed up under the Christmas Tree. My mother would take a long drag on her cigg and say "No way we are getting you one of those Meg-you'll burn the damn house down!" Ironic, right?

So I can't cook very well. I can make an appetizer like nobody's business though.

I can't whip up a chef's meal but I do have some inside on to the organic and natural products recipe chart.

This is like a scavenger hunt-but I swear the fun and knowledge gained will be more then a balloon or a token t-shirt.

These are items that we are (on video-I know I'm annoying on video-stick with me please. For the love of God my parents wouldn't shell out the $19.95 for an easy bake oven-you think they're going to send a dime for me to be more camera ready?) Going to show you how to use to be more gorgeous!

Meg here! This is a treat! It's scary how accurate the nation's leading  handwriting expert Bart Bagget is.

This is no joke, it's a true science and Bart's analysis on handwriting has helped all sorts of fields. When CNN needed the terrorists anthrax letters analyzed-they called Bart. When USA Today published a list of scandalized CEO's handwriting they had Bart explain to the country exactly what their autographs told about their personalities. He couldn't have been more accurate with Martha Stewart. Bart's been in over 1,500 articles and on tons of TV. He is called upon to analyze millionaire's, criminals, celebrities. Anyone that wants to know what their handwriting tells about them. Now, for FREE you can know too! How cool is that?

Bart asked me to write the sentence "Dear Bart, You and your silly monkey do not go home from the zoo! Megan O'Brien"

We met because Bart invited Megken and I out to sushi. I wrote the above sentence within the first 10 minutes of sitting down to our dinner. We just had a very brief "Nice to meet you" introductory small talk conversation before he proceeded to look at my sentence and tell me everything about myself-um, accurately. It was totally making me freak out. Megken is working on a business project with him so it wasn't like he told him anything intimately about me besides my name. He literally got all of this from just that one funny monkey sentence. Megken refused to write ANYTHING in from of Bart saying "I don't want him to know everything about me." Not me. I thought it was fascinating. If I think something is fascinating then I was thinking you ladies might think it's pretty interesting as well. Why does this make sense and how can you get yours done free?

Meg here! When I was married I had a husband that never told me he was crazy for any type of beauty or cosmetic product. I would just notice that my Suki Scrub was running a lot lower then I remembered from my previous shower!

Megken wrote his deodorant post and I saw how many of you do share some of your beauty stash with your guy. By "Share" I mean-he steals it!

Megken has his Origins Spot Remover, Mixed Chicks Leave In Conditioner, and he is obsessed with his Dominica Original Bay Rum Aftershave Lotion. He loves the Dominica because it leaves his face soft, it's not perfumey and has a great fresh scent.

With the holidays coming up I have asked Megken to help! There are so many men's grooming lines out there now. If it gets confusing for us savvy beauty shoppers then it has to be completely bewildering for our average Joe's! I'll be getting stuff off to our Sunboy1 as well. I'll be dropping in some men's stuff to our regular women writers because I know they'll be able to get their husbands opinion as well (talking to you Sweetassguy and Stylepapa!)

Meg here! I hope you all had a festive and safe Halloween. Being an adult without children I hit the West Hollywood Halloween Carnivale and it was a total freak show. I mean total freak show in the best, most entertaining way. I live in WeHo so it's not like I'd have it any other way. It's so nice to live in a town where it's not a total stretch to say that you feel normal amongst the neighbors.

Where else could I live where 4,000 men dressed as Lady Gaga is just par for the course?

Eleni and I hit the beauty supply stores in search of the perfect Green nail polish. I didn't feel like dressing up this year. There are two types of girls in this world. There are the ones that can't wait all year to have an excuse to dressy trashy. Trashy nurse, trashy cop, trashy nun. Then there are the girls that dress like fuzzy bears or condiments or just choose to not parade their lady bits on display. I don't need a holiday to dress like either  a fuzzy bear or to parade my lady parts around. I try to be spontaneous like that.

Meg here! Huge thanks and much love to the Donati Family Vineyard for hosting Megsmakeup.com at their unbelievable winery! Fun is not even a strong enough word to describe it! Apparently after I've had a few glasses I turn into an old British woman. It's OK, it happens to Madonna stone cold sober.