It’s been a while since we posted a little Beauty Duty. Check out some great posts from around the web this week:

A Touch of Blusher enjoys using Dior’s Cleansing Gelee.

Teri from Beautiful Makeup Search can finally wear Mineral Makeup. See which mineral makeup foundation she is calling a miracle!

Makeup Moxie reviews the new Revlon Beyond Natural tinted lip balm.

Hopefully Makeup Bag Monthly won’t turn into Makeup Bag Quarterly, as it took over three months to finally get our newsletter out!

Not that it would have taken that long had we dedicated our time exclusively to it, but life often gets in the way of this website. Here we are, three months into the year, and our first edition is finally out.

Check out the Makeup Bag Monthly: March 2008 Edition here.

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On Tuesday night, we were honored to be a part of the Total Beauty Web Editor Event at Space.NK in Soho (our new favorite store).

We shared champagne and chocolate and shopped ’til we dropped with nearly 50 of the Web’s best editors. The beauty world is buzzing about how Total Beauty is radically changing the way women shop for beauty products and it’s so exciting to watch it happen before our eyes.

Total Beauty’s Kristen Nelson Thibeault with Naama from Media Craft.

If you are a regular Makeup Bag reader and you have not yet set up a profile at Total Beauty, DO IT NOW!

(My Beauty Scout at Total Beauty just this morning recommended we try the Beauty Elixir by Caudalie—which, thanks to Julia, we already purchased last week and LOVE. We’ve been to the East Coast and back twice in the last week and this Beauty Elixir saved our skin from the dehydrating airplane air. How did My Beauty Scout know?!)

In addition to beauty bloggers we already know and love (Julia, Annie, Tia, Marina, Elke and Susan) we met some great new ones like Ben from We Love Beauty, Anne from Jet Set Girls, Antonia from Ms New Beauty, Amber from Beauty Blogging Junkie, Daneen from Spoiled Pretty, Delphine from Steeping Beauty, India-Jewel from Glam Blush, Jan from Beauty News NYC, Julie from You Blog Like a Girl, Jamie from The Beauty of Life and Karen from Haute and Bothered.

We were trying to meet and greet everyone that walked through the door, so we didn’t spend as much time getting to know everyone as we would have liked, but it was incredible to shake hands with web editors from Seventeen, Redbook, InStyle, Allure (our friend Fiona couldn’t make it, but Genevieve attended and she is an absolute doll!), Cosmo, Elle, Elle Girl, ABC and iVillage.

We should have snapped more photos, but here’s what ended up on our camera:

Delphine from Steeping Beauty.

Amber from Beauty Blogging Junkie (left) with her friend Dana.

Elke from The Beauty Newsletter (left) with Kristen from Total Beauty.

Marina from Makeup Loves Me with Erika. (That’s Annie shopping in the background!)

Julia and Annie working the PowerBooks.

Thank you to Space.NK for being a gracious host and congratulations to Total Beauty on a successful event!

Last Friday we attended the Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Beauty of Giving Luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. This annual event supports Cancer and Careers, an independent initiative that provides an interactive resource and community for working women with any type of cancer.

It was incredible to be sitting amongst a group of industry executives that support this important cause and, once again, be reminded of the amazing power of the beauty industry and what it does for women (sick or not) as a whole.

Before the lunch presentation we were chatting with our friends Kristen from Total Beauty and Julia from All About the Pretty when we spotted Sonia Kashuk. SONIA KASHUK, people!

We were beyond giddy and so excited to tell her that we had one of her makeup bags sitting on the bathroom counter back at our hotel room (so did Julia!). She was very sweet and agreed to have her photo taken with us (left to right: Kristen, Julia, Sonia Kashuk, Erika).

Sonia wasn’t the only celebrity we ran into—but we can’t divulge all our fun in one little post, now can we?