Miscellaneous

Name: Christel Hansen

Age: 22

Vocation: Freelance Makeup Artist!

What is in your purse? Cell phone, ipod nano, wallet, small mirror, dental floss, keys, asthma inhaler, Anatomicals Stop Cracking Up lip balm, MAC Fleshpot lipstick and The Body Shop Tea Tree Oil Facial Blotting Tissues!

Guilty Pleasure: Home and Away! I simply cannot miss an episode of it! If I do, I watch the omnibus at the end of the week to catch up on anything I may have missed, lol. I'm also a sucker for homemade cookies and cupcakes, yum!

Skin color, type and any special skin concerns: I have fair skin which can get pretty oily. My main concerns are my dark undereye circles (concealer is a must!) and the occasional breakouts I get. :(

Beauty inspiration: My mommy of course! I love everything about her and think she looks damn good for her age! I only hope that I too look that good when I'm older!

Meg here! I have to address a common email I've been getting-the new FTC blogger guidelines. Here is what they are cracking down on-in a peanut nutshell...

As a result of the evolving level of influence inherent in the social Web, and web in general, the notice incorporates several amendments to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising and blogging, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. Fines for violating the new rule will run up to $11,000 per incident.

Here's the God Honest Truth-It would hurt Megsmakeup.com way worse than a monetary fee fine to sell Bullshit and tell you ladies to buy something that didn't work. That's the truth. The minute my readers think I am a sell-out is the moment Megsmakeup.com is dead in the water.

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.

Name: Liz LaMonica

Age: 29 (for a few more months anyway)

Vocation: Marketing for a large Financial Services Company

What is in your purse? In my work bag right now: phone, wallet, iPod, Sophie the Giraffe (how did THAT get in there), my make-up bag which contains: Clinique Black Honey Almost Lipstick, Maybelline Great Lash Almost Black Waterproof Mascara (BAD allergies), Cover Girl Aqua Smooth in Classic Ivory, Brown eyebrow pencil, Clinique Charcoal Gray eyeliner, Clinique dusty sand eye shadow, a small tube of Abreva, Clinique Happy Perfume Crayon and and a spare pair of contacts

Guilty Pleasure: I love shows like America's Next Top Model and Project Runway.

Skin color, type and any special skin concerns: I have fair sensitive/combination skin. I am always on the quest to look flawless but never seem to achieve my goal. I magically lose my makeup by the end of the day, and I can't figure it out.

Meg here! Wacky, weird and true? Sugar Daddy Palm Beach Ken doll? Giant Boob art installment at kiddie park?

Barbies and the playground used to be pretty much a safe haven. I'm no prude and love Liberace as much as the next lady, I don't think Palm Beach Ken is going to make it as a "must buy" for little Sally Mae.

When I though it was just us Americans that had lost their minds I was pleasantly surprised to see China is right up there with us in driving their daughters to the therapy couch. ""The little girls were scared and cried loudly, asking me if they would grow those huge things, and boys laughed crazily."

The boys that were not laughing crazily were probably too busy attaching their pink leash to their very own poodle that Palm Beach Ken comes with.