I am totally in love with Mally Roncal, the adorable make-up artist who has a pink and pretty line of superb cosmetics exclusively on the shopping channel QVC. Here is some info about Mally from her own site:

As a young girl, Mally began experimenting with color and makeup on her mother, an incredible beauty who undoubtedly served as her inspiration. Motivated by her parents, both doctors, Mally pursued a pre-med education, yet she never abandoned her inner passion for art, makeup and fashion. Luckily, with encouragement and inspiration from mentors (including fashion stylist team Mathu and Zaldy, and celebrity hair stylist Danilo, whom she met while designing for Kalinka), Mally soon put aside her pre-med education to pursue her ultimate dream – exploring the power of makeup.

Mally quickly moved to the top of the “it” list of “who’s who” in the beauty industry, quickly becoming one of the industries most dynamic and in demand talents. With her passion for art, color, and design, along with her charm, contagious enthusiasm and magnetic personality, it is no wonder that some of the world’s top celebrities turn to her to prepare for their most important career moments. Mally has also been featured on Oprah, the Today Show, Isaac, the View, and many more.

Mally is mother to twin girls and has another girl on the way! She is of Filipino descent (where she gets her exotic good looks) and has a love of all things girly and sweet. Her appearances on QVC are like beauty how-to shows and worth watching.

What I like best about Mally Beauty are the colors and unique double-duty products she offers. Everything she creates has more than one purpose and all of her colors are truly universally flattering to almost all skintones. She works with pink and coral pink a great deal, the blush colors look like a tinge of actual blushing and that is what you want from your blush. All of her products are like this – they are natural and when I do an entire Mally face I don’t get compliments on my make-up but on my face – as in, Wow, you look really pretty. That’s the kind of compliment a girl likes to get!

Mally knows make-up. As an artist she knows what she wants the colors to look like and how the application of the products should be for the untrained. We don’t spend our entire lives making up faces for photo-shoots so without her expertise you’d think, oh, well I could never do a face the way she does. Wrong! Mally takes this into consideration and creates products for ease of use.

Take her double-sided mascara (genius) for instance. One side is a full-brush that gives lush lashes, the other is scaled down and perfect for lower-lashes. Two in one, baby – it does everything you need plus more. She also offers a lipstick and lipgloss combo. I love this and always wonder why every cosmetic line doesn’t do the same thing? It is perfect for the handbag. I never have to look for my lip gloss once I have my lipstick on (and in my hand bag that could take forever!).

I’ve been using her cosmetics for a couple of years now and was so lucky to get one of her greatest deals from QVC called Mom’s Indulgences. I may not be a mother but man oh man this surely is the MOTHER of ALL beauty buys! I got it for my birthday – it was a total splurge (my birthday is at the end of this month), I usually try to get super bargains as you well know. But ultimately this was a bargain – 14 different items including the cutest pink violet make-up case.

Check it out:

This is the kit and here is what it includes:

• Believable Bronzer in sexy tan
• Perfecting Blush in rosy pink
• Sheer lipstick in Tokyo glow
• Go the Distance lip color lipstick / lip gloss in forever natural
• Lip gloss in love is pink
• Shaping Secret pencil /shadow in charcoal
• Lightwand eye brightener pencil /powder
• Two Lash Illusion lash-filler pencils
• Mally’s patented eyelash curler
• Xtra-Hold maximizing double-end mascara in black
• Eye shadow in natural
• Eye shadow in knockout
• Travel bag

Total make-up bonanza!

It can be sad when your favorite cosmetics brands bite the dust but then – there is always ebay. Of course that cannot always be the best place to purchase cosmetics. I am sure many people have experienced that same – “Oh crap, this is some old old old stock here.” when buying cosmetics from ebay sellers. For the most part that has put me off purchasing cosmetics on ebay unless they are absolutely brand new products (like the Hello Kitty MAC line) because I had some terrible experiences with spoiled make-up.

I am happy to report that I have found a great seller on ebay who carries many of the kawaii brands that I adore. The stock is limited but the quality is superb. Everything is boxed and sealed and brand new. Oh and the prices are right on too! If you post in the comments I will email you the sellers name but I don’t want to put it out here for just anyone since I intend on purchasing at least one of all the SUGAR cosmetics!

