Lately I’ve been obsessing over the hilarious blog videos over at Mally Beauty.

If you don’t know Mally Roncal, she is a celebrity makeup artist and creator of Mally Beauty. (I can’t wait to tell you about the new perfume she’s launching this season!) Mally has the best personality and I LOVE watching her at work backstage at New York Fashion Week and on her videos. I don’t think there is ever a time she is not smiling!

Here I am with Mally in January 2008 at the Bendel’s Beauty Breakfast in New York.

Today, Mally is featured on the Rachael Ray Show where she pops into the maternity ward to give unsuspecting new moms a makeover they’ll never forget!

Be sure to watch Mally on Rachael Ray today!

This month, along with her Holiday 2009 Chrome Collection, Bobbi Brown introduces the new Extreme Party Mascara, a buildable mascara with tons of volume and zero clumping or flaking.

Now here’s the thing about me and mascaras: most of them don’t like me.

I’m sure it’s not intentional. I mean, I’m a nice enough girl and all, but my eye lashes can be difficult to deal with so it’s understandable that most mascaras aren’t into me.

As I’ve explained a kazillion times before, my Asian lashes don’t hold a curl unless I’m wearing waterproof mascara. This proves cumbersome as most waterproof formulas are not easy to remove. In fact, I’m either fogging up my contact lenses with oil-based removers or I’m scrubbing the crap out of my eyes and losing lashes along the way. Not to mention, waterproof formulas tend to look dull on the lashes, not shiny and rich like the non-waterproof kind. So, in the name of eye-opening lashes, I continue to reach for waterproof formulas day after day.

A few months ago, I found my holy grail mascara in Lancôme Hypnôse Drama and now (can you believe my good fortune?!) I’ve found a second mascara that I bow down before and kiss the countertop it sits on: Bobbi Brown Extreme Party Mascara.

This mascara is totally layerable (is that a word?)—okay, buildable—in that you can add a fresh coat even after it dries thanks to the pliable formula. Just look how amazing my lashes are:

I wore this all day and night, I even slept in it (the things I do for the sake of this beauty blog!), and I didn’t have one flake or smudge. In fact, this morning my lashes looked good enough to face the day.

Bobbi Brown Extreme Party Mascara washes away clean with soap and water (and zero elbow grease). I’m pretty sure this mascara likes me.

The new Extreme Party Mascara is available online at BobbiBrown.com for $22.

Last week I saw the first signs of winter when I woke to a snow-covered lawn. Immediately I turned the sprinkler system off (a frozen, busted pipe is not fun—or cheap!) and then headed inside to find my favorite winter skin remedies before my lips dry up and my heels crack off.

During the dry months of winter, I am never without hand cream, foot cream and lip balm. If one or all of these areas begin to feel parched I start to panic. My chest gets tight, my breath turns shallow and I frantically search for moisture relief.

These days, I can’t get enough of the new Carmex Moisture Plus. I love the new tube packaging—no messy finger to wipe off after application—and the moisturizing benefits are as good as the old standby. My only issue? The rest of my family can’t keep their hands off it! I’ve had to replace my “borrowed” tube THREE TIMES.

Clinique is introducing a new hand cream this month called Deep Comfort Hand and Cuticle Cream. This hand cream is super emollient, conditioning cuticles and nails while moisturizing dry hands. I love that the formula is fragrance free and doesn’t compete with my perfume and leaves my hands feeling moisturized for hours.

Dry, scratchy heels are just not acceptable here at Makeup Bag headquarters. To keep my feet feeling soft I keep several foot creams in my nightstand but I keep reaching for Curel Targeted Therapy Deep-Penetrating Foot Cream. With shea butter, coconut milk and vitamin E, this thick, rich cream penetrates cracked heels and leaves skin soft and smooth. I buy this at CVS by the armloads for $5.99 each.

Tell me, what are your tried and true winter skin remedies?

Thanks to Carmex Moisture Plus Ultra Hydrating Lip Balm, I have 5 Carmex Moisture Plus samples to give away to randomly selected commenters on Friday, November 6th at noon.

Good luck and thank you to sponsor, Carmex Moisture Plus!

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In collaboration with Tokyo fashion designer Tsumori Chisato, shu uemura presents the new Holiday 2009 Collection: Wish Upon a Star.

This limited-edition exclusive collection features the designer’s favorite Japanese icons “twinkle star” and “lucky cat” to add a playful spirit throughout the collection.

The highlight of this collection is the Tsumori Chisato Limited-Edition Planet Cat Couture Palette with three eye shadows:

• Black Glitz
• Shiny Silver
• Copper

1 cream eyeliner (Black Purple), 1 cream highlighter (Gold Iridescent), 1 blush (Apricot Pink), and 2 dual-ended applicators (wide tip/narrow tip and cheek brush/liner brush) round out the palette with everything you need to create a gorgeous holiday look.

In addition to the palette, I’m dying to get my hands on this gorgeous Dual-Color Highlighter in Golden Snow. In my opinion, nothing dresses up the face more than the sheer glow of highlighter. I can’t wait to try this!

The Tsumori Chisato “Wish Upon a Star” Holiday 2009 Collection for shu uemura is currently available online at shuuemura-usa.com.