Before I show off my haul I have to tell you why I love SUGAR so much. It’s the lipgloss – it has the most wonderful flavor – ever! They call it sugar flavored but that really doesn’t explain it. It is sweet, like butter-cream frosting on a cupcake, but also like sugar on a jelly donut, or the crusty sweet sugar on top of a blueberry muffin or the sprinkled on top sugar of a still warm sugar cookie. I mean this stuff is super tasty and since all lip gloss (and lipstick) should be flavored since it goes on your lips (duh), this is one of the best, if not the best. Which of course is sad because they aren’t making it anymore. Bummer.

Here is my haul:

Wonderful double-sided palette with candy bright colors, gloss, lip creams, blush and bronzer. All you need is a mini-mascara and you are good to go. This is perfect for travel. It is super kawaii, sturdy and pink. I got this for a steal only $20!

This is the adorable SUGAR cube. 2 eyeshadow palettes, blushes and two mini lip glosses. It is really small, so it is also portable and has the happy colors that SUGAR is best known for. It is a metallic hot pink and just would look crazy cute on your bathroom counter with your other kawaii cosmetics.

I got all four of the above lip glosses, called SUGAR Lip Slicks. They have a neat angled sponge tip applicator and a squeezable tube so you can get every last bit of gloss out. Why don’t all glosses come this way? Oh can you stand how cute they are? I just want to nom them they are so adorable. They are like candy sticks for your lips.

I also got this lipgloss called SUGAR shellac and I just had to share the teeny tiny little lip brush with you. It is so twee it almost hurts but it really is a great applicator too. Many glosses I try have big brushes which can be less than accurate. This one is terrif!

This is the SUGAR big pink body brush (or face powder brush which is my plan for it). I would not use it with bronzer because I don’t want to kill the pink-ness. It is so fluffy and sweet its like a cupcake brush!

I cannot wait to use all my new goodies. In fact, that’s what I am going to do now – post this, shine up my face and get SUGAR-y!

I just got my new Re-ment Hello Kitty edition series. Wowee! It is so much fun and I cannot wait to get another MUJI case to put the new display in (to see my other display please visit my Kawaii Flickr page). If you are going to make minis why not make them Hello Kitty right?

Here is the series I just got:

This set comes with (from top row Left) Hello Kitty birthday cake, Hello Kitty bento box, Hello Kitty pancakes, Hello Kitty rice omelet ( a popular children’s meal in Japan), Hello Kitty croquette dinner, Hello Kitty curry dinner, Hello Kitty apple pie and Hello Kitty custard. What is especially neat are the plates, cups and utensils which can be used in a variety of other displays too.

This is the original Hello Kitty mini series I have. It came in a red version and a pink version. From top Left there is a Hello Kitty bento, Hello Kitty box of chocolates, a Hello Kitty Salisbury steak dinner, Hello Kitty tea service, Hello Kitty hot pot and the Hello Kitty serving platter for the hot pot.

This was another set of Hello Kitty mini’s. Highly detailed though some were unfortunately not the most popular characters, like Patty & Jimmy and Mr. Penguin.

This is a new teeny tiny Hello Kitty room series. I haven’t gotten this yet but it looks super pink and kawaii. They need to come out with a little mini dollhouse to put all this stuff in. Oh wow – I would love a little Hello Kitty doll house!

Finally above is the Hello Kitty mini play set (not sure if the furniture series would fit in this). It is intended for kids to play with and looks like lots of fun because there are stickers to customize everything. There is also another set that is a playground and a conbini (Japanese convenience store).

I am crazy about conbini’s so I actually thinking of getting this. I won’t actually play with it of course – well – much! It is truly too cute for words. Sometime I will have to do a photo shoot of my Re-ment conbini. It is one of my favorite Re-ment set-ups. Next to the sushi bar that is. Oh, sometime I will have to share that too!

There are two new Re-ment releases in September that I am looking forward to. I am only just now getting my European Grandma’s Kitchen series and the Hello Kitty series from August, so I imagine I won’t have these until October.

The first is a new super kawaii candy shop. I really like everything here but adore the mini Pez dispensers.

The next is an action Re-ment series called Dance Food. It is similar to the last series of restaurant displays.

I had seen some of the new line from Simone Legno (of Tokidoki and cutie patootie fame)(cute patootie being my own humble opinion of Simone) at TARGET geared toward kids going back to school on several websites. There are all kinds of folders, binders, notebooks, backpacks and satchels – it is totally awesome. If I had gone back to school in such style  I would have been the coolest kid on the block.

It was my Mom however who sent me to the TARGET website to see another uber-adorable interview with Simone. You must check it out! Thanks for keeping my kawaii on track Mom!

Here is what I found